Scala Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scala
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Scala skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scala over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 347 270
Rank change year-on-year +36 -77 -66
Contract jobs citing Scala 90 90 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.40% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 1.42% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 61 162
10th Percentile £378 £390 £401
25th Percentile £400 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £638
90th Percentile £650 £709 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 1
10th Percentile £27.63 - -
25th Percentile £36.49 £19.00 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £20.47 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +156.47% +2.81% -17.04%
75th Percentile £61.25 £75.50 -
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £70.00 £78.44
% change year-on-year -25.00% -10.76% +220.15%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Scala falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,015 6,330 8,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.60% 27.87% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,319 4,417 6,154
10th Percentile £319 £338 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £578 £593 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 329 324
10th Percentile £37.54 £27.03 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £30.44
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.23 £78.00 £67.36
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year - +21.95% +16.48%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +68 35 £453 -9.40% 2
North of England +29 31 £450 -21.74% 13
Yorkshire +22 18 £425 -24.44% 1
South East +11 16 £500 - 4
North West +1 9 £475 -17.39% 11
North East +14 4 £468 +3.89% 1
Midlands +12 4 £420 -29.41% 2
West Midlands +10 2 £485 -18.49% 1
South West -12 2 £450 -35.37% 3
East Midlands - 2 £360 - 1
East of England +6 1 £375 -21.05% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (27.78%) Apache Spark
2 17 (18.89%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (8.89%) Apache
4 3 (3.33%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 46 (51.11%) AWS
2 25 (27.78%) Azure
3 19 (21.11%) GCP
4 17 (18.89%) Snowflake
5 5 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.44%) CloudBees
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.22%) GitHub
8 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.22%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.22%) Serverless
9 1 (1.11%) dbt
9 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.67%) HTTP
2 3 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.33%) Hadoop
2 11 (12.22%) Relational Database
3 10 (11.11%) Big Data
4 8 (8.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 8 (8.89%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (7.78%) NoSQL
6 6 (6.67%) Apache Hive
7 4 (4.44%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.44%) Impala
8 3 (3.33%) ClickHouse
8 3 (3.33%) Data Lake
8 3 (3.33%) Data Mining
8 3 (3.33%) HBase
8 3 (3.33%) MySQL
9 2 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.22%) Spark SQL
10 1 (1.11%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 14 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 12 (13.33%) Git
3 11 (12.22%) JIRA
4 6 (6.67%) Selenium
5 4 (4.44%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.44%) Gatling
5 4 (4.44%) JMeter
5 4 (4.44%) Maven
5 4 (4.44%) WebDriver
6 3 (3.33%) GitLab
7 2 (2.22%) Gradle
8 1 (1.11%) Ant
8 1 (1.11%) ERwin
8 1 (1.11%) JUnit
8 1 (1.11%) Mockito
8 1 (1.11%) Subversion
General
1 13 (14.44%) Finance
2 12 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.67%) Banking
5 5 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.33%) Retail
8 2 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Back Office
9 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Marketing
9 1 (1.11%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.11%) Police
9 1 (1.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (51.11%) Developer
2 31 (34.44%) Java Developer
3 20 (22.22%) Scala Developer
4 16 (17.78%) Senior
5 15 (16.67%) Data Engineer
6 12 (13.33%) Java Scala Developer
7 11 (12.22%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (8.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (8.89%) Linux Developer
9 8 (8.89%) Snowflake Engineer
10 7 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
11 6 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 6 (6.67%) Backend Developer
11 6 (6.67%) Senior Developer
12 5 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (4.44%) Java Engineer
13 4 (4.44%) Senior Test Engineer
13 4 (4.44%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (41.11%) Kafka
2 16 (17.78%) RESTful
3 15 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 12 (13.33%) Spring
5 9 (10.00%) Web Services
6 8 (8.89%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (8.89%) OpenTracing
7 7 (7.78%) PySpark
8 5 (5.56%) React
9 4 (4.44%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (4.44%) Apache Beam
10 3 (3.33%) Keycloak
10 3 (3.33%) OAuth
10 3 (3.33%) OpenID
10 3 (3.33%) SAML
11 2 (2.22%) Akka
11 2 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
12 1 (1.11%) CSS
12 1 (1.11%) NumPy
12 1 (1.11%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.33%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.89%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.11%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.56%) Linux
2 10 (11.11%) Unix
3 4 (4.44%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.89%) Agile
2 25 (27.78%) DevOps
2 25 (27.78%) Software Engineering
3 23 (25.56%) CI/CD
4 22 (24.44%) Data Engineering
5 20 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 20 (22.22%) Microservices
6 18 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 16 (17.78%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 14 (15.56%) Data Modelling
10 13 (14.44%) Continuous Delivery
11 12 (13.33%) SDLC
12 11 (12.22%) Containerisation
12 11 (12.22%) DataOps
12 11 (12.22%) Design Patterns
12 11 (12.22%) GitOps
12 11 (12.22%) MLOps
12 11 (12.22%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 73 (81.11%) Java
2 37 (41.11%) Python
3 13 (14.44%) SQL
4 12 (13.33%) Kotlin
5 10 (11.11%) Groovy
5 10 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.67%) Go
7 5 (5.56%) R
7 5 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.44%) C++
8 4 (4.44%) Ruby
9 2 (2.22%) Bash
9 2 (2.22%) Perl
9 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.11%) C
10 1 (1.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.44%) Degree
4 2 (2.22%) IBM Certification
4 2 (2.22%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.22%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (35.56%) Docker
2 3 (3.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (3.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 37 (41.11%) Kubernetes
2 23 (25.56%) Terraform
3 13 (14.44%) Prometheus
4 8 (8.89%) Zipkin
5 5 (5.56%) Grafana
6 4 (4.44%) Ansible
7 2 (2.22%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (14.44%) Databricks
2 4 (4.44%) Dynatrace
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.22%) Cloudera
3 2 (2.22%) Google
3 2 (2.22%) IBM
3 2 (2.22%) Informatica
3 2 (2.22%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.11%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.11%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.11%) Sybase
4 1 (1.11%) Teradata
4 1 (1.11%) Typelevel