Scala Engineer Contracts

Scala Engineer
UK

The median Scala Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 656 744
Rank change year-on-year +94 +88 -163
Contract jobs requiring a Scala Engineer 21 49 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.083% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.087% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 35 85
10th Percentile £426 £500 £468
25th Percentile £440 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £699 £725 £700
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £675
% change year-on-year -18.18% -18.52% +25.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,269 56,187 84,691
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,215 39,262 59,481
10th Percentile £276 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,567 2,094
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%

Scala Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Scala Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scala Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scala Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 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
England +92 15 £600 +9.09% 5
London +82 13 £650 +18.18% 4
Work from Home +114 4 £450 -41.94% 3
UK excluding London +58 3 £450 -18.18%
North of England +32 2 £450 -18.18%
Yorkshire +20 1 £450 -18.18%
North West +19 1 £450 -
Scotland - 1 £440 -

Scala Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Scala Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Scala Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Scala
2 12 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 11 (52.38%) AWS
4 9 (42.86%) Microservices
5 8 (38.10%) Terraform
5 8 (38.10%) Java
6 7 (33.33%) Agile
6 7 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (28.57%) http4s
7 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 6 (28.57%) Docker
7 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
7 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
7 6 (28.57%) Kafka
8 5 (23.81%) Akka
8 5 (23.81%) Finance
8 5 (23.81%) Degree
8 5 (23.81%) OOP
8 5 (23.81%) Lambda Expressions
8 5 (23.81%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (23.81%) Functional Programming
8 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
8 5 (23.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (23.81%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (19.05%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (19.05%) Okta
9 4 (19.05%) Sprint Retrospective
9 4 (19.05%) Sprint Planning
9 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code

Scala Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.76%) Datadog
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.76%) Big Data
4 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.76%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Ant
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Gradle
2 1 (4.76%) JUnit
2 1 (4.76%) Maven
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Electronics
2 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) http4s
1 6 (28.57%) Kafka
2 5 (23.81%) Akka
2 5 (23.81%) Lambda Expressions
3 4 (19.05%) JWT
3 4 (19.05%) Web Services
4 2 (9.52%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) Node.js
5 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (4.76%) Play Framework
5 1 (4.76%) PySpark
5 1 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (23.81%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
3 4 (19.05%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.76%) Blockchain
4 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) Microservices
3 7 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 5 (23.81%) Functional Programming
5 5 (23.81%) OOP
6 4 (19.05%) API Integration
6 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
6 4 (19.05%) E-Commerce
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (19.05%) Kanban
6 4 (19.05%) OO
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Project Management
6 4 (19.05%) Scrum
6 4 (19.05%) Scrum-ban
6 4 (19.05%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (19.05%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (19.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Scala
2 8 (38.10%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) C
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
2 5 (23.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Terraform
2 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (19.05%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (14.29%) Grafana
4 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Google
1 4 (19.05%) Okta
1 4 (19.05%) Roku
2 2 (9.52%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) New Relic
3 1 (4.76%) Typelevel