Scala Developer Contracts

Scala Developer
UK

The median Scala Developer daily rate in the UK is £581 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 447 551
Rank change year-on-year -23 +104 -162
Contract jobs requiring a Scala Developer 131 281 323
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.50% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 200 216
10th Percentile £368 £463 £500
25th Percentile £450 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £703
90th Percentile £836 £900 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £595 £540
% change year-on-year +5.04% +10.19% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £66.70 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £70.00 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Scala Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala Developer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 -30 92 £563 -6.25% 17
London -17 79 £663 +10.42% 11
Work from Home +17 29 £450 -25.00% 13
UK excluding London +55 26 £625 +5.04% 5
Scotland +50 14 £750 +50.00%
North of England +31 8 £425 -29.17% 4
Yorkshire +19 6 £425 -29.17% 4
South East +16 3 £350 -41.67% 1
North East +18 2 £525 +5.00%
East of England - 1 £375 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Scala Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 131 (100.00%) Scala
2 56 (42.75%) Agile
3 50 (38.17%) Microservices
4 48 (36.64%) Akka
5 46 (35.11%) TDD
6 44 (33.59%) Kubernetes
7 42 (32.06%) RESTful
8 41 (31.30%) Kafka
9 38 (29.01%) AWS
9 38 (29.01%) HTTP
10 36 (27.48%) Finance
11 33 (25.19%) Pair Programming
12 32 (24.43%) Apache Cassandra
12 32 (24.43%) Clean Code
13 31 (23.66%) BDD
14 30 (22.90%) Banking
14 30 (22.90%) Java
14 30 (22.90%) GCP
15 27 (20.61%) DevOps
16 26 (19.85%) Functional Programming
16 26 (19.85%) OO
16 26 (19.85%) GitOps
17 25 (19.08%) Machine Learning
18 24 (18.32%) Software Engineering
18 24 (18.32%) Personalization
19 20 (15.27%) Investment Banking
20 18 (13.74%) Continuous Integration
20 18 (13.74%) Typelevel
21 17 (12.98%) Linux
22 16 (12.21%) ATDD

Scala Developer 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 13 (9.92%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.29%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 38 (29.01%) AWS
2 30 (22.90%) GCP
3 3 (2.29%) Azure
4 2 (1.53%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.53%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.76%) GitHub
5 1 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (29.01%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (24.43%) Apache Cassandra
2 10 (7.63%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.87%) Big Data
4 8 (6.11%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.05%) Redis
6 3 (2.29%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.53%) Power BI
8 1 (0.76%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.76%) DB2
8 1 (0.76%) HBase
8 1 (0.76%) Looker
8 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (10.69%) Cucumber
2 9 (6.87%) Git
2 9 (6.87%) ScalaTest
3 6 (4.58%) Mockito
4 5 (3.82%) Gatling
5 4 (3.05%) Subversion
6 3 (2.29%) GitLab
6 3 (2.29%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.29%) Maven
7 2 (1.53%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.53%) JIRA
7 2 (1.53%) JUnit
7 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.76%) Gradle
General
1 36 (27.48%) Finance
2 30 (22.90%) Banking
3 20 (15.27%) Investment Banking
4 12 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.16%) Social Skills
5 8 (6.11%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.76%) Electronics
7 1 (0.76%) Front Office
7 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.76%) Law
7 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (36.64%) Akka
2 42 (32.06%) RESTful
3 41 (31.30%) Kafka
4 12 (9.16%) Play Framework
5 10 (7.63%) Web Services
6 5 (3.82%) Spring
7 4 (3.05%) Hibernate
7 4 (3.05%) JPA
7 4 (3.05%) spray
7 4 (3.05%) Spring MVC
8 3 (2.29%) OAuth
8 3 (2.29%) OpenID
8 3 (2.29%) React
8 3 (2.29%) SAML
8 3 (2.29%) Spark Streaming
9 1 (0.76%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.76%) Apache Beam
9 1 (0.76%) http4s
9 1 (0.76%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.16%) Hedge funds
2 11 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.11%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.58%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.53%) Equities
6 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.76%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.98%) Linux
2 10 (7.63%) Unix
3 2 (1.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (42.75%) Agile
2 50 (38.17%) Microservices
3 46 (35.11%) TDD
4 33 (25.19%) Pair Programming
5 32 (24.43%) Clean Code
6 31 (23.66%) BDD
7 27 (20.61%) DevOps
8 26 (19.85%) Functional Programming
8 26 (19.85%) GitOps
8 26 (19.85%) OO
9 25 (19.08%) Machine Learning
10 24 (18.32%) Personalization
10 24 (18.32%) Software Engineering
11 18 (13.74%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (12.21%) ATDD
12 16 (12.21%) Coaching
13 15 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (10.69%) Design Patterns
14 14 (10.69%) Unit Testing
15 13 (9.92%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 131 (100.00%) Scala
2 30 (22.90%) Java
3 11 (8.40%) SQL
4 3 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.53%) C#
5 2 (1.53%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.53%) Python
6 1 (0.76%) C++
6 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (2.29%) Degree
2 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.76%) OCP
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.76%) MiFID
1 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 12 (9.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) HDFS
2 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (33.59%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.69%) Ansible
3 6 (4.58%) Grafana
3 6 (4.58%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (13.74%) Typelevel
2 3 (2.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.29%) Virgin Media
3 2 (1.53%) Sybase
4 1 (0.76%) Databricks
4 1 (0.76%) Google