Senior Scala Developer Contracts

Senior Scala Developer
UK

The median Senior Scala Developer daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 688 762
Rank change year-on-year +116 +74 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Scala Developer 14 34 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.057% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.060% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 37
10th Percentile £346 £553 -
25th Percentile - £613 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £850 £650
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +30.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £838 £950 £688
90th Percentile - £1,050 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £713 £675
% change year-on-year -40.35% +5.56% +18.42%

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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Scala Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Scala Developer in the UK

Senior Scala Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Scala Developer in the UK

Senior Scala Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Scala Developer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Scala Developer in the UK

Senior Scala Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Scala Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +102 14 £425 -50.00% 5
London +85 10 £825 -3.65% 3
Work from Home +125 5 £310 -50.40% 9
UK excluding London +73 4 £425 -40.35% 2
North of England - 4 £425 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £425 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Scala Developer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Scala
2 11 (78.57%) TDD
3 10 (71.43%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Fintech
4 4 (28.57%) Kafka
4 4 (28.57%) Finance
5 3 (21.43%) BDD
5 3 (21.43%) Docker
5 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
6 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) spray
6 2 (14.29%) Grafana
6 2 (14.29%) Gatling
6 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
6 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 2 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (14.29%) ScalaTest
6 2 (14.29%) Microservices
6 2 (14.29%) Akka
6 2 (14.29%) Play Framework
6 2 (14.29%) Mockito
6 2 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
6 2 (14.29%) High Availability
6 2 (14.29%) Redis
6 2 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
6 2 (14.29%) Scrum

Senior 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 2 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Gatling
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Mockito
1 2 (14.29%) ScalaTest
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) Akka
2 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 2 (14.29%) JPA
2 2 (14.29%) Play Framework
2 2 (14.29%) RESTful
2 2 (14.29%) spray
2 2 (14.29%) Spring
2 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
2 2 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) TDD
2 10 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Fintech
4 3 (21.43%) BDD
5 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
5 2 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Kanban
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) MVC
5 2 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Pair Programming
5 2 (14.29%) Release Management
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Scala
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Prometheus