Senior Scala Engineer Contracts

Senior Scala Engineer
UK

The median Senior Scala Engineer daily rate in the UK is £560 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 709 827
Rank change year-on-year +118 +118 -150
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Scala Engineer 7 3 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.005% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.005% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 24
10th Percentile £455 - £524
25th Percentile £490 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.90%
75th Percentile £635 - £688
90th Percentile £673 - £718
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £675

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 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

Senior Scala Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Scala Engineer in the UK

Senior Scala Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Scala Engineer in the UK

Senior Scala Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Scala Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Scala Engineer in the UK

Senior Scala Engineer
Top 3 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
London - 2 £560 - 1
England - 2 £560 - 2
Work from Home +123 1 £683 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Scala Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Scala
2 6 (85.71%) http4s
2 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Java
3 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Lambda Expressions
3 5 (71.43%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (71.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) OOP
3 5 (71.43%) Degree
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
3 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (71.43%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (57.14%) Project Management
4 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
4 4 (57.14%) JWT
4 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (57.14%) QA
4 4 (57.14%) Kanban
4 4 (57.14%) Video\Live Streaming
4 4 (57.14%) Scrum
4 4 (57.14%) Google
4 4 (57.14%) OO
4 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
4 4 (57.14%) Electronics
4 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce

Senior 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Datadog
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Ant
1 1 (14.29%) Gradle
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 4 (57.14%) Electronics
1 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) http4s
2 5 (71.43%) Lambda Expressions
3 4 (57.14%) JWT
4 1 (14.29%) Kafka
4 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Architecture
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
2 4 (57.14%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) OOP
3 4 (57.14%) API Integration
3 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
3 4 (57.14%) Functional Programming
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Kanban
3 4 (57.14%) OO
3 4 (57.14%) Project Management
3 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum-ban
3 4 (57.14%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (57.14%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Scala
2 6 (85.71%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google
1 4 (57.14%) Okta
1 4 (57.14%) Roku
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) New Relic