Scala Contracts with Work from Home Options

Scala
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Scala skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scala over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 207 167
Rank change year-on-year -24 -40 -44
Contract jobs citing Scala 110 297 722
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.73% 1.18% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.18% 3.17% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 204 474
10th Percentile £368 £456 £454
25th Percentile £450 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £714
90th Percentile £888 £800 £823
UK median daily rate £544 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -5.43% -4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £18.80 £25.79
25th Percentile £66.25 £19.00 £34.62
Median hourly rate £67.50 £19.49 £49.33
Median % change year-on-year +246.33% -60.49% +103.42%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.93 £64.04
90th Percentile - £64.33 £72.87
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £68.50 £78.75
% change year-on-year -39.42% -13.02% +224.74%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Scala is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,048 9,374 16,677
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.49% 37.36% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,662 6,862 12,375
10th Percentile £350 £390 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 203 185
10th Percentile £34.38 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.38 £82.00 £66.60
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

Scala
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scala trend for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scala.

Scala daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Scala over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Scala daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scala.

Scala hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (18.18%) Apache Spark
3 16 (14.55%) Apache
4 5 (4.55%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) RMDS
2 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (41.82%) AWS
2 31 (28.18%) Azure
3 24 (21.82%) GCP
4 15 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (13.64%) dbt
5 13 (11.82%) Snowflake
6 10 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 10 (9.09%) Serverless
7 9 (8.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (7.27%) Power Platform
9 7 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.45%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.64%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.73%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (1.82%) Datadog
13 2 (1.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.91%) HTTP
2 1 (0.91%) BGP
2 1 (0.91%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.27%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (11.82%) Amazon Athena
2 13 (11.82%) Big Data
3 10 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 9 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (7.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (7.27%) Data Lake
5 8 (7.27%) Power BI
6 7 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (6.36%) Apache Arrow
6 7 (6.36%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (6.36%) Apache Ignite
6 7 (6.36%) Dremio
7 6 (5.45%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.64%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.64%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.64%) Spark SQL
9 3 (2.73%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.73%) Impala
9 3 (2.73%) Looker
Development Applications
1 7 (6.36%) JIRA
2 6 (5.45%) Git
2 6 (5.45%) MLflow
3 4 (3.64%) GitLab
3 4 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.82%) Gatling
5 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.91%) Deequ
5 1 (0.91%) Gradle
5 1 (0.91%) Mockito
5 1 (0.91%) ScalaTest
5 1 (0.91%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (23.64%) Finance
2 25 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (16.36%) Banking
5 15 (13.64%) Investment Banking
6 13 (11.82%) Front Office
7 3 (2.73%) Marketing
8 2 (1.82%) Czech Language
8 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.91%) Legal
9 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (41.82%) Developer
2 34 (30.91%) Data Engineer
3 28 (25.45%) Scala Developer
4 20 (18.18%) Lead
5 17 (15.45%) Java Developer
6 16 (14.55%) Senior
7 13 (11.82%) Lead Data Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.36%) Azure Data Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Java Scala Developer
9 7 (6.36%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Architect
10 5 (4.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Linux Developer
10 5 (4.55%) Python Developer
10 5 (4.55%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.18%) Kafka
1 20 (18.18%) RESTful
2 15 (13.64%) PySpark
3 14 (12.73%) Akka
4 10 (9.09%) Play Framework
4 10 (9.09%) Web Services
5 8 (7.27%) React
6 7 (6.36%) gRPC
6 7 (6.36%) NumPy
6 7 (6.36%) Pandas
6 7 (6.36%) Protocol Buffers
6 7 (6.36%) SciPy
7 5 (4.55%) Spring
8 4 (3.64%) OAuth
8 4 (3.64%) OpenID
8 4 (3.64%) PyTorch
8 4 (3.64%) Spark Streaming
8 4 (3.64%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.64%) TensorFlow
9 3 (2.73%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 24 (21.82%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (10.91%) Derivative
3 10 (9.09%) Fixed Income
4 9 (8.18%) Hedge funds
5 7 (6.36%) Algorithms
5 7 (6.36%) Equities
6 6 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (4.55%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.82%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.91%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.00%) Linux
2 8 (7.27%) Unix
3 1 (0.91%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (52.73%) Agile
2 32 (29.09%) Data Pipeline
3 31 (28.18%) Data Engineering
4 30 (27.27%) Analytics
4 30 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 25 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (20.91%) Microservices
7 21 (19.09%) CI/CD
7 21 (19.09%) Data Modelling
7 21 (19.09%) DevOps
8 19 (17.27%) ETL
9 16 (14.55%) Computer Science
10 13 (11.82%) Machine Learning
10 13 (11.82%) SDLC
10 13 (11.82%) TDD
11 12 (10.91%) Clean Code
11 12 (10.91%) Functional Programming
11 12 (10.91%) MLOps
12 11 (10.00%) Data Architecture
12 11 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 62 (56.36%) Python
2 50 (45.45%) Java
3 31 (28.18%) SQL
4 10 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.27%) Kotlin
5 8 (7.27%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.36%) Ruby
7 4 (3.64%) R
8 3 (2.73%) C#
8 3 (2.73%) C++
8 3 (2.73%) Go
9 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.91%) Bash
10 1 (0.91%) Perl
10 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.00%) Degree
2 10 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.18%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.55%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.82%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.91%) GxP
2 1 (0.91%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (11.82%) Docker
2 2 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.91%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 20 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.00%) Terraform
3 7 (6.36%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.73%) Zipkin
5 1 (0.91%) Argo
5 1 (0.91%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (25.45%) Databricks
2 6 (5.45%) Ab Initio
2 6 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.73%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.73%) ION Trading
3 3 (2.73%) Solace
4 2 (1.82%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.82%) Genesys
4 2 (1.82%) Guidewire
4 2 (1.82%) Informatica
4 2 (1.82%) Talend
4 2 (1.82%) Typelevel
5 1 (0.91%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.91%) F5
5 1 (0.91%) Google
5 1 (0.91%) New Relic
5 1 (0.91%) StreamSets