Scala Contracts in Birmingham

Scala
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Scala skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scala over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 66 74
Rank change year-on-year +19 +8 +16
Contract jobs citing Scala 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.57% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.38% 0.54% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £444 £410 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -30.00% +39.53%
75th Percentile £506 £430 £625
90th Percentile £510 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £485 £595
% change year-on-year -2.06% -18.49% +13.33%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

Scala falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 126 186 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.14% 24.06% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 144 158
10th Percentile £341 £259 £313
25th Percentile £425 £310 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.88% -18.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £650
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £456 £525
% change year-on-year +4.11% -13.10% +14.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £40.20 £21.70
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.50 £24.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +64.74% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £75.63
90th Percentile - - £98.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in Birmingham

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Scala in Birmingham

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Composer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) ANSI SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft