Scala Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Scala
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 66 63
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +26
Contract jobs citing Scala 8 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.12% 0.14% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.19% 0.50% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £436 - £295
25th Percentile £488 £463 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £475 £361
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% +31.49% -37.17%
75th Percentile £511 £488 £476
90th Percentile £513 - £513
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £612 £410
% change year-on-year -18.71% +49.27% -24.07%

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 191 199 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.79% 27.19% 20.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 123 128
10th Percentile £316 £340 £271
25th Percentile £413 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £540 £631 £648
90th Percentile £624 £712 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £508 £500 £461
% change year-on-year +1.55% +8.40% -9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £48.75 -
25th Percentile - £50.63 £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% +182.05% -
75th Percentile - £58.13 £19.75
90th Percentile - £59.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +48.65% -42.19%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scala relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Scala job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Scala.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Scala

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Apache
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Pig
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (12.50%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Hadoop
2 5 (62.50%) Data Mining
3 4 (50.00%) Apache Hive
3 4 (50.00%) Power BI
4 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (12.50%) Big Data
5 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (12.50%) OLTP
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
5 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Deequ
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Science
1 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
2 5 (62.50%) Data Collection
2 5 (62.50%) Visualisation
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Data Munging
3 4 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (50.00%) Linear Algebra
3 4 (50.00%) Naive Bayes
3 4 (50.00%) Statistics
3 4 (50.00%) Support Vector Machines
4 3 (37.50%) ETL
5 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
1 7 (87.50%) Python
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle