Scala Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Scala
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing Scala 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.10% - 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.36% - 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £475
25th Percentile £418 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £576
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.07%
75th Percentile £453 - £607
90th Percentile - - £625
South West median daily rate £435 £400 £563
% change year-on-year +8.75% -28.92% +2.32%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 275 187 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.71% 30.86% 25.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 83 169
10th Percentile £324 £354 £300
25th Percentile £405 £406 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £551 £600 £575
90th Percentile £648 £675 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.02% -1.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 46 53
10th Percentile £61.25 £59.38 £52.50
25th Percentile - £61.63 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £68.75 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Scala job vacancy trend in Bristol

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Scala

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks