Scala Contracts in Central London

Scala
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with 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 119 141 128
Rank change year-on-year +22 -13 -35
Contract jobs citing Scala 15 38 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.62% 1.01% 1.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 2.40% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 58
10th Percentile £413 £419 £475
25th Percentile £469 £456 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £663
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -13.21% +12.77%
75th Percentile £763 £738 £813
90th Percentile £775 £775 £893
London median daily rate £625 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 836 1,585 1,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.40% 42.04% 43.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 1,054 1,519
10th Percentile £403 £425 £418
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £619 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.07% +3.10% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £709
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £35.00 £44.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £43.13 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +137.49%
75th Percentile £50.25 £71.25 £74.38
90th Percentile - £84.25 £77.50
London median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +11.11%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala in Central London

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Scala in Central London

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in Central London

Scala
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 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
City of London +23 12 £550 -4.35% 10
City of Westminster - 2 £675 -
West End of London - 1 - - 2
Scala
London

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (26.67%) Apache
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.67%) Datadog
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Big Data
1 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (13.33%) Parquet
2 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (6.67%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JUnit
2 2 (13.33%) Android Studio
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Mockito
2 2 (13.33%) ScalaTest
2 2 (13.33%) Subversion
2 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (6.67%) Deequ
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Gradle
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Maven
3 1 (6.67%) Spinnaker
3 1 (6.67%) TestNG
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Scala Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Big Data Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Data Scientist
5 1 (6.67%) ETL Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Scala Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) PySpark
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Avro
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) JSON Schema
3 2 (13.33%) Middleware
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
4 1 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (6.67%) Akka
4 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
4 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) Great Expectations
4 1 (6.67%) http4s
4 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
4 1 (6.67%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (20.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (6.67%) Equities
3 1 (6.67%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) SDLC
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (26.67%) ETL
3 4 (26.67%) Functional Programming
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum
3 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) API Development
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) Kotlin
4 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Databricks
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) New Relic