Scala Contracts in Central London

Scala
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 113 118 130
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -13
Contract jobs citing Scala 16 15 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.80% 0.61% 1.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.07% 1.80% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 31
10th Percentile £425 £514 £425
25th Percentile £511 £538 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £667 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% -13.21%
75th Percentile £641 £769 £775
90th Percentile £706 £776 -
London median daily rate £575 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -11.54%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 773 833 1,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.71% 34.06% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 608 1,091
10th Percentile £409 £412 £420
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £620
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
London median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +12 16 £575 -13.79% 12
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 10 (62.50%) Apache Spark
2 8 (50.00%) Apache
3 4 (25.00%) Jupyter
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (6.25%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) Collibra
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 6 (37.50%) Delta Lake
3 5 (31.25%) Apache Hive
3 5 (31.25%) MongoDB
3 5 (31.25%) Power BI
3 5 (31.25%) Relational Database
4 4 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (25.00%) Big Data
4 4 (25.00%) Hadoop
5 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
5 3 (18.75%) DB2
5 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
6 2 (12.50%) Metadata
6 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (6.25%) Flink
7 1 (6.25%) MySQL
7 1 (6.25%) Parquet
7 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git
2 5 (31.25%) JIRA
3 4 (25.00%) RStudio
4 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) MLflow
4 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Angular Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Scala Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Scala Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (25.00%) JSON
1 4 (25.00%) pydantic
1 4 (25.00%) PySpark
1 4 (25.00%) RESTful
1 4 (25.00%) Spring
1 4 (25.00%) YAML
2 3 (18.75%) Kafka
2 3 (18.75%) React
2 3 (18.75%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) Akka
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Avro
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Beam
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) CSS3
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) HTML5
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (25.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) N-Tier
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
2 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Data Security
3 5 (31.25%) ETL
3 5 (31.25%) Scrum
4 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (25.00%) Data Science
4 4 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) Data Management
5 3 (18.75%) Fintech
5 3 (18.75%) Parallel Processing
5 3 (18.75%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) Java
3 8 (50.00%) SQL
4 4 (25.00%) Bash
4 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 3 (18.75%) Perl
5 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.25%) Clojure
6 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (6.25%) Elixir
6 1 (6.25%) Go
6 1 (6.25%) Haskell
6 1 (6.25%) R
6 1 (6.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Databricks
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Sybase
3 2 (12.50%) Informatica
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat