Scala Contract Job Trends in Central London

Scala
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 117 113
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing Scala 11 15 24
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.55% 0.64% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.64% 1.87% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 18
10th Percentile £298 £516 £521
25th Percentile £506 £563 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £633 £750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.67% +17.65%
75th Percentile £666 £713 £855
90th Percentile £750 £825 £913
London median daily rate £545 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -19.26% +8.00% +1.63%

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 670 801 919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.63% 34.20% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 514 667
10th Percentile £359 £413 £400
25th Percentile £436 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -2.92% +0.84%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £721
90th Percentile £775 £799 £843
London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile £26.00 £38.35 -
25th Percentile £26.31 £40.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £41.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.30% -12.63% -17.39%
75th Percentile £44.50 £112.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £55.63 - -
London median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -8.70%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Scala job vacancy trend in Central London

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Scala.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Scala

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in Central London over the 6 months to 16 December 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 16 December 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 +2 9 £569 -11.13% 7
Scala
London

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 7 (63.64%) Apache Spark
2 3 (27.27%) Apache
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (9.09%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
5 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Power BI
2 4 (36.36%) Tableau
3 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (18.18%) Big Data
3 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (18.18%) Delta Lake
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
4 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
4 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Back Office
3 2 (18.18%) Front Office
3 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) PySpark
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) LangChain
3 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
3 1 (9.09%) Ray
3 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Derivative
1 2 (18.18%) Equities
1 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Data Engineering
1 7 (63.64%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (54.55%) ETL
3 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
4 4 (36.36%) Data Architecture
4 4 (36.36%) Data Transformation
5 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
6 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
6 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Greeks
6 2 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) PnL Attribution
6 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
7 1 (9.09%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Databricks