Scala Contracts in Cheshire

Scala
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 55 57 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Scala 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.67% 0.20% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.26% 0.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £485 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - -
75th Percentile £495 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £400 £463 £575
% change year-on-year -13.51% -19.57% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 133 129 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.62% 25.60% 35.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 103 146
10th Percentile £323 £311 £315
25th Percentile £358 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -2.20% +23.15%
75th Percentile £500 £582 £575
90th Percentile £600 £610 £638
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile - £41.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% +6.25% +63.27%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala in Cheshire

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Scala in Cheshire

Scala
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the Cheshire 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
Macclesfield - 2 £490 -
Scala
North West

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Legal
1 3 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (100.00%) Linear Algebra
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 3 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Pattern Recognition
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) RDF
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Statistics
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes