Scala Contracts in the City of London

Scala
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 136 120
Rank change year-on-year +26 -16 -34
Contract jobs citing Scala 14 38 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.64% 1.05% 1.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 2.44% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 55
10th Percentile £408 £419 £475
25th Percentile £441 £456 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £663
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -13.21% +12.77%
75th Percentile £763 £756 £813
90th Percentile £776 £775 £893
Central London median daily rate £650 £575 £663
% change year-on-year +13.04% -13.21% +12.77%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 745 1,559 1,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.32% 43.00% 44.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 1,021 1,472
10th Percentile £400 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £689 £738 £712
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £563 £617 £600
% change year-on-year -8.86% +2.86% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £35.00 £44.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £47.19 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +120.00%
75th Percentile £50.25 £65.00 £74.38
90th Percentile - £84.13 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +137.49%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the City of London

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scala in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Scala in the City of London

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the City of London

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 5 (35.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (21.43%) Apache
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Datadog
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (14.29%) Big Data
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) DB2
3 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.14%) Metadata
3 1 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) Parquet
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) Scylla
3 1 (7.14%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JUnit
2 2 (14.29%) Android Studio
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Mockito
2 2 (14.29%) ScalaTest
2 2 (14.29%) Subversion
2 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Gradle
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) Spinnaker
3 1 (7.14%) TestNG
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Data Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Scala Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.14%) Java Scala Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) Akka
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Avro
3 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.14%) http4s
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) JSON Schema
3 1 (7.14%) Middleware
3 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (7.14%) PySpark
3 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (7.14%) Equities
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) SDLC
3 4 (28.57%) Functional Programming
4 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) ETL
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) R
4 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.14%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Databricks
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) New Relic
2 1 (7.14%) Sybase