Scala Contracts in the East Midlands

Scala
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 48 60 84
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 +14
Contract jobs citing Scala 8 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.49% 0.78% 0.096%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.20% 3.17% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £367 £399 -
25th Percentile £368 £468 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £459 £519 £525
90th Percentile £476 - -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.12 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year +72.13% -55.47% -13.70%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 129 189 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.07% 24.45% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 137 266
10th Percentile £311 £283 £273
25th Percentile £358 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.19%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £538
90th Percentile £545 £625 £638
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.66 £20.39
25th Percentile £16.88 £22.12 £26.48
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% -50.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £20.38 £31.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £21.95 £40.71 £63.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the East Midlands

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scala in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Scala in the East Midlands

Scala
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire +3 8 £410 -20.00% 2
Scala
England

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (37.50%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Big Data
2 5 (62.50%) Hadoop
3 4 (50.00%) Impala
3 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (37.50%) Apache Hive
4 3 (37.50%) HBase
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (25.00%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (25.00%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (25.00%) Delta Lake
5 2 (25.00%) Flink
5 2 (25.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Scala Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Open Source
4 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Hitachi