Scala Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Scala
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 93 112
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -2
Contract jobs citing Scala 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.14% 0.072% 0.053%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.50% 0.30% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £434 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +25.00% -37.01%
75th Percentile £559 £525 -
90th Percentile £591 - -
England median daily rate £510 £612 £625
% change year-on-year -16.67% -2.08% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 403 329 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 29.01% 23.53% 28.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 147 295
10th Percentile £319 £292 £311
25th Percentile £416 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.11% -16.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £651 £600 £695
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 62 108
10th Percentile £33.70 £47.88 £53.75
25th Percentile £52.39 £59.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.80% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72.81 £67.13 £84.36
90th Percentile £78.25 £73.70 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Scala job vacancy trend in the East of England

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Scala.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Scala

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the East of England

Scala
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Cambridgeshire +2 1 £400 -20.00%
Essex - 1 £575 - 1
Scala
England

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) Pentaho
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
2 1 (50.00%) Next.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Discovery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) Vertica