Akka Contract Job Trends in England

Akka
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Akka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 471 549
Rank change year-on-year -34 +78 +161
Contract jobs citing Akka 5 44 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.018% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.079% 0.62% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 30
10th Percentile £432 £321 £445
25th Percentile £480 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.41% +7.89% -28.03%
75th Percentile £655 £575 £666
90th Percentile £664 £771 £750
UK median daily rate £581 £500 £570
% change year-on-year +16.25% -12.28% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £65.50
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £77.89
90th Percentile - - £87.59
UK median hourly rate - - £72.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Akka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,327 7,142 9,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.80% 22.25% 21.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,266 4,595 6,750
10th Percentile £350 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £438 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £810 £788
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 175 181
10th Percentile £31.57 £35.40 £37.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +10.94% -9.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.72 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.70 £62.93 £58.59
% change year-on-year -13.07% +7.40% -7.62%

Akka
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Akka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Akka in England

Akka
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Akka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Akka

Akka
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akka in England over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Akka in England

Akka
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Akka.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Akka

Akka
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Akka within the England region over the 6 months to 30 September 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
London -14 4 £650 +18.18% 2
North of England -16 1 £400 -20.00% 2
North East - 1 £400 -
Akka
UK

Akka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (20.00%) HBase
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Gradle
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (20.00%) Play Framework
3 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (20.00%) ReactiveX
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (20.00%) GitOps
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (20.00%) Personalization
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) User Research
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Scala
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) Clojure
4 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
4 1 (20.00%) Rust
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Typelevel