Scala Developer Contracts in England

Scala Developer
UK > England

The median Scala Developer daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 451 416
Rank change year-on-year -4 -35 +143
Contract jobs requiring a Scala Developer 30 91 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.24% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.26% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 62 179
10th Percentile £392 £363 £463
25th Percentile £400 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% -3.13% -7.69%
75th Percentile £550 £784 £788
90th Percentile £609 £838 £900
UK median daily rate £475 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -20.83% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £66.70
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -30.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Scala Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Scala Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Scala Developer in England

Scala Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Scala Developer in England

Scala Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala Developer in England

Scala Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scala Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Scala Developer in England

Scala Developer
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 Scala Developer within the England 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
London -23 17 £450 -33.33% 5
North of England +18 7 £400 -5.88% 1
Midlands - 6 £475 - 2
Yorkshire +6 4 £400 -5.88%
East Midlands - 4 - - 2
North East +1 3 £550 +4.76%
West Midlands - 2 £475 -
Scala Developer
UK

Scala Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Scala Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Scala Developer in the job title.

1 28 (93.33%) Scala
2 13 (43.33%) Akka
2 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (40.00%) Agile
3 12 (40.00%) TDD
4 11 (36.67%) Play Framework
5 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 9 (30.00%) Java
6 9 (30.00%) AWS
7 8 (26.67%) Code Quality
8 7 (23.33%) Decision-Making
8 7 (23.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (23.33%) Big Data
8 7 (23.33%) Data Visualisation
8 7 (23.33%) BDD
8 7 (23.33%) Kibana
8 7 (23.33%) Visualisation
9 6 (20.00%) React
9 6 (20.00%) Microservices
9 6 (20.00%) Apache Spark
9 6 (20.00%) MongoDB
9 6 (20.00%) Banking
9 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (16.67%) Hadoop
10 5 (16.67%) Git
10 5 (16.67%) Functional Programming
10 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
10 5 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
10 5 (16.67%) API Development

Scala Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Big Data
2 6 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (16.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.67%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (6.67%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.67%) Delta Lake
4 2 (6.67%) Flink
4 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Parquet
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.33%) DB2
5 1 (3.33%) HBase
5 1 (3.33%) Impala
5 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (20.00%) Banking
4 4 (13.33%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Automotive
6 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) Akka
2 11 (36.67%) Play Framework
3 6 (20.00%) React
4 3 (10.00%) RESTful
4 3 (10.00%) Web Services
5 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.67%) Apache Avro
5 2 (6.67%) CSS
5 2 (6.67%) HTML
5 2 (6.67%) JSON
5 2 (6.67%) Kafka
5 2 (6.67%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (3.33%) CSS3
6 1 (3.33%) HTML5
6 1 (3.33%) Node.js
6 1 (3.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Derivative
3 1 (3.33%) Equities
3 1 (3.33%) Exotic Derivative
3 1 (3.33%) Life Science
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Agile
1 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 12 (40.00%) TDD
2 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (26.67%) Code Quality
4 7 (23.33%) BDD
4 7 (23.33%) Data Visualisation
4 7 (23.33%) Decision-Making
4 7 (23.33%) Visualisation
5 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (20.00%) Microservices
6 5 (16.67%) API Development
6 5 (16.67%) API Integration
6 5 (16.67%) Clean Code
6 5 (16.67%) Functional Programming
6 5 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 28 (93.33%) Scala
2 9 (30.00%) Java
3 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.00%) SQL
6 2 (6.67%) Python
7 1 (3.33%) Perl
7 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) PERC
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Kibana
2 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Cloudera
1 2 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (3.33%) Hitachi
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) Splunk
2 1 (3.33%) Sybase