Scala Contracts in England

Scala
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 329 297 235
Rank change year-on-year -32 -62 -9
Contract jobs citing Scala 156 264 573
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.71% 1.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.90% 2.42% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 195 413
10th Percentile £400 £375 £463
25th Percentile £431 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.50%
75th Percentile £690 £706 £688
90th Percentile £828 £838 £847
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 18
10th Percentile - £22.93 £19.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £24.74 £24.10
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.50 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.13% -55.47% -13.70%
75th Percentile £53.75 £51.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £61.65 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £41.50 £64.75
% change year-on-year +26.51% -35.91% -17.78%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala in England

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Scala in England

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Scala in England

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Scala in England

Scala
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 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 -33 121 £575 -8.00% 164
North of England +10 19 £508 +16.00% 32
Midlands +27 13 £442 -13.76% 25
Yorkshire +1 9 £538 +26.47% 9
East Midlands +12 8 £410 -20.00% 12
North West +14 7 £400 -13.51% 19
West Midlands +17 5 £475 -2.06% 12
South East +30 3 £470 -18.26% 56
North East +1 3 £550 +4.76% 5
Scala
UK

Scala
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 48 (30.77%) Apache Spark
2 24 (15.38%) Apache
3 7 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.85%) Jupyter
5 4 (2.56%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.64%) Luigi
7 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (35.26%) Azure
2 46 (29.49%) AWS
3 28 (17.95%) GCP
4 14 (8.97%) Serverless
5 13 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 12 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (7.05%) GitHub
8 9 (5.77%) Amazon S3
9 8 (5.13%) Snowflake
10 7 (4.49%) Azure Stack
10 7 (4.49%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.21%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (3.21%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (3.21%) Matillion
12 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.85%) SSH
2 2 (1.28%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.15%) Big Data
2 24 (15.38%) Hadoop
3 23 (14.74%) NoSQL
4 20 (12.82%) Apache Hive
5 19 (12.18%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (10.90%) Data Lake
7 16 (10.26%) SQL Server
8 15 (9.62%) Delta Lake
9 13 (8.33%) BigQuery
9 13 (8.33%) Power BI
10 12 (7.69%) MongoDB
11 11 (7.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (7.05%) Relational Database
12 10 (6.41%) Impala
13 8 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (3.85%) Parquet
14 6 (3.85%) Tableau
15 5 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (3.21%) Flink
Development Applications
1 21 (13.46%) Git
2 14 (8.97%) Jenkins
2 14 (8.97%) JIRA
3 6 (3.85%) RStudio
4 5 (3.21%) Gatling
4 5 (3.21%) Selenium
5 4 (2.56%) Appium
5 4 (2.56%) CircleCI
5 4 (2.56%) GitLab
5 4 (2.56%) JMeter
5 4 (2.56%) NeoLoad
5 4 (2.56%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.92%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.28%) JUnit
7 2 (1.28%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.64%) JBehave
8 1 (0.64%) Mockito
8 1 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 45 (28.85%) Finance
2 40 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 38 (24.36%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (21.15%) Banking
5 14 (8.97%) Investment Banking
6 9 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (5.13%) Front Office
7 8 (5.13%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.21%) Retail
9 4 (2.56%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.92%) Legal
10 3 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.28%) Billing
11 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.64%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 51 (32.69%) Developer
2 45 (28.85%) Data Engineer
3 28 (17.95%) Scala Developer
4 20 (12.82%) Senior
5 16 (10.26%) Architect
6 13 (8.33%) Lead
7 11 (7.05%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (5.13%) Gen AI Engineer
9 8 (5.13%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.13%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.49%) GCP Architect
10 7 (4.49%) Senior Scala Developer
10 7 (4.49%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.85%) Java Scala Developer
11 6 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
11 6 (3.85%) Platform Architect
11 6 (3.85%) Scala Engineer
11 6 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.21%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.38%) Kafka
2 20 (12.82%) Play Framework
3 13 (8.33%) Akka
3 13 (8.33%) JSON
3 13 (8.33%) React
3 13 (8.33%) Spring
4 12 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 12 (7.69%) PySpark
5 11 (7.05%) REST
6 9 (5.77%) Spring Boot
7 8 (5.13%) pydantic
7 8 (5.13%) YAML
8 7 (4.49%) Node.js
9 6 (3.85%) Apache Avro
9 6 (3.85%) HTML
9 6 (3.85%) RESTful
9 6 (3.85%) Web Services
10 5 (3.21%) CSS
11 4 (2.56%) HTML5
11 4 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.26%) Algorithms
2 13 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.41%) Data Structures
5 9 (5.77%) Product Ownership
6 8 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (5.13%) Reference Data
7 7 (4.49%) Derivative
7 7 (4.49%) Public Cloud
8 6 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (3.21%) Replication
9 5 (3.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (2.56%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.92%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.92%) iPad
12 2 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.18%) Linux
2 6 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (45.51%) Agile
2 65 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 55 (35.26%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 44 (28.21%) ETL
6 36 (23.08%) DevOps
7 32 (20.51%) Data Science
8 30 (19.23%) Analytics
8 30 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (19.23%) Machine Learning
9 25 (16.03%) Artificial Intelligence
10 24 (15.38%) Data Governance
10 24 (15.38%) Data Modelling
10 24 (15.38%) SDLC
11 22 (14.10%) TDD
12 21 (13.46%) Generative AI
12 21 (13.46%) Microservices
13 20 (12.82%) MLOps
14 19 (12.18%) Data Ingestion
14 19 (12.18%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 102 (65.38%) Python
2 65 (41.67%) Java
3 63 (40.38%) SQL
4 20 (12.82%) JavaScript
4 20 (12.82%) TypeScript
5 10 (6.41%) Bash
6 9 (5.77%) C#
7 7 (4.49%) Clojure
7 7 (4.49%) Elixir
7 7 (4.49%) Go
7 7 (4.49%) Rust
8 5 (3.21%) Haskell
8 5 (3.21%) R
9 4 (2.56%) C++
9 4 (2.56%) OCaml
9 4 (2.56%) Perl
9 4 (2.56%) PHP
9 4 (2.56%) Ruby
9 4 (2.56%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.85%) Degree
4 4 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.90%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.69%) QA
3 11 (7.05%) GDPR
4 5 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.28%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.64%) PERC
6 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (14.74%) Docker
2 3 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (18.59%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.18%) Terraform
3 7 (4.49%) Kibana
4 2 (1.28%) Ansible
4 2 (1.28%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.64%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 33 (21.15%) Databricks
2 10 (6.41%) Google
2 10 (6.41%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.13%) Informatica
4 7 (4.49%) Cloudera
5 6 (3.85%) Oracle
6 5 (3.21%) Talend
7 4 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.56%) Sybase
8 3 (1.92%) VMware
9 2 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.28%) Splunk
9 2 (1.28%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.64%) Hitachi