Scala Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Scala
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 75 66
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +11
Contract jobs citing Scala 2 2 14
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.30% 0.27% 1.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.72% 0.58% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £501 £359 £411
25th Percentile £503 £365 £694
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £373 £750
Median % change year-on-year +37.40% -50.27% +50.00%
75th Percentile £528 £382 -
90th Percentile £534 £387 -
Scotland median daily rate £513 £373 £750
% change year-on-year +37.40% -50.27% +50.00%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 276 344 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 41.13% 46.42% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 172 218
10th Percentile £332 £350 £399
25th Percentile £400 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £441 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -16.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £650
90th Percentile £588 £581 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £469 £510
% change year-on-year +1.28% -8.04% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £52.00 - £50.25
25th Percentile £55.00 - £50.63
Median hourly rate £58.73 £19.59 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +199.77% -62.69% +10.53%
75th Percentile £62.50 - £55.63
90th Percentile £63.60 - £56.75
Scotland median hourly rate £59.36 £22.44 £60.50
% change year-on-year +164.57% -62.91% +7.86%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Scala job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Scala.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Scala

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes