Akka Contract Job Trends in London

Akka
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Akka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 351 400
Rank change year-on-year -21 +49 +123
Contract jobs citing Akka 4 29 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.030% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.68% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 17
10th Percentile £535 £356 £431
25th Percentile £578 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £558 £575
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -3.04% -12.88%
75th Percentile £660 £725 £750
90th Percentile £666 £850 £765
England median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -12.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £80.15
25th Percentile - - £81.80
Median hourly rate - - £86.41
75th Percentile - - £89.14
90th Percentile - - £89.66
England median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,516 4,245 5,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.23% 26.87% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,388 2,796 4,076
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £788 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 38
10th Percentile £31.52 £36.30 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.67 £39.19 £40.20
Median hourly rate £52.72 £47.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -21.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £62.19 £62.23 £73.24
90th Percentile £87.63 £74.60 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.70 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -15.85% +16.99% -14.52%

Akka
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Akka job vacancy trend in London

Akka
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Akka

Akka
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akka in London over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Akka in London

Akka
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Akka

Akka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (25.00%) HBase
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
General
1 1 (25.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (25.00%) Play Framework
3 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (25.00%) ReactiveX
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (25.00%) GitOps
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Personalization
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Scala
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) C++
4 1 (25.00%) Clojure
4 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
4 1 (25.00%) Rust
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Typelevel