Scala Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Scala Engineer
England > London

The median Scala Engineer daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 370 407
Rank change year-on-year +3 +37 +145
Contract jobs requiring a Scala Engineer 11 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.082% 0.070% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.074% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 6
10th Percentile £527 £418 £520
25th Percentile £545 £439 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £508 £663
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -23.40% +2.91%
75th Percentile £706 £621 £931
90th Percentile £735 £663 £1,000
England median daily rate £605 £508 £663
% change year-on-year +19.11% -23.40% -1.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,405 14,801 19,393
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 94.06% 93.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,238 9,577 14,110
10th Percentile £333 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 162 212
10th Percentile £17.05 £17.25 £18.02
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.16 £21.94
Median hourly rate £26.78 £38.00 £39.09
Median % change year-on-year -29.53% -2.78% +20.26%
75th Percentile £47.50 £58.75 £60.38
90th Percentile £66.34 £80.55 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +54.59%

Scala Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Scala Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Scala Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Scala Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Scala Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Scala Engineer job vacancies in London

Scala Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala Engineer in London

Scala Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Central London -2 1 - -
Scala Engineer
England

Scala Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 October 2025, Scala Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Scala Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Scala
2 8 (72.73%) Azure
3 7 (63.64%) AWS
3 7 (63.64%) Databricks
4 6 (54.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
5 5 (45.45%) GCP
5 5 (45.45%) Kafka
5 5 (45.45%) Python
6 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
6 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
6 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
7 3 (27.27%) AI
7 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
7 3 (27.27%) Data Science
7 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
7 3 (27.27%) Open Source
8 2 (18.18%) Agile
8 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
9 1 (9.09%) Akka
9 1 (9.09%) Apache
9 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (9.09%) BDD
9 1 (9.09%) Big Data
9 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
9 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
9 1 (9.09%) Coaching

Scala Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) AWS
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (45.45%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
General
1 6 (54.55%) Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Akka
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
2 1 (9.09%) Derivative
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
3 3 (27.27%) AI
3 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
3 3 (27.27%) Data Science
3 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 3 (27.27%) Open Source
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) BDD
5 1 (9.09%) Coaching
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (9.09%) ETL
5 1 (9.09%) High Availability
5 1 (9.09%) Pair Programming
5 1 (9.09%) Scrum
5 1 (9.09%) Stress Testing
5 1 (9.09%) TDD
5 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Scala
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) CodeQL
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Typelevel