Scala Contracts in London

Scala
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 232 199 167
Rank change year-on-year -33 -32 +12
Contract jobs citing Scala 121 202 428
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.96% 1.13% 1.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.44% 3.14% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 150 307
10th Percentile £413 £375 £463
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £744
90th Percentile £849 £850 £900
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £49.75
25th Percentile £51.25 - £67.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - £82.50
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year +72.13% -55.47% -13.70%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala in London

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Scala in London

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Scala in London

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Scala in London

Scala
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 within the London 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
Central London +5 16 £575 -13.79% 15
East London +12 2 £538 -34.85% 1
West London -3 2 £775 +134.85% 2
Scala
England

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 41 (33.88%) Apache Spark
2 20 (16.53%) Apache
3 7 (5.79%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.96%) Jupyter
5 4 (3.31%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.65%) nginx
7 1 (0.83%) Luigi
7 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (39.67%) Azure
2 35 (28.93%) AWS
3 18 (14.88%) GCP
4 13 (10.74%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (10.74%) Power Platform
5 11 (9.09%) GitHub
6 10 (8.26%) Serverless
7 8 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (6.61%) Snowflake
8 7 (5.79%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.79%) Azure Stack
9 6 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.13%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (4.13%) Matillion
10 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (3.31%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.31%) dbt
11 4 (3.31%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.96%) SSH
2 2 (1.65%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.01%) Big Data
2 18 (14.88%) Hadoop
3 17 (14.05%) Apache Hive
3 17 (14.05%) NoSQL
4 13 (10.74%) Delta Lake
4 13 (10.74%) Power BI
4 13 (10.74%) SQL Server
5 12 (9.92%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (9.09%) Data Lake
6 11 (9.09%) Relational Database
7 9 (7.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (6.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (5.79%) BigQuery
9 7 (5.79%) MongoDB
10 6 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (4.96%) Impala
10 6 (4.96%) Tableau
11 5 (4.13%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (4.13%) OLTP
11 5 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (14.88%) Git
2 14 (11.57%) JIRA
3 10 (8.26%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.96%) RStudio
5 4 (3.31%) Appium
5 4 (3.31%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.31%) Gatling
5 4 (3.31%) GitLab
5 4 (3.31%) JMeter
5 4 (3.31%) NeoLoad
5 4 (3.31%) Selenium
5 4 (3.31%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.48%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (2.48%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.65%) JUnit
8 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.83%) Mockito
8 1 (0.83%) Spock
8 1 (0.83%) Subversion
8 1 (0.83%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (30.58%) Finance
2 33 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (24.79%) Banking
4 25 (20.66%) Social Skills
5 14 (11.57%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.61%) Front Office
7 6 (4.96%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.13%) Retail
9 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (33.06%) Data Engineer
2 39 (32.23%) Developer
3 16 (13.22%) Scala Developer
4 13 (10.74%) Lead
5 12 (9.92%) Senior
6 11 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 9 (7.44%) Architect
8 8 (6.61%) Gen AI Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.79%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.79%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Java Scala Developer
10 6 (4.96%) Operations Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Senior Scala Developer
11 5 (4.13%) Angular Developer
11 5 (4.13%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) DataOps Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.70%) Kafka
2 13 (10.74%) Play Framework
2 13 (10.74%) Spring
3 12 (9.92%) AngularJS
3 12 (9.92%) PySpark
3 12 (9.92%) React
4 11 (9.09%) JSON
4 11 (9.09%) REST
5 9 (7.44%) Spring Boot
6 8 (6.61%) pydantic
6 8 (6.61%) YAML
7 6 (4.96%) Akka
7 6 (4.96%) Node.js
8 5 (4.13%) HTML
8 5 (4.13%) RESTful
8 5 (4.13%) Web Services
9 4 (3.31%) Apache Avro
9 4 (3.31%) CSS
9 4 (3.31%) HTML5
9 4 (3.31%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.74%) Algorithms
2 11 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.26%) Data Structures
4 9 (7.44%) Cloud Native
5 8 (6.61%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (6.61%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (6.61%) Reference Data
6 7 (5.79%) Derivative
6 7 (5.79%) Product Ownership
6 7 (5.79%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.31%) N-Tier
8 3 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.48%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.48%) iPad
8 3 (2.48%) Replication
9 2 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.05%) Linux
2 6 (4.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (46.28%) Agile
2 46 (38.02%) CI/CD
3 39 (32.23%) Data Engineering
4 35 (28.93%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (26.45%) DevOps
6 27 (22.31%) ETL
6 27 (22.31%) Machine Learning
7 24 (19.83%) Data Science
8 23 (19.01%) Data Pipeline
9 22 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
10 21 (17.36%) Analytics
10 21 (17.36%) SDLC
11 20 (16.53%) MLOps
12 18 (14.88%) Data Modelling
12 18 (14.88%) Generative AI
13 16 (13.22%) Data Governance
13 16 (13.22%) LLM
14 15 (12.40%) Data Ingestion
14 15 (12.40%) Microservices
14 15 (12.40%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 87 (71.90%) Python
2 54 (44.63%) Java
2 54 (44.63%) SQL
3 18 (14.88%) JavaScript
3 18 (14.88%) TypeScript
4 10 (8.26%) Bash
5 9 (7.44%) C#
6 7 (5.79%) Clojure
6 7 (5.79%) Elixir
6 7 (5.79%) Go
6 7 (5.79%) Rust
7 5 (4.13%) Haskell
8 4 (3.31%) C++
8 4 (3.31%) OCaml
8 4 (3.31%) Perl
8 4 (3.31%) PHP
8 4 (3.31%) R
8 4 (3.31%) Ruby
8 4 (3.31%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 18 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.31%) Degree
4 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.57%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.09%) QA
3 8 (6.61%) GDPR
4 3 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (13.22%) Docker
2 3 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (1.65%) Ansible
3 2 (1.65%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (0.83%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 24 (19.83%) Databricks
2 8 (6.61%) Informatica
3 7 (5.79%) Cloudera
3 7 (5.79%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.96%) Oracle
5 5 (4.13%) Talend
6 4 (3.31%) Google
6 4 (3.31%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.31%) Sybase
7 3 (2.48%) VMware
8 2 (1.65%) Splunk
8 2 (1.65%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.83%) CA Agile Central