Scala Contracts in Manchester

Scala
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 75 87 93
Rank change year-on-year +12 +6 +40
Contract jobs citing Scala 4 9 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% 0.59% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.32% 2.00% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 22
10th Percentile £386 - £468
25th Percentile £395 £375 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £478 £530 £594
90th Percentile £619 £565 £599
North West median daily rate £400 £463 £575
% change year-on-year -13.51% -19.57% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
North West median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 303 450 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.72% 29.66% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 355 442
10th Percentile £375 £343 £339
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £600
90th Percentile £622 £620 £675
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 5
10th Percentile £68.38 - £39.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £52.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +55.56% +192.87%
75th Percentile £84.69 £81.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.13 £82.90 £59.10
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala in Manchester

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Scala in Manchester

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Scala in Manchester

Scala
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the Manchester 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
Salford - 1 £380 -
Scala
North West

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon MSK
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Neptune
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Gatling
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Scala Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) CQRS
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SPARQL
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Kotlin