Scala Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Scala
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 80 96
Rank change year-on-year -13 +16 +24
Contract jobs citing Scala 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.33% 0.093% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 0.35% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £404 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.09%
75th Percentile £506 - -
90th Percentile £518 - £545
North West median daily rate £380 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
North West median hourly rate - - £65.00

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 380 285 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 31.75% 26.39% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 204 377
10th Percentile £318 £363 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £569
90th Percentile £625 £598 £663
North West median daily rate £438 £450 £487
% change year-on-year -2.78% -7.60% -4.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 9
10th Percentile - - £60.75
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +36.84%
75th Percentile £65.13 £82.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £93.00 £79.50
North West median hourly rate £64.63 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -0.57% +40.75% +20.26%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Scala job vacancy trend in Manchester

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Scala

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in Manchester

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Gatling
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) Puppeteer
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Spark Streaming
1 1 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft