Scala Contracts in the Midlands

Scala
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 98 125 148
Rank change year-on-year +27 +23 +13
Contract jobs citing Scala 13 8 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 0.29% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.73% 1.29% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 15
10th Percentile £368 £381 £438
25th Percentile £396 £433 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £513 £595
Median % change year-on-year -13.76% -13.87% +13.33%
75th Percentile £488 £519 £600
90th Percentile £495 £559 £602
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.12 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year +72.13% -55.47% -13.70%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the Midlands

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Scala in the Midlands

Scala
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the Midlands 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
East Midlands +12 8 £410 -20.00% 12
West Midlands +17 5 £475 -2.06% 12
Scala
England

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (53.85%) Apache Spark
2 4 (30.77%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Big Data
2 6 (46.15%) Hadoop
3 4 (30.77%) Data Lake
3 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (30.77%) Impala
3 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
4 3 (23.08%) Apache Hive
4 3 (23.08%) HBase
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (15.38%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (15.38%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (15.38%) Delta Lake
5 2 (15.38%) Flink
5 2 (15.38%) Parquet
6 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
6 1 (7.69%) Data Mining
6 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.69%) JBehave
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
2 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Automotive
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
1 5 (38.46%) Scala Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Big Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Avro
2 2 (15.38%) JSON
2 2 (15.38%) Play Framework
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) NumPy
3 1 (7.69%) Pandas
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) ETL
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Data Governance
4 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (23.08%) Data Science
5 3 (23.08%) Data Security
5 3 (23.08%) Validation
6 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 2 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (15.38%) Data Lineage
6 2 (15.38%) Data Transformation
6 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
6 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
6 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) R
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) PERC
3 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Hitachi
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft