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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 134 147
Rank change year-on-year +18 +13 -7
Contract jobs citing Scala 12 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.55% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.03% 0.59% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £368 £364 £565
25th Percentile £387 £381 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £595
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -29.41% +12.26%
75th Percentile £473 £515 -
90th Percentile £498 £566 £607
England median daily rate £550 £563 £588
% change year-on-year -2.22% -4.26% -4.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £44.62 £75.00
% change year-on-year +17.67% -40.51% -4.38%

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 590 680 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 26.97% 22.87% 25.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 473 612
10th Percentile £269 £260 £310
25th Percentile £363 £350 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £516 £550 £575
90th Percentile £613 £635 £699
England median daily rate £521 £538 £560
% change year-on-year -3.25% -3.93% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 16
10th Percentile £18.55 £22.50 £23.61
25th Percentile £28.18 £30.37 £26.02
Median hourly rate £33.91 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.35% +10.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile - £72.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £56.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.20% - +19.05%

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 17 June 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 +15 8 £410 +13.89% 51
West Midlands +13 4 £450 -7.22% 80
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 8 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 5 (41.67%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (25.00%) Serverless
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (8.33%) Datadog
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Big Data
2 6 (50.00%) Hadoop
3 4 (33.33%) Impala
3 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (25.00%) Apache Hive
4 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (25.00%) HBase
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (16.67%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (16.67%) Delta Lake
5 2 (16.67%) Flink
5 2 (16.67%) Parquet
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) JBehave
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
1 4 (33.33%) Scala Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Big Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Avro
2 2 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) Play Framework
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) ETL
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Data Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 4 (33.33%) Data Security
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (25.00%) Data Science
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (25.00%) Validation
6 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) Open Source
6 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Hitachi