Scala Contract Job Trends in the North East

Scala
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 46 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Scala 3 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.76% 2.98% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.86% 9.68% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £390 £430 -
25th Percentile £394 £483 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - -
75th Percentile £431 - -
90th Percentile £450 £590 -
England median daily rate £507 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -18.19% +3.33% -

All Programming Languages
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 105 93 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 26.52% 30.79% 16.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 48 26
10th Percentile £390 £321 £266
25th Percentile £400 £353 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £457 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% -1.35% -15.77%
75th Percentile £565 £541 £528
90th Percentile £590 £616 £623
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £40.25 - -
25th Percentile £46.19 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% - -19.69%
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £64.63 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Scala job vacancy trend in the North East

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Scala.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Scala

Scala
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the North East region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Tyne and Wear -17 3 £400 -27.27% 4
Scala
England

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Scala Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Akka
2 1 (33.33%) Flask
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Play Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform