Scala Contracts in Scotland

Scala
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Scala skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scala over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 156 139
Rank change year-on-year +67 -17 -32
Contract jobs citing Scala 39 7 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.76% 0.24% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.79% 0.70% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 4 30
10th Percentile - £491 £452
25th Percentile £400 £497 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% -7.41% -
75th Percentile £738 £519 £650
90th Percentile £750 £530 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £64.75 £78.75
% change year-on-year -35.91% -17.78% +224.74%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

Scala is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 673 1,001 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.32% 34.98% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 730 640
10th Percentile £369 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +3.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £557 £550
90th Percentile £655 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.79 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £52.50 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +27.21% +8.05%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.27 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.63 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -0.33% +21.40% +13.64%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala in Scotland

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Scala in Scotland

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in Scotland

Scala
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Glasgow +33 38 £453 -9.40% 4
Edinburgh +41 1 £500 -4.76% 2
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 11 (28.21%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (20.51%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.13%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) Azure
2 18 (46.15%) AWS
3 12 (30.77%) Snowflake
4 8 (20.51%) GCP
5 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.13%) DB2
2 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) Big Data
3 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Gradle
General
1 10 (25.64%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Financial Institution
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (71.79%) Developer
2 24 (61.54%) Java Developer
3 15 (38.46%) Scala Developer
4 13 (33.33%) Java Scala Developer
5 12 (30.77%) Linux Developer
6 8 (20.51%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (20.51%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (15.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 6 (15.38%) Backend Developer
7 6 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Linux Scripter
9 3 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Java Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 2 (5.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (5.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 2 (5.13%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 2 (5.13%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) RESTful
2 8 (20.51%) Kafka
2 8 (20.51%) Spring
3 6 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (15.38%) OpenTracing
3 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.13%) PySpark
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 19 (48.72%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (23.08%) Data Structures
3 4 (10.26%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.77%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) Software Engineering
2 14 (35.90%) Agile
3 13 (33.33%) DevOps
4 12 (30.77%) SDLC
5 10 (25.64%) Computer Science
5 10 (25.64%) Data Engineering
5 10 (25.64%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (25.64%) DataOps
5 10 (25.64%) GitOps
5 10 (25.64%) Microservices
5 10 (25.64%) MLOps
6 9 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
6 9 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
8 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 5 (12.82%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (12.82%) Dependency Injection
10 4 (10.26%) Design Patterns
10 4 (10.26%) OO
Programming Languages
1 35 (89.74%) Java
2 13 (33.33%) Python
3 10 (25.64%) Kotlin
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (43.59%) Kubernetes
2 11 (28.21%) Terraform
3 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 6 (15.38%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Databricks
2 3 (7.69%) Sybase
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft