Scala Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Scala
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 116 123
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 +26
Contract jobs citing Scala 2 2 16
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% 0.13% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 0.33% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 12
10th Percentile £501 £359 £429
25th Percentile £503 £365 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £373 £750
Median % change year-on-year +37.40% -50.27% +50.00%
75th Percentile £528 £382 -
90th Percentile £534 £387 -
UK median daily rate £513 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -14.58% - -

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 525 608 723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.07% 38.17% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 329 458
10th Percentile £325 £350 £400
25th Percentile £408 £409 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -8.04% +4.62%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £580 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 14
10th Percentile £52.63 £19.59 £33.20
25th Percentile £54.69 £21.00 £52.80
Median hourly rate £59.36 £22.44 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +164.57% -62.91% +7.86%
75th Percentile £67.00 £31.88 £61.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.50 £76.73
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Scala job vacancy trend in Scotland

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Scala

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 27 January 2026. 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 +2 2 £513 +37.40% 3
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes