Scala Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Scala
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Scala 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.93% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £422 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile £442 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £612 £468
% change year-on-year -20.26% +30.91% -13.43%

All Programming Languages
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 79 41 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 38.54% 41.41% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 34 4
10th Percentile £351 £313 -
25th Percentile £456 £420 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £484 £413
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% +17.33% -23.47%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £531
90th Percentile £551 £567 £543
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £484 £469
% change year-on-year +3.31% +3.25% -8.31%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Scala job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Scala

Scala
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Telford - 6 £430 - 4
Scala
West Midlands

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) WebLogic
2 4 (66.67%) Apache
2 4 (66.67%) JBoss
3 1 (16.67%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 4 (66.67%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) IntelliJ
2 4 (66.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) JSON
1 5 (83.33%) REST
1 5 (83.33%) SOAP
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) EJB
2 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) HTML5
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
2 4 (66.67%) J2SE
2 4 (66.67%) Play Framework
2 4 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
3 1 (16.67%) Java EE
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Swagger
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Lean Software Development
3 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) Open Source
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (16.67%) API Development
5 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) Korn
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) webMethods
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Trillium