Scala Contract Job Trends in the South East

Scala
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 175 192
Rank change year-on-year +15 +17 -36
Contract jobs citing Scala 7 5 22
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.19% 0.12% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 0.45% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 19
10th Percentile £402 - £400
25th Percentile £426 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £605 £422 £538
90th Percentile £658 £461 £626
England median daily rate £513 £616 £625
% change year-on-year -16.68% -1.44% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 920 1,119 1,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.46% 26.20% 24.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 714 940
10th Percentile £255 £330 £324
25th Percentile £380 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £513 £529
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -3.07% +0.71%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £615
90th Percentile £620 £660 £678
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 71
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.00 £32.32
25th Percentile £50.63 £51.00 £49.07
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.12%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £69.38
90th Percentile - £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £58.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.00% +3.73%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Scala job vacancy trend in the South East

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in the South East over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the South East

Scala
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Scala.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Scala

Scala
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 17 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
Hampshire - 3 £402 - 1
Berkshire +12 2 £638 +59.38% 3
Thames Valley -1 2 £638 +59.38% 4
West Sussex - 2 £605 -
Scala
England

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
3 2 (28.57%) Big Data
4 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Scala Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Play Framework
3 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (57.14%) ETL
4 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
4 3 (42.86%) Data Lineage
4 3 (42.86%) Data Science
4 3 (42.86%) Data Security
4 3 (42.86%) Data Validation
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks