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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 174 181
Rank change year-on-year +19 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing Scala 5 6 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.15% 0.13% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.56% 0.53% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 21
10th Percentile - - £325
25th Percentile £402 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £422 -
90th Percentile £673 £461 £623
England median daily rate £504 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -14.30% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.49
75th Percentile - - £19.98
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £80.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -34.38% +2.56% -0.16%

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 887 1,138 1,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.76% 24.92% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 768 947
10th Percentile £286 £325 £323
25th Percentile £398 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £584 £611 £615
90th Percentile £625 £657 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 56 76
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.00 £32.30
25th Percentile £51.56 £49.94 £49.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +26.06% -7.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £67.81
90th Percentile - £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +10.18%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Scala 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -
Berkshire +17 2 £638 +59.38% 3
Thames Valley +10 2 £638 +59.38% 3
Scala
England

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Big Data
4 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (60.00%) Data Lineage
2 3 (60.00%) Data Science
2 3 (60.00%) Data Security
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks