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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 157 187
Rank change year-on-year -49 +30 +4
Contract jobs citing Scala 4 2 20
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.071% 0.067% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.37% 0.24% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 16
10th Percentile £306 £468 £438
25th Percentile £447 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £469 £575
Median % change year-on-year +23.03% -18.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £604 £470 £635
90th Percentile £605 £470 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £576
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.43% +0.09%

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 1,069 824 1,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 18.94% 27.51% 21.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 752 550 822
10th Percentile £320 £356 £325
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% +0.30% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 30 71
10th Percentile £34.01 £41.28 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £47.87 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.52 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.78 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.32
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.03% -3.49%

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 14 April 2026.

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 14 April 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
West Sussex -11 2 £605 +28.89%
Berkshire - 2 £388 - 2
Thames Valley - 2 £388 - 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Play Framework
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) Application Security
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Data Encryption
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks