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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 148 182
Rank change year-on-year -76 +34 +3
Contract jobs citing Scala 4 6 17
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.062% 0.18% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.30% 0.67% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 12
10th Percentile £244 £402 -
25th Percentile £291 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% -8.20% -
75th Percentile £491 £470 £613
90th Percentile £541 £604 £646
England median daily rate £548 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -0.36% -2.44% -4.04%

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 1,319 892 1,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 20.33% 26.34% 22.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 608 883
10th Percentile £310 £325 £325
25th Percentile £401 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.15% -2.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 £671
England median daily rate £520 £520 £540
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 27 79
10th Percentile £33.73 £37.60 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.81 £47.62 £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £54.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.90% -12.20% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £64.52 £75.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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
Berkshire -28 2 £388 -46.55% 2
Thames Valley -44 2 £388 -46.55% 3
Surrey - 2 - -
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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
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 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Loki
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Encryption
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks