Scala Contract Job Trends in the South West

Scala
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 115 148
Rank change year-on-year -21 +33 +3
Contract jobs citing Scala 2 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.076% 0.053% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.31% 0.18% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £473
25th Percentile £418 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £400 £563
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -28.92% +2.32%
75th Percentile £453 - £591
90th Percentile - - £619
England median daily rate £515 £600 £595
% change year-on-year -14.25% +0.84% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
England median hourly rate - £80.00 £53.60
% change year-on-year - +49.27% -17.23%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 645 548 752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 24.49% 28.92% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 318 504
10th Percentile £342 £375 £325
25th Percentile £419 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £529
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.02% -1.17%
75th Percentile £600 £646 £674
90th Percentile £711 £688 £706
England median daily rate £513 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 51 90
10th Percentile £60.00 £61.25 £40.00
25th Percentile £61.38 £62.00 £48.54
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £69.91
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Scala job vacancy trend in the South West

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Scala
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Scala
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Bristol - 1 £435 - 4
Somerset - 1 - -
Scala
England

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) TigerGraph
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Google