Scala Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Scala
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Scala skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scala over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 30 51
Rank change year-on-year -4 +21 -6
Contract jobs citing Scala 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.23% 0.82% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.70% 2.82% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £430 - £410
25th Percentile £475 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -15.09%
75th Percentile - £538 £475
90th Percentile - - £490
North East median daily rate £550 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -15.09%

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 81 71 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 33.20% 29.22% 49.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 32 139
10th Percentile £325 £351 £398
25th Percentile £358 £398 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £452 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -20.00% +13.00%
75th Percentile £490 £500 £665
90th Percentile £575 £549 £760
North East median daily rate £438 £465 £565
% change year-on-year -5.81% -17.79% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% - -
North East median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £40.75
% change year-on-year +9.47% +16.56% -4.12%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in Tyne and Wear

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scala in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Scala in Tyne and Wear

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in Tyne and Wear

Scala
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -8 3 £550 +4.76% 7
Scala
North East

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Akka
2 2 (66.67%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Programming
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana