Scala Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Scala
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Scala 3 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.92% 3.67% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.33% 11.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £390 £424 -
25th Percentile £394 £460 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - -
75th Percentile £431 - -
90th Percentile £450 £598 -
North East median daily rate £400 £550 -
% change year-on-year -27.27% - -

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 90 67 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 27.69% 30.73% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 41 20
10th Percentile £378 £325 £219
25th Percentile £400 £358 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £474
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -7.12% -13.86%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £533
90th Percentile £575 £630 £591
North East median daily rate £488 £452 £473
% change year-on-year +7.85% -4.34% -14.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £39.40 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.39% - -19.69%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scala relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Scala job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Scala.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Scala

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 7 December 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 -17 3 £400 -27.27% 1
Scala
North East

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Scala Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Akka
2 1 (33.33%) Flask
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Play Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform