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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Scala 5 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.76% - 3.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.60% - 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £412 - £368
25th Percentile £429 - £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 - £498
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.56%
75th Percentile £525 - £538
90th Percentile £548 - £584
North East median daily rate £443 - £498
% change year-on-year - - +10.56%

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 192 65 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 29.36% 28.63% 24.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 52 32
10th Percentile £313 £325 £328
25th Percentile £368 £380 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.02% +1.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £500
90th Percentile £625 £575 £549
North East median daily rate £446 £455 £450
% change year-on-year -1.92% +1.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 1 0
10th Percentile £61.75 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £70.00 £52.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +34.62% +12.60% -

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 22 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 5 £443 - 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Bitrise
2 1 (20.00%) Firebase
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Akka
1 2 (40.00%) Play Framework
2 1 (20.00%) JWT
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (20.00%) OpenID
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Android Development
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) iOS Development
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Push Notifications
3 1 (20.00%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Pega