Scala Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scala
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Scala skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scala over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 325 293
Rank change year-on-year +36 -32 -111
Contract jobs citing Scala 102 134 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.56% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 1.91% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 95 148
10th Percentile £375 £394 £429
25th Percentile £411 £486 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +1.85% +3.45%
75th Percentile £597 £594 £613
90th Percentile £733 £616 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 1
10th Percentile £23.54 - -
25th Percentile £26.25 £19.00 -
Median hourly rate £41.50 £41.49 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +0.04% +108.36% -17.04%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 -
90th Percentile £64.25 £77.25 -
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £64.75 £78.75
% change year-on-year -35.91% -17.78% +231.58%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Scala is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,881 7,028 8,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.49% 29.11% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,285 5,029 6,228
10th Percentile £319 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% +14.12%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £654 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 350 341
10th Percentile £37.50 £22.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £50.19 £49.76 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year - +26.16% +16.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% +14.29%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Scotland +64 38 £453 -9.40% 6
North of England +4 27 £425 -26.09% 10
South East +12 19 £575 +9.52% 3
Yorkshire +14 15 £425 -24.44% 2
North West +3 10 £463 -19.57% 7
Midlands +18 9 £513 -13.87% 3
East Midlands +27 6 £513 +2.50%
Northern Ireland +11 4 £500 - 3
West Midlands +16 3 £420 -29.41% 3
East of England +13 3 £338 -28.95% 1
North East +21 2 £525 +16.67% 1
South West -4 2 £450 -18.18% 2
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 28 (27.45%) Apache Spark
2 17 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (7.84%) Apache
4 5 (4.90%) Confluence
5 3 (2.94%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.94%) nginx
6 2 (1.96%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 45 (44.12%) AWS
2 28 (27.45%) Azure
3 20 (19.61%) Snowflake
4 15 (14.71%) GCP
5 8 (7.84%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.92%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (3.92%) CloudBees
8 4 (3.92%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.94%) Serverless
10 2 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.96%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.96%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (1.96%) GitHub
10 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.88%) HTTP
2 3 (2.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.69%) Big Data
2 14 (13.73%) Hadoop
3 11 (10.78%) Relational Database
4 10 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (9.80%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.84%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (7.84%) Apache Hive
5 8 (7.84%) MongoDB
5 8 (7.84%) Power BI
6 7 (6.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (6.86%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.90%) Impala
8 4 (3.92%) MySQL
8 4 (3.92%) Tableau
9 3 (2.94%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.94%) ClickHouse
9 3 (2.94%) HBase
9 3 (2.94%) Pentaho
9 3 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (14.71%) JIRA
2 10 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.84%) Git
4 6 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 6 (5.88%) Gatling
5 5 (4.90%) Selenium
6 4 (3.92%) JMeter
6 4 (3.92%) WebDriver
7 3 (2.94%) GitLab
7 3 (2.94%) Maven
8 2 (1.96%) Gradle
9 1 (0.98%) Ant
9 1 (0.98%) ERwin
9 1 (0.98%) JUnit
9 1 (0.98%) Subversion
General
1 17 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 17 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.75%) Finance
3 8 (7.84%) Financial Institution
4 6 (5.88%) Banking
5 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.94%) Marketing
7 2 (1.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.98%) Back Office
8 1 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.98%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.98%) Police
8 1 (0.98%) Publishing
8 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (50.98%) Developer
2 31 (30.39%) Java Developer
3 27 (26.47%) Scala Developer
4 24 (23.53%) Data Engineer
5 19 (18.63%) Senior
6 16 (15.69%) Java Scala Developer
7 12 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (11.76%) Linux Developer
8 8 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) AWS Data Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Backend Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Python Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.92%) Java Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (31.37%) Kafka
2 15 (14.71%) RESTful
3 12 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 11 (10.78%) Web Services
5 9 (8.82%) Spring
6 5 (4.90%) Apache Beam
6 5 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (4.90%) OAuth
6 5 (4.90%) OpenID
6 5 (4.90%) OpenTracing
6 5 (4.90%) PySpark
7 4 (3.92%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (3.92%) React
8 3 (2.94%) Keycloak
8 3 (2.94%) SAML
9 2 (1.96%) Akka
9 2 (1.96%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.96%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.96%) Playwright
9 2 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.59%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.82%) Data Structures
3 7 (6.86%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.98%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.98%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.61%) Linux
2 14 (13.73%) Unix
3 4 (3.92%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.98%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (36.27%) Agile
2 27 (26.47%) Software Engineering
3 26 (25.49%) Data Engineering
4 25 (24.51%) DevOps
5 24 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 16 (15.69%) Computer Science
8 15 (14.71%) Data Modelling
8 15 (14.71%) Microservices
9 13 (12.75%) CI/CD
9 13 (12.75%) ETL
9 13 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (12.75%) SDLC
9 13 (12.75%) TDD
10 12 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (11.76%) Design Patterns
10 12 (11.76%) MLOps
11 11 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (10.78%) DataOps
11 11 (10.78%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 73 (71.57%) Java
2 49 (48.04%) Python
3 26 (25.49%) SQL
4 9 (8.82%) Kotlin
5 8 (7.84%) Groovy
6 7 (6.86%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.90%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.92%) Go
8 4 (3.92%) R
8 4 (3.92%) Ruby
9 2 (1.96%) Perl
10 1 (0.98%) C
10 1 (0.98%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (5.88%) Degree
2 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.90%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.92%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.96%) IBM Certification
4 2 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (0.98%) GDPR
2 1 (0.98%) GxP
System Software
1 26 (25.49%) Docker
2 3 (2.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (2.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (26.47%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.67%) Terraform
3 6 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.90%) Zipkin
5 4 (3.92%) Ansible
5 4 (3.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (17.65%) Databricks
2 6 (5.88%) Informatica
3 4 (3.92%) Talend
4 3 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.94%) Sybase
5 2 (1.96%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.96%) IBM
5 2 (1.96%) Teradata
5 2 (1.96%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.98%) Hortonworks
6 1 (0.98%) JDA
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle
6 1 (0.98%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.98%) Typelevel