Scala Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scala
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 297 298 331
Rank change year-on-year +1 +33 -34
Contract jobs citing Scala 39 102 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.49% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.07% 2.10% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 78 94
10th Percentile £380 £384 £393
25th Percentile £400 £413 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £460 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -16.36% +1.85%
75th Percentile £550 £597 £594
90th Percentile £638 £733 £602
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 14
10th Percentile - £23.54 -
25th Percentile - £26.25 £19.00
Median hourly rate - £41.50 £41.49
Median % change year-on-year - +0.04% +108.36%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £64.25 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £41.50 £64.75
% change year-on-year +26.51% -35.91% -17.78%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 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
North of England +10 19 £508 +16.00% 31
Midlands +27 13 £442 -13.76% 25
Yorkshire +1 9 £538 +26.47% 10
East Midlands +12 8 £410 -20.00% 12
North West +14 7 £400 -13.51% 17
West Midlands +17 5 £475 -2.06% 12
Northern Ireland -8 4 £504 +0.75% 2
South East +30 3 £470 -18.26% 54
North East +1 3 £550 +4.76% 5
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 9 (23.08%) Apache Spark
2 5 (12.82%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) AWS
2 10 (25.64%) GCP
3 7 (17.95%) Azure
4 4 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (10.26%) Google Compute Engine
4 4 (10.26%) Serverless
5 3 (7.69%) Anthropic Claude
5 3 (7.69%) Azure AI
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (7.69%) Google Gemini
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon Neptune
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.56%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (2.56%) IaaS
7 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.77%) Big Data
2 7 (17.95%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (17.95%) Hadoop
3 6 (15.38%) BigQuery
3 6 (15.38%) Data Lake
3 6 (15.38%) NoSQL
4 5 (12.82%) Apache Hive
4 5 (12.82%) Impala
4 5 (12.82%) MongoDB
5 4 (10.26%) HBase
6 3 (7.69%) Neo4j
6 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (5.13%) Apache Hudi
7 2 (5.13%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (5.13%) Delta Lake
7 2 (5.13%) Flink
7 2 (5.13%) Metadata
7 2 (5.13%) NewSQL
7 2 (5.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.56%) Gatling
4 1 (2.56%) JBehave
4 1 (2.56%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.56%) Selenium
4 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Finance
3 7 (17.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.38%) Banking
5 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
6 3 (7.69%) Legal
6 3 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (5.13%) Billing
7 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.13%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Automotive
8 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Developer
2 12 (30.77%) Scala Developer
3 9 (23.08%) Senior
4 7 (17.95%) Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.69%) GCP Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Platform Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Big Data Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Big Data Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Scala Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) Akka
1 7 (17.95%) Play Framework
2 6 (15.38%) Kafka
3 4 (10.26%) Apache Avro
3 4 (10.26%) JSON
4 3 (7.69%) PyTorch
4 3 (7.69%) React
4 3 (7.69%) RESTful
4 3 (7.69%) TensorFlow
4 3 (7.69%) Web Services
5 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.13%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (5.13%) Spring
5 2 (5.13%) XML
6 1 (2.56%) CSS
6 1 (2.56%) HTML
6 1 (2.56%) Node.js
6 1 (2.56%) NumPy
6 1 (2.56%) Pandas
6 1 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Derivative
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Equities
3 2 (5.13%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Replication
4 1 (2.56%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (48.72%) CI/CD
3 17 (43.59%) ETL
4 15 (38.46%) Agile
5 13 (33.33%) Data Engineering
6 10 (25.64%) Code Quality
7 9 (23.08%) Analytics
7 9 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
7 9 (23.08%) Decision-Making
7 9 (23.08%) Visualisation
8 8 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (20.51%) Data Governance
8 8 (20.51%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (20.51%) Data Science
9 7 (17.95%) TDD
10 6 (15.38%) Data Modelling
10 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
10 6 (15.38%) Microservices
11 5 (12.82%) API Development
11 5 (12.82%) Functional Programming
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) Python
2 13 (33.33%) Java
3 10 (25.64%) SQL
4 3 (7.69%) Kotlin
5 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.13%) SPARQL
5 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (2.56%) R
6 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
1 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 3 (7.69%) GDPR
1 3 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.56%) PERC
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Terraform
2 7 (17.95%) Kibana
2 7 (17.95%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Databricks
2 6 (15.38%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.56%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.56%) Hitachi