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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 305 348
Rank change year-on-year -15 +43 -89
Contract jobs citing Scala 47 70 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.11% 1.60% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 54 57
10th Percentile £375 £387 £386
25th Percentile £395 £403 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £473 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -17.83% +6.48%
75th Percentile £489 £538 £594
90th Percentile £609 £608 £717
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -5.91% -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £18.39
25th Percentile - £66.25 £19.00
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - +45.96% +132.27%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £67.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% -13.46% +37.90%

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 4,216 4,388 5,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.48% 23.97% 26.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,758 2,909 4,020
10th Percentile £308 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £593
90th Percentile £625 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 325 311
10th Percentile £30.00 £30.47 £31.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £47.88
Median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68.13 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £79.67 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.08% +8.33% +9.09%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -20 24 £400 -19.19% 20
North West -1 16 £390 -17.89% 11
Midlands -8 11 £420 -31.37% 12
East Midlands +5 8 £420 +16.67% 3
South East +23 7 £468 +6.97% 20
Yorkshire -21 7 £575 +16.16% 8
West Midlands -15 3 £425 -30.56% 9
East of England +12 2 £488 +30.00% 7
Northern Ireland -9 2 £364 - 4
South West +29 1 - - 6
North East -4 1 £400 -19.60% 1
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 16 (34.04%) Apache Spark
2 7 (14.89%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (12.77%) Apache
4 1 (2.13%) Tuxedo
4 1 (2.13%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.79%) AWS
2 12 (25.53%) Azure
3 11 (23.40%) GCP
4 6 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (12.77%) Serverless
5 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (6.38%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (6.38%) Azure AI
6 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.38%) GitHub
6 3 (6.38%) Google Gemini
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon Neptune
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (4.26%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.91%) Big Data
2 10 (21.28%) Data Lake
3 9 (19.15%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (17.02%) Delta Lake
4 8 (17.02%) NoSQL
5 7 (14.89%) Hadoop
6 5 (10.64%) Metadata
7 4 (8.51%) Apache Hive
7 4 (8.51%) DataStage
7 4 (8.51%) HBase
7 4 (8.51%) Neo4j
7 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
8 3 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (6.38%) BigQuery
8 3 (6.38%) Impala
8 3 (6.38%) Tableau
9 2 (4.26%) Bigtable
9 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (4.26%) NewSQL
9 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (42.55%) Git
2 15 (31.91%) Jenkins
3 7 (14.89%) Gradle
3 7 (14.89%) Xcode
4 2 (4.26%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.26%) JIRA
5 1 (2.13%) Gatling
5 1 (2.13%) JBehave
5 1 (2.13%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.13%) Selenium
5 1 (2.13%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.13%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (29.79%) Banking
1 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Finance
3 9 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.38%) Legal
5 3 (6.38%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Billing
6 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.26%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Automotive
7 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Developer
2 11 (23.40%) Senior
3 10 (21.28%) Data Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Architect
5 7 (14.89%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Data Architect
6 6 (12.77%) iOS Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Scala Developer
8 4 (8.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Hadoop Developer
8 4 (8.51%) Platform Architect
9 3 (6.38%) GCP Architect
9 3 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (4.26%) GCP Data Architect
10 2 (4.26%) Java Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) Kafka
2 8 (17.02%) PySpark
3 7 (14.89%) CSS
3 7 (14.89%) HTML
4 4 (8.51%) .NET
4 4 (8.51%) JSON
5 3 (6.38%) Apache Avro
5 3 (6.38%) PyTorch
5 3 (6.38%) React
5 3 (6.38%) RESTful
5 3 (6.38%) Spring
5 3 (6.38%) Streamlit
5 3 (6.38%) TensorFlow
5 3 (6.38%) Web Services
6 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.26%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (4.26%) SOAP
6 2 (4.26%) XML
7 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.89%) Mobile App
2 7 (14.89%) Mobile Banking
3 4 (8.51%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (6.38%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.26%) Derivative
5 2 (4.26%) Equities
5 2 (4.26%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.26%) Replication
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.13%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Android
1 7 (14.89%) Apple iOS
2 3 (6.38%) Linux
3 2 (4.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (46.81%) ETL
2 21 (44.68%) CI/CD
3 19 (40.43%) Data Engineering
4 17 (36.17%) Agile
5 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (27.66%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (23.40%) DevOps
8 10 (21.28%) Analytics
9 9 (19.15%) Roadmaps
9 9 (19.15%) Unit Testing
9 9 (19.15%) User Experience
10 8 (17.02%) Data Modelling
10 8 (17.02%) Data Science
10 8 (17.02%) Front End Development
10 8 (17.02%) Scrum
11 7 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (14.89%) Continuous Deployment
11 7 (14.89%) Data Governance
11 7 (14.89%) Mobile Development
11 7 (14.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (57.45%) Python
2 24 (51.06%) Java
3 22 (46.81%) SQL
4 9 (19.15%) Kotlin
5 8 (17.02%) C
5 8 (17.02%) JavaScript
6 7 (14.89%) C++
6 7 (14.89%) Objective-C
6 7 (14.89%) Ruby
6 7 (14.89%) Swift
7 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.26%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (4.26%) SPARQL
8 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.13%) Bash
9 1 (2.13%) Cypher
9 1 (2.13%) Korn
9 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) GDPR
2 3 (6.38%) QA
3 2 (4.26%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Terraform
3 2 (4.26%) Ansible
3 2 (4.26%) Control-M
3 2 (4.26%) Hadoop YARN
3 2 (4.26%) Oozie
4 1 (2.13%) Kibana
4 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Databricks
2 4 (8.51%) Informatica
2 4 (8.51%) Talend
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.38%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.26%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.13%) Hitachi
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle
5 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.13%) Trillium
5 1 (2.13%) Vertica
5 1 (2.13%) webMethods