Senior Scala Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Scala Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Scala Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 395 461
Rank change year-on-year +60 +66 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Scala Developer 1 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.019% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.021% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £706
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £713
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -40.35% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 - £719
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £856
% change year-on-year -5.88% -50.36% +31.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Scala Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Scala Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Scala Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Scala Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Scala Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Scala Developer
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 Senior Scala Developer 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 +16 1 £525 +23.53%
Yorkshire +5 1 £525 +23.53%
Senior Scala Developer
UK

Senior Scala Developer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Scala Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Scala Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Akka
1 1 (100.00%) Play Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality

Senior Scala Developer Skill Set
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Akka
1 1 (100.00%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana