Akka Contracts

Akka
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Akka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Akka 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 499 529 598
Rank change year-on-year +30 +69 +176
Contract jobs citing Akka 21 53 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.12% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.32% 0.59% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 35 89
10th Percentile - £315 -
25th Percentile £400 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £565
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -20.35% -12.40%
75th Percentile £597 £550 £620
90th Percentile £616 £575 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £463 £575
% change year-on-year -13.51% -19.57% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - £65.60
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +32.74%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Akka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Akka
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Akka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Akka in the UK

Akka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Akka.

Daily rate trend for Akka in the UK

Akka
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akka over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Akka in the UK

Akka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Akka.

Hourly rate trend for Akka in the UK

Akka
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Akka within the UK 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
England +30 15 £463 -7.50% 89
Work from Home +38 11 £550 +22.22% 10
UK excluding London +69 8 £400 -13.51% 86
North of England +25 7 £400 -27.27% 18
London +5 7 £620 +24.00% 14
Yorkshire +11 4 £400 -27.27% 7
North East - 3 £550 - 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 7
Midlands - 1 - - 17

Akka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) Route 53
3 1 (4.76%) Sentry
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) HTTP
1 1 (4.76%) Kerberos
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (4.76%) DocumentDB
3 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (95.24%) Developer
2 19 (90.48%) Scala Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Scala Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Programmer
5 1 (4.76%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Scala Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Programmer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (76.19%) Play Framework
2 8 (38.10%) RESTful
3 4 (19.05%) React
4 3 (14.29%) Web Services
5 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.76%) JSON
5 1 (4.76%) Kafka
5 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.76%) REST
5 1 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Agile
2 13 (61.90%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (57.14%) Code Quality
4 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
5 9 (42.86%) Functional Programming
6 8 (38.10%) Clean Code
6 8 (38.10%) Microservices
6 8 (38.10%) TDD
7 7 (33.33%) API Development
7 7 (33.33%) API Integration
7 7 (33.33%) BDD
7 7 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (33.33%) Visualisation
8 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
8 5 (23.81%) Kanban
8 5 (23.81%) Scrum
8 5 (23.81%) Strategic Thinking
9 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
9 4 (19.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) Scala
2 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Kibana
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Cloudera
1 1 (4.76%) Typelevel