Akka Contract Job Trends

Akka
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Akka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 516 609
Rank change year-on-year -31 +93 +129
Contract jobs citing Akka 6 51 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.079% 0.61% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 25 34
10th Percentile £432 £343 £454
25th Percentile £480 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £500 £570
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -12.28% -13.64%
75th Percentile £655 £575 £631
90th Percentile £664 £718 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.56% -13.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £65.50
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £77.89
90th Percentile - - £87.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00

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 7,574 8,365 10,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.07% 22.24% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,003 5,345 7,834
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 186 190
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £36.51
25th Percentile £41.42 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.70 £62.93 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +7.40% -7.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.80 £74.93 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Akka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Akka

Akka
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akka over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Akka in the UK

Akka
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Akka.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Akka

Akka
Top 6 Contract Job 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 30 September 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 -34 5 £581 +13.41% 5
London -14 4 £650 +18.18% 2
UK excluding London +8 1 £400 -20.00% 4
Work from Home +5 1 - - 3
North of England -16 1 £400 -20.00% 2
North East - 1 £400 -

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 (16.67%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (16.67%) HBase
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Gradle
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Mockito
General
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Law
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Scala Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (16.67%) Play Framework
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (16.67%) ReactiveX
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) CQRS
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Scala
2 4 (66.67%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) Clojure
4 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
4 1 (16.67%) Rust
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Kibana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) SAP
1 1 (16.67%) Typelevel