Scala Developer Contract Job Trends

Scala Developer
UK

The median Scala Developer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 459 484
Rank change year-on-year -94 +25 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Scala Developer 29 84 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.25% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 45 75
10th Percentile £363 £454 £505
25th Percentile £388 £513 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £620 £650
Median % change year-on-year -31.45% -4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £488 £769 £828
90th Percentile £569 £833 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £500 £625
% change year-on-year -16.00% -20.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £80.15
25th Percentile - - £81.80
Median hourly rate - - £86.41
75th Percentile - - £89.14
90th Percentile - - £89.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

Scala Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Scala Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Scala Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Scala Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Scala Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Scala Developer job vacancies in the UK

Scala Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala Developer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Scala Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Scala Developer job vacancies in the UK

Scala Developer
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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 -75 18 £425 -37.04% 27
London -39 10 £425 -39.29% 14
Work from Home -26 9 £420 -26.96% 32
UK excluding London -42 8 £420 -16.00% 27
North of England -46 4 £413 -17.50% 2
Midlands - 4 £420 - 2
North East -5 3 £400 -27.27%
East Midlands - 3 £420 - 2
Yorkshire -43 2 £463 -7.50% 1
West Midlands - 1 £563 -

Scala Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Scala Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Scala Developer in the job title.

1 28 (96.55%) Scala
2 16 (55.17%) Agile
3 13 (44.83%) Scrum
4 12 (41.38%) TDD
5 11 (37.93%) Clean Code
6 10 (34.48%) BDD
6 10 (34.48%) Collaborative Working
6 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (27.59%) Apache Hive
7 8 (27.59%) Apache Spark
7 8 (27.59%) Big Data
7 8 (27.59%) Hadoop
7 8 (27.59%) HBase
8 7 (24.14%) Ansible
8 7 (24.14%) ATDD
8 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
8 7 (24.14%) Cucumber
8 7 (24.14%) Design Patterns
8 7 (24.14%) OO
8 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
9 6 (20.69%) AWS
9 6 (20.69%) Functional Programming
9 6 (20.69%) Git
9 6 (20.69%) HDFS
9 6 (20.69%) Kafka
10 5 (17.24%) Impala
10 5 (17.24%) Play Framework
11 4 (13.79%) Akka
11 4 (13.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 4 (13.79%) Java

Scala Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (27.59%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.34%) Apache
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Apache Hive
1 8 (27.59%) Big Data
1 8 (27.59%) Hadoop
1 8 (27.59%) HBase
2 5 (17.24%) Impala
3 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
4 3 (10.34%) Metadata
4 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Cucumber
2 6 (20.69%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) GitLab
4 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.45%) ScalaTest
General
1 15 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Banking
3 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (24.14%) Investment Banking
5 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Finance
6 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Kafka
2 5 (17.24%) Play Framework
3 4 (13.79%) Akka
3 4 (13.79%) RESTful
4 3 (10.34%) JSON
4 3 (10.34%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (6.90%) REST
5 2 (6.90%) Web Services
6 1 (3.45%) Flask
6 1 (3.45%) Node.js
6 1 (3.45%) PySpark
6 1 (3.45%) React
6 1 (3.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Algorithms
2 5 (17.24%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Agile
2 13 (44.83%) Scrum
3 12 (41.38%) TDD
4 11 (37.93%) Clean Code
5 10 (34.48%) BDD
5 10 (34.48%) Collaborative Working
5 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (24.14%) ATDD
6 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
6 7 (24.14%) Design Patterns
6 7 (24.14%) OO
6 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
7 6 (20.69%) Functional Programming
8 4 (13.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (10.34%) MapReduce
9 3 (10.34%) Metadata Management
9 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
9 3 (10.34%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (96.55%) Scala
2 4 (13.79%) Java
3 3 (10.34%) SQL
4 2 (6.90%) Python
4 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) HDFS
2 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Oozie
3 2 (6.90%) Kibana
4 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Mercator
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