Scala Developer Contracts

Scala Developer
UK

The median Scala Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 447 447
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 +103
Contract jobs requiring a Scala Developer 48 131 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.30% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.33% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 82 201
10th Percentile - £368 £463
25th Percentile £400 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.28% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £588 £750 £738
90th Percentile £600 £836 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £625 £595
% change year-on-year -30.00% +5.04% +10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £66.70
25th Percentile - £51.25 £70.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -30.00% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -25.00% -

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 27,103 40,251 55,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 92.75% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,220 39,044
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,052 2,676 1,569
10th Percentile £14.13 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% -18.89% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £42.16
% change year-on-year -30.00% -5.11% +115.96%

Scala Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala Developer over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Top 10 Contract 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 7 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 +6 29 £450 -20.00% 6
London -8 16 £450 -32.08% 3
UK excluding London +39 13 £438 -30.00% 5
Work from Home +21 11 £550 +22.22% 2
North of England +16 7 £400 -5.88% 1
Midlands - 6 £475 - 2
Yorkshire +13 4 £400 -5.88%
East Midlands - 4 - - 2
North East -2 3 £550 +4.76%
West Midlands - 2 £475 -

Scala Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, 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 featuring Scala Developer in the job title.

1 43 (89.58%) Scala
2 29 (60.42%) Agile
3 27 (56.25%) Social Skills
4 25 (52.08%) TDD
5 22 (45.83%) Clean Code
6 21 (43.75%) BDD
7 20 (41.67%) Banking
8 18 (37.50%) Software Engineering
8 18 (37.50%) Akka
9 17 (35.42%) Collaborative Working
9 17 (35.42%) Scrum
9 17 (35.42%) Design Patterns
10 16 (33.33%) OO
10 16 (33.33%) ATDD
10 16 (33.33%) Play Framework
10 16 (33.33%) Algorithms
11 15 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (29.17%) Ansible
12 14 (29.17%) Cucumber
12 14 (29.17%) Investment Banking
13 12 (25.00%) AWS
13 12 (25.00%) CI/CD
13 12 (25.00%) Code Quality
14 9 (18.75%) Functional Programming
14 9 (18.75%) Git
15 8 (16.67%) RESTful
15 8 (16.67%) MongoDB
15 8 (16.67%) Java
16 7 (14.58%) Big Data
16 7 (14.58%) Data Visualisation

Scala Developer Skill Set
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 6 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.25%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (6.25%) Azure
2 3 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 7 (14.58%) Big Data
3 5 (10.42%) Hadoop
4 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.17%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.17%) Delta Lake
5 2 (4.17%) Flink
5 2 (4.17%) Parquet
5 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.08%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.08%) DB2
6 1 (2.08%) HBase
6 1 (2.08%) Impala
6 1 (2.08%) MySQL
6 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (29.17%) Cucumber
2 9 (18.75%) Git
3 5 (10.42%) JIRA
General
1 27 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 20 (41.67%) Banking
3 14 (29.17%) Investment Banking
4 7 (14.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.33%) Finance
6 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Automotive
7 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (37.50%) Akka
2 16 (33.33%) Play Framework
3 8 (16.67%) RESTful
4 6 (12.50%) React
5 3 (6.25%) Kafka
5 3 (6.25%) Web Services
6 2 (4.17%) Apache Avro
6 2 (4.17%) JSON
6 2 (4.17%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.08%) CSS
7 1 (2.08%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.08%) HTML
7 1 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.08%) Equities
5 1 (2.08%) Life Science
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
1 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (60.42%) Agile
2 25 (52.08%) TDD
3 22 (45.83%) Clean Code
4 21 (43.75%) BDD
5 18 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 17 (35.42%) Collaborative Working
6 17 (35.42%) Design Patterns
6 17 (35.42%) Scrum
7 16 (33.33%) ATDD
7 16 (33.33%) OO
8 15 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 12 (25.00%) Code Quality
10 9 (18.75%) Functional Programming
11 7 (14.58%) API Integration
11 7 (14.58%) Data Visualisation
11 7 (14.58%) Decision-Making
11 7 (14.58%) Microservices
11 7 (14.58%) Visualisation
12 6 (12.50%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 43 (89.58%) Scala
2 8 (16.67%) Java
3 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.25%) SQL
5 2 (4.17%) Python
6 1 (2.08%) Perl
6 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.08%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.08%) GDPR
1 1 (2.08%) PERC
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) Ansible
2 7 (14.58%) Kibana
3 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.17%) Cloudera
1 2 (4.17%) Databricks
2 1 (2.08%) Hitachi
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle
2 1 (2.08%) Sybase
2 1 (2.08%) Typelevel