Scala Engineer Contracts

Scala Engineer
UK

The median Scala Engineer daily rate in the UK is £400, 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 512 561 668
Rank change year-on-year +49 +107 +87
Contract jobs requiring a Scala Engineer 8 21 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.048% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.052% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 36
10th Percentile £330 £426 £500
25th Percentile £381 £440 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -1.35% -14.23%
75th Percentile £426 £699 £725
90th Percentile £538 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £450 £613
% change year-on-year -11.11% -26.53% -9.26%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Scala Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala Engineer 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 +50 8 £400 -33.33% 2
UK excluding London +64 4 £400 -11.11% 2
London +29 4 £413 -36.54% 1
East Midlands - 3 £349 - 1
Midlands - 3 £349 - 1
Work from Home +39 2 £675 +50.00% 2
North of England +18 1 £400 -11.11%
North West +17 1 £400 -11.11%

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Scala Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Scala
2 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) Impala
4 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) SOA
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Retail
4 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Software Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Apache Hive
4 2 (25.00%) HBase
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Big Data
5 1 (12.50%) Kafka
5 1 (12.50%) Node.js
5 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
5 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL

Scala Engineer 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 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Neptune
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (25.00%) HBase
1 2 (25.00%) Impala
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Akka
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) Play Framework
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (25.00%) SOA
2 2 (25.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
3 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Scala
2 4 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Go
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) SPARQL
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks