Scala Engineer Contract Job Trends

Scala Engineer
UK

The median Scala Engineer daily rate in the UK is £585, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 535 605
Rank change year-on-year -8 +70 +140
Contract jobs requiring a Scala Engineer 13 20 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.053% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.057% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 15
10th Percentile £410 £435 £519
25th Percentile £534 £481 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -25.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £669 £555 £763
90th Percentile £725 £638 £910
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 -
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

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 30,134 34,848 44,835
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 92.98% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,036 21,019 30,631
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,648 1,434 1,528
10th Percentile £13.75 £15.00 £14.60
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.81%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £42.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.18% -4.49% +97.78%

Scala Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Scala Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Scala Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Scala Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala Engineer over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Scala Engineer
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 Scala Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 October 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 +2 13 £585 +15.27% 5
London +27 11 £625 +23.15%
UK excluding London -29 2 £450 -14.29% 5
North of England -29 2 £450 -
Yorkshire -26 1 £500 -
North West - 1 £400 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, Scala Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Scala
2 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) AWS
3 7 (53.85%) Banking
3 7 (53.85%) Databricks
4 6 (46.15%) Python
4 6 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
5 5 (38.46%) GCP
5 5 (38.46%) Kafka
6 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
6 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 4 (30.77%) Apache Spark
6 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
6 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
6 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (23.08%) Data Science
7 3 (23.08%) Open Source
7 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (23.08%) AI
7 3 (23.08%) Finance
7 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
8 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
8 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
8 2 (15.38%) Agile
8 2 (15.38%) ETL
8 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (7.69%) CI/CD

Scala Engineer 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 4 (30.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Neptune
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
General
1 7 (53.85%) Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Akka
2 1 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.69%) Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
2 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
2 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) AI
3 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
3 3 (23.08%) Data Science
3 3 (23.08%) Open Source
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) ETL
4 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
5 1 (7.69%) GitOps
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Personalization
5 1 (7.69%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Scala
2 6 (46.15%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) CodeQL
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) SPARQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Typelevel