Scala Developer Contracts

Scala Developer
UK

The median Scala Developer daily rate in the UK is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 455 435 562
Rank change year-on-year -20 +127 -186
Contract jobs requiring a Scala Developer 131 275 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.47% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.50% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 194 211
10th Percentile £363 £463 £488
25th Percentile £450 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £713 £738
90th Percentile £838 £900 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £595 £540
% change year-on-year -7.56% +10.19% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
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

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 -28 93 £563 -6.25% 15
London -31 81 £663 +10.42% 10
Work from Home +4 27 £450 -25.00% 10
UK excluding London +64 25 £550 -7.56% 4
Scotland +51 13 £750 +50.00%
North of England +25 8 £425 -15.00% 4
Yorkshire +22 6 £425 -29.17% 4
South East +15 3 £350 -41.67%
North East +16 2 £525 +5.00%
East of England - 1 £375 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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.

1 131 (100.00%) Scala
2 55 (41.98%) Agile
3 51 (38.93%) Microservices
4 50 (38.17%) Akka
5 46 (35.11%) Kubernetes
6 45 (34.35%) TDD
7 44 (33.59%) RESTful
8 43 (32.82%) Kafka
9 40 (30.53%) AWS
9 40 (30.53%) HTTP
10 36 (27.48%) Finance
11 34 (25.95%) Pair Programming
12 32 (24.43%) Apache Cassandra
12 32 (24.43%) Clean Code
13 31 (23.66%) BDD
13 31 (23.66%) GCP
14 30 (22.90%) Banking
14 30 (22.90%) Java
15 28 (21.37%) DevOps
16 27 (20.61%) GitOps
17 26 (19.85%) OO
18 25 (19.08%) Functional Programming
18 25 (19.08%) Machine Learning
19 24 (18.32%) Software Engineering
19 24 (18.32%) Personalization
20 20 (15.27%) Investment Banking
21 18 (13.74%) Continuous Integration
21 18 (13.74%) Typelevel
22 17 (12.98%) Linux
23 16 (12.21%) ATDD

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 14 (10.69%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.29%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (30.53%) AWS
2 31 (23.66%) GCP
3 3 (2.29%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (1.53%) Azure
4 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.53%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.76%) GitHub
5 1 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 40 (30.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (24.43%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (6.87%) Big Data
2 9 (6.87%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.11%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.05%) Redis
6 3 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.29%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.53%) Power BI
8 1 (0.76%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.76%) HBase
8 1 (0.76%) Looker
8 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (10.69%) Cucumber
2 9 (6.87%) Git
2 9 (6.87%) ScalaTest
3 6 (4.58%) Mockito
4 5 (3.82%) Gatling
5 4 (3.05%) Subversion
6 3 (2.29%) GitLab
6 3 (2.29%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.29%) Maven
7 2 (1.53%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.53%) JIRA
7 2 (1.53%) JUnit
7 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.76%) Gradle
General
1 36 (27.48%) Finance
2 30 (22.90%) Banking
3 20 (15.27%) Investment Banking
4 11 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.40%) Social Skills
5 8 (6.11%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.76%) Front Office
7 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.76%) Law
7 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (38.17%) Akka
2 44 (33.59%) RESTful
3 43 (32.82%) Kafka
4 12 (9.16%) Play Framework
5 10 (7.63%) Web Services
6 4 (3.05%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.05%) JPA
6 4 (3.05%) Spark Streaming
6 4 (3.05%) spray
6 4 (3.05%) Spring
6 4 (3.05%) Spring MVC
7 3 (2.29%) OAuth
7 3 (2.29%) OpenID
7 3 (2.29%) React
7 3 (2.29%) SAML
8 1 (0.76%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.76%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.92%) Hedge funds
2 11 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.11%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.58%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.53%) Equities
6 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.76%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.98%) Linux
2 10 (7.63%) Unix
3 2 (1.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.98%) Agile
2 51 (38.93%) Microservices
3 45 (34.35%) TDD
4 34 (25.95%) Pair Programming
5 32 (24.43%) Clean Code
6 31 (23.66%) BDD
7 28 (21.37%) DevOps
8 27 (20.61%) GitOps
9 26 (19.85%) OO
10 25 (19.08%) Functional Programming
10 25 (19.08%) Machine Learning
11 24 (18.32%) Personalization
11 24 (18.32%) Software Engineering
12 18 (13.74%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (12.21%) ATDD
13 16 (12.21%) Coaching
14 14 (10.69%) Design Patterns
14 14 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (10.69%) Unit Testing
15 13 (9.92%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 131 (100.00%) Scala
2 30 (22.90%) Java
3 11 (8.40%) SQL
4 3 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.53%) C#
5 2 (1.53%) Python
6 1 (0.76%) C++
6 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (1.53%) Degree
2 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.76%) OCP
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.76%) MiFID
System Software
1 12 (9.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (35.11%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.69%) Ansible
3 6 (4.58%) Grafana
3 6 (4.58%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 18 (13.74%) Typelevel
2 3 (2.29%) Virgin Media
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.76%) Databricks
4 1 (0.76%) Sybase