Scala Contract Job Trends

Scala
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 324 285
Rank change year-on-year -94 -39 -42
Contract jobs citing Scala 219 194 337
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.66% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.69% 1.95% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 124 242
10th Percentile £377 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £436 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £725
90th Percentile £749 £812 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £470 £494
% change year-on-year +10.11% -4.81% -10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £31.58 - £24.14
25th Percentile £33.19 £51.25 £27.75
Median hourly rate £36.75 £52.50 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +24.44% -34.84%
75th Percentile £40.69 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.53 - £62.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £41.50
% change year-on-year - - +0.04%

All Programming Languages
UK

Scala falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,924 9,956 12,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 28.18% 34.08% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,607 6,723 9,121
10th Percentile £354 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £476 £489
% change year-on-year - -2.66% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 240 479
10th Percentile £41.94 £22.50 £31.13
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 £46.22
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +1.56% +3.90% -1.44%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scala relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Scala job vacancy trend in the UK

Scala
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Scala.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Scala

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Scala.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Scala

Scala
Top 13 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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 -89 179 £525 -4.55% 55
London -66 130 £545 -5.22% 30
Work from Home -8 87 £535 -2.73% 36
UK excluding London -100 49 £518 +10.11% 45
North of England -72 24 £500 -6.98% 16
Midlands -59 18 £518 +17.08% 1
West Midlands -51 17 £518 +8.95% 1
Yorkshire -47 16 £494 -8.14% 5
North East -15 6 £475 -13.64% 1
South East -48 4 £577 +23.03% 13
North West -34 3 £500 +12.36% 10
Scotland - 3 £513 - 7
South West -27 2 £508 +27.09% 4

Scala
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 67 (30.59%) Apache Spark
2 29 (13.24%) Apache
3 13 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.83%) JBoss
4 4 (1.83%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.37%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.37%) SAS
6 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.46%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 101 (46.12%) Azure
2 72 (32.88%) AWS
3 43 (19.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 39 (17.81%) GCP
5 29 (13.24%) GitHub
6 28 (12.79%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (10.05%) Power Platform
8 15 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (6.39%) Amazon S3
10 13 (5.94%) Serverless
11 12 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (3.20%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (2.28%) Amazon MSK
15 5 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (1.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.74%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (19.18%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (17.81%) NoSQL
3 37 (16.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (10.96%) Data Lake
5 22 (10.05%) Big Data
6 21 (9.59%) Delta Lake
6 21 (9.59%) Power BI
7 18 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (7.31%) Relational Database
8 16 (7.31%) Tableau
9 15 (6.85%) MongoDB
10 12 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (5.48%) Hadoop
10 12 (5.48%) SQL Server
11 9 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (4.11%) Flink
12 6 (2.74%) BigQuery
12 6 (2.74%) Metadata
12 6 (2.74%) Parquet
12 6 (2.74%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 63 (28.77%) Git
2 33 (15.07%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.57%) GitLab
4 9 (4.11%) Gatling
4 9 (4.11%) Postman
5 6 (2.74%) JIRA
6 5 (2.28%) Maven
6 5 (2.28%) Mockito
6 5 (2.28%) ScalaTest
7 4 (1.83%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.83%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.83%) JMeter
7 4 (1.83%) JUnit
7 4 (1.83%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.83%) MLflow
7 4 (1.83%) NeoLoad
7 4 (1.83%) Selenium
7 4 (1.83%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.37%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.91%) Gradle
General
1 52 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 38 (17.35%) Finance
3 22 (10.05%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.94%) Banking
6 6 (2.74%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.83%) Back Office
8 4 (1.83%) Front Office
8 4 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.37%) Retail
10 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Games
10 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.46%) Legal
10 1 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 81 (36.99%) Data Engineer
2 51 (23.29%) Developer
3 42 (19.18%) Scala Developer
4 27 (12.33%) Senior
5 25 (11.42%) Azure Engineer
6 22 (10.05%) Azure Data Engineer
7 17 (7.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 16 (7.31%) Scala Engineer
9 15 (6.85%) Lead
10 14 (6.39%) Architect
11 10 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.11%) Software Engineer
13 7 (3.20%) Data Architect
14 6 (2.74%) Automation Test Lead
15 5 (2.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 5 (2.28%) Java Engineer
15 5 (2.28%) Python Engineer
16 4 (1.83%) Analyst
16 4 (1.83%) Data Analyst
16 4 (1.83%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (29.22%) PySpark
2 33 (15.07%) Kafka
3 24 (10.96%) Play Framework
4 18 (8.22%) REST
5 14 (6.39%) Playwright
6 12 (5.48%) Akka
6 12 (5.48%) JSON
7 9 (4.11%) Node.js
8 8 (3.65%) Spring
9 7 (3.20%) React
10 6 (2.74%) Apache Avro
10 6 (2.74%) RESTful
11 5 (2.28%) OpenID
11 5 (2.28%) YAML
12 4 (1.83%) Hibernate
12 4 (1.83%) HTML5
12 4 (1.83%) J2SE
12 4 (1.83%) LDAP
12 4 (1.83%) SailPoint
12 4 (1.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.83%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.83%) Derivative
4 4 (1.83%) Equities
4 4 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.37%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.91%) BYOD
6 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.46%) IoT
7 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.46%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.20%) Unix
2 4 (1.83%) Linux
2 4 (1.83%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.91%) Android
3 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Debian
4 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (46.58%) CI/CD
2 91 (41.55%) Agile
3 88 (40.18%) Data Pipeline
4 71 (32.42%) DevOps
5 69 (31.51%) Data Engineering
6 66 (30.14%) Data Modelling
7 54 (24.66%) Data Governance
7 54 (24.66%) ETL
8 42 (19.18%) Analytics
9 41 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (16.44%) Data Architecture
11 33 (15.07%) Data Integration
11 33 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (13.24%) Data Science
12 29 (13.24%) Integration Patterns
13 27 (12.33%) AI
14 24 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (10.50%) Software Engineering
15 23 (10.50%) Test Automation
16 21 (9.59%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 130 (59.36%) Python
2 93 (42.47%) SQL
3 52 (23.74%) Java
4 21 (9.59%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.20%) Go
6 7 (3.20%) R
7 4 (1.83%) Cypher
8 2 (0.91%) Bash
8 2 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.91%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.46%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.46%) C#
9 1 (0.46%) Perl
9 1 (0.46%) PHP
9 1 (0.46%) Ruby
9 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.46%) Swift
9 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (28.31%) Security Cleared
2 59 (26.94%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (5.48%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.65%) Degree
6 7 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (28.77%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.94%) QA
3 7 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.28%) WCAG
5 2 (0.91%) GDPR
5 2 (0.91%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (20.09%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (0.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 41 (18.72%) Kubernetes
2 38 (17.35%) Terraform
3 7 (3.20%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.74%) Grafana
5 5 (2.28%) Ansible
5 5 (2.28%) Kibana
6 4 (1.83%) HAProxy
6 4 (1.83%) Puppet
7 1 (0.46%) Consul
7 1 (0.46%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.46%) logstash
7 1 (0.46%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 72 (32.88%) Databricks
2 14 (6.39%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.65%) Google
4 5 (2.28%) Confluent
5 4 (1.83%) Cloudera
5 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.83%) Splunk
5 4 (1.83%) webMethods
6 3 (1.37%) Foundry
6 3 (1.37%) Mercator
6 3 (1.37%) Oracle
6 3 (1.37%) Palantir
7 2 (0.91%) Denodo
7 2 (0.91%) IBM
7 2 (0.91%) Informatica
8 1 (0.46%) Adobe
8 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.46%) PayPal
8 1 (0.46%) Sybase
8 1 (0.46%) Typelevel