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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 383 287
Rank change year-on-year -37 -96 +22
Contract jobs citing Scala 274 172 313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.52% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.91% 1.59% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 104 183
10th Percentile £350 £377 £400
25th Percentile £413 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -7.27% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £731
90th Percentile £663 £749 £836
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £430 £495
% change year-on-year +2.15% -13.23% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile £37.24 £51.43 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £51.69 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -32.19% +2.56%
75th Percentile £73.00 £57.69 -
90th Percentile - £58.48 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 - -

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 14,320 10,843 12,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.23% 32.73% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,296 7,113 7,980
10th Percentile £363 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £734 £774
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 299 334
10th Percentile £21.55 £29.00 £25.99
25th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £45.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.28 £76.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scala over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Top 14 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 October 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 -71 199 £505 -1.61% 336
Work from Home +26 129 £483 -3.40% 130
London -43 127 £572 -4.69% 264
UK excluding London -68 75 £439 +2.15% 111
North of England -65 36 £443 +10.63% 29
Midlands -40 23 £481 +11.86% 10
West Midlands -40 21 £490 +0.41% 7
Yorkshire -23 20 £494 -1.25% 3
North East -30 13 £425 +6.25% 15
South East -64 9 £413 -8.33% 9
Scotland - 6 £355 - 25
North West -59 3 £375 -0.66% 11
East Midlands -16 2 £304 -27.62% 3
South West -28 1 £505 - 15

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 55 (20.07%) Apache Spark
2 46 (16.79%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (11.31%) Apache
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Pig
4 2 (0.73%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Luigi
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 109 (39.78%) AWS
2 66 (24.09%) Azure
3 49 (17.88%) GCP
4 33 (12.04%) GitHub
5 23 (8.39%) Amazon S3
5 23 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (5.47%) dbt
8 15 (5.47%) Snowflake
9 14 (5.11%) Azure Databricks
9 14 (5.11%) Serverless
10 13 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (4.01%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (2.92%) Anthropic Claude
14 6 (2.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.58%) Big Data
1 29 (10.58%) Data Warehouse
1 29 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (10.22%) MongoDB
3 23 (8.39%) NoSQL
4 18 (6.57%) BigQuery
5 13 (4.74%) Data Lake
6 12 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.38%) Flink
7 11 (4.01%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.65%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.65%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (2.92%) Delta Lake
9 8 (2.92%) Presto
9 8 (2.92%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.19%) Apache Hive
10 6 (2.19%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.82%) Data Hub
11 5 (1.82%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 44 (16.06%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.66%) Git
3 14 (5.11%) Gatling
3 14 (5.11%) GitLab
4 11 (4.01%) Cucumber
5 7 (2.55%) Maven
6 6 (2.19%) Gradle
6 6 (2.19%) JUnit
6 6 (2.19%) ScalaTest
7 5 (1.82%) JMeter
7 5 (1.82%) MLflow
8 4 (1.46%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.46%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.46%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.46%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.46%) Selenium
9 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.09%) JIRA
9 3 (1.09%) Mockito
9 3 (1.09%) TestNG
General
1 57 (20.80%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.88%) Public Sector
3 47 (17.15%) Finance
4 21 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.01%) Banking
7 5 (1.82%) Local Government
8 4 (1.46%) Games
8 4 (1.46%) Legal
9 3 (1.09%) Advertising
9 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.09%) Retail
10 2 (0.73%) Front Office
10 2 (0.73%) Publishing
11 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 97 (35.40%) Developer
2 81 (29.56%) Scala Developer
3 72 (26.28%) Data Engineer
4 44 (16.06%) Scala Engineer
4 44 (16.06%) Senior
5 18 (6.57%) Lead
6 16 (5.84%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (4.74%) Databricks Engineer
8 11 (4.01%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (4.01%) Senior Developer
9 10 (3.65%) Analyst
10 9 (3.28%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) Software Developer
11 8 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.92%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.55%) Architect
12 7 (2.55%) Senior Scala Developer
13 6 (2.19%) Lead Developer
13 6 (2.19%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (18.25%) Play Framework
2 46 (16.79%) Terraform
3 41 (14.96%) Kafka
4 39 (14.23%) REST
5 23 (8.39%) RESTful
6 18 (6.57%) PySpark
7 15 (5.47%) Spring
8 14 (5.11%) Node.js
9 13 (4.74%) Akka
10 12 (4.38%) Spring Boot
11 11 (4.01%) GraphQL
12 10 (3.65%) LangChain
13 9 (3.28%) Apache Beam
13 9 (3.28%) JSON
13 9 (3.28%) LangGraph
13 9 (3.28%) Playwright
14 8 (2.92%) CSS
14 8 (2.92%) HTML
15 7 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (2.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.95%) Cloud Native
1 30 (10.95%) Product Ownership
2 21 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.28%) AI Agents
4 8 (2.92%) Blog
5 7 (2.55%) BYOD
6 5 (1.82%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.46%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.09%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.73%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.73%) Derivative
9 2 (0.73%) PACS
9 2 (0.73%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.73%) Replication
9 2 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.74%) Linux
2 6 (2.19%) Unix
3 4 (1.46%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.73%) Android
4 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (45.99%) CI/CD
2 121 (44.16%) Agile
3 69 (25.18%) DevOps
4 61 (22.26%) Microservices
5 55 (20.07%) Data Pipeline
6 51 (18.61%) Test Automation
7 48 (17.52%) ETL
8 45 (16.42%) Data Engineering
8 45 (16.42%) Data Modelling
9 44 (16.06%) Continuous Integration
10 43 (15.69%) Software Engineering
11 41 (14.96%) Functional Programming
12 40 (14.60%) Analytics
12 40 (14.60%) Containerisation
13 39 (14.23%) Infrastructure as Code
14 38 (13.87%) AI
14 38 (13.87%) Scrum
15 35 (12.77%) TDD
16 34 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 119 (43.43%) Python
2 96 (35.04%) Java
3 87 (31.75%) SQL
4 21 (7.66%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.47%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.65%) Go
6 10 (3.65%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.55%) Bicep
7 7 (2.55%) C#
7 7 (2.55%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.19%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.82%) Bash
10 4 (1.46%) R
11 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.73%) Korn
11 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.36%) PHP
12 1 (0.36%) Ruby
12 1 (0.36%) SHACL
12 1 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 60 (21.90%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 34 (12.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (7.30%) Degree
5 10 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.77%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.12%) QA
3 14 (5.11%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.09%) WCAG
5 2 (0.73%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 65 (23.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Apache Flume
2 2 (0.73%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 58 (21.17%) Kubernetes
2 36 (13.14%) Grafana
3 23 (8.39%) Kibana
4 10 (3.65%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.82%) HAProxy
6 4 (1.46%) Ansible
6 4 (1.46%) Puppet
7 2 (0.73%) Control-M
8 1 (0.36%) Consul
Vendors
1 42 (15.33%) Databricks
2 24 (8.76%) Google
3 21 (7.66%) Splunk
4 11 (4.01%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.65%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.19%) Foundry
6 6 (2.19%) Informatica
6 6 (2.19%) New Relic
6 6 (2.19%) Oracle
7 5 (1.82%) Mistral
8 4 (1.46%) KANA
9 2 (0.73%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.73%) Confluent
9 2 (0.73%) Pega
9 2 (0.73%) Talend
10 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.36%) Denodo
10 1 (0.36%) IBM
10 1 (0.36%) Reuters
10 1 (0.36%) Trayport