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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 361 273
Rank change year-on-year -65 -88 -4
Contract jobs citing Scala 222 180 378
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.58% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.60% 1.71% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 117 254
10th Percentile £364 £392 £375
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% -10.21%
75th Percentile £600 £713 £696
90th Percentile £745 £825 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £455 £465
% change year-on-year +10.01% -2.26% -18.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile £40.18 - £27.63
25th Percentile £57.44 £51.25 £36.49
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% - -28.08%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.38 £61.25
90th Percentile - £57.95 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +156.47%

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 13,848 10,541 13,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.88% 33.71% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,990 7,109 9,334
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -2.60% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £720 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 543 254 537
10th Percentile £34.03 £26.52 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £34.55 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £79.61 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% +4.00%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -102 169 £550 - 94
London -64 112 £581 -3.10% 54
Work from Home +2 98 £493 -1.32% 57
UK excluding London -95 56 £500 +10.01% 49
North of England -58 37 £500 +12.36% 18
Yorkshire -36 28 £500 -9.09% 4
Midlands -66 8 £518 +21.76% 4
West Midlands -61 6 £518 +15.00% 2
North East - 6 £484 - 2
South East -62 4 £388 -15.58% 13
Scotland - 4 £500 - 1
North West -51 3 £500 +25.00% 12
South West - 3 £505 - 11
East Midlands -21 1 £304 -25.85% 2

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 56 (25.23%) Apache Spark
2 27 (12.16%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (11.26%) Apache
4 3 (1.35%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.90%) Confluence
5 2 (0.90%) SAS
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.45%) Luigi
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 93 (41.89%) AWS
2 76 (34.23%) Azure
3 51 (22.97%) GCP
4 37 (16.67%) GitHub
5 22 (9.91%) Amazon S3
5 22 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (8.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (8.11%) Serverless
10 14 (6.31%) Power Platform
11 13 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (4.50%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (3.60%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (3.60%) Snowflake
15 6 (2.70%) dbt
16 4 (1.80%) Cloud Functions
16 4 (1.80%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.35%) HTTP
2 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.86%) Big Data
2 32 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (13.06%) NoSQL
4 23 (10.36%) Data Lake
5 22 (9.91%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (9.01%) SQL Server
7 18 (8.11%) MongoDB
8 15 (6.76%) Hadoop
8 15 (6.76%) Relational Database
9 13 (5.86%) Delta Lake
10 12 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (5.41%) Power BI
11 11 (4.95%) BigQuery
12 10 (4.50%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (4.50%) Flink
13 9 (4.05%) Tableau
14 8 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (3.15%) DynamoDB
15 7 (3.15%) Presto
Development Applications
1 39 (17.57%) Jenkins
2 32 (14.41%) Git
3 18 (8.11%) Gatling
4 11 (4.95%) GitLab
5 9 (4.05%) JIRA
6 8 (3.60%) Postman
7 7 (3.15%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.70%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.70%) Maven
9 5 (2.25%) JMeter
10 4 (1.80%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.80%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.80%) NeoLoad
10 4 (1.80%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.35%) JUnit
11 3 (1.35%) Selenium
11 3 (1.35%) TestNG
12 2 (0.90%) Mockito
12 2 (0.90%) ScalaTest
13 1 (0.45%) MLflow
General
1 48 (21.62%) Finance
2 43 (19.37%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.36%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.76%) Banking
6 6 (2.70%) Retail
7 5 (2.25%) Games
7 5 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.80%) Front Office
8 4 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.80%) Legal
9 3 (1.35%) Back Office
10 2 (0.90%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (29.28%) Data Engineer
2 63 (28.38%) Developer
3 50 (22.52%) Scala Developer
4 21 (9.46%) Scala Engineer
4 21 (9.46%) Senior
5 16 (7.21%) Lead
6 14 (6.31%) Architect
6 14 (6.31%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (4.50%) Software Engineer
8 9 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (2.70%) Analyst
10 6 (2.70%) Backend Developer
10 6 (2.70%) Data Architect
10 6 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 5 (2.25%) Automation Test Lead
11 5 (2.25%) Lead Architect
12 4 (1.80%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 4 (1.80%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (15.32%) Kafka
2 32 (14.41%) PySpark
3 22 (9.91%) Playwright
4 19 (8.56%) Play Framework
5 15 (6.76%) Node.js
5 15 (6.76%) REST
6 14 (6.31%) Spring
7 12 (5.41%) RESTful
8 9 (4.05%) Apache Avro
8 9 (4.05%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.60%) CSS
9 8 (3.60%) HTML
9 8 (3.60%) JSON
10 7 (3.15%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.70%) Akka
11 6 (2.70%) Apache Beam
11 6 (2.70%) React
12 5 (2.25%) OpenID
12 5 (2.25%) Protocol Buffers
13 4 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.21%) Cloud Native
1 16 (7.21%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.80%) Algorithms
3 4 (1.80%) Derivative
3 4 (1.80%) Equities
3 4 (1.80%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.80%) Sports Betting
4 3 (1.35%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (0.90%) BYOD
5 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.90%) PACS
5 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.45%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.41%) Linux
2 8 (3.60%) Unix
3 4 (1.80%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.90%) Android
4 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.90%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Debian
5 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (42.34%) CI/CD
2 79 (35.59%) Agile
3 66 (29.73%) DevOps
4 63 (28.38%) Data Pipeline
5 55 (24.77%) ETL
6 52 (23.42%) Data Modelling
7 45 (20.27%) Analytics
8 41 (18.47%) Data Engineering
9 38 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 34 (15.32%) Data Governance
12 33 (14.86%) Software Engineering
13 32 (14.41%) Data Science
14 28 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (12.16%) AI
15 27 (12.16%) Platform Engineering
16 26 (11.71%) Containerisation
17 22 (9.91%) Data Ingestion
17 22 (9.91%) Microservices
18 21 (9.46%) Functional Programming
Programming Languages
1 130 (58.56%) Python
2 84 (37.84%) Java
3 83 (37.39%) SQL
4 26 (11.71%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.01%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.41%) Go
7 6 (2.70%) Bash
8 4 (1.80%) Cypher
8 4 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.35%) R
10 2 (0.90%) C#
10 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.90%) PHP
10 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.90%) Ruby
11 1 (0.45%) Korn
11 1 (0.45%) Perl
11 1 (0.45%) SHACL
11 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (20.72%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.77%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.50%) Degree
5 7 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (19.37%) Data Quality
2 20 (9.01%) QA
3 11 (4.95%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.25%) WCAG
5 3 (1.35%) GDPR
5 3 (1.35%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.90%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 41 (18.47%) Docker
2 4 (1.80%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (1.35%) HDFS
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 52 (23.42%) Terraform
2 42 (18.92%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.76%) Grafana
4 10 (4.50%) Kibana
5 9 (4.05%) Ansible
5 9 (4.05%) HAProxy
6 8 (3.60%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.90%) Consul
7 2 (0.90%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 33 (14.86%) Databricks
2 17 (7.66%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.31%) Google
4 10 (4.50%) Splunk
5 5 (2.25%) Informatica
6 4 (1.80%) Confluent
6 4 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.35%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.35%) Denodo
7 3 (1.35%) Foundry
7 3 (1.35%) Oracle
7 3 (1.35%) Palantir
8 2 (0.90%) Adobe
8 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.90%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.90%) Pega
9 1 (0.45%) New Relic
9 1 (0.45%) Okta
9 1 (0.45%) Trayport
9 1 (0.45%) Typelevel