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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 324 304
Rank change year-on-year -86 -20 -84
Contract jobs citing Scala 203 209 331
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.71% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.62% 2.08% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 128 238
10th Percentile £380 £400 £382
25th Percentile £440 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% -0.04% +0.04%
75th Percentile £604 £713 £769
90th Percentile £750 £813 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +1.02% -2.20% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £24.74
25th Percentile - - £30.77
Median hourly rate - - £47.35
75th Percentile - - £62.19
90th Percentile - - £66.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +160.03%

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 12,527 10,051 12,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.34% 34.15% 29.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,337 6,631 9,157
10th Percentile £353 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.41%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £719 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 242 507
10th Percentile £41.52 £21.33 £30.63
25th Percentile £54.00 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -5.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.37 £61.60
% change year-on-year +2.57% +2.88% -5.23%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -84 180 £528 -8.26% 127
London -54 133 £545 -12.38% 60
Work from Home -15 73 £575 +4.55% 113
UK excluding London -78 47 £494 +1.02% 107
Midlands -47 25 £458 -3.68% 9
West Midlands -43 24 £440 -8.71% 5
North of England -63 18 £507 -7.82% 21
Yorkshire -63 11 £514 -4.37% 10
North East -13 5 £425 -22.73% 3
North West -35 3 £500 -6.98% 8
South East -44 3 £604 +28.78% 36
Scotland +7 2 £513 +31.41% 6
South West -19 2 £508 +27.09% 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 68 (33.50%) Apache Spark
2 32 (15.76%) Apache
3 14 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.43%) JBoss
4 9 (4.43%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.48%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.48%) SAS
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.49%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 97 (47.78%) Azure
2 69 (33.99%) AWS
3 44 (21.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (17.73%) GCP
5 28 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (10.84%) GitHub
7 19 (9.36%) Power Platform
8 15 (7.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (5.91%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (5.42%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.93%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (4.43%) Serverless
12 9 (4.43%) Snowflake
13 8 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (1.97%) AWS Step Functions
16 4 (1.97%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.70%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (18.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 37 (18.23%) NoSQL
3 24 (11.82%) Big Data
4 21 (10.34%) Data Lake
4 21 (10.34%) MongoDB
5 20 (9.85%) Delta Lake
6 18 (8.87%) Power BI
7 17 (8.37%) Hadoop
8 14 (6.90%) Tableau
9 13 (6.40%) Relational Database
10 12 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (3.45%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.96%) Apache Hive
13 6 (2.96%) Spark SQL
14 5 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (2.46%) Flink
14 5 (2.46%) Metadata
14 5 (2.46%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 66 (32.51%) Git
2 29 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.93%) Selenium
4 9 (4.43%) Eclipse
4 9 (4.43%) GitLab
4 9 (4.43%) IntelliJ
4 9 (4.43%) JUnit
4 9 (4.43%) Postman
5 5 (2.46%) Gatling
5 5 (2.46%) Mockito
5 5 (2.46%) ScalaTest
6 4 (1.97%) JIRA
6 4 (1.97%) JMeter
6 4 (1.97%) LoadRunner
6 4 (1.97%) NeoLoad
6 4 (1.97%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.48%) Gradle
7 3 (1.48%) Maven
7 3 (1.48%) MLflow
8 1 (0.49%) Storybook
General
1 42 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.20%) Finance
3 15 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.90%) Banking
4 14 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.96%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.48%) Back Office
7 3 (1.48%) Front Office
7 3 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.49%) Law
8 1 (0.49%) Legal
8 1 (0.49%) Marketing
8 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (39.41%) Data Engineer
2 40 (19.70%) Developer
3 27 (13.30%) Azure Engineer
3 27 (13.30%) Scala Developer
4 25 (12.32%) Senior
5 24 (11.82%) Azure Data Engineer
6 18 (8.87%) Scala Engineer
6 18 (8.87%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (7.39%) Lead
8 10 (4.93%) Architect
9 8 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.45%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.96%) Automation Test Lead
11 6 (2.96%) Data Architect
12 5 (2.46%) Java Developer
12 5 (2.46%) Java Engineer
13 4 (1.97%) Data Scientist
14 3 (1.48%) Apache Spark Developer
14 3 (1.48%) Test Automation Architect
14 3 (1.48%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (30.05%) PySpark
2 28 (13.79%) Play Framework
3 27 (13.30%) Kafka
4 21 (10.34%) REST
5 15 (7.39%) JSON
6 14 (6.90%) Spring
7 12 (5.91%) Akka
8 10 (4.93%) Playwright
9 9 (4.43%) EJB
9 9 (4.43%) Hibernate
9 9 (4.43%) HTML
9 9 (4.43%) HTML5
9 9 (4.43%) J2EE
9 9 (4.43%) J2SE
9 9 (4.43%) SOAP
9 9 (4.43%) XML
10 8 (3.94%) RESTful
11 7 (3.45%) React
12 5 (2.46%) Node.js
12 5 (2.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.91%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.94%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.46%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.97%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.97%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.48%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.48%) Derivative
5 3 (1.48%) Equities
5 3 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.99%) Music Streaming
7 1 (0.49%) PACS
7 1 (0.49%) SCADA
7 1 (0.49%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.49%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.90%) Unix
2 7 (3.45%) Linux
3 4 (1.97%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.49%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (49.75%) CI/CD
2 94 (46.31%) Agile
3 83 (40.89%) Data Pipeline
4 66 (32.51%) DevOps
5 65 (32.02%) Data Engineering
6 62 (30.54%) Data Modelling
7 52 (25.62%) Data Governance
7 52 (25.62%) ETL
8 44 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (19.70%) Analytics
10 33 (16.26%) Data Architecture
10 33 (16.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (15.27%) Data Integration
11 31 (15.27%) Data Science
12 26 (12.81%) Integration Patterns
13 23 (11.33%) Scrum
13 23 (11.33%) Software Engineering
14 22 (10.84%) Microservices
14 22 (10.84%) TDD
15 21 (10.34%) AI
Programming Languages
1 116 (57.14%) Python
2 100 (49.26%) SQL
3 54 (26.60%) Java
4 21 (10.34%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.43%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.45%) R
7 4 (1.97%) Cypher
7 4 (1.97%) Go
7 4 (1.97%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.99%) C++
9 1 (0.49%) Bash
9 1 (0.49%) C#
9 1 (0.49%) Clojure
9 1 (0.49%) Groovy
9 1 (0.49%) Perl
9 1 (0.49%) PHP
9 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (25.12%) Security Cleared
2 49 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (5.42%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.94%) Degree
6 7 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.96%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.49%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (29.06%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.91%) QA
3 5 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.99%) GDPR
4 2 (0.99%) WCAG
5 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.49%) MiFID
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (22.17%) Docker
2 4 (1.97%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 4 (1.97%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (18.72%) Kubernetes
2 28 (13.79%) Terraform
3 9 (4.43%) Puppet
4 5 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.97%) Grafana
5 4 (1.97%) Kibana
6 3 (1.48%) Ansible
7 1 (0.49%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.49%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 73 (35.96%) Databricks
2 9 (4.43%) webMethods
3 7 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.96%) Google
5 5 (2.46%) Oracle
6 4 (1.97%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.97%) Splunk
7 3 (1.48%) Confluent
7 3 (1.48%) Foundry
7 3 (1.48%) Mercator
7 3 (1.48%) Palantir
8 2 (0.99%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.99%) Denodo
8 2 (0.99%) IBM
8 2 (0.99%) Informatica
9 1 (0.49%) Adobe
9 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.49%) PayPal
9 1 (0.49%) Sybase