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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 300 304
Rank change year-on-year -100 +4 -96
Contract jobs citing Scala 193 260 321
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.76% 0.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.68% 2.35% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 141 220
10th Percentile £375 £450 £411
25th Percentile £413 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £612 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £763 £750
90th Percentile £650 £838 £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -18.10% +1.20% -3.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £33.80
25th Percentile £53.00 - £39.85
Median hourly rate £56.00 £80.00 £53.60
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +49.27% +53.13%
75th Percentile £59.00 - £74.75
90th Percentile - - £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 11,493 11,079 13,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.18% 32.51% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,581 7,120 9,630
10th Percentile £350 £350 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.26% -2.50% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 256 410
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.63 £34.73
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.06 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.87 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.77% -1.73% -

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 20 December 2025.

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 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 20 December 2025. 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 -79 168 £507 -18.23% 105
London -65 109 £545 -19.26% 71
UK excluding London -18 54 £430 -18.10% 66
Work from Home -45 51 £556 +1.14% 89
Midlands -14 30 £435 -28.92% 4
West Midlands -12 25 £488 -20.26% 3
North of England -48 22 £425 -22.73% 7
Yorkshire -48 13 £488 -7.14%
North West -18 7 £380 - 6
East Midlands - 5 £420 - 1
North East -14 3 £400 -27.27% 1
South East -17 3 £604 - 38
South West -4 1 - - 6
East of England -22 1 £400 -20.00% 14

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 66 (34.20%) Apache Spark
2 36 (18.65%) Apache
3 18 (9.33%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.66%) JBoss
4 9 (4.66%) WebLogic
5 7 (3.63%) Apache Pig
6 4 (2.07%) IIS
7 2 (1.04%) SAS
8 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.52%) Luigi
8 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (39.38%) Azure
2 54 (27.98%) AWS
3 38 (19.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (14.51%) GCP
5 25 (12.95%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.22%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (4.66%) Amazon S3
7 9 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.15%) Snowflake
9 7 (3.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.11%) GitHub
10 6 (3.11%) Serverless
11 5 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.07%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (2.07%) dbt
13 3 (1.55%) Amazon MSK
13 3 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (1.04%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.07%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.76%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (16.58%) NoSQL
3 27 (13.99%) Big Data
4 26 (13.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (12.95%) Power BI
6 23 (11.92%) Hadoop
7 18 (9.33%) Data Lake
8 17 (8.81%) Apache Hive
9 16 (8.29%) Delta Lake
9 16 (8.29%) MongoDB
10 14 (7.25%) Tableau
11 11 (5.70%) Data Mining
12 9 (4.66%) HBase
13 8 (4.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (4.15%) Relational Database
14 7 (3.63%) Metadata
14 7 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (3.11%) DataStage
16 5 (2.59%) BigQuery
16 5 (2.59%) Impala
Development Applications
1 48 (24.87%) Git
2 22 (11.40%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.25%) Selenium
4 10 (5.18%) Cucumber
4 10 (5.18%) JUnit
5 9 (4.66%) Eclipse
5 9 (4.66%) IntelliJ
6 6 (3.11%) Gradle
7 4 (2.07%) MLflow
7 4 (2.07%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.55%) GitLab
8 3 (1.55%) Maven
8 3 (1.55%) Xcode
9 2 (1.04%) Gatling
9 2 (1.04%) Mockito
9 2 (1.04%) ScalaTest
10 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.52%) RSpec
10 1 (0.52%) Storybook
10 1 (0.52%) WebDriver
General
1 53 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.92%) Finance
3 21 (10.88%) Banking
4 17 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.77%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.74%) Investment Banking
7 11 (5.70%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Back Office
8 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Front Office
8 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Games
9 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.52%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Legal
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
9 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (42.49%) Data Engineer
2 46 (23.83%) Developer
3 28 (14.51%) Scala Developer
4 27 (13.99%) Azure Engineer
5 26 (13.47%) Azure Data Engineer
6 24 (12.44%) Senior
7 18 (9.33%) Scala Engineer
8 15 (7.77%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (5.70%) Data Scientist
10 6 (3.11%) Java Engineer
11 5 (2.59%) Architect
11 5 (2.59%) Hadoop Developer
11 5 (2.59%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.59%) Lead
11 5 (2.59%) Tester
12 4 (2.07%) Analyst
12 4 (2.07%) Apache Spark Developer
12 4 (2.07%) Data Analyst
12 4 (2.07%) Engineering Manager
12 4 (2.07%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (24.87%) PySpark
2 32 (16.58%) Kafka
3 24 (12.44%) Play Framework
4 16 (8.29%) REST
5 14 (7.25%) JSON
6 13 (6.74%) Spring
7 12 (6.22%) HTML
8 10 (5.18%) Akka
8 10 (5.18%) SOAP
9 9 (4.66%) EJB
9 9 (4.66%) Hibernate
9 9 (4.66%) HTML5
9 9 (4.66%) J2EE
9 9 (4.66%) J2SE
9 9 (4.66%) XML
10 8 (4.15%) RESTful
11 5 (2.59%) Spark Streaming
12 4 (2.07%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (2.07%) React
12 4 (2.07%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.84%) Algorithms
2 9 (4.66%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.63%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.59%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.55%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.55%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.04%) Autonomous Agent
6 2 (1.04%) Derivative
6 2 (1.04%) Equities
6 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.04%) Music Streaming
6 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.52%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.22%) Unix
2 9 (4.66%) Linux
3 4 (2.07%) Android
3 4 (2.07%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.52%) Debian
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (45.08%) Agile
2 75 (38.86%) Data Pipeline
3 71 (36.79%) CI/CD
4 61 (31.61%) Data Engineering
5 47 (24.35%) DevOps
5 47 (24.35%) ETL
6 46 (23.83%) Data Modelling
7 44 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (19.17%) Data Governance
9 33 (17.10%) Data Science
10 32 (16.58%) Scrum
11 30 (15.54%) Data Architecture
12 29 (15.03%) Analytics
12 29 (15.03%) Machine Learning
13 28 (14.51%) Data Integration
13 28 (14.51%) TDD
14 25 (12.95%) Integration Patterns
15 24 (12.44%) Microservices
16 23 (11.92%) Visualisation
17 22 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 102 (52.85%) Python
2 94 (48.70%) SQL
3 69 (35.75%) Java
4 11 (5.70%) Kotlin
5 9 (4.66%) R
6 8 (4.15%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.15%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.11%) C++
8 4 (2.07%) Go
8 4 (2.07%) Ruby
9 3 (1.55%) C
9 3 (1.55%) C#
9 3 (1.55%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.55%) Swift
10 2 (1.04%) Bash
10 2 (1.04%) Groovy
11 1 (0.52%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.52%) Clojure
11 1 (0.52%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (19.69%) SC Cleared
1 38 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.70%) Azure Certification
3 7 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.11%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.07%) Degree
6 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.04%) MCP
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (22.28%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.63%) QA
3 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) MiFID
4 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (20.73%) Docker
2 7 (3.63%) HDFS
3 4 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (16.06%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.77%) Terraform
3 10 (5.18%) Puppet
4 7 (3.63%) Ansible
5 6 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.59%) Grafana
7 3 (1.55%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (1.55%) Kibana
7 3 (1.55%) Oozie
8 1 (0.52%) Graphite
8 1 (0.52%) logstash
8 1 (0.52%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 65 (33.68%) Databricks
2 12 (6.22%) Splunk
3 11 (5.70%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.66%) webMethods
5 5 (2.59%) Google
5 5 (2.59%) Informatica
6 4 (2.07%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.07%) Mercator
6 4 (2.07%) Talend
7 3 (1.55%) Confluent
8 2 (1.04%) IBM
8 2 (1.04%) Oracle
8 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.52%) PayPal
9 1 (0.52%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.52%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.52%) Vertica
9 1 (0.52%) Zoomdata