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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 381 270
Rank change year-on-year -41 -111 +20
Contract jobs citing Scala 252 179 341
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.55% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 1.66% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 110 215
10th Percentile £350 £380 £400
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £507 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -7.77% -7.17%
75th Percentile £587 £678 £688
90th Percentile £669 £769 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £423 £475
% change year-on-year +13.85% -11.05% -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.24 £51.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -22.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.38 £68.75
90th Percentile - £57.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +45.96%

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 14,066 10,796 12,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.26% 32.94% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,157 7,202 8,517
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £503 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -5.72% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 290 394
10th Percentile £29.96 £28.24 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.88 £35.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -90 182 £511 +0.79% 48
Work from Home +19 125 £450 -10.00% 31
London -71 107 £572 -4.69% 19
UK excluding London -79 74 £481 +13.85% 41
North of England -65 37 £488 +21.88% 13
Yorkshire -25 25 £500 +5.26% 4
Midlands -42 22 £490 +14.62% 4
West Midlands -38 20 £490 -3.40% 3
North East -28 9 £425 +6.25% 4
South East -63 9 £431 -7.85% 12
Scotland - 4 £410 -
North West -55 3 £375 -3.85% 5
East Midlands -24 2 £304 -27.62% 1
South West -47 2 £543 - 8

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 49 (19.44%) Apache Spark
2 31 (12.30%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (10.71%) Apache
4 3 (1.19%) SAS
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Pig
5 2 (0.79%) Confluence
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Luigi
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 94 (37.30%) AWS
2 57 (22.62%) Azure
3 52 (20.63%) GCP
4 31 (12.30%) GitHub
5 23 (9.13%) Amazon S3
6 20 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (7.54%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (6.35%) Serverless
9 14 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (5.16%) dbt
11 11 (4.37%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (3.17%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 5 (1.98%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.30%) Big Data
2 30 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (11.51%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (9.13%) NoSQL
5 20 (7.94%) BigQuery
6 19 (7.54%) Data Lake
6 19 (7.54%) MongoDB
7 17 (6.75%) SQL Server
8 16 (6.35%) Flink
9 12 (4.76%) Relational Database
10 11 (4.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (4.37%) Hadoop
11 10 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (3.97%) Power BI
12 8 (3.17%) Apache Hive
12 8 (3.17%) Presto
13 7 (2.78%) Data Vault
13 7 (2.78%) DynamoDB
13 7 (2.78%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 35 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.14%) Gatling
3 16 (6.35%) Git
4 9 (3.57%) GitLab
5 7 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.38%) Maven
7 5 (1.98%) JIRA
7 5 (1.98%) JMeter
8 4 (1.59%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.59%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.59%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.19%) JUnit
9 3 (1.19%) Selenium
9 3 (1.19%) TestNG
10 2 (0.79%) MLflow
11 1 (0.40%) Appium
11 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 64 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 39 (15.48%) Finance
4 24 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.37%) Banking
6 8 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.38%) Retail
8 5 (1.98%) Games
9 4 (1.59%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Front Office
10 3 (1.19%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.79%) Back Office
11 2 (0.79%) Local Government
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 86 (34.13%) Developer
2 73 (28.97%) Scala Developer
3 66 (26.19%) Data Engineer
4 31 (12.30%) Scala Engineer
5 27 (10.71%) Senior
6 14 (5.56%) Lead
7 11 (4.37%) Analyst
7 11 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (4.37%) Software Engineer
8 10 (3.97%) Architect
9 9 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.17%) Python Engineer
10 8 (3.17%) Senior Developer
11 7 (2.78%) Backend Developer
11 7 (2.78%) GCP Data Engineer
11 7 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
12 6 (2.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (2.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (21.43%) Terraform
2 40 (15.87%) Kafka
3 31 (12.30%) Play Framework
4 21 (8.33%) PySpark
5 20 (7.94%) REST
6 19 (7.54%) Node.js
7 13 (5.16%) Playwright
7 13 (5.16%) RESTful
8 12 (4.76%) Spring
9 11 (4.37%) Apache Beam
10 10 (3.97%) JSON
11 9 (3.57%) Apache Avro
12 8 (3.17%) Akka
12 8 (3.17%) CSS
12 8 (3.17%) HTML
12 8 (3.17%) Spring Boot
13 7 (2.78%) GraphQL
13 7 (2.78%) YAML
14 5 (1.98%) .NET
14 5 (1.98%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.13%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.59%) Blog
4 4 (1.59%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.19%) Derivative
5 3 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.19%) Equities
5 3 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (0.79%) BYOD
6 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.79%) PACS
6 2 (0.79%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.16%) Linux
2 6 (2.38%) Unix
3 3 (1.19%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.79%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) Debian
5 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (40.48%) CI/CD
2 97 (38.49%) Agile
3 62 (24.60%) DevOps
4 60 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
5 50 (19.84%) ETL
6 46 (18.25%) Data Modelling
6 46 (18.25%) Software Engineering
7 43 (17.06%) Microservices
8 42 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 42 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 40 (15.87%) Analytics
10 37 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (11.90%) Functional Programming
11 30 (11.90%) Test Automation
12 28 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (11.11%) Data Governance
12 28 (11.11%) Scrum
13 27 (10.71%) Data Science
13 27 (10.71%) TDD
14 26 (10.32%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 131 (51.98%) Python
2 96 (38.10%) Java
3 74 (29.37%) SQL
4 20 (7.94%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.35%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.56%) Go
7 9 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.78%) C#
9 6 (2.38%) Bash
9 6 (2.38%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.59%) Bicep
10 4 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.59%) R
11 2 (0.79%) Korn
11 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.79%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.40%) Swift
12 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 35 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.37%) Degree
5 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (15.48%) Data Quality
2 21 (8.33%) QA
3 14 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.98%) WCAG
5 3 (1.19%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.79%) GDPR
7 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (17.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Apache Flume
2 2 (0.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 48 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.54%) Grafana
3 12 (4.76%) Kibana
4 9 (3.57%) HAProxy
5 8 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.38%) Ansible
7 4 (1.59%) Puppet
8 2 (0.79%) Consul
8 2 (0.79%) Control-M
9 1 (0.40%) logstash
Vendors
1 33 (13.10%) Databricks
2 24 (9.52%) Google
3 19 (7.54%) Splunk
4 15 (5.95%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.78%) Informatica
6 6 (2.38%) New Relic
7 4 (1.59%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.59%) Confluent
7 4 (1.59%) KANA
8 3 (1.19%) Denodo
9 2 (0.79%) Foundry
9 2 (0.79%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle
9 2 (0.79%) Pega
9 2 (0.79%) Talend
10 1 (0.40%) Adobe
10 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.40%) IBM
10 1 (0.40%) Reuters
10 1 (0.40%) Trayport