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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 379 254
Rank change year-on-year -66 -125 +29
Contract jobs citing Scala 235 178 375
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.54% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.66% 1.65% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 111 240
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% -6.38%
75th Percentile £590 £700 £699
90th Percentile £687 £825 £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £420 £460
% change year-on-year +16.07% -8.70% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 3
10th Percentile £37.24 - £27.63
25th Percentile £48.75 £51.25 £36.49
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% - -30.00%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.38 £61.25
90th Percentile - £57.95 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +169.37%

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 14,117 10,788 12,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.59% 32.89% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,180 7,286 8,710
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +3.58% -4.52% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 256 418
10th Percentile £30.87 £27.97 £27.53
25th Percentile £50.56 £36.19 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £81.48 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +7.84%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -101 171 £525 -3.67% 90
Work from Home +22 113 £450 -10.00% 36
London -57 110 £572 -4.69% 58
UK excluding London -72 58 £488 +16.07% 44
North of England -61 31 £488 +9.55% 13
Yorkshire -38 22 £494 -17.71% 4
Midlands -52 16 £405 -3.57% 8
West Midlands -52 13 £448 +5.29% 7
South East -65 6 £400 -14.53% 11
North East - 5 £443 - 5
North West -62 4 £438 +9.38% 4
Scotland - 3 £363 - 1
East Midlands -22 2 £304 -27.62% 1
South West - 2 £543 - 6

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 (20.85%) Apache Spark
2 29 (12.34%) Apache
2 29 (12.34%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.28%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (1.28%) SAS
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Pig
4 2 (0.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) LiveCycle
5 1 (0.43%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 88 (37.45%) AWS
2 58 (24.68%) Azure
3 50 (21.28%) GCP
4 31 (13.19%) GitHub
5 23 (9.79%) Amazon S3
6 21 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.23%) Serverless
9 15 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.11%) dbt
12 11 (4.68%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.40%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (2.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (2.98%) Snowflake
15 6 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (2.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 5 (2.13%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.04%) Big Data
2 29 (12.34%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (10.21%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (10.21%) NoSQL
4 19 (8.09%) SQL Server
5 18 (7.66%) BigQuery
5 18 (7.66%) Data Lake
6 17 (7.23%) MongoDB
7 16 (6.81%) Flink
8 12 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (5.11%) Hadoop
8 12 (5.11%) Relational Database
9 10 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.83%) Apache Hive
10 9 (3.83%) Power BI
11 8 (3.40%) Delta Lake
11 8 (3.40%) Presto
12 7 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.98%) DynamoDB
12 7 (2.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.51%) Git
3 16 (6.81%) Gatling
4 8 (3.40%) GitLab
5 7 (2.98%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.55%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.55%) Maven
7 5 (2.13%) JIRA
8 4 (1.70%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.70%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.28%) JMeter
9 3 (1.28%) JUnit
9 3 (1.28%) Selenium
9 3 (1.28%) TestNG
10 2 (0.85%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.85%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.43%) Appium
11 1 (0.43%) git-flow
11 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (22.13%) Social Skills
2 37 (15.74%) Finance
3 35 (14.89%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.53%) Banking
6 6 (2.55%) Retail
7 5 (2.13%) Games
7 5 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.70%) Front Office
8 4 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.70%) Legal
9 3 (1.28%) Back Office
10 2 (0.85%) Local Government
11 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 78 (33.19%) Developer
2 64 (27.23%) Scala Developer
3 63 (26.81%) Data Engineer
4 26 (11.06%) Senior
5 25 (10.64%) Scala Engineer
6 13 (5.53%) Lead
7 12 (5.11%) Analyst
7 12 (5.11%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.68%) Architect
8 11 (4.68%) Software Engineer
9 8 (3.40%) Python Engineer
9 8 (3.40%) Senior Developer
10 7 (2.98%) Backend Developer
10 7 (2.98%) GCP Data Engineer
10 7 (2.98%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (2.98%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (2.55%) Data Architect
11 6 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.32%) Kafka
2 26 (11.06%) PySpark
3 23 (9.79%) Play Framework
4 17 (7.23%) REST
5 16 (6.81%) Node.js
6 14 (5.96%) Playwright
7 13 (5.53%) Spring
8 11 (4.68%) Apache Beam
8 11 (4.68%) RESTful
9 9 (3.83%) Apache Avro
10 8 (3.40%) Akka
10 8 (3.40%) CSS
10 8 (3.40%) HTML
10 8 (3.40%) JSON
10 8 (3.40%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.98%) GraphQL
11 7 (2.98%) React
12 5 (2.13%) Protocol Buffers
12 5 (2.13%) YAML
13 4 (1.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.23%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.96%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.70%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.70%) Derivative
4 4 (1.70%) Equities
4 4 (1.70%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (0.85%) BYOD
6 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.85%) PACS
6 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.43%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.43%) IoT
7 1 (0.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.53%) Linux
2 8 (3.40%) Unix
3 4 (1.70%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.85%) Android
4 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.85%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Debian
5 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (37.87%) CI/CD
2 86 (36.60%) Agile
3 63 (26.81%) Data Pipeline
4 53 (22.55%) DevOps
5 49 (20.85%) Data Modelling
5 49 (20.85%) ETL
6 41 (17.45%) Data Engineering
7 40 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (16.17%) Software Engineering
9 37 (15.74%) Analytics
10 35 (14.89%) Microservices
11 31 (13.19%) Data Science
12 30 (12.77%) Data Governance
12 30 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (12.77%) Test Automation
13 28 (11.91%) Functional Programming
14 23 (9.79%) AI
14 23 (9.79%) Containerisation
15 20 (8.51%) Platform Engineering
15 20 (8.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 124 (52.77%) Python
2 90 (38.30%) Java
3 76 (32.34%) SQL
4 20 (8.51%) TypeScript
5 19 (8.09%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.96%) Go
7 7 (2.98%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.55%) Bash
9 5 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.28%) C#
11 3 (1.28%) R
12 2 (0.85%) Bicep
12 2 (0.85%) Korn
12 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.85%) PHP
12 2 (0.85%) Ruby
13 1 (0.43%) SHACL
13 1 (0.43%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 36 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 34 (14.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.40%) Degree
5 4 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.85%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.72%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.09%) QA
3 11 (4.68%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.13%) WCAG
5 3 (1.28%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.85%) GDPR
6 2 (0.85%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 43 (18.30%) Docker
2 4 (1.70%) HDFS
3 2 (0.85%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 53 (22.55%) Terraform
2 46 (19.57%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.38%) Grafana
4 12 (5.11%) Kibana
5 9 (3.83%) HAProxy
6 8 (3.40%) Ansible
6 8 (3.40%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.85%) Consul
7 2 (0.85%) Puppet
8 1 (0.43%) logstash
Vendors
1 30 (12.77%) Databricks
2 21 (8.94%) Google
3 16 (6.81%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.38%) Splunk
5 6 (2.55%) New Relic
6 5 (2.13%) Informatica
7 4 (1.70%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.70%) Confluent
7 4 (1.70%) KANA
8 3 (1.28%) Denodo
8 3 (1.28%) Foundry
8 3 (1.28%) Oracle
8 3 (1.28%) Palantir
9 2 (0.85%) Adobe
9 2 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.85%) Pega
10 1 (0.43%) Okta
10 1 (0.43%) Reuters
10 1 (0.43%) Trayport