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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 299 304
Rank change year-on-year -111 +5 -102
Contract jobs citing Scala 188 289 349
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.79% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.64% 2.46% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 161 232
10th Percentile £375 £410 £425
25th Percentile £413 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £604 £751 £750
90th Percentile £672 £838 £848
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -13.00% -2.44% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £36.22
25th Percentile £53.00 - £39.85
Median hourly rate £56.00 £80.00 £71.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +11.89% +104.29%
75th Percentile £59.00 - £80.14
90th Percentile - - £87.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £71.50
% change year-on-year - - +259.12%

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 11,490 11,757 14,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.83% 32.12% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,573 7,508 10,060
10th Percentile £348 £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 £761 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 305 433
10th Percentile £30.89 £22.00 £31.60
25th Percentile £49.13 £40.06 £47.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 £62.50 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +3.92% -0.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.13 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -87 160 £507 -18.19% 52
London -79 97 £545 -19.26% 31
UK excluding London -26 58 £435 -13.00% 41
Work from Home -46 48 £500 -11.11% 26
Midlands +1 31 £435 -28.92% 4
West Midlands -17 26 £488 -20.26% 3
North of England -42 24 £438 -12.50% 7
Yorkshire -41 13 £488 -2.50% 2
North West -12 9 £415 - 4
East Midlands - 5 £420 - 1
South East -2 3 £604 +51.00% 23
North East -12 3 £400 -9.09% 1
East of England -16 2 £488 -2.50% 5
South West +1 1 - - 1

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 61 (32.45%) Apache Spark
2 38 (20.21%) Apache
3 21 (11.17%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (5.32%) WebLogic
5 9 (4.79%) JBoss
6 7 (3.72%) Apache Pig
7 4 (2.13%) IIS
8 2 (1.06%) Luigi
9 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.53%) nginx
9 1 (0.53%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (37.77%) Azure
2 63 (33.51%) AWS
3 32 (17.02%) GCP
4 30 (15.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (11.17%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.85%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (5.32%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.79%) Snowflake
9 8 (4.26%) dbt
10 7 (3.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (3.72%) Serverless
11 6 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.19%) GitHub
12 5 (2.66%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (1.60%) Amazon MSK
14 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.13%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.15%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (15.43%) Big Data
3 27 (14.36%) Hadoop
4 25 (13.30%) NoSQL
5 21 (11.17%) Power BI
6 19 (10.11%) Data Lake
7 17 (9.04%) Apache Hive
8 16 (8.51%) Delta Lake
8 16 (8.51%) MongoDB
9 15 (7.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (5.85%) Data Mining
11 10 (5.32%) Tableau
12 9 (4.79%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (4.79%) HBase
13 8 (4.26%) Metadata
13 8 (4.26%) Relational Database
14 7 (3.72%) BigQuery
14 7 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (3.19%) SQL Server
16 5 (2.66%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 40 (21.28%) Git
2 19 (10.11%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.45%) Selenium
4 13 (6.91%) Cucumber
5 11 (5.85%) JUnit
6 9 (4.79%) Eclipse
6 9 (4.79%) IntelliJ
7 7 (3.72%) Gradle
8 4 (2.13%) GitLab
8 4 (2.13%) Xcode
9 3 (1.60%) Gatling
9 3 (1.60%) Maven
9 3 (1.60%) MLflow
9 3 (1.60%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.53%) Deequ
10 1 (0.53%) Mockito
10 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.53%) RSpec
10 1 (0.53%) ScalaTest
10 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
General
1 57 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 27 (14.36%) Banking
3 23 (12.23%) Finance
4 19 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.51%) Investment Banking
6 15 (7.98%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.85%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.53%) Back Office
9 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.53%) Front Office
9 1 (0.53%) Games
9 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Legal
9 1 (0.53%) Marketing
9 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
9 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (37.77%) Data Engineer
2 47 (25.00%) Developer
3 29 (15.43%) Scala Developer
4 22 (11.70%) Senior
5 21 (11.17%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (10.64%) Azure Data Engineer
7 17 (9.04%) Scala Engineer
8 13 (6.91%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (5.85%) Data Scientist
10 9 (4.79%) Lead
11 6 (3.19%) Architect
11 6 (3.19%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.19%) Tester
12 5 (2.66%) Hadoop Developer
12 5 (2.66%) Java Developer
13 4 (2.13%) Analyst
13 4 (2.13%) Apache Spark Developer
13 4 (2.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 4 (2.13%) Data Analyst
13 4 (2.13%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (19.15%) PySpark
2 34 (18.09%) Kafka
3 22 (11.70%) Play Framework
4 17 (9.04%) REST
5 15 (7.98%) JSON
5 15 (7.98%) Spring
6 13 (6.91%) HTML
7 11 (5.85%) Akka
7 11 (5.85%) SOAP
8 9 (4.79%) EJB
8 9 (4.79%) Hibernate
8 9 (4.79%) HTML5
8 9 (4.79%) J2EE
8 9 (4.79%) J2SE
8 9 (4.79%) XML
9 8 (4.26%) RESTful
10 5 (2.66%) Spark Streaming
11 4 (2.13%) PyTorch
11 4 (2.13%) Spring Boot
11 4 (2.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.70%) Algorithms
2 10 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.79%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.26%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.13%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (1.60%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.06%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.06%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.53%) Equities
8 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.38%) Unix
2 10 (5.32%) Linux
3 5 (2.66%) Android
3 5 (2.66%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.53%) Debian
4 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (44.15%) Agile
2 73 (38.83%) CI/CD
3 62 (32.98%) Data Pipeline
4 51 (27.13%) Data Engineering
5 49 (26.06%) DevOps
5 49 (26.06%) ETL
6 45 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (21.28%) Data Modelling
8 37 (19.68%) Scrum
9 36 (19.15%) Data Science
10 32 (17.02%) TDD
11 31 (16.49%) Software Engineering
12 30 (15.96%) Analytics
12 30 (15.96%) Data Governance
12 30 (15.96%) Machine Learning
13 24 (12.77%) Microservices
14 23 (12.23%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (10.64%) BDD
16 20 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 102 (54.26%) Python
2 90 (47.87%) SQL
3 75 (39.89%) Java
4 12 (6.38%) Kotlin
5 10 (5.32%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.32%) R
6 8 (4.26%) C++
7 7 (3.72%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.66%) C
8 5 (2.66%) Ruby
9 4 (2.13%) Objective-C
9 4 (2.13%) Swift
10 3 (1.60%) Bash
10 3 (1.60%) C#
10 3 (1.60%) Go
10 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.06%) Groovy
11 2 (1.06%) Korn
11 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.53%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 25 (13.30%) SC Cleared
1 25 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (3.19%) Azure Certification
3 6 (3.19%) Degree
4 5 (2.66%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.06%) MCP
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (19.15%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.72%) QA
3 5 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) GDPR
4 1 (0.53%) MiFID
4 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (19.15%) Docker
2 7 (3.72%) HDFS
3 4 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (13.30%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.51%) Terraform
3 11 (5.85%) Ansible
3 11 (5.85%) Puppet
4 7 (3.72%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.19%) Grafana
6 3 (1.60%) Hadoop YARN
6 3 (1.60%) Kibana
6 3 (1.60%) Oozie
7 1 (0.53%) Graphite
7 1 (0.53%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.53%) logstash
Vendors
1 53 (28.19%) Databricks
2 12 (6.38%) Splunk
3 11 (5.85%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.32%) webMethods
5 7 (3.72%) Informatica
6 6 (3.19%) Google
7 5 (2.66%) Oracle
7 5 (2.66%) Talend
8 4 (2.13%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.60%) Confluent
10 2 (1.06%) Mercator
10 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.53%) Foundry
11 1 (0.53%) IBM
11 1 (0.53%) Palantir
11 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.53%) SnapLogic
11 1 (0.53%) Trillium
11 1 (0.53%) Vertica
11 1 (0.53%) Zoomdata