Scala Contract Job Trends

Scala
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Scala skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 272 305
Rank change year-on-year -120 +33 -106
Contract jobs citing Scala 176 329 390
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.85% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.63% 2.67% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 198 261
10th Percentile £380 £400 £463
25th Percentile £425 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £750
90th Percentile £744 £810 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £429 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.63% -0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 13
10th Percentile - - £23.17
25th Percentile £51.25 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £80.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +2.56% +37.90%
75th Percentile £56.38 - £90.00
90th Percentile £57.95 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £73.00

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 10,811 12,334 15,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.81% 32.02% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,155 8,334 11,188
10th Percentile £344 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £777
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 344 453
10th Percentile £29.00 £27.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £46.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +12.50%
75th Percentile £67.75 £70.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.38 £82.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scala 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -79 147 £500 -15.79% 51
London -82 86 £575 -11.54% 38
UK excluding London -19 56 £429 -9.68% 19
Work from Home -45 39 £500 -4.76% 25
North of England -13 31 £400 -19.60% 6
Midlands -5 18 £430 -29.74% 2
North West -3 16 £380 -7.88% 2
Yorkshire -19 14 £500 - 3
West Midlands -3 13 £498 -18.71% 2
South East +19 5 £450 +12.50% 9
East Midlands +2 5 £420 +16.67%
East of England +6 2 £488 -2.50%
South West +25 1 - - 1
North East -8 1 £400 -19.60% 1

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 48 (27.27%) Apache Spark
2 33 (18.75%) Apache
3 17 (9.66%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.98%) Apache Pig
5 6 (3.41%) WebLogic
6 5 (2.84%) JBoss
6 5 (2.84%) Jupyter
7 4 (2.27%) IIS
8 3 (1.70%) Luigi
8 3 (1.70%) nginx
9 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.57%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (35.23%) Azure
2 59 (33.52%) AWS
3 39 (22.16%) GCP
4 24 (13.64%) Power Platform
5 16 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 10 (5.68%) dbt
7 10 (5.68%) GitHub
7 10 (5.68%) Serverless
8 9 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (3.98%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (3.98%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (3.41%) Collibra
11 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (3.41%) Snowflake
12 5 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.27%) SSH
2 2 (1.14%) HTTP
3 1 (0.57%) Broadband
3 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.77%) Big Data
2 25 (14.20%) Hadoop
3 24 (13.64%) Apache Hive
3 24 (13.64%) Power BI
4 23 (13.07%) Data Lake
5 21 (11.93%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (11.93%) Delta Lake
6 19 (10.80%) NoSQL
7 14 (7.95%) SQL Server
8 12 (6.82%) BigQuery
9 11 (6.25%) Data Mining
9 11 (6.25%) Metadata
9 11 (6.25%) MongoDB
10 9 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (4.55%) Relational Database
12 7 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (3.41%) OLTP
13 6 (3.41%) RDBMS
13 6 (3.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (23.30%) Git
2 19 (10.80%) Cucumber
3 18 (10.23%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.39%) JIRA
5 10 (5.68%) Selenium
6 9 (5.11%) JUnit
7 7 (3.98%) Gradle
7 7 (3.98%) Xcode
8 5 (2.84%) Eclipse
8 5 (2.84%) IntelliJ
9 4 (2.27%) RStudio
10 3 (1.70%) WebDriver
11 2 (1.14%) Gatling
11 2 (1.14%) GitLab
11 2 (1.14%) MLflow
11 2 (1.14%) Mockito
12 1 (0.57%) JBehave
12 1 (0.57%) RSpec
12 1 (0.57%) ScalaTest
12 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
General
1 55 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 47 (26.70%) Banking
3 33 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (17.05%) Finance
5 23 (13.07%) Investment Banking
6 11 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.27%) Front Office
8 4 (2.27%) Legal
8 4 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.70%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.14%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Back Office
11 1 (0.57%) Games
11 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 50 (28.41%) Developer
3 30 (17.05%) Scala Developer
4 22 (12.50%) Senior
5 14 (7.95%) Architect
5 14 (7.95%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (7.39%) Azure Data Engineer
6 13 (7.39%) Lead
7 11 (6.25%) Data Scientist
7 11 (6.25%) Scala Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
8 8 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (3.41%) GCP Architect
9 6 (3.41%) iOS Developer
9 6 (3.41%) Java Developer
9 6 (3.41%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (3.41%) Python Engineer
10 5 (2.84%) Data Architect
10 5 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.84%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.05%) Kafka
2 26 (14.77%) PySpark
3 16 (9.09%) REST
4 15 (8.52%) JSON
5 13 (7.39%) HTML
5 13 (7.39%) Play Framework
5 13 (7.39%) Spring
6 10 (5.68%) SOAP
7 8 (4.55%) CSS
8 7 (3.98%) React
9 6 (3.41%) Apache Avro
9 6 (3.41%) Hibernate
9 6 (3.41%) pydantic
9 6 (3.41%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.41%) YAML
10 5 (2.84%) EJB
10 5 (2.84%) HTML5
10 5 (2.84%) J2SE
10 5 (2.84%) PyTorch
10 5 (2.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.32%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.95%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.11%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.11%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (4.55%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.98%) Mobile Banking
7 6 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.84%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.70%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.14%) Derivative
10 2 (1.14%) Equities
10 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.14%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.14%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.95%) Linux
2 8 (4.55%) Unix
3 7 (3.98%) Android
3 7 (3.98%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.57%) Debian
4 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (42.61%) Agile
2 57 (32.39%) CI/CD
3 51 (28.98%) DevOps
4 49 (27.84%) Data Engineering
5 48 (27.27%) ETL
6 46 (26.14%) Data Pipeline
7 43 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (23.30%) Scrum
9 37 (21.02%) Data Modelling
10 35 (19.89%) Data Science
10 35 (19.89%) Software Engineering
11 34 (19.32%) Machine Learning
12 33 (18.75%) TDD
13 27 (15.34%) Analytics
14 25 (14.20%) BDD
15 24 (13.64%) Data Governance
16 23 (13.07%) Artificial Intelligence
17 22 (12.50%) OO
18 21 (11.93%) Mentoring
19 20 (11.36%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 106 (60.23%) Python
2 81 (46.02%) SQL
3 79 (44.89%) Java
4 13 (7.39%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.25%) Kotlin
6 10 (5.68%) Bash
7 9 (5.11%) C++
8 8 (4.55%) C
8 8 (4.55%) Ruby
9 7 (3.98%) Objective-C
9 7 (3.98%) Swift
9 7 (3.98%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.41%) C#
11 5 (2.84%) Go
11 5 (2.84%) R
11 5 (2.84%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.27%) Rust
13 3 (1.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (1.14%) ANSI SQL
14 2 (1.14%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 13 (7.39%) Degree
1 13 (7.39%) SC Cleared
1 13 (7.39%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.27%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.57%) MCP
6 1 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.77%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.55%) QA
3 7 (3.98%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.41%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (13.64%) Docker
2 5 (2.84%) HDFS
3 4 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.66%) Ansible
3 13 (7.39%) Terraform
4 7 (3.98%) Puppet
5 3 (1.70%) Grafana
5 3 (1.70%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (1.70%) Oozie
5 3 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.14%) Control-M
6 2 (1.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.57%) Graphite
7 1 (0.57%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.57%) logstash
Vendors
1 46 (26.14%) Databricks
2 13 (7.39%) Informatica
2 13 (7.39%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.68%) Splunk
4 7 (3.98%) Google
5 6 (3.41%) webMethods
6 5 (2.84%) Oracle
6 5 (2.84%) Talend
7 3 (1.70%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.14%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.57%) Confluent
9 1 (0.57%) Foundry
9 1 (0.57%) Mercator
9 1 (0.57%) Palantir
9 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.57%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.57%) Sybase
9 1 (0.57%) Trillium
9 1 (0.57%) Vertica