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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 357 284
Rank change year-on-year -75 -73 -20
Contract jobs citing Scala 220 169 348
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.58% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.67% 1.71% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 115 240
10th Percentile £375 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% +3.29% -7.39%
75th Percentile £588 £725 £700
90th Percentile £749 £825 £826
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £453
% change year-on-year +11.11% -0.66% -19.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £39.10 - £27.63
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 £36.49
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% - -25.00%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile - - £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +156.47%

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 13,188 9,880 12,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.85% 34.15% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,621 6,689 9,138
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £757 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +1.39% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 229 521
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.00 £31.25
25th Percentile £54.55 £34.48 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -0.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -78 174 £528 -4.09% 106
London -49 118 £550 -8.33% 59
Work from Home +12 94 £512 -2.51% 47
UK excluding London -98 55 £500 +11.11% 62
North of England -64 37 £500 +12.36% 28
Yorkshire -35 27 £488 -9.30% 4
North East -21 8 £484 -12.05% 7
Midlands -56 8 £518 +21.76% 3
West Midlands -54 6 £518 +15.00% 2
South East -67 4 £388 -15.58% 5
South West - 3 £505 - 13
Scotland - 3 £513 - 4
North West -45 2 £550 +37.50% 17
East Midlands -31 1 £304 -25.85% 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 58 (26.36%) Apache Spark
2 24 (10.91%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (10.00%) Apache
4 3 (1.36%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.36%) SAS
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) LiveCycle
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 90 (40.91%) AWS
2 85 (38.64%) Azure
3 43 (19.55%) GCP
4 38 (17.27%) GitHub
5 25 (11.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 24 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 22 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (9.09%) Serverless
10 16 (7.27%) Power Platform
11 15 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (3.64%) Amazon EMR
16 6 (2.73%) Snowflake
17 5 (2.27%) Amazon MSK
17 5 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
18 4 (1.82%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.82%) HTTP
2 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.55%) Big Data
1 32 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 23 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 18 (8.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (8.18%) MongoDB
5 18 (8.18%) SQL Server
6 14 (6.36%) Power BI
6 14 (6.36%) Relational Database
7 13 (5.91%) Delta Lake
7 13 (5.91%) Hadoop
8 12 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (5.45%) Tableau
9 11 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (4.55%) Flink
11 8 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (3.18%) DynamoDB
12 7 (3.18%) Parquet
12 7 (3.18%) Presto
Development Applications
1 41 (18.64%) Jenkins
2 38 (17.27%) Git
3 18 (8.18%) Gatling
4 11 (5.00%) GitLab
5 9 (4.09%) Postman
6 8 (3.64%) JIRA
7 7 (3.18%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.73%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.73%) Maven
9 5 (2.27%) JMeter
9 5 (2.27%) Mockito
10 4 (1.82%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.82%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.82%) NeoLoad
10 4 (1.82%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.82%) ScalaTest
11 3 (1.36%) JUnit
11 3 (1.36%) Selenium
11 3 (1.36%) TestNG
12 2 (0.91%) MLflow
General
1 43 (19.55%) Finance
1 43 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.27%) Banking
5 7 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.73%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.27%) Front Office
8 4 (1.82%) Back Office
8 4 (1.82%) Retail
9 3 (1.36%) Games
9 3 (1.36%) Legal
10 2 (0.91%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (34.09%) Data Engineer
2 56 (25.45%) Developer
3 45 (20.45%) Scala Developer
4 22 (10.00%) Scala Engineer
5 18 (8.18%) Lead
5 18 (8.18%) Senior
6 15 (6.82%) Architect
7 14 (6.36%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.91%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.55%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.09%) Azure Data Engineer
10 9 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (3.64%) Data Architect
12 6 (2.73%) Automation Test Lead
12 6 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 5 (2.27%) Lead Architect
14 4 (1.82%) AWS Engineer
14 4 (1.82%) Test Engineer
14 4 (1.82%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (19.09%) PySpark
2 26 (11.82%) Kafka
3 23 (10.45%) Play Framework
3 23 (10.45%) Playwright
4 14 (6.36%) Node.js
5 13 (5.91%) RESTful
6 10 (4.55%) Apache Avro
6 10 (4.55%) REST
6 10 (4.55%) Spring
7 9 (4.09%) Akka
8 8 (3.64%) CSS
8 8 (3.64%) HTML
8 8 (3.64%) React
9 7 (3.18%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.27%) Apache Beam
10 5 (2.27%) JSON
10 5 (2.27%) OpenID
10 5 (2.27%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (1.82%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.82%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.18%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.27%) Derivative
4 5 (2.27%) Equities
5 4 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (1.36%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.36%) PACS
6 3 (1.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.91%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.91%) BYOD
7 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.91%) Sports Betting
7 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.00%) Linux
2 8 (3.64%) Unix
3 7 (3.18%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.91%) Android
4 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.45%) Debian
5 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (43.64%) CI/CD
2 82 (37.27%) Agile
3 68 (30.91%) Data Pipeline
4 66 (30.00%) DevOps
5 54 (24.55%) Data Modelling
6 53 (24.09%) ETL
7 46 (20.91%) Data Engineering
8 43 (19.55%) Analytics
9 39 (17.73%) Data Governance
9 39 (17.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (16.36%) Test Automation
11 29 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (12.73%) Data Science
12 28 (12.73%) Software Engineering
13 26 (11.82%) Platform Engineering
14 25 (11.36%) AI
14 25 (11.36%) Containerisation
15 23 (10.45%) Data Architecture
16 21 (9.55%) Observability
17 20 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 127 (57.73%) Python
2 81 (36.82%) SQL
3 73 (33.18%) Java
4 25 (11.36%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.18%) Go
7 4 (1.82%) Bash
7 4 (1.82%) Cypher
7 4 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.36%) R
9 2 (0.91%) C#
9 2 (0.91%) PHP
9 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.45%) Korn
10 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.45%) Perl
10 1 (0.45%) Ruby
10 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.45%) Swift
10 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (27.73%) Security Cleared
2 50 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.64%) Degree
5 6 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.91%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (20.91%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.64%) QA
3 11 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.27%) WCAG
5 4 (1.82%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.91%) GDPR
6 2 (0.91%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 41 (18.64%) Docker
2 4 (1.82%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (1.36%) HDFS
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 53 (24.09%) Terraform
2 41 (18.64%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.27%) Grafana
4 13 (5.91%) Kibana
5 9 (4.09%) HAProxy
6 8 (3.64%) Ansible
6 8 (3.64%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.91%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) Consul
8 1 (0.45%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.45%) logstash
8 1 (0.45%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 46 (20.91%) Databricks
2 18 (8.18%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.55%) Splunk
4 9 (4.09%) Google
5 5 (2.27%) Confluent
6 4 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.36%) Denodo
7 3 (1.36%) Foundry
7 3 (1.36%) Oracle
7 3 (1.36%) Palantir
8 2 (0.91%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.91%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.91%) IBM
8 2 (0.91%) Informatica
8 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.45%) Adobe
9 1 (0.45%) New Relic
9 1 (0.45%) Okta
9 1 (0.45%) Pega
9 1 (0.45%) Sybase