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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 376 259
Rank change year-on-year -62 -117 +14
Contract jobs citing Scala 231 183 382
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.57% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.63% 1.70% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 117 254
10th Percentile £350 £392 £375
25th Percentile £429 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% +4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £600 £713 £688
90th Percentile £725 £825 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £464 £465
% change year-on-year +7.87% -0.32% -18.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile £40.18 - £27.63
25th Percentile £57.44 £51.25 £36.49
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% - -28.08%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.38 £61.25
90th Percentile - £57.95 £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 14,214 10,796 13,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.01% 33.36% 30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,243 7,282 9,344
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 263 528
10th Percentile £34.01 £27.59 £31.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -90 173 £548 -0.36% 90
London -60 115 £581 -3.10% 57
Work from Home +5 104 £474 -5.25% 48
UK excluding London -108 58 £500 +7.87% 48
North of England -66 37 £500 -1.48% 18
Yorkshire -31 27 £500 -16.67% 3
Midlands -59 9 £518 +21.76% 4
West Midlands -65 6 £518 +15.00% 4
North East - 6 £484 - 4
Scotland - 5 £463 - 1
North West -50 4 £438 +9.38% 11
South East -61 4 £388 -15.58% 14
South West - 3 £505 - 8
East Midlands -20 2 £304 -25.85%

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 57 (24.68%) Apache Spark
2 27 (11.69%) Apache
2 27 (11.69%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (1.30%) SAS
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Pig
4 2 (0.87%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) LiveCycle
5 1 (0.43%) Luigi
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 97 (41.99%) AWS
2 78 (33.77%) Azure
3 53 (22.94%) GCP
4 38 (16.45%) GitHub
5 23 (9.96%) Amazon S3
5 23 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (7.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (7.79%) Serverless
9 14 (6.06%) Power Platform
10 13 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (3.46%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (3.46%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.60%) dbt
15 4 (1.73%) Cloud Functions
15 4 (1.73%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) HTTP
2 1 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.72%) Big Data
2 31 (13.42%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (11.69%) NoSQL
4 23 (9.96%) Data Lake
4 23 (9.96%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 17 (7.36%) MongoDB
7 15 (6.49%) Hadoop
7 15 (6.49%) Relational Database
8 13 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (5.63%) Delta Lake
9 12 (5.19%) BigQuery
9 12 (5.19%) Power BI
10 11 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (4.76%) Flink
11 10 (4.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (3.90%) Tableau
13 8 (3.46%) Apache Hive
13 8 (3.46%) Presto
14 7 (3.03%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 40 (17.32%) Jenkins
2 32 (13.85%) Git
3 18 (7.79%) Gatling
4 12 (5.19%) GitLab
5 9 (3.90%) JIRA
6 7 (3.03%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.03%) Postman
7 6 (2.60%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.60%) Maven
8 5 (2.16%) JMeter
9 4 (1.73%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.73%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.73%) NeoLoad
9 4 (1.73%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.30%) JUnit
10 3 (1.30%) Selenium
10 3 (1.30%) TestNG
11 1 (0.43%) Appium
11 1 (0.43%) Mockito
11 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (21.21%) Finance
2 45 (19.48%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.26%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.49%) Banking
6 6 (2.60%) Retail
7 5 (2.16%) Games
7 5 (2.16%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.16%) Legal
8 4 (1.73%) Front Office
8 4 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.30%) Back Office
10 2 (0.87%) Local Government
11 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 69 (29.87%) Developer
2 66 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 54 (23.38%) Scala Developer
4 25 (10.82%) Senior
5 21 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
6 15 (6.49%) Lead
6 15 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (6.06%) Architect
8 10 (4.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (4.33%) Software Engineer
9 7 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.03%) Backend Developer
10 6 (2.60%) Analyst
10 6 (2.60%) Data Architect
10 6 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (2.60%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.16%) Lead Architect
12 4 (1.73%) Automation Test Lead
12 4 (1.73%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.58%) Kafka
2 33 (14.29%) PySpark
3 21 (9.09%) Playwright
4 18 (7.79%) Play Framework
5 16 (6.93%) Node.js
5 16 (6.93%) REST
6 14 (6.06%) Spring
7 11 (4.76%) RESTful
8 9 (3.90%) Apache Avro
8 9 (3.90%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.46%) CSS
9 8 (3.46%) HTML
10 7 (3.03%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.03%) JSON
10 7 (3.03%) React
11 6 (2.60%) Akka
11 6 (2.60%) Apache Beam
12 5 (2.16%) OpenID
12 5 (2.16%) Protocol Buffers
13 4 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.93%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.73%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.73%) Derivative
4 4 (1.73%) Equities
4 4 (1.73%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.73%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.30%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (0.87%) BYOD
6 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.87%) PACS
6 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.43%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.43%) Life Science
7 1 (0.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.63%) Linux
2 8 (3.46%) Unix
3 4 (1.73%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.87%) Android
4 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.87%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Debian
5 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 81 (35.06%) Agile
3 69 (29.87%) DevOps
4 67 (29.00%) Data Pipeline
5 57 (24.68%) ETL
6 53 (22.94%) Data Modelling
7 45 (19.48%) Analytics
8 42 (18.18%) Data Engineering
9 41 (17.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (16.45%) Test Automation
11 36 (15.58%) Data Governance
11 36 (15.58%) Software Engineering
12 33 (14.29%) Data Science
13 29 (12.55%) Containerisation
13 29 (12.55%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (11.26%) AI
16 25 (10.82%) Microservices
17 24 (10.39%) Data Ingestion
18 22 (9.52%) Functional Programming
Programming Languages
1 136 (58.87%) Python
2 89 (38.53%) Java
3 84 (36.36%) SQL
4 26 (11.26%) TypeScript
5 20 (8.66%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.06%) Go
7 6 (2.60%) Bash
8 4 (1.73%) Cypher
8 4 (1.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.30%) C#
9 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.30%) R
10 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.87%) PHP
10 2 (0.87%) Ruby
10 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.43%) Korn
11 1 (0.43%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 46 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 33 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (4.76%) Degree
5 6 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.43%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (19.91%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.66%) QA
3 11 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.16%) WCAG
5 3 (1.30%) GDPR
5 3 (1.30%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.87%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 43 (18.61%) Docker
2 4 (1.73%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 4 (1.73%) HDFS
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 54 (23.38%) Terraform
2 45 (19.48%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.49%) Grafana
4 10 (4.33%) Kibana
5 9 (3.90%) Ansible
5 9 (3.90%) HAProxy
6 8 (3.46%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.87%) Consul
7 2 (0.87%) Puppet
8 1 (0.43%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.43%) logstash
Vendors
1 35 (15.15%) Databricks
2 17 (7.36%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.49%) Google
4 10 (4.33%) Splunk
5 6 (2.60%) Informatica
6 4 (1.73%) Confluent
6 4 (1.73%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.30%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.30%) Denodo
7 3 (1.30%) Foundry
7 3 (1.30%) Oracle
7 3 (1.30%) Palantir
8 2 (0.87%) Adobe
8 2 (0.87%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.87%) Pega
9 1 (0.43%) New Relic
9 1 (0.43%) Okta
9 1 (0.43%) Trayport
9 1 (0.43%) Typelevel