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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 383 267
Rank change year-on-year -42 -116 +27
Contract jobs citing Scala 276 176 330
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.53% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.94% 1.62% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 105 199
10th Percentile £350 £380 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £688
90th Percentile £663 £744 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £429 £475
% change year-on-year +7.81% -9.68% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.24 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -34.38% +2.56%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.38 -
90th Percentile - £57.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 - -

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 14,259 10,836 12,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 25.99% 32.89% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,267 7,163 8,335
10th Percentile £363 £344 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 294 347
10th Percentile £26.51 £29.00 £27.00
25th Percentile £46.38 £41.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.63 £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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -71 201 £505 +1.00% 408
Work from Home +31 139 £450 -10.00% 144
London -39 127 £575 - 275
UK excluding London -93 75 £463 +7.81% 180
North of England -64 39 £463 +15.63% 49
Yorkshire -28 24 £494 -1.25% 15
Midlands -44 23 £490 +13.95% 15
West Midlands -41 21 £490 -1.51% 11
North East -38 13 £425 +6.25% 14
South East -57 7 £431 -4.17% 34
Scotland - 5 £300 - 25
East Midlands -17 2 £304 -27.62% 4
North West -69 2 £375 -1.32% 20
South West -35 1 £505 - 20

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 56 (20.29%) Apache Spark
2 44 (15.94%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (10.51%) Apache
4 2 (0.72%) Apache Pig
4 2 (0.72%) Confluence
4 2 (0.72%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Luigi
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 110 (39.86%) AWS
2 67 (24.28%) Azure
3 54 (19.57%) GCP
4 34 (12.32%) GitHub
5 24 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (7.97%) Amazon S3
7 19 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (5.80%) dbt
8 16 (5.80%) Serverless
9 15 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (5.07%) Azure Databricks
11 13 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (3.99%) Snowflake
13 10 (3.62%) Power Platform
14 8 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.90%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (2.90%) Anthropic Claude
15 7 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (11.23%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (10.87%) Big Data
4 27 (9.78%) MongoDB
5 23 (8.33%) NoSQL
6 21 (7.61%) BigQuery
7 15 (5.43%) Flink
8 13 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (4.71%) SQL Server
9 12 (4.35%) Hadoop
10 11 (3.99%) Data Lake
10 11 (3.99%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.62%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (3.26%) Power BI
13 8 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (2.90%) Apache Hive
13 8 (2.90%) Presto
14 7 (2.54%) Delta Lake
14 7 (2.54%) Parquet
15 6 (2.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 43 (15.58%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.88%) Git
3 18 (6.52%) Gatling
4 12 (4.35%) GitLab
5 11 (3.99%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.26%) Maven
7 6 (2.17%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.17%) JUnit
8 5 (1.81%) JIRA
8 5 (1.81%) JMeter
8 5 (1.81%) MLflow
9 4 (1.45%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.45%) NeoLoad
9 4 (1.45%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.45%) ScalaTest
10 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.09%) Gradle
10 3 (1.09%) Mockito
10 3 (1.09%) Selenium
10 3 (1.09%) TestNG
General
1 70 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.48%) Public Sector
3 42 (15.22%) Finance
4 24 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.62%) Banking
7 5 (1.81%) Retail
8 4 (1.45%) Games
8 4 (1.45%) Legal
8 4 (1.45%) Local Government
9 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.72%) Advertising
10 2 (0.72%) Front Office
10 2 (0.72%) Publishing
11 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 100 (36.23%) Developer
2 85 (30.80%) Scala Developer
3 72 (26.09%) Data Engineer
4 40 (14.49%) Senior
5 39 (14.13%) Scala Engineer
6 16 (5.80%) Lead
7 13 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (3.99%) Analyst
8 11 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (3.99%) Databricks Engineer
9 10 (3.62%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.26%) Software Developer
11 8 (2.90%) Architect
11 8 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (2.90%) Senior Scala Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) GCP Data Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (19.57%) Terraform
2 44 (15.94%) Play Framework
3 43 (15.58%) Kafka
4 33 (11.96%) REST
5 18 (6.52%) RESTful
6 17 (6.16%) PySpark
7 16 (5.80%) Node.js
8 14 (5.07%) Spring
9 13 (4.71%) Playwright
10 11 (3.99%) Apache Beam
10 11 (3.99%) Spring Boot
11 10 (3.62%) Akka
11 10 (3.62%) JSON
12 9 (3.26%) Apache Avro
12 9 (3.26%) GraphQL
13 8 (2.90%) CSS
13 8 (2.90%) HTML
13 8 (2.90%) LangChain
13 8 (2.90%) LangGraph
14 7 (2.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.78%) Cloud Native
1 27 (9.78%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.90%) AI Agents
3 8 (2.90%) Blog
4 5 (1.81%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.81%) BYOD
5 4 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.09%) Sports Betting
7 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.72%) Derivative
7 2 (0.72%) Equities
7 2 (0.72%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.72%) PACS
7 2 (0.72%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.72%) Replication
7 2 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.07%) Linux
2 6 (2.17%) Unix
3 4 (1.45%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.72%) Android
4 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.72%) VMS
5 1 (0.36%) Debian
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (43.48%) Agile
1 120 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 68 (24.64%) DevOps
3 58 (21.01%) Data Pipeline
4 54 (19.57%) Microservices
5 51 (18.48%) ETL
6 49 (17.75%) Data Modelling
7 46 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 45 (16.30%) Data Engineering
8 45 (16.30%) Test Automation
9 43 (15.58%) Analytics
10 40 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
10 40 (14.49%) Functional Programming
11 38 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 37 (13.41%) Containerisation
12 37 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (13.41%) Scrum
13 34 (12.32%) AI
13 34 (12.32%) Observability
13 34 (12.32%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 128 (46.38%) Python
2 97 (35.14%) Java
3 85 (30.80%) SQL
4 21 (7.61%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.43%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.99%) Go
7 7 (2.54%) C#
7 7 (2.54%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.17%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.81%) R
10 4 (1.45%) Bash
10 4 (1.45%) Bicep
10 4 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.45%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.72%) Korn
11 2 (0.72%) Ruby
12 1 (0.36%) PHP
12 1 (0.36%) SHACL
12 1 (0.36%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (22.10%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 39 (14.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (6.16%) Degree
5 7 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.77%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.33%) QA
3 17 (6.16%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.17%) WCAG
5 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (22.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Apache Flume
2 2 (0.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 60 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 34 (12.32%) Grafana
3 21 (7.61%) Kibana
4 11 (3.99%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.26%) HAProxy
6 6 (2.17%) Ansible
7 4 (1.45%) Puppet
8 2 (0.72%) Consul
8 2 (0.72%) Control-M
9 1 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 37 (13.41%) Databricks
2 23 (8.33%) Google
3 22 (7.97%) Splunk
4 17 (6.16%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.26%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.17%) Informatica
6 6 (2.17%) New Relic
7 5 (1.81%) Foundry
7 5 (1.81%) Mistral
7 5 (1.81%) Oracle
8 4 (1.45%) KANA
9 3 (1.09%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.09%) Confluent
10 2 (0.72%) Pega
10 2 (0.72%) Talend
11 1 (0.36%) Adobe
11 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.36%) IBM
11 1 (0.36%) Reuters
11 1 (0.36%) Trayport