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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 313 309
Rank change year-on-year -81 -4 -91
Contract jobs citing Scala 205 218 313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.71% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.74% 2.10% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 128 218
10th Percentile £380 £400 £400
25th Percentile £435 £498 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +0.39% -4.13%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £750
90th Percentile £675 £816 £833
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £33.80
25th Percentile - - £39.85
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £47.35
Median % change year-on-year - +68.97% -24.25%
75th Percentile - - £62.19
90th Percentile - - £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £58.75
% change year-on-year - - -6.00%

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 11,772 10,384 13,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.19% 33.62% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,819 6,579 9,442
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -4.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £716 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 458 234 512
10th Percentile £41.25 £22.00 £36.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.94 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £69.72
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.97% +1.99% -3.85%

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 9 February 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
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 9 February 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 -65 185 £515 -14.17% 95
London -59 125 £545 -12.73% 59
Work from Home -10 65 £555 +0.91% 85
UK excluding London -44 58 £475 -5.00% 64
Midlands -25 28 £482 -0.10% 12
North of England -47 28 £453 -13.71% 6
West Midlands -27 27 £488 +1.24% 6
Yorkshire -53 18 £500 - 1
North West -17 6 £378 -44.07% 5
North East -16 5 £425 -22.73%
Scotland +10 2 £513 +37.40% 4
South East - 2 £605 - 29
South West -17 1 £435 +8.75% 10
East Midlands - 1 £420 - 6

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 69 (33.66%) Apache Spark
2 36 (17.56%) Apache
3 17 (8.29%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.39%) JBoss
4 9 (4.39%) WebLogic
5 7 (3.41%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.95%) IIS
7 2 (0.98%) SAS
8 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.49%) LiveCycle
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.49%) nginx
8 1 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 92 (44.88%) Azure
2 63 (30.73%) AWS
3 42 (20.49%) Azure Data Factory
4 35 (17.07%) GCP
5 25 (12.20%) Power Platform
6 22 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.83%) GitHub
8 12 (5.85%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (5.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (4.39%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.90%) Serverless
11 8 (3.90%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.95%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (1.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.93%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.54%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (17.56%) NoSQL
3 32 (15.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (12.20%) Power BI
5 24 (11.71%) Big Data
6 21 (10.24%) Hadoop
7 20 (9.76%) MongoDB
8 17 (8.29%) Data Lake
9 16 (7.80%) Delta Lake
10 14 (6.83%) Relational Database
11 13 (6.34%) Apache Hive
11 13 (6.34%) Tableau
12 11 (5.37%) Data Mining
12 11 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (2.93%) Flink
14 6 (2.93%) Metadata
15 5 (2.44%) BigQuery
15 5 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (2.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 61 (29.76%) Git
2 30 (14.63%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.85%) Selenium
4 10 (4.88%) JUnit
5 9 (4.39%) Eclipse
5 9 (4.39%) IntelliJ
5 9 (4.39%) Postman
6 8 (3.90%) GitLab
7 6 (2.93%) Gatling
7 6 (2.93%) Gradle
8 5 (2.44%) Mockito
8 5 (2.44%) ScalaTest
9 4 (1.95%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.95%) JIRA
9 4 (1.95%) JMeter
9 4 (1.95%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.95%) NeoLoad
9 4 (1.95%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.46%) Maven
10 3 (1.46%) Xcode
General
1 43 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.61%) Finance
3 17 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.83%) Banking
5 11 (5.37%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.49%) Back Office
9 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Front Office
9 1 (0.49%) Games
9 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.49%) Law
9 1 (0.49%) Legal
9 1 (0.49%) Marketing
9 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 89 (43.41%) Data Engineer
2 37 (18.05%) Developer
3 29 (14.15%) Azure Engineer
4 26 (12.68%) Azure Data Engineer
5 24 (11.71%) Scala Developer
6 23 (11.22%) Senior
7 18 (8.78%) Scala Engineer
8 16 (7.80%) Senior Data Engineer
9 14 (6.83%) Lead
10 11 (5.37%) Data Scientist
11 8 (3.90%) Architect
12 6 (2.93%) Automation Test Lead
13 5 (2.44%) Java Developer
13 5 (2.44%) Java Engineer
13 5 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.44%) Software Engineer
13 5 (2.44%) Tester
14 4 (1.95%) Data Architect
15 3 (1.46%) Python Developer
15 3 (1.46%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (26.83%) PySpark
2 30 (14.63%) Kafka
3 25 (12.20%) Play Framework
4 22 (10.73%) REST
5 16 (7.80%) JSON
6 14 (6.83%) Spring
7 12 (5.85%) Akka
7 12 (5.85%) HTML
8 10 (4.88%) Playwright
9 9 (4.39%) EJB
9 9 (4.39%) Hibernate
9 9 (4.39%) HTML5
9 9 (4.39%) J2EE
9 9 (4.39%) J2SE
9 9 (4.39%) RESTful
9 9 (4.39%) SOAP
9 9 (4.39%) XML
10 5 (2.44%) React
10 5 (2.44%) YAML
11 4 (1.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.83%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.34%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.41%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.46%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.46%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.46%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.46%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (1.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.98%) Music Streaming
7 1 (0.49%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.49%) Equities
7 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.49%) PACS
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.34%) Unix
2 6 (2.93%) Linux
3 4 (1.95%) Android
3 4 (1.95%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.46%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (47.80%) CI/CD
2 93 (45.37%) Agile
3 81 (39.51%) Data Pipeline
4 63 (30.73%) DevOps
5 60 (29.27%) Data Engineering
6 52 (25.37%) Data Modelling
6 52 (25.37%) ETL
7 45 (21.95%) Data Governance
8 44 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (18.05%) Analytics
10 36 (17.56%) Data Science
11 33 (16.10%) Data Architecture
12 32 (15.61%) Machine Learning
13 28 (13.66%) Data Integration
13 28 (13.66%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (13.66%) Visualisation
14 26 (12.68%) Scrum
15 25 (12.20%) Integration Patterns
16 23 (11.22%) Test Automation
17 22 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 120 (58.54%) Python
2 95 (46.34%) SQL
3 71 (34.63%) Java
4 19 (9.27%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.37%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.39%) R
7 7 (3.41%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.93%) C++
9 4 (1.95%) Cypher
9 4 (1.95%) Go
10 3 (1.46%) C
10 3 (1.46%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.46%) Ruby
10 3 (1.46%) Swift
11 1 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.49%) Clojure
11 1 (0.49%) Groovy
11 1 (0.49%) Perl
11 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (22.93%) SC Cleared
1 47 (22.93%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.83%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (5.85%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.41%) Degree
5 6 (2.93%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.98%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (23.90%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.37%) QA
3 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.49%) GDPR
4 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.49%) MiFID
4 1 (0.49%) SLA
4 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (21.95%) Docker
2 4 (1.95%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 4 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.46%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (18.54%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.24%) Terraform
3 9 (4.39%) Puppet
4 6 (2.93%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.44%) Grafana
6 4 (1.95%) Kibana
7 1 (0.49%) Ansible
7 1 (0.49%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.49%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.49%) Oozie
7 1 (0.49%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 69 (33.66%) Databricks
2 12 (5.85%) Splunk
3 9 (4.39%) webMethods
4 8 (3.90%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.44%) Google
6 4 (1.95%) Confluent
6 4 (1.95%) Mercator
6 4 (1.95%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.46%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.46%) Oracle
8 2 (0.98%) IBM
9 1 (0.49%) Adobe
9 1 (0.49%) Foundry
9 1 (0.49%) Informatica
9 1 (0.49%) Palantir
9 1 (0.49%) PayPal
9 1 (0.49%) Sybase
9 1 (0.49%) Typelevel