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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 380 265
Rank change year-on-year -55 -115 +34
Contract jobs citing Scala 252 176 338
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.54% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 1.64% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 107 213
10th Percentile £350 £380 £400
25th Percentile £405 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £583 £656 £688
90th Percentile £669 £755 £829
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +13.81% -11.58% -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.24 £51.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -22.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.38 £68.75
90th Percentile - £57.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - -10.60%

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 14,057 10,715 12,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.15% 32.76% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,142 7,134 8,465
10th Percentile £363 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -5.57% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 296 368
10th Percentile £28.50 £29.00 £29.33
25th Percentile £50.00 £36.64 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.80 £79.38 £75.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.42% -4.23% +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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -75 181 £503 +0.50% 164
Work from Home +25 126 £450 -10.00% 73
London -76 105 £569 -3.19% 128
UK excluding London -80 75 £478 +13.81% 76
North of England -54 38 £481 +23.40% 17
Yorkshire -29 25 £500 +5.26% 4
Midlands -42 22 £490 +15.29% 5
West Midlands -41 20 £490 -3.40% 3
North East -30 10 £425 +6.25% 5
South East -56 9 £431 -7.85% 17
Scotland - 4 £410 - 11
North West -58 3 £375 -1.32% 8
East Midlands -24 2 £304 -27.62% 2
South West -29 2 £543 - 13

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 50 (19.84%) Apache Spark
2 32 (12.70%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (10.71%) Apache
4 3 (1.19%) SAS
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Pig
5 2 (0.79%) Confluence
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 97 (38.49%) AWS
2 59 (23.41%) Azure
3 54 (21.43%) GCP
4 32 (12.70%) GitHub
5 23 (9.13%) Amazon S3
6 20 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (6.35%) Serverless
8 13 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (5.16%) dbt
9 11 (4.37%) Power Platform
10 9 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (2.78%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (1.98%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.30%) Big Data
2 30 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (9.13%) NoSQL
4 21 (8.33%) BigQuery
5 20 (7.94%) MongoDB
6 19 (7.54%) Data Lake
7 16 (6.35%) Flink
8 15 (5.95%) SQL Server
9 12 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (4.76%) Relational Database
10 11 (4.37%) Hadoop
11 10 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (3.97%) Power BI
12 8 (3.17%) Apache Hive
12 8 (3.17%) Presto
13 7 (2.78%) Data Vault
13 7 (2.78%) DynamoDB
13 7 (2.78%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 35 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.14%) Gatling
3 14 (5.56%) Git
4 9 (3.57%) GitLab
5 7 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.38%) Maven
7 5 (1.98%) JIRA
7 5 (1.98%) JMeter
8 4 (1.59%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.59%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.59%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.19%) JUnit
9 3 (1.19%) MLflow
9 3 (1.19%) Selenium
9 3 (1.19%) TestNG
10 1 (0.40%) Appium
10 1 (0.40%) ScalaTest
10 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 39 (15.48%) Finance
4 25 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.57%) Banking
5 9 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.38%) Retail
7 5 (1.98%) Games
8 4 (1.59%) Legal
9 3 (1.19%) Front Office
9 3 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Back Office
10 2 (0.79%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 88 (34.92%) Developer
2 75 (29.76%) Scala Developer
3 67 (26.59%) Data Engineer
4 31 (12.30%) Scala Engineer
5 29 (11.51%) Senior
6 15 (5.95%) Lead
7 11 (4.37%) Analyst
8 10 (3.97%) Architect
8 10 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (3.97%) Software Engineer
9 9 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (3.57%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.17%) Python Engineer
10 8 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (2.78%) Backend Developer
11 7 (2.78%) GCP Data Engineer
11 7 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (2.78%) Software Developer
12 6 (2.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (21.43%) Terraform
2 41 (16.27%) Kafka
3 33 (13.10%) Play Framework
4 20 (7.94%) PySpark
4 20 (7.94%) REST
5 19 (7.54%) Node.js
6 15 (5.95%) RESTful
7 13 (5.16%) Playwright
8 12 (4.76%) Spring
9 11 (4.37%) Apache Beam
10 10 (3.97%) JSON
11 9 (3.57%) Akka
11 9 (3.57%) Apache Avro
12 8 (3.17%) CSS
12 8 (3.17%) HTML
12 8 (3.17%) Spring Boot
13 7 (2.78%) GraphQL
13 7 (2.78%) YAML
14 5 (1.98%) Django
14 5 (1.98%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.92%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.98%) Blog
5 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.59%) Sports Betting
6 3 (1.19%) Derivative
6 3 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.19%) Equities
6 3 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (0.79%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.79%) BYOD
7 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.79%) PACS
7 2 (0.79%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.16%) Linux
2 6 (2.38%) Unix
3 3 (1.19%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.79%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) Debian
5 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (41.27%) CI/CD
2 100 (39.68%) Agile
3 64 (25.40%) DevOps
4 58 (23.02%) Data Pipeline
5 51 (20.24%) ETL
6 46 (18.25%) Data Modelling
6 46 (18.25%) Software Engineering
7 45 (17.86%) Microservices
8 41 (16.27%) Data Engineering
8 41 (16.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (15.48%) Analytics
10 38 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (12.30%) Functional Programming
11 31 (12.30%) Test Automation
12 29 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (11.51%) Scrum
13 28 (11.11%) Data Governance
13 28 (11.11%) TDD
14 27 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (10.32%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 129 (51.19%) Python
2 95 (37.70%) Java
3 72 (28.57%) SQL
4 20 (7.94%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.95%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.56%) Go
7 9 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.78%) C#
9 6 (2.38%) Bash
9 6 (2.38%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.59%) Bicep
10 4 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.59%) R
11 2 (0.79%) Korn
11 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.79%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) SHACL
12 1 (0.40%) Swift
12 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 35 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.37%) Degree
5 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.54%) QA
3 15 (5.95%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.38%) WCAG
5 3 (1.19%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.79%) GDPR
7 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (18.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Apache Flume
2 2 (0.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 50 (19.84%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.94%) Grafana
3 12 (4.76%) Kibana
4 9 (3.57%) HAProxy
5 8 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.38%) Ansible
7 4 (1.59%) Puppet
8 2 (0.79%) Consul
8 2 (0.79%) Control-M
9 1 (0.40%) logstash
Vendors
1 32 (12.70%) Databricks
2 24 (9.52%) Google
3 20 (7.94%) Splunk
4 16 (6.35%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.78%) Informatica
6 6 (2.38%) New Relic
7 4 (1.59%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.59%) Confluent
7 4 (1.59%) KANA
8 3 (1.19%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.79%) Foundry
9 2 (0.79%) Pega
9 2 (0.79%) Talend
10 1 (0.40%) Adobe
10 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.40%) IBM
10 1 (0.40%) Reuters
10 1 (0.40%) Trayport