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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 317 290
Rank change year-on-year -103 -27 -64
Contract jobs citing Scala 202 218 335
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.73% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.61% 2.12% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 133 239
10th Percentile £380 £400 £383
25th Percentile £440 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% -0.86% -1.28%
75th Percentile £600 £713 £775
90th Percentile £750 £813 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +2.49% -3.60% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £24.74
25th Percentile - - £30.77
Median hourly rate - - £47.35
75th Percentile - - £62.19
90th Percentile - - £66.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +160.03%

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 12,528 10,270 12,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.56% 34.16% 29.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,358 6,708 9,165
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.41%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £719 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.36% - -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 245 510
10th Percentile £41.32 £21.25 £30.63
25th Percentile £53.75 £35.00 £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 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +1.97% +2.81% -4.62%

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 8 March 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 13 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 8 March 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 -83 178 £525 -8.70% 126
London -59 131 £545 -12.66% 61
Work from Home -24 73 £575 +4.55% 120
UK excluding London -73 47 £494 +2.49% 104
Midlands -53 25 £458 -3.68% 11
West Midlands -38 24 £440 -8.71% 7
North of England -59 18 £500 -9.09% 17
Yorkshire -59 12 £507 -5.67% 6
North East -9 5 £425 -22.73% 3
South East -42 3 £604 +28.78% 35
Scotland +8 2 £513 +37.40% 6
South West -15 2 £508 +27.09% 15
North West -33 2 £475 -11.63% 8

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 67 (33.17%) Apache Spark
2 32 (15.84%) Apache
3 14 (6.93%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.46%) JBoss
4 9 (4.46%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.49%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.49%) SAS
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.50%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 94 (46.53%) Azure
2 66 (32.67%) AWS
3 43 (21.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 33 (16.34%) GCP
5 28 (13.86%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (10.89%) GitHub
7 18 (8.91%) Power Platform
8 14 (6.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (5.94%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (4.95%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.46%) Serverless
11 9 (4.46%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.98%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (1.98%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.97%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.80%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (18.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 36 (17.82%) NoSQL
4 23 (11.39%) Big Data
5 21 (10.40%) MongoDB
6 20 (9.90%) Data Lake
6 20 (9.90%) Delta Lake
7 17 (8.42%) Power BI
8 16 (7.92%) Hadoop
9 13 (6.44%) Relational Database
9 13 (6.44%) Tableau
10 12 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (3.47%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.97%) Apache Hive
13 6 (2.97%) Spark SQL
14 5 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (2.48%) Flink
14 5 (2.48%) MySQL
14 5 (2.48%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 66 (32.67%) Git
2 29 (14.36%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.45%) Selenium
4 10 (4.95%) GitLab
5 9 (4.46%) Eclipse
5 9 (4.46%) IntelliJ
5 9 (4.46%) JUnit
5 9 (4.46%) Postman
6 5 (2.48%) Gatling
6 5 (2.48%) Mockito
6 5 (2.48%) ScalaTest
7 4 (1.98%) JIRA
7 4 (1.98%) JMeter
7 4 (1.98%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.98%) NeoLoad
7 4 (1.98%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.49%) Gradle
8 3 (1.49%) Maven
8 3 (1.49%) MLflow
9 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
General
1 42 (20.79%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.80%) Finance
3 15 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.93%) Banking
5 13 (6.44%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.48%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.99%) Back Office
9 2 (0.99%) Front Office
10 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.50%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (39.11%) Data Engineer
2 41 (20.30%) Developer
3 28 (13.86%) Scala Developer
4 27 (13.37%) Azure Engineer
5 25 (12.38%) Senior
6 24 (11.88%) Azure Data Engineer
7 19 (9.41%) Scala Engineer
8 18 (8.91%) Senior Data Engineer
9 15 (7.43%) Lead
10 9 (4.46%) Architect
11 8 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.47%) Software Engineer
13 6 (2.97%) Automation Test Lead
14 5 (2.48%) Data Architect
14 5 (2.48%) Java Developer
14 5 (2.48%) Java Engineer
15 3 (1.49%) Lead Architect
15 3 (1.49%) Python Developer
15 3 (1.49%) Senior Data Architect
15 3 (1.49%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (30.20%) PySpark
2 28 (13.86%) Play Framework
3 26 (12.87%) Kafka
4 21 (10.40%) REST
5 15 (7.43%) JSON
6 14 (6.93%) Spring
7 12 (5.94%) Akka
8 10 (4.95%) Playwright
9 9 (4.46%) EJB
9 9 (4.46%) Hibernate
9 9 (4.46%) HTML
9 9 (4.46%) HTML5
9 9 (4.46%) J2EE
9 9 (4.46%) J2SE
9 9 (4.46%) SOAP
9 9 (4.46%) XML
10 8 (3.96%) RESTful
11 7 (3.47%) React
12 5 (2.48%) Node.js
12 5 (2.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.94%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.96%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.48%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.98%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.99%) Derivative
6 2 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.99%) Equities
6 2 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.99%) Music Streaming
7 1 (0.50%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.50%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.93%) Unix
2 7 (3.47%) Linux
3 4 (1.98%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.50%) Android
4 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (49.50%) CI/CD
2 93 (46.04%) Agile
3 82 (40.59%) Data Pipeline
4 66 (32.67%) DevOps
5 64 (31.68%) Data Engineering
6 60 (29.70%) Data Modelling
7 52 (25.74%) ETL
8 51 (25.25%) Data Governance
9 44 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (19.31%) Analytics
11 33 (16.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 32 (15.84%) Data Architecture
13 31 (15.35%) Data Integration
13 31 (15.35%) Data Science
14 26 (12.87%) Integration Patterns
15 23 (11.39%) Scrum
16 22 (10.89%) Microservices
16 22 (10.89%) Software Engineering
16 22 (10.89%) Test Automation
17 21 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 114 (56.44%) Python
2 97 (48.02%) SQL
3 55 (27.23%) Java
4 21 (10.40%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.46%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.47%) R
7 4 (1.98%) Cypher
7 4 (1.98%) Go
7 4 (1.98%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.99%) C++
9 1 (0.50%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.50%) Bash
9 1 (0.50%) Clojure
9 1 (0.50%) Groovy
9 1 (0.50%) Perl
9 1 (0.50%) PHP
9 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.50%) Rust
9 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 49 (24.26%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (5.45%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.47%) Degree
6 6 (2.97%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (28.71%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.94%) QA
3 5 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.99%) WCAG
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.50%) MiFID
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (22.28%) Docker
2 4 (1.98%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 4 (1.98%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (18.81%) Kubernetes
2 28 (13.86%) Terraform
3 9 (4.46%) Puppet
4 5 (2.48%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.98%) Grafana
5 4 (1.98%) Kibana
6 3 (1.49%) Ansible
7 1 (0.50%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.50%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 73 (36.14%) Databricks
2 9 (4.46%) webMethods
3 7 (3.47%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.48%) Google
4 5 (2.48%) Oracle
5 4 (1.98%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.98%) Splunk
6 3 (1.49%) Confluent
6 3 (1.49%) Foundry
6 3 (1.49%) Mercator
6 3 (1.49%) Palantir
7 2 (0.99%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.99%) Denodo
7 2 (0.99%) IBM
7 2 (0.99%) Informatica
8 1 (0.50%) Adobe
8 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.50%) PayPal
8 1 (0.50%) Sybase