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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 312 314
Rank change year-on-year -79 +2 -94
Contract jobs citing Scala 205 221 316
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.71% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 2.12% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 131 220
10th Percentile £386 £400 £400
25th Percentile £448 £495 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% +0.83% -4.13%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £750
90th Percentile £694 £813 £832
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 12,070 10,429 13,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.31% 33.67% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,002 6,651 9,272
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 £719 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 469 234 502
10th Percentile £41.25 £21.48 £35.53
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.00 £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 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £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 12 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 12 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 -75 185 £524 -12.67% 45
London -56 129 £545 -12.73% 26
Work from Home -15 64 £569 +3.41% 35
UK excluding London -39 54 £475 -5.00% 29
Midlands -30 28 £482 -0.10% 7
West Midlands -28 27 £488 +1.24% 6
North of England -60 24 £475 -11.63% 7
Yorkshire -54 18 £500 - 1
North East -16 5 £425 -22.73%
Scotland +9 2 £513 +37.40% 4
North West -23 2 £395 -41.48% 6
South East - 2 £605 - 9
South West -19 1 £435 +8.75% 2
East Midlands - 1 £420 - 1

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 70 (34.15%) Apache Spark
2 38 (18.54%) Apache
3 16 (7.80%) 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 94 (45.85%) Azure
2 64 (31.22%) AWS
3 42 (20.49%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (17.56%) GCP
5 25 (12.20%) Power Platform
6 24 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.80%) GitHub
8 12 (5.85%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (5.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (4.39%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.90%) Serverless
11 8 (3.90%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.93%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.95%) Amazon Kinesis
15 4 (1.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.93%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (19.02%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (18.05%) NoSQL
3 32 (15.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (12.20%) Big Data
4 25 (12.20%) Power BI
5 23 (11.22%) Hadoop
6 20 (9.76%) MongoDB
7 17 (8.29%) Data Lake
7 17 (8.29%) Delta Lake
8 14 (6.83%) Apache Hive
8 14 (6.83%) Relational Database
9 13 (6.34%) Tableau
10 11 (5.37%) Data Mining
10 11 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.93%) Flink
12 6 (2.93%) Spark SQL
13 5 (2.44%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (2.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 59 (28.78%) Git
2 28 (13.66%) 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
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%) Gradle
10 3 (1.46%) Maven
10 3 (1.46%) MLflow
General
1 44 (21.46%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.07%) Finance
3 17 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.85%) Banking
5 11 (5.37%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.93%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.98%) Back Office
9 2 (0.98%) Front Office
10 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Games
10 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.49%) Law
10 1 (0.49%) Legal
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 90 (43.90%) Data Engineer
2 36 (17.56%) Developer
3 28 (13.66%) Azure Engineer
4 25 (12.20%) Azure Data Engineer
4 25 (12.20%) Scala Developer
4 25 (12.20%) Senior
5 18 (8.78%) Scala Engineer
6 17 (8.29%) Senior Data Engineer
7 14 (6.83%) Lead
8 11 (5.37%) Data Scientist
9 9 (4.39%) Architect
10 6 (2.93%) Automation Test Lead
11 5 (2.44%) Data Architect
11 5 (2.44%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.44%) Java Engineer
11 5 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (2.44%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.44%) Tester
12 3 (1.46%) Test Architect
12 3 (1.46%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (26.83%) PySpark
2 29 (14.15%) 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
8 10 (4.88%) Playwright
9 9 (4.39%) EJB
9 9 (4.39%) Hibernate
9 9 (4.39%) HTML
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 12 (5.85%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.95%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.46%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.98%) Derivative
7 2 (0.98%) Equities
7 2 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.98%) Music Streaming
8 1 (0.49%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.49%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.83%) Unix
2 6 (2.93%) Linux
3 3 (1.46%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.49%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (48.29%) CI/CD
2 91 (44.39%) Agile
3 82 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 64 (31.22%) DevOps
5 61 (29.76%) Data Engineering
6 54 (26.34%) Data Modelling
7 53 (25.85%) ETL
8 46 (22.44%) Data Governance
9 44 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (18.54%) Analytics
11 36 (17.56%) Data Science
12 32 (15.61%) Data Architecture
13 31 (15.12%) Machine Learning
14 28 (13.66%) Data Integration
14 28 (13.66%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (13.17%) Visualisation
16 25 (12.20%) Integration Patterns
17 23 (11.22%) Scrum
17 23 (11.22%) Test Automation
18 22 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 118 (57.56%) Python
2 97 (47.32%) SQL
3 68 (33.17%) Java
4 19 (9.27%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.39%) R
6 8 (3.90%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.95%) Cypher
7 4 (1.95%) Go
7 4 (1.95%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.46%) C++
9 1 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.49%) Clojure
9 1 (0.49%) Groovy
9 1 (0.49%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.49%) Perl
9 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.49%) Rust
9 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
9 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 11 (5.37%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.90%) Degree
5 7 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.93%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.49%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (24.39%) 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 5 (2.44%) HDFS
3 4 (1.95%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 4 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (18.54%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.73%) 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 7 (3.41%) 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