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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 330 290
Rank change year-on-year -93 -40 -56
Contract jobs citing Scala 211 197 342
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.68% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 1.99% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 123 249
10th Percentile £380 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £443 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £604 £695 £750
90th Percentile £749 £812 £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +5.82% -5.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £31.58 - £24.14
25th Percentile £33.19 £51.25 £27.75
Median hourly rate £36.75 £52.50 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +24.44% -32.50%
75th Percentile £40.69 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.53 - £62.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £41.50
% change year-on-year - - +102.74%

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 12,774 9,878 12,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 28.53% 33.99% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,501 6,638 9,123
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £718 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £488
% change year-on-year -0.94% -1.64% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 246 482
10th Percentile £41.25 £22.35 £30.63
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.69 £46.20
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.69 £67.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £74.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +1.56% +3.90% -1.44%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -99 177 £545 -0.91% 55
London -59 130 £550 -8.33% 30
Work from Home -10 80 £555 +0.91% 36
UK excluding London -93 47 £500 +5.82% 45
North of England -64 23 £500 -6.98% 16
Midlands -59 17 £475 +7.47% 1
West Midlands -51 16 £458 -3.68% 1
Yorkshire -50 15 £500 -6.98% 5
North East -11 6 £475 -13.64% 1
South East -52 4 £577 +23.03% 13
North West -37 3 £500 +12.36% 10
Scotland - 3 £513 - 7
South West -24 2 £508 +27.09% 4

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 64 (30.33%) Apache Spark
2 28 (13.27%) Apache
3 13 (6.16%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.90%) JBoss
4 4 (1.90%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.42%) SAS
6 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.47%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 97 (45.97%) Azure
2 72 (34.12%) AWS
3 43 (20.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 35 (16.59%) GCP
5 29 (13.74%) GitHub
6 28 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (8.53%) Power Platform
8 15 (7.11%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (6.16%) Serverless
10 12 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (3.79%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (2.37%) Amazon MSK
15 5 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (1.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.84%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.96%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (18.01%) NoSQL
3 37 (17.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (10.90%) Data Lake
5 22 (10.43%) Big Data
6 21 (9.95%) Delta Lake
7 19 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (8.06%) Power BI
9 15 (7.11%) MongoDB
9 15 (7.11%) Relational Database
10 13 (6.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (6.16%) Tableau
11 12 (5.69%) SQL Server
12 10 (4.74%) Hadoop
13 9 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (3.79%) Flink
15 6 (2.84%) BigQuery
15 6 (2.84%) Spark SQL
16 5 (2.37%) Metadata
16 5 (2.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 63 (29.86%) Git
2 33 (15.64%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.74%) GitLab
4 9 (4.27%) Gatling
4 9 (4.27%) Postman
5 6 (2.84%) JIRA
6 5 (2.37%) Maven
6 5 (2.37%) Mockito
6 5 (2.37%) ScalaTest
6 5 (2.37%) Selenium
7 4 (1.90%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.90%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.90%) JMeter
7 4 (1.90%) JUnit
7 4 (1.90%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.90%) MLflow
7 4 (1.90%) NeoLoad
7 4 (1.90%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.42%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.95%) Gradle
General
1 44 (20.85%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.48%) Finance
3 18 (8.53%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.21%) Banking
6 5 (2.37%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.90%) Retail
8 3 (1.42%) Back Office
8 3 (1.42%) Front Office
8 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.47%) Games
9 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.47%) Legal
9 1 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 78 (36.97%) Data Engineer
2 45 (21.33%) Developer
3 35 (16.59%) Scala Developer
4 27 (12.80%) Senior
5 25 (11.85%) Azure Engineer
6 22 (10.43%) Azure Data Engineer
7 17 (8.06%) Scala Engineer
7 17 (8.06%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (7.11%) Lead
9 13 (6.16%) Architect
10 10 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.84%) Automation Test Lead
12 6 (2.84%) Data Architect
13 5 (2.37%) Java Engineer
14 4 (1.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 4 (1.90%) Python Developer
14 4 (1.90%) Python Engineer
15 3 (1.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 3 (1.42%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (30.33%) PySpark
2 31 (14.69%) Kafka
3 24 (11.37%) Play Framework
4 18 (8.53%) REST
5 14 (6.64%) Playwright
6 12 (5.69%) Akka
7 10 (4.74%) JSON
8 9 (4.27%) Node.js
9 8 (3.79%) Spring
10 7 (3.32%) React
10 7 (3.32%) RESTful
11 5 (2.37%) OpenID
11 5 (2.37%) YAML
12 4 (1.90%) EJB
12 4 (1.90%) Hibernate
12 4 (1.90%) HTML
12 4 (1.90%) HTML5
12 4 (1.90%) J2EE
12 4 (1.90%) SailPoint
12 4 (1.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.42%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.42%) Derivative
5 3 (1.42%) Equities
5 3 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.47%) IoT
7 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.47%) SCADA
7 1 (0.47%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.79%) Unix
2 5 (2.37%) Linux
3 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.95%) Android
4 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.47%) Debian
5 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (47.87%) CI/CD
2 89 (42.18%) Agile
3 84 (39.81%) Data Pipeline
4 69 (32.70%) DevOps
5 67 (31.75%) Data Engineering
6 63 (29.86%) Data Modelling
7 53 (25.12%) Data Governance
8 51 (24.17%) ETL
9 39 (18.48%) Analytics
9 39 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (16.59%) Data Architecture
11 32 (15.17%) Data Integration
11 32 (15.17%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (13.27%) Integration Patterns
13 27 (12.80%) Data Science
14 24 (11.37%) AI
14 24 (11.37%) Test Automation
15 23 (10.90%) Software Engineering
16 21 (9.95%) TDD
17 20 (9.48%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 124 (58.77%) Python
2 90 (42.65%) SQL
3 52 (24.64%) Java
4 24 (11.37%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.27%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.32%) Go
7 6 (2.84%) R
8 4 (1.90%) Cypher
9 2 (0.95%) Bash
9 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.47%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.47%) C#
10 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.47%) Groovy
10 1 (0.47%) Perl
10 1 (0.47%) Ruby
10 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.47%) Swift
10 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (28.44%) Security Cleared
2 57 (27.01%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (5.69%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.79%) Degree
6 7 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.47%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (27.96%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.16%) QA
3 7 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.90%) WCAG
5 2 (0.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.95%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.47%) MiFID
6 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (21.33%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (0.95%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 42 (19.91%) Kubernetes
2 38 (18.01%) Terraform
3 7 (3.32%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.84%) Grafana
5 5 (2.37%) Ansible
5 5 (2.37%) Kibana
6 4 (1.90%) HAProxy
6 4 (1.90%) Puppet
7 1 (0.47%) Consul
7 1 (0.47%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.47%) logstash
7 1 (0.47%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 72 (34.12%) Databricks
2 11 (5.21%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.84%) Google
4 5 (2.37%) Confluent
4 5 (2.37%) Oracle
5 4 (1.90%) Cloudera
5 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.90%) webMethods
6 3 (1.42%) Foundry
6 3 (1.42%) Mercator
6 3 (1.42%) Palantir
6 3 (1.42%) Splunk
7 2 (0.95%) Denodo
7 2 (0.95%) IBM
7 2 (0.95%) Informatica
8 1 (0.47%) Adobe
8 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.47%) PayPal
8 1 (0.47%) Sybase
8 1 (0.47%) Typelevel