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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 360 276
Rank change year-on-year -81 -84 -4
Contract jobs citing Scala 217 174 373
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.58% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.58% 1.70% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 114 256
10th Percentile £361 £386 £375
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% -9.36%
75th Percentile £600 £713 £699
90th Percentile £749 £825 £828
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £455 £460
% change year-on-year +10.01% -1.20% -18.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £39.10 - £27.63
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 £36.49
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% - -28.08%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile - - £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +156.47%

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 13,723 10,253 13,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.97% 33.90% 30.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,926 6,935 9,287
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £626 £650
90th Percentile £720 £751 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 242 547
10th Percentile £34.91 £25.81 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -12.10% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.55 £82.66 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% -5.38% +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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -107 167 £540 -1.82% 60
London -56 111 £575 -4.17% 37
Work from Home -7 95 £512 +2.36% 30
UK excluding London -104 56 £500 +10.01% 28
North of England -52 37 £500 +12.36% 10
Yorkshire -30 28 £494 -10.23% 1
Midlands -68 8 £518 +21.76% 1
North East - 7 £484 -
West Midlands -57 6 £518 +15.00%
South East -60 4 £388 -15.58% 5
Scotland - 4 £500 -
South West - 3 £505 - 9
North West -53 2 £550 +37.50% 9
East Midlands -16 1 £304 -25.85% 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 55 (25.35%) Apache Spark
2 25 (11.52%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (10.60%) Apache
4 3 (1.38%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.92%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.46%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 90 (41.47%) AWS
2 77 (35.48%) Azure
3 48 (22.12%) GCP
4 38 (17.51%) GitHub
5 22 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (9.68%) Amazon S3
6 21 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (9.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (8.29%) Serverless
9 14 (6.45%) Power Platform
10 13 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.61%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (3.69%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (2.76%) Snowflake
16 5 (2.30%) dbt
17 4 (1.84%) Amazon MSK
17 4 (1.84%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.84%) HTTP
2 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.75%) Big Data
2 31 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (12.90%) NoSQL
4 23 (10.60%) Data Lake
5 20 (9.22%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (8.76%) SQL Server
7 17 (7.83%) MongoDB
8 15 (6.91%) Relational Database
9 14 (6.45%) Delta Lake
9 14 (6.45%) Hadoop
10 13 (5.99%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (5.53%) Power BI
12 10 (4.61%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (4.61%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (4.15%) BigQuery
13 9 (4.15%) Flink
13 9 (4.15%) Tableau
14 8 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (3.23%) DynamoDB
15 7 (3.23%) Presto
Development Applications
1 40 (18.43%) Jenkins
2 34 (15.67%) Git
3 18 (8.29%) Gatling
4 11 (5.07%) GitLab
5 9 (4.15%) JIRA
5 9 (4.15%) Postman
6 7 (3.23%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.76%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.76%) Maven
8 5 (2.30%) JMeter
9 4 (1.84%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.84%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.84%) NeoLoad
9 4 (1.84%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.38%) JUnit
10 3 (1.38%) Mockito
10 3 (1.38%) ScalaTest
10 3 (1.38%) Selenium
10 3 (1.38%) TestNG
11 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
General
1 46 (21.20%) Finance
2 42 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 28 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.91%) Banking
6 5 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.30%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.30%) Retail
7 4 (1.84%) Front Office
7 4 (1.84%) Games
8 3 (1.38%) Back Office
8 3 (1.38%) Legal
9 2 (0.92%) Local Government
10 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (30.41%) Data Engineer
2 58 (26.73%) Developer
3 47 (21.66%) Scala Developer
4 20 (9.22%) Scala Engineer
5 18 (8.29%) Lead
5 18 (8.29%) Senior
6 14 (6.45%) Architect
6 14 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (4.61%) Software Engineer
8 9 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (3.69%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (3.23%) Data Architect
11 6 (2.76%) Automation Test Lead
11 6 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (2.30%) Analyst
12 5 (2.30%) Azure Data Engineer
12 5 (2.30%) Lead Architect
13 4 (1.84%) Test Engineer
13 4 (1.84%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.21%) PySpark
2 28 (12.90%) Kafka
3 23 (10.60%) Playwright
4 20 (9.22%) Play Framework
5 15 (6.91%) Node.js
6 13 (5.99%) RESTful
7 12 (5.53%) Spring
8 11 (5.07%) REST
9 9 (4.15%) Apache Avro
10 8 (3.69%) CSS
10 8 (3.69%) HTML
10 8 (3.69%) JSON
10 8 (3.69%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.23%) Akka
12 6 (2.76%) React
13 5 (2.30%) Apache Beam
13 5 (2.30%) GraphQL
13 5 (2.30%) OpenID
13 5 (2.30%) Protocol Buffers
14 4 (1.84%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.37%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.84%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.84%) Derivative
4 4 (1.84%) Equities
4 4 (1.84%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.38%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.38%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (0.92%) BYOD
6 2 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.92%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.92%) PACS
6 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.46%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.07%) Linux
2 8 (3.69%) Unix
3 5 (2.30%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.92%) Android
4 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) Debian
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 80 (36.87%) Agile
3 64 (29.49%) DevOps
4 61 (28.11%) Data Pipeline
5 53 (24.42%) ETL
6 52 (23.96%) Data Modelling
7 45 (20.74%) Analytics
8 42 (19.35%) Data Engineering
9 37 (17.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (17.05%) Test Automation
10 36 (16.59%) Data Governance
11 31 (14.29%) Data Science
12 29 (13.36%) Software Engineering
13 28 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (12.44%) AI
15 26 (11.98%) Platform Engineering
16 25 (11.52%) Containerisation
17 21 (9.68%) Data Ingestion
17 21 (9.68%) Validation
18 19 (8.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 126 (58.06%) Python
2 80 (36.87%) SQL
3 79 (36.41%) Java
4 25 (11.52%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.22%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.23%) Go
7 5 (2.30%) Bash
8 4 (1.84%) Cypher
8 4 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.38%) R
10 2 (0.92%) C#
10 2 (0.92%) PHP
10 2 (0.92%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.46%) Perl
11 1 (0.46%) Ruby
11 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.46%) Swift
11 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 38 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.15%) Degree
5 7 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.84%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.92%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (18.89%) Data Quality
2 20 (9.22%) QA
3 11 (5.07%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.30%) WCAG
5 3 (1.38%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.92%) GDPR
6 2 (0.92%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 40 (18.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.84%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (1.38%) HDFS
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 50 (23.04%) Terraform
2 40 (18.43%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.91%) Grafana
4 11 (5.07%) Kibana
5 9 (4.15%) HAProxy
6 8 (3.69%) Ansible
7 7 (3.23%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.92%) Puppet
9 1 (0.46%) Consul
9 1 (0.46%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.46%) logstash
Vendors
1 37 (17.05%) Databricks
2 17 (7.83%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.53%) Google
4 10 (4.61%) Splunk
5 4 (1.84%) Confluent
5 4 (1.84%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.38%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.38%) Denodo
6 3 (1.38%) Foundry
6 3 (1.38%) Informatica
6 3 (1.38%) Oracle
6 3 (1.38%) Palantir
7 2 (0.92%) Adobe
7 2 (0.92%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.92%) Pega
8 1 (0.46%) New Relic
8 1 (0.46%) Okta
8 1 (0.46%) Trayport
8 1 (0.46%) Typelevel