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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 388 283
Rank change year-on-year -48 -105 +36
Contract jobs citing Scala 278 170 321
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.51% 0.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.94% 1.56% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 102 189
10th Percentile £350 £376 £398
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -8.45% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £725
90th Percentile £663 £738 £832
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £429 £495
% change year-on-year +6.06% -13.33% -7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile £37.24 £51.43 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £51.69 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -32.19% +2.56%
75th Percentile £73.00 £57.69 -
90th Percentile - £58.48 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 - -

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 14,313 10,910 12,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.09% 32.92% 32.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,293 7,179 8,104
10th Percentile £363 £344 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% -3.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £648
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £492
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.36% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 298 331
10th Percentile £24.10 £29.00 £26.25
25th Percentile £46.66 £41.25 £46.09
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -68 203 £518 +2.02% 367
Work from Home +26 136 £478 -4.40% 222
London -29 129 £575 +2.45% 246
UK excluding London -96 77 £455 +6.06% 210
North of England -65 36 £445 +11.25% 47
Midlands -42 26 £490 +13.95% 22
West Midlands -30 24 £490 -1.51% 15
Yorkshire -31 20 £494 -1.25% 6
North East -33 13 £425 +6.25% 22
South East -58 8 £400 -11.11% 23
Scotland - 6 £355 - 46
North West -59 3 £375 -0.66% 21
East Midlands -20 2 £304 -27.62% 7
South West -37 1 £505 - 22

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 58 (20.86%) Apache Spark
2 46 (16.55%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (11.51%) Apache
4 2 (0.72%) Apache Pig
4 2 (0.72%) Confluence
4 2 (0.72%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Luigi
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 110 (39.57%) AWS
2 66 (23.74%) Azure
3 52 (18.71%) GCP
4 33 (11.87%) GitHub
5 23 (8.27%) Amazon S3
5 23 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (5.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (5.40%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (5.40%) dbt
8 15 (5.40%) Snowflake
9 14 (5.04%) Azure Databricks
9 14 (5.04%) Serverless
10 13 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (3.96%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.24%) Power Platform
13 8 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (2.88%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.51%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (10.43%) Big Data
3 28 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (9.71%) MongoDB
5 22 (7.91%) NoSQL
6 19 (6.83%) BigQuery
7 14 (5.04%) Data Lake
8 13 (4.68%) Flink
9 12 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (4.32%) Hadoop
10 11 (3.96%) SQL Server
11 10 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (3.24%) Relational Database
13 8 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (2.88%) Delta Lake
13 8 (2.88%) Power BI
13 8 (2.88%) Presto
14 7 (2.52%) Apache Hive
15 6 (2.16%) Data Vault
15 6 (2.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 44 (15.83%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.55%) Git
3 14 (5.04%) Gatling
3 14 (5.04%) GitLab
4 11 (3.96%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.16%) JUnit
5 6 (2.16%) Maven
5 6 (2.16%) ScalaTest
6 5 (1.80%) JMeter
6 5 (1.80%) MLflow
7 4 (1.44%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.44%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.44%) NeoLoad
7 4 (1.44%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.44%) Selenium
8 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.08%) Gradle
8 3 (1.08%) JIRA
8 3 (1.08%) Mockito
8 3 (1.08%) TestNG
General
1 64 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.06%) Public Sector
3 46 (16.55%) Finance
4 22 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.32%) Banking
7 5 (1.80%) Local Government
8 4 (1.44%) Games
8 4 (1.44%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.44%) Legal
9 3 (1.08%) Advertising
9 3 (1.08%) Front Office
9 3 (1.08%) Retail
10 2 (0.72%) Publishing
11 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 100 (35.97%) Developer
2 84 (30.22%) Scala Developer
3 76 (27.34%) Data Engineer
4 44 (15.83%) Scala Engineer
5 43 (15.47%) Senior
6 15 (5.40%) Lead
6 15 (5.40%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (4.68%) Databricks Engineer
8 11 (3.96%) Analyst
8 11 (3.96%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (3.96%) Senior Developer
9 9 (3.24%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 9 (3.24%) Senior Scala Engineer
9 9 (3.24%) Software Developer
10 8 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.52%) Architect
11 7 (2.52%) Java Developer
11 7 (2.52%) Senior Scala Developer
12 6 (2.16%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (2.16%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.27%) Play Framework
2 46 (16.55%) Terraform
3 42 (15.11%) Kafka
4 36 (12.95%) REST
5 20 (7.19%) RESTful
6 18 (6.47%) PySpark
7 14 (5.04%) Node.js
7 14 (5.04%) Spring
8 11 (3.96%) Akka
8 11 (3.96%) Spring Boot
9 10 (3.60%) Apache Beam
9 10 (3.60%) JSON
10 9 (3.24%) GraphQL
10 9 (3.24%) LangChain
10 9 (3.24%) Playwright
11 8 (2.88%) CSS
11 8 (2.88%) HTML
11 8 (2.88%) LangGraph
12 7 (2.52%) Apache Avro
12 7 (2.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.79%) Product Ownership
2 29 (10.43%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.24%) BYOD
5 8 (2.88%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.88%) Blog
6 5 (1.80%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.08%) Derivative
8 3 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.08%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.72%) Equities
9 2 (0.72%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.72%) PACS
9 2 (0.72%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.72%) Replication
9 2 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.68%) Linux
2 6 (2.16%) Unix
3 4 (1.44%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.72%) Android
4 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (44.96%) Agile
2 122 (43.88%) CI/CD
3 68 (24.46%) DevOps
4 60 (21.58%) Data Pipeline
5 57 (20.50%) Microservices
6 52 (18.71%) ETL
7 49 (17.63%) Data Modelling
7 49 (17.63%) Test Automation
8 47 (16.91%) Data Engineering
9 45 (16.19%) Analytics
10 44 (15.83%) Continuous Integration
11 42 (15.11%) Software Engineering
12 41 (14.75%) Functional Programming
13 40 (14.39%) AI
14 38 (13.67%) Containerisation
14 38 (13.67%) Infrastructure as Code
14 38 (13.67%) Scrum
15 35 (12.59%) TDD
16 34 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
17 33 (11.87%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 124 (44.60%) Python
2 94 (33.81%) Java
3 91 (32.73%) SQL
4 21 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.04%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.60%) Go
7 9 (3.24%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.52%) C#
9 6 (2.16%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.80%) Bash
10 5 (1.80%) Bicep
10 5 (1.80%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.80%) R
11 3 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.72%) Korn
12 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.36%) PHP
13 1 (0.36%) Ruby
13 1 (0.36%) SHACL
13 1 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 60 (21.58%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.19%) SC Cleared
3 37 (13.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (6.12%) Degree
5 7 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (14.39%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.63%) QA
3 15 (5.40%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.44%) WCAG
5 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (22.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Apache Flume
2 2 (0.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 55 (19.78%) Kubernetes
2 36 (12.95%) Grafana
3 23 (8.27%) Kibana
4 10 (3.60%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.80%) HAProxy
6 4 (1.44%) Ansible
6 4 (1.44%) Puppet
7 2 (0.72%) Control-M
8 1 (0.36%) Consul
Vendors
1 41 (14.75%) Databricks
2 23 (8.27%) Google
3 22 (7.91%) Splunk
4 13 (4.68%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.24%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.16%) Informatica
6 6 (2.16%) New Relic
7 5 (1.80%) Foundry
7 5 (1.80%) Mistral
7 5 (1.80%) Oracle
8 4 (1.44%) KANA
9 2 (0.72%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.72%) Confluent
9 2 (0.72%) Pega
9 2 (0.72%) Talend
10 1 (0.36%) Adobe
10 1 (0.36%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.36%) Okta
10 1 (0.36%) Trayport