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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 381 280
Rank change year-on-year -35 -101 +38
Contract jobs citing Scala 276 172 328
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.52% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 1.58% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 104 198
10th Percentile £350 £377 £400
25th Percentile £412 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £504 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -8.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £713
90th Percentile £661 £745 £827
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +3.61% -9.58% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile - £51.43 -
25th Percentile £37.24 £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 14,311 10,910 12,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.08% 32.98% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,300 7,204 8,174
10th Percentile £363 £343 £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 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 295 344
10th Percentile £24.97 £29.00 £26.06
25th Percentile £46.39 £41.25 £44.87
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.75 £78.38
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 26 September 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 September 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 September 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 -59 200 £518 +2.02% 333
Work from Home +45 136 £450 -10.00% 123
London -42 127 £575 +4.55% 252
UK excluding London -77 75 £445 +3.61% 125
North of England -63 35 £443 +10.63% 38
Midlands -37 25 £490 +13.95% 11
West Midlands -34 23 £490 -3.35% 10
Yorkshire -35 20 £494 -1.25% 4
North East -27 13 £425 +6.25% 17
South East -67 8 £400 -11.11% 14
Scotland - 6 £355 - 26
East Midlands -18 2 £304 -27.62% 1
North West -54 2 £375 -0.66% 17
South West -39 1 £505 - 15

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 57 (20.65%) Apache Spark
2 44 (15.94%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (10.87%) Apache
4 2 (0.72%) Apache Pig
4 2 (0.72%) Confluence
4 2 (0.72%) SAS
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
1 107 (38.77%) AWS
2 65 (23.55%) Azure
3 52 (18.84%) GCP
4 32 (11.59%) GitHub
5 23 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 22 (7.97%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (5.43%) dbt
9 15 (5.43%) Serverless
10 14 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (5.07%) Azure Databricks
11 13 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (4.71%) Snowflake
12 10 (3.62%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.26%) Power Platform
14 8 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.90%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.59%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (10.87%) Big Data
3 29 (10.51%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (9.78%) MongoDB
5 22 (7.97%) NoSQL
6 19 (6.88%) BigQuery
7 13 (4.71%) Data Lake
7 13 (4.71%) Flink
8 12 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (4.35%) Hadoop
9 11 (3.99%) SQL Server
10 10 (3.62%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (3.26%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.90%) Delta Lake
12 8 (2.90%) Power BI
12 8 (2.90%) Presto
13 7 (2.54%) Apache Hive
14 6 (2.17%) Data Vault
14 6 (2.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 41 (14.86%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.61%) Git
3 14 (5.07%) Gatling
3 14 (5.07%) GitLab
4 11 (3.99%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.17%) JUnit
5 6 (2.17%) Maven
5 6 (2.17%) ScalaTest
6 5 (1.81%) JMeter
6 5 (1.81%) MLflow
7 4 (1.45%) JIRA
7 4 (1.45%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.45%) NeoLoad
7 4 (1.45%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.45%) Selenium
8 3 (1.09%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.09%) Gradle
8 3 (1.09%) Mockito
8 3 (1.09%) TestNG
General
1 66 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 52 (18.84%) Public Sector
3 45 (16.30%) Finance
4 22 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.35%) Banking
7 4 (1.45%) Games
7 4 (1.45%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.45%) Legal
7 4 (1.45%) Local Government
7 4 (1.45%) Retail
8 3 (1.09%) Front Office
9 2 (0.72%) Advertising
9 2 (0.72%) Publishing
10 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.36%) Automotive
10 1 (0.36%) Back Office
10 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 100 (36.23%) Developer
2 84 (30.43%) Scala Developer
3 74 (26.81%) Data Engineer
4 42 (15.22%) Senior
5 41 (14.86%) Scala Engineer
6 16 (5.80%) Lead
7 14 (5.07%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (4.71%) Databricks Engineer
9 11 (3.99%) Analyst
9 11 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (3.99%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.26%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 9 (3.26%) Software Developer
11 8 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.90%) Senior Scala Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) Architect
12 7 (2.54%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.54%) Senior Scala Developer
13 6 (2.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 6 (2.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.39%) Terraform
2 45 (16.30%) Play Framework
3 42 (15.22%) Kafka
4 34 (12.32%) REST
5 20 (7.25%) RESTful
6 17 (6.16%) PySpark
7 15 (5.43%) Node.js
8 14 (5.07%) Spring
9 11 (3.99%) Akka
9 11 (3.99%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.62%) Apache Beam
10 10 (3.62%) JSON
11 9 (3.26%) GraphQL
11 9 (3.26%) Playwright
12 8 (2.90%) CSS
12 8 (2.90%) HTML
12 8 (2.90%) LangChain
12 8 (2.90%) LangGraph
13 7 (2.54%) Apache Avro
13 7 (2.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.78%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.90%) AI Agents
4 8 (2.90%) Blog
5 7 (2.54%) BYOD
6 5 (1.81%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.09%) Derivative
8 3 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.09%) 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 14 (5.07%) Linux
2 6 (2.17%) Unix
3 4 (1.45%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.72%) Android
4 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.72%) VMS
5 1 (0.36%) Debian
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (43.84%) Agile
2 120 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 68 (24.64%) DevOps
4 60 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
5 56 (20.29%) Microservices
6 51 (18.48%) ETL
7 49 (17.75%) Data Modelling
8 47 (17.03%) Test Automation
9 46 (16.67%) Data Engineering
10 44 (15.94%) Analytics
10 44 (15.94%) Software Engineering
11 41 (14.86%) Continuous Integration
11 41 (14.86%) Functional Programming
12 38 (13.77%) AI
12 38 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 38 (13.77%) Scrum
13 36 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (12.68%) Containerisation
14 35 (12.68%) Observability
14 35 (12.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 125 (45.29%) Python
2 93 (33.70%) Java
3 86 (31.16%) SQL
4 21 (7.61%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.43%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.99%) Go
7 9 (3.26%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.54%) C#
9 6 (2.17%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.81%) Bash
10 5 (1.81%) Bicep
10 5 (1.81%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.81%) R
11 3 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.72%) Korn
12 2 (0.72%) Ruby
12 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.36%) PHP
13 1 (0.36%) SHACL
13 1 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 59 (21.38%) Security Cleared
2 44 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 38 (13.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (6.16%) Degree
5 7 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.09%) 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 (14.49%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.70%) QA
3 16 (5.80%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.81%) 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 58 (21.01%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Apache Flume
2 2 (0.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 55 (19.93%) Kubernetes
2 34 (12.32%) Grafana
3 21 (7.61%) Kibana
4 11 (3.99%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.81%) Ansible
5 5 (1.81%) HAProxy
6 4 (1.45%) Puppet
7 2 (0.72%) Consul
7 2 (0.72%) Control-M
8 1 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 41 (14.86%) Databricks
2 23 (8.33%) Google
3 22 (7.97%) Splunk
4 13 (4.71%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.26%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.17%) Informatica
6 6 (2.17%) New Relic
7 5 (1.81%) Foundry
7 5 (1.81%) Mistral
7 5 (1.81%) Oracle
8 4 (1.45%) 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%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.36%) Denodo
10 1 (0.36%) IBM
10 1 (0.36%) Reuters
10 1 (0.36%) Trayport