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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 336 289
Rank change year-on-year -68 -47 -56
Contract jobs citing Scala 207 199 330
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.68% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.64% 1.99% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 124 237
10th Percentile £378 £400 £381
25th Percentile £448 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £608 £713 £750
90th Percentile £749 £830 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.14
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £42.19
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - £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 12,591 10,012 12,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.10% 34.15% 29.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,359 6,642 9,151
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £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 £715 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £480
% change year-on-year -2.06% +1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 244 490
10th Percentile £41.69 £21.48 £30.63
25th Percentile £54.55 £31.64 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £67.29
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £73.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +3.17% +2.27% -5.23%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -88 180 £540 -6.09% 59
London -41 135 £545 -12.10% 31
Work from Home -21 74 £575 +4.55% 36
UK excluding London -76 45 £500 +5.26% 46
Midlands -52 19 £458 -0.33% 1
North of England -59 19 £525 -4.55% 19
West Midlands -41 18 £440 -7.37% 1
Yorkshire -58 11 £540 -1.82% 8
North East -10 6 £475 -13.64% 2
South East -47 4 £577 +23.03% 12
Scotland +11 3 £513 +31.41% 8
North West -34 3 £500 -6.98% 9
South West -22 2 £508 +27.09% 5

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 (33.82%) Apache Spark
2 29 (14.01%) Apache
3 15 (7.25%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.93%) JBoss
4 4 (1.93%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.45%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.45%) SAS
6 1 (0.48%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.48%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 99 (47.83%) Azure
2 69 (33.33%) AWS
3 45 (21.74%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (17.87%) GCP
5 28 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (12.08%) GitHub
7 17 (8.21%) Power Platform
8 15 (7.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (6.28%) Amazon S3
10 12 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (5.31%) Serverless
12 10 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (4.83%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (4.35%) Snowflake
14 7 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Purview
16 5 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
17 4 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
17 4 (1.93%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (20.29%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (18.84%) NoSQL
3 37 (17.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (13.04%) Big Data
5 24 (11.59%) Data Lake
6 21 (10.14%) Delta Lake
7 16 (7.73%) MongoDB
7 16 (7.73%) Power BI
8 15 (7.25%) Hadoop
9 14 (6.76%) Relational Database
9 14 (6.76%) Tableau
10 13 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (3.86%) SQL Server
12 6 (2.90%) Flink
12 6 (2.90%) Spark SQL
13 5 (2.42%) Metadata
13 5 (2.42%) MySQL
13 5 (2.42%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 63 (30.43%) Git
2 31 (14.98%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.83%) GitLab
4 9 (4.35%) Postman
5 5 (2.42%) Gatling
5 5 (2.42%) Mockito
5 5 (2.42%) ScalaTest
5 5 (2.42%) Selenium
6 4 (1.93%) Eclipse
6 4 (1.93%) IntelliJ
6 4 (1.93%) JIRA
6 4 (1.93%) JMeter
6 4 (1.93%) JUnit
6 4 (1.93%) LoadRunner
6 4 (1.93%) MLflow
6 4 (1.93%) NeoLoad
6 4 (1.93%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.45%) Gradle
7 3 (1.45%) Maven
8 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
General
1 41 (19.81%) Finance
2 40 (19.32%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.73%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.76%) Banking
5 6 (2.90%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.45%) Back Office
7 3 (1.45%) Front Office
7 3 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.97%) Retail
9 1 (0.48%) Games
9 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.48%) Law
9 1 (0.48%) Legal
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 82 (39.61%) Data Engineer
2 41 (19.81%) Developer
3 29 (14.01%) Scala Developer
4 28 (13.53%) Senior
5 27 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
6 24 (11.59%) Azure Data Engineer
7 18 (8.70%) Scala Engineer
7 18 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (7.25%) Lead
9 12 (5.80%) Architect
10 8 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.86%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Automation Test Lead
11 6 (2.90%) Data Architect
12 4 (1.93%) Java Developer
12 4 (1.93%) Java Engineer
12 4 (1.93%) Python Developer
13 3 (1.45%) Apache Spark Developer
13 3 (1.45%) Test Automation Architect
13 3 (1.45%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (31.40%) PySpark
2 31 (14.98%) Kafka
3 24 (11.59%) Play Framework
4 18 (8.70%) REST
5 13 (6.28%) Akka
6 10 (4.83%) JSON
6 10 (4.83%) Playwright
6 10 (4.83%) Spring
7 8 (3.86%) Node.js
7 8 (3.86%) RESTful
8 7 (3.38%) React
9 5 (2.42%) OpenID
9 5 (2.42%) YAML
10 4 (1.93%) EJB
10 4 (1.93%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.93%) HTML
10 4 (1.93%) HTML5
10 4 (1.93%) J2EE
10 4 (1.93%) SOAP
10 4 (1.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.76%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.86%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.42%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.93%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.45%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.45%) Derivative
5 3 (1.45%) Equities
5 3 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.97%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.97%) Music Streaming
6 2 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.48%) IoT
7 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.35%) Unix
2 7 (3.38%) Linux
3 4 (1.93%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.97%) Android
4 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (49.28%) CI/CD
2 91 (43.96%) Agile
3 86 (41.55%) Data Pipeline
4 68 (32.85%) Data Engineering
5 65 (31.40%) DevOps
6 63 (30.43%) Data Modelling
7 55 (26.57%) ETL
8 54 (26.09%) Data Governance
9 41 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (19.32%) Analytics
11 34 (16.43%) Data Architecture
12 32 (15.46%) Data Integration
13 30 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
14 29 (14.01%) Data Science
15 28 (13.53%) Integration Patterns
16 24 (11.59%) AI
17 23 (11.11%) Software Engineering
17 23 (11.11%) Test Automation
18 22 (10.63%) TDD
19 20 (9.66%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 122 (58.94%) Python
2 96 (46.38%) SQL
3 51 (24.64%) Java
4 22 (10.63%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.38%) Go
6 7 (3.38%) R
7 5 (2.42%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.93%) Cypher
9 2 (0.97%) Bash
9 2 (0.97%) C++
9 2 (0.97%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.48%) C#
10 1 (0.48%) Clojure
10 1 (0.48%) Groovy
10 1 (0.48%) Perl
10 1 (0.48%) PHP
10 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 51 (24.64%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (5.31%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.86%) Degree
6 7 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.90%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.48%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (29.47%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.80%) QA
3 5 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.97%) GDPR
4 2 (0.97%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.97%) WCAG
5 1 (0.48%) MiFID
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (20.77%) Docker
2 4 (1.93%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 4 (1.93%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (18.84%) Kubernetes
2 30 (14.49%) Terraform
3 6 (2.90%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.42%) Grafana
5 4 (1.93%) Kibana
5 4 (1.93%) Puppet
6 3 (1.45%) Ansible
7 1 (0.48%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.48%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 75 (36.23%) Databricks
2 7 (3.38%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.90%) Google
4 5 (2.42%) Oracle
5 4 (1.93%) Confluent
5 4 (1.93%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.93%) webMethods
6 3 (1.45%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.45%) Foundry
6 3 (1.45%) Mercator
6 3 (1.45%) Palantir
6 3 (1.45%) Splunk
7 2 (0.97%) Denodo
7 2 (0.97%) IBM
7 2 (0.97%) Informatica
8 1 (0.48%) Adobe
8 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.48%) PayPal
8 1 (0.48%) Sybase
8 1 (0.48%) Typelevel