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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 380 253
Rank change year-on-year -36 -127 +41
Contract jobs citing Scala 252 174 346
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.53% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 1.61% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 110 218
10th Percentile £350 £380 £400
25th Percentile £405 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% -5.91% -6.38%
75th Percentile £588 £686 £700
90th Percentile £669 £825 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £415 £473
% change year-on-year +17.47% -12.17% -17.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.24 £51.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -22.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.38 £68.75
90th Percentile - £57.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +45.96%

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 14,093 10,795 12,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.40% 32.80% 31.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,163 7,218 8,538
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -4.76% -3.59%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 523 277 406
10th Percentile £30.10 £28.22 £27.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.00 £46.05
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.95 £83.58 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% +8.33%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -72 183 £518 -3.27% 160
Work from Home +36 124 £450 -10.00% 70
London -61 109 £569 -3.19% 115
UK excluding London -73 72 £488 +17.47% 60
North of England -52 36 £488 +21.88% 15
Yorkshire -21 25 £500 -13.04% 4
Midlands -38 21 £486 +15.60% 13
West Midlands -38 18 £490 +15.29% 10
South East -68 9 £431 -7.85% 9
North East -37 7 £443 +10.63% 5
North West -54 4 £438 +12.18% 6
Scotland - 4 £410 - 3
East Midlands -26 2 £304 -27.62% 3
South West -46 2 £543 - 10

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 49 (19.44%) Apache Spark
2 30 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (11.11%) Apache
4 3 (1.19%) SAS
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Pig
5 2 (0.79%) Confluence
5 2 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 93 (36.90%) AWS
2 59 (23.41%) Azure
3 52 (20.63%) GCP
4 32 (12.70%) GitHub
5 23 (9.13%) Amazon S3
6 20 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (6.35%) Serverless
9 15 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (4.76%) dbt
11 12 (4.76%) Power Platform
12 11 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (2.78%) Snowflake
15 6 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 5 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.30%) Big Data
1 31 (12.30%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (9.13%) NoSQL
4 20 (7.94%) BigQuery
4 20 (7.94%) Data Lake
5 18 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 18 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 16 (6.35%) Flink
7 12 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 11 (4.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (4.37%) Hadoop
9 10 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (3.97%) Power BI
10 9 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (3.17%) Apache Hive
11 8 (3.17%) Presto
12 7 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.78%) Data Vault
12 7 (2.78%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 36 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.14%) Gatling
2 18 (7.14%) Git
3 10 (3.97%) GitLab
4 7 (2.78%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.38%) Artifactory
5 6 (2.38%) Maven
6 5 (1.98%) JIRA
6 5 (1.98%) JMeter
7 4 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.59%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.59%) NeoLoad
7 4 (1.59%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.19%) JUnit
8 3 (1.19%) Selenium
8 3 (1.19%) TestNG
9 2 (0.79%) MLflow
10 1 (0.40%) git-flow
10 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 38 (15.08%) Finance
4 24 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.37%) Banking
6 6 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.38%) Retail
7 5 (1.98%) Games
8 4 (1.59%) Legal
9 3 (1.19%) Front Office
9 3 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Back Office
10 2 (0.79%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 85 (33.73%) Developer
2 71 (28.17%) Scala Developer
3 66 (26.19%) Data Engineer
4 29 (11.51%) Scala Engineer
5 27 (10.71%) Senior
6 15 (5.95%) Lead
7 12 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.37%) Analyst
8 11 (4.37%) Software Engineer
9 10 (3.97%) Architect
10 9 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.17%) Python Engineer
11 8 (3.17%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.78%) Backend Developer
12 7 (2.78%) GCP Data Engineer
12 7 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
13 6 (2.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 5 (1.98%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.48%) Kafka
2 30 (11.90%) Play Framework
3 23 (9.13%) PySpark
4 20 (7.94%) Node.js
4 20 (7.94%) REST
5 14 (5.56%) Playwright
6 13 (5.16%) RESTful
7 12 (4.76%) Spring
8 11 (4.37%) Apache Beam
9 10 (3.97%) JSON
10 9 (3.57%) Apache Avro
11 8 (3.17%) Akka
11 8 (3.17%) CSS
11 8 (3.17%) HTML
11 8 (3.17%) Spring Boot
12 7 (2.78%) GraphQL
12 7 (2.78%) YAML
13 6 (2.38%) React
14 5 (1.98%) Protocol Buffers
15 4 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.73%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
3 4 (1.59%) Sports Betting
4 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.19%) Derivative
4 3 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (1.19%) Equities
4 3 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (0.79%) Blog
5 2 (0.79%) BYOD
5 2 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.79%) PACS
5 2 (0.79%) Reference Data
5 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.56%) Linux
2 6 (2.38%) Unix
3 4 (1.59%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.79%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) Debian
5 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (40.48%) CI/CD
2 97 (38.49%) Agile
3 64 (25.40%) DevOps
4 62 (24.60%) Data Pipeline
5 51 (20.24%) ETL
6 48 (19.05%) Data Modelling
7 45 (17.86%) Software Engineering
8 44 (17.46%) Microservices
9 43 (17.06%) Data Engineering
10 42 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 40 (15.87%) Analytics
12 37 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (12.30%) Test Automation
14 30 (11.90%) Data Governance
14 30 (11.90%) Functional Programming
15 29 (11.51%) Data Science
16 27 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (10.71%) TDD
17 26 (10.32%) AI
17 26 (10.32%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 133 (52.78%) Python
2 96 (38.10%) Java
3 76 (30.16%) SQL
4 20 (7.94%) JavaScript
5 18 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.56%) Go
7 9 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.78%) C#
9 6 (2.38%) Bash
9 6 (2.38%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.59%) Bicep
10 4 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.59%) R
11 2 (0.79%) Korn
11 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.79%) PHP
11 2 (0.79%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) SHACL
12 1 (0.40%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (21.03%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 36 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.37%) Degree
5 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (16.27%) Data Quality
2 21 (8.33%) QA
3 13 (5.16%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.98%) WCAG
5 3 (1.19%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.79%) GDPR
7 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (18.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Apache Flume
2 2 (0.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 54 (21.43%) Terraform
2 48 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.75%) Grafana
4 12 (4.76%) Kibana
5 9 (3.57%) HAProxy
6 8 (3.17%) Ansible
6 8 (3.17%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.59%) Puppet
8 2 (0.79%) Consul
8 2 (0.79%) Control-M
9 1 (0.40%) logstash
Vendors
1 33 (13.10%) Databricks
2 24 (9.52%) Google
3 17 (6.75%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.75%) Splunk
4 7 (2.78%) Informatica
5 6 (2.38%) New Relic
6 4 (1.59%) Cloudera
6 4 (1.59%) Confluent
6 4 (1.59%) KANA
7 3 (1.19%) Denodo
7 3 (1.19%) Foundry
7 3 (1.19%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.79%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle
8 2 (0.79%) Palantir
8 2 (0.79%) Pega
8 2 (0.79%) Talend
9 1 (0.40%) Adobe
9 1 (0.40%) IBM
9 1 (0.40%) Okta