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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 319 305
Rank change year-on-year -77 -14 -99
Contract jobs citing Scala 194 257 308
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.76% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.69% 2.33% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 140 211
10th Percentile £375 £435 £400
25th Percentile £413 £512 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £612 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £764 £750
90th Percentile £650 £838 £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -14.00% -2.44% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £33.80
25th Percentile £53.00 - £39.85
Median hourly rate £56.00 £80.00 £53.60
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +49.27% +53.13%
75th Percentile £59.00 - £74.75
90th Percentile - - £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 11,512 11,049 13,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.12% 32.55% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,607 7,086 9,417
10th Percentile £350 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 377 252 407
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.33 £35.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.06 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% -

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 24 December 2025.

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 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 24 December 2025. 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 -69 169 £508 -18.15% 194
London -72 111 £545 -19.26% 64
UK excluding London -23 53 £430 -14.00% 153
Work from Home -37 51 £556 +1.14% 89
Midlands -21 30 £435 -28.92% 25
West Midlands -8 25 £488 -20.26% 13
North of England -50 21 £425 -22.73% 32
Yorkshire -37 12 £488 -2.50% 10
North West -24 7 £380 - 21
East Midlands - 5 £420 - 11
South East -9 3 £604 - 50
North East -11 3 £400 -27.27% 1
South West -4 1 - - 17
East of England -15 1 £400 -20.00% 25

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 67 (34.54%) Apache Spark
2 36 (18.56%) Apache
3 18 (9.28%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.64%) JBoss
4 9 (4.64%) WebLogic
5 7 (3.61%) Apache Pig
6 4 (2.06%) IIS
7 2 (1.03%) SAS
8 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.52%) Luigi
8 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (39.69%) Azure
2 55 (28.35%) AWS
3 38 (19.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (14.43%) GCP
5 25 (12.89%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.19%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (5.15%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.12%) Snowflake
10 7 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (3.61%) Serverless
11 6 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.09%) GitHub
12 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (2.06%) Amazon MSK
13 4 (2.06%) dbt
14 3 (1.55%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (1.55%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.06%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.65%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (16.49%) NoSQL
3 27 (13.92%) Big Data
4 26 (13.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (12.89%) Power BI
6 23 (11.86%) Hadoop
7 17 (8.76%) Apache Hive
7 17 (8.76%) Data Lake
8 16 (8.25%) MongoDB
9 15 (7.73%) Delta Lake
9 15 (7.73%) Tableau
10 11 (5.67%) Data Mining
11 9 (4.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (4.64%) HBase
12 8 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (4.12%) Relational Database
13 7 (3.61%) Metadata
14 6 (3.09%) Flink
15 5 (2.58%) BigQuery
15 5 (2.58%) Impala
Development Applications
1 48 (24.74%) Git
2 23 (11.86%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.22%) Selenium
4 10 (5.15%) Cucumber
4 10 (5.15%) JUnit
5 9 (4.64%) Eclipse
5 9 (4.64%) IntelliJ
6 6 (3.09%) Gradle
7 4 (2.06%) GitLab
7 4 (2.06%) MLflow
7 4 (2.06%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.55%) Maven
8 3 (1.55%) Xcode
9 2 (1.03%) Gatling
9 2 (1.03%) Mockito
9 2 (1.03%) ScalaTest
10 1 (0.52%) Deequ
10 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.52%) RSpec
10 1 (0.52%) Storybook
General
1 52 (26.80%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.86%) Finance
3 21 (10.82%) Banking
4 17 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.70%) Investment Banking
7 11 (5.67%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Back Office
8 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Front Office
8 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Games
9 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.52%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Legal
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
9 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (42.27%) Data Engineer
2 46 (23.71%) Developer
3 28 (14.43%) Scala Developer
4 27 (13.92%) Azure Engineer
5 26 (13.40%) Azure Data Engineer
6 24 (12.37%) Senior
7 18 (9.28%) Scala Engineer
8 14 (7.22%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (5.67%) Data Scientist
10 6 (3.09%) Architect
10 6 (3.09%) Java Engineer
11 5 (2.58%) Hadoop Developer
11 5 (2.58%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.58%) Lead
11 5 (2.58%) Tester
12 4 (2.06%) Analyst
12 4 (2.06%) Apache Spark Developer
12 4 (2.06%) Data Analyst
12 4 (2.06%) Engineering Manager
12 4 (2.06%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (24.74%) PySpark
2 33 (17.01%) Kafka
3 24 (12.37%) Play Framework
4 16 (8.25%) REST
5 14 (7.22%) JSON
6 13 (6.70%) Spring
7 12 (6.19%) HTML
8 10 (5.15%) Akka
8 10 (5.15%) SOAP
9 9 (4.64%) EJB
9 9 (4.64%) Hibernate
9 9 (4.64%) HTML5
9 9 (4.64%) J2EE
9 9 (4.64%) J2SE
9 9 (4.64%) XML
10 8 (4.12%) RESTful
11 5 (2.58%) Spark Streaming
12 4 (2.06%) Node.js
12 4 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (2.06%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.79%) Algorithms
2 9 (4.64%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.61%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.58%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.55%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.55%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (1.55%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.03%) Autonomous Agent
6 2 (1.03%) Derivative
6 2 (1.03%) Equities
6 2 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.03%) Music Streaming
7 1 (0.52%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.52%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.19%) Unix
2 9 (4.64%) Linux
3 4 (2.06%) Android
3 4 (2.06%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.52%) Debian
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (44.85%) Agile
2 76 (39.18%) Data Pipeline
3 72 (37.11%) CI/CD
4 60 (30.93%) Data Engineering
5 47 (24.23%) Data Modelling
5 47 (24.23%) DevOps
5 47 (24.23%) ETL
6 44 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (19.07%) Data Governance
8 33 (17.01%) Data Science
9 32 (16.49%) Scrum
10 31 (15.98%) Data Architecture
11 30 (15.46%) Analytics
12 29 (14.95%) Machine Learning
13 28 (14.43%) Data Integration
13 28 (14.43%) TDD
14 25 (12.89%) Integration Patterns
15 24 (12.37%) Microservices
16 23 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
16 23 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 103 (53.09%) Python
2 94 (48.45%) SQL
3 69 (35.57%) Java
4 11 (5.67%) Kotlin
5 9 (4.64%) R
6 8 (4.12%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.09%) C++
8 4 (2.06%) Go
8 4 (2.06%) Ruby
9 3 (1.55%) C
9 3 (1.55%) C#
9 3 (1.55%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.55%) Swift
10 2 (1.03%) Bash
10 2 (1.03%) Groovy
11 1 (0.52%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.52%) Clojure
11 1 (0.52%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (20.10%) SC Cleared
1 39 (20.10%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.67%) Azure Certification
3 7 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.09%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.06%) Degree
6 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.03%) MCP
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (22.16%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.61%) QA
3 4 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.52%) MiFID
4 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (20.62%) Docker
2 7 (3.61%) HDFS
3 4 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (15.98%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.25%) Terraform
3 10 (5.15%) Puppet
4 7 (3.61%) Ansible
4 7 (3.61%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.09%) Grafana
6 3 (1.55%) Hadoop YARN
6 3 (1.55%) Kibana
6 3 (1.55%) Oozie
7 1 (0.52%) Graphite
7 1 (0.52%) logstash
7 1 (0.52%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 65 (33.51%) Databricks
2 12 (6.19%) Splunk
3 11 (5.67%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.64%) webMethods
5 5 (2.58%) Google
6 4 (2.06%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.06%) Confluent
6 4 (2.06%) Informatica
6 4 (2.06%) Mercator
7 3 (1.55%) Talend
8 2 (1.03%) IBM
8 2 (1.03%) Oracle
8 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.52%) PayPal
9 1 (0.52%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.52%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.52%) Vertica
9 1 (0.52%) Zoomdata