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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 312 312
Rank change year-on-year -82 0 -85
Contract jobs citing Scala 199 217 311
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.72% 0.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 2.12% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 132 219
10th Percentile £382 £400 £392
25th Percentile £440 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £600 £731 £750
90th Percentile £749 £824 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -0.31% -2.10% -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 - - £60.50
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 12,519 10,212 12,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.71% 33.99% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,352 6,639 9,132
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £604 £638 £650
90th Percentile £721 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £488 £496
% change year-on-year -2.00% -1.76% -1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 237 506
10th Percentile £41.25 £21.25 £30.94
25th Percentile £53.88 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £68.94
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +1.97% +2.81% -4.62%

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 4 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 4 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 -85 177 £525 -10.64% 116
London -59 132 £545 -12.66% 61
Work from Home -13 69 £569 +3.41% 101
UK excluding London -77 45 £488 -0.31% 86
Midlands -47 24 £475 - 10
West Midlands -38 23 £458 -5.08% 6
North of England -59 19 £500 -9.09% 15
Yorkshire -59 13 £507 -5.67% 4
North East -13 5 £425 -22.73% 2
Scotland +7 2 £513 +37.40% 2
North West -38 2 £475 -11.63% 9
South East - 2 £605 - 28
South West -27 1 £435 +8.75% 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 67 (33.67%) Apache Spark
2 32 (16.08%) Apache
3 14 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.52%) JBoss
4 9 (4.52%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.51%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.01%) Apache Pig
6 2 (1.01%) SAS
7 1 (0.50%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.50%) LiveCycle
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 95 (47.74%) Azure
2 63 (31.66%) AWS
3 44 (22.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 33 (16.58%) GCP
5 27 (13.57%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (10.05%) GitHub
7 19 (9.55%) Power Platform
8 13 (6.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (6.03%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (4.52%) Snowflake
12 8 (4.02%) Serverless
13 7 (3.52%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (2.01%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (2.01%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.10%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (18.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 35 (17.59%) NoSQL
4 22 (11.06%) Big Data
5 21 (10.55%) MongoDB
6 19 (9.55%) Delta Lake
7 18 (9.05%) Data Lake
7 18 (9.05%) Power BI
8 17 (8.54%) Hadoop
9 13 (6.53%) Relational Database
9 13 (6.53%) Tableau
10 11 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (4.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (3.52%) Apache Hive
13 6 (3.02%) Spark SQL
13 6 (3.02%) SQL Server
14 5 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (2.51%) Flink
14 5 (2.51%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 64 (32.16%) Git
2 28 (14.07%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.53%) Selenium
4 9 (4.52%) Eclipse
4 9 (4.52%) GitLab
4 9 (4.52%) IntelliJ
4 9 (4.52%) JUnit
4 9 (4.52%) Postman
5 5 (2.51%) Gatling
5 5 (2.51%) Mockito
5 5 (2.51%) ScalaTest
6 4 (2.01%) JIRA
6 4 (2.01%) JMeter
6 4 (2.01%) LoadRunner
6 4 (2.01%) NeoLoad
6 4 (2.01%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.51%) Gradle
7 3 (1.51%) Maven
7 3 (1.51%) MLflow
8 2 (1.01%) Cucumber
General
1 40 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.10%) Finance
3 14 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.53%) Banking
4 13 (6.53%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.51%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.01%) Back Office
8 2 (1.01%) Front Office
9 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.50%) Law
9 1 (0.50%) Legal
9 1 (0.50%) Marketing
9 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (40.20%) Data Engineer
2 39 (19.60%) Developer
3 27 (13.57%) Azure Engineer
4 26 (13.07%) Scala Developer
5 25 (12.56%) Senior
6 24 (12.06%) Azure Data Engineer
7 18 (9.05%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (8.54%) Scala Engineer
9 15 (7.54%) Lead
10 9 (4.52%) Architect
11 7 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.52%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.02%) Automation Test Lead
13 5 (2.51%) Data Architect
13 5 (2.51%) Java Developer
13 5 (2.51%) Java Engineer
14 4 (2.01%) Data Scientist
15 3 (1.51%) Apache Spark Developer
15 3 (1.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 3 (1.51%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (29.15%) PySpark
2 26 (13.07%) Kafka
2 26 (13.07%) Play Framework
3 21 (10.55%) REST
4 15 (7.54%) JSON
5 14 (7.04%) Spring
6 12 (6.03%) Akka
7 10 (5.03%) Playwright
8 9 (4.52%) EJB
8 9 (4.52%) Hibernate
8 9 (4.52%) HTML
8 9 (4.52%) HTML5
8 9 (4.52%) J2EE
8 9 (4.52%) J2SE
8 9 (4.52%) SOAP
8 9 (4.52%) XML
9 8 (4.02%) RESTful
10 7 (3.52%) React
11 5 (2.51%) Node.js
11 5 (2.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.03%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.02%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.51%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.51%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.51%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.51%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.01%) Derivative
6 2 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.01%) Equities
6 2 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.01%) Music Streaming
7 1 (0.50%) PACS
7 1 (0.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.50%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.04%) Unix
2 7 (3.52%) Linux
3 4 (2.01%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.50%) Android
4 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (50.75%) CI/CD
2 93 (46.73%) Agile
3 83 (41.71%) Data Pipeline
4 66 (33.17%) DevOps
5 65 (32.66%) Data Engineering
6 57 (28.64%) Data Modelling
7 51 (25.63%) ETL
8 50 (25.13%) Data Governance
9 42 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (19.10%) Analytics
11 31 (15.58%) Data Architecture
11 31 (15.58%) Data Science
11 31 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (15.08%) Data Integration
13 25 (12.56%) Integration Patterns
14 23 (11.56%) Scrum
15 22 (11.06%) Microservices
15 22 (11.06%) Test Automation
16 21 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (10.55%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 113 (56.78%) Python
2 96 (48.24%) SQL
3 55 (27.64%) Java
4 21 (10.55%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.52%) R
7 4 (2.01%) Cypher
7 4 (2.01%) Go
7 4 (2.01%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.01%) C++
9 1 (0.50%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.50%) C#
9 1 (0.50%) Clojure
9 1 (0.50%) Groovy
9 1 (0.50%) Perl
9 1 (0.50%) PHP
9 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.50%) Rust
9 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (25.63%) Security Cleared
2 49 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (5.53%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.52%) Degree
6 6 (3.02%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (28.64%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.03%) QA
3 4 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.50%) GDPR
4 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.50%) MiFID
4 1 (0.50%) SLA
4 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (22.61%) Docker
2 4 (2.01%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 4 (2.01%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (19.10%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.07%) Terraform
3 9 (4.52%) Puppet
4 5 (2.51%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.01%) Grafana
5 4 (2.01%) Kibana
6 3 (1.51%) Ansible
7 1 (0.50%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.50%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 72 (36.18%) Databricks
2 9 (4.52%) webMethods
3 6 (3.02%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.51%) Google
4 5 (2.51%) Oracle
4 5 (2.51%) Splunk
5 4 (2.01%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.51%) Confluent
6 3 (1.51%) Foundry
6 3 (1.51%) Mercator
6 3 (1.51%) Palantir
7 2 (1.01%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.01%) Denodo
7 2 (1.01%) IBM
8 1 (0.50%) Adobe
8 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.50%) PayPal
8 1 (0.50%) Sybase
8 1 (0.50%) Typelevel