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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 351 270
Rank change year-on-year -52 -81 -20
Contract jobs citing Scala 228 168 356
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.57% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.78% 1.68% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 118 256
10th Percentile £380 £400 £378
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £598 £689 £699
90th Percentile £749 £829 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £460
% change year-on-year +6.38% +2.17% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £36.95 - £23.54
25th Percentile £51.13 £51.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% +26.51% -39.42%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - - £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £41.50
% change year-on-year - - +0.04%

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 12,834 10,014 12,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.95% 34.06% 29.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,444 6,812 9,059
10th Percentile £355 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £711 £774 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.71% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 249 488
10th Percentile £41.87 £25.13 £32.25
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £46.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.12% +0.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £78.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -74 187 £544 -1.14% 65
London -26 132 £572 -2.66% 31
Work from Home +13 91 £521 -5.23% 62
UK excluding London -77 54 £500 +6.38% 37
North of England -51 36 £494 -2.71% 23
Yorkshire -34 27 £488 -9.30% 6
Midlands -70 9 £518 +17.08% 1
North East -12 8 £484 -12.05% 5
West Midlands -59 7 £518 +8.95% 1
South East -56 4 £388 -17.55% 7
Scotland - 3 £513 -
North West -47 2 £550 +37.50% 12
South West - 2 £508 - 5
East Midlands -40 1 £304 -25.85%

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 71 (31.14%) Apache Spark
2 24 (10.53%) Apache
3 21 (9.21%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.32%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.32%) SAS
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) LiveCycle
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 94 (41.23%) Azure
2 82 (35.96%) AWS
3 40 (17.54%) GCP
4 37 (16.23%) GitHub
5 34 (14.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (9.65%) Amazon S3
7 22 (9.65%) Power Platform
8 21 (9.21%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (7.46%) Serverless
11 13 (5.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (2.63%) Snowflake
16 5 (2.19%) Amazon MSK
16 5 (2.19%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.75%) HTTP
2 1 (0.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (17.11%) NoSQL
2 34 (14.91%) Big Data
3 33 (14.47%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (14.04%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (13.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 22 (9.65%) Data Lake
7 20 (8.77%) Power BI
8 19 (8.33%) Delta Lake
9 18 (7.89%) MongoDB
9 18 (7.89%) SQL Server
10 17 (7.46%) Relational Database
10 17 (7.46%) Tableau
11 13 (5.70%) Hadoop
12 12 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (4.82%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (4.82%) Flink
14 8 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (3.51%) Parquet
15 7 (3.07%) BigQuery
15 7 (3.07%) Presto
Development Applications
1 49 (21.49%) Git
2 43 (18.86%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.14%) Gatling
4 12 (5.26%) GitLab
5 9 (3.95%) Postman
6 8 (3.51%) JIRA
7 6 (2.63%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.63%) Maven
8 5 (2.19%) JMeter
8 5 (2.19%) Mockito
9 4 (1.75%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.75%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.75%) MLflow
9 4 (1.75%) NeoLoad
9 4 (1.75%) ScalaTest
10 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.32%) JUnit
10 3 (1.32%) Selenium
10 3 (1.32%) TestNG
11 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (19.74%) Finance
1 45 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (10.09%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.14%) Banking
5 7 (3.07%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.19%) Front Office
8 4 (1.75%) Back Office
8 4 (1.75%) Retail
9 3 (1.32%) Games
9 3 (1.32%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Local Government
11 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 86 (37.72%) Data Engineer
2 53 (23.25%) Developer
3 43 (18.86%) Scala Developer
4 26 (11.40%) Senior
5 22 (9.65%) Scala Engineer
6 20 (8.77%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (7.89%) Lead
8 17 (7.46%) Azure Data Engineer
8 17 (7.46%) Senior Data Engineer
9 16 (7.02%) Architect
10 13 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.95%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.95%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.63%) Automation Test Lead
12 6 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 5 (2.19%) Lead Architect
13 5 (2.19%) Python Engineer
14 4 (1.75%) Analyst
14 4 (1.75%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (26.75%) PySpark
2 31 (13.60%) Kafka
3 22 (9.65%) Play Framework
4 19 (8.33%) Playwright
5 12 (5.26%) Node.js
6 10 (4.39%) Akka
6 10 (4.39%) Apache Avro
6 10 (4.39%) REST
6 10 (4.39%) Spring
7 9 (3.95%) RESTful
8 8 (3.51%) CSS
8 8 (3.51%) HTML
9 7 (3.07%) React
9 7 (3.07%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.63%) JSON
11 5 (2.19%) Apache Beam
11 5 (2.19%) OpenID
11 5 (2.19%) Protocol Buffers
11 5 (2.19%) YAML
12 4 (1.75%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.02%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.19%) Derivative
4 5 (2.19%) Equities
5 4 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (1.32%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.32%) PACS
6 3 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.88%) BYOD
7 2 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.88%) Sports Betting
7 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.82%) Linux
2 8 (3.51%) Unix
3 7 (3.07%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.32%) Android
4 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.44%) Debian
5 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (42.98%) CI/CD
2 93 (40.79%) Agile
3 78 (34.21%) Data Pipeline
4 70 (30.70%) DevOps
5 62 (27.19%) Data Modelling
6 60 (26.32%) Data Engineering
7 55 (24.12%) ETL
8 49 (21.49%) Data Governance
9 42 (18.42%) Analytics
10 38 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (14.47%) Data Architecture
12 32 (14.04%) Test Automation
13 31 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (13.16%) Data Science
15 26 (11.40%) AI
15 26 (11.40%) Data Integration
16 25 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
16 25 (10.96%) Software Engineering
17 24 (10.53%) Containerisation
18 22 (9.65%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 143 (62.72%) Python
2 90 (39.47%) SQL
3 70 (30.70%) Java
4 26 (11.40%) TypeScript
5 20 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.51%) R
7 6 (2.63%) Go
8 4 (1.75%) Bash
8 4 (1.75%) Cypher
8 4 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.88%) C#
9 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.88%) PHP
9 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.44%) Perl
10 1 (0.44%) Ruby
10 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.44%) Swift
10 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (30.70%) Security Cleared
2 61 (26.75%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (4.82%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.95%) Degree
6 7 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.88%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.44%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.58%) QA
3 11 (4.82%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.19%) WCAG
5 4 (1.75%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.88%) GDPR
6 2 (0.88%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 46 (20.18%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (1.32%) HDFS
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 54 (23.68%) Terraform
2 48 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.58%) Grafana
4 13 (5.70%) Kibana
5 9 (3.95%) HAProxy
6 8 (3.51%) Ansible
7 7 (3.07%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.88%) Puppet
9 1 (0.44%) Consul
9 1 (0.44%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.44%) logstash
9 1 (0.44%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 59 (25.88%) Databricks
2 19 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.39%) Google
3 10 (4.39%) Splunk
4 5 (2.19%) Confluent
5 4 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.32%) Foundry
6 3 (1.32%) Oracle
6 3 (1.32%) Palantir
7 2 (0.88%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.88%) Denodo
7 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.88%) IBM
7 2 (0.88%) Informatica
7 2 (0.88%) Mercator
7 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.44%) New Relic
8 1 (0.44%) PayPal
8 1 (0.44%) Pega
8 1 (0.44%) Typelevel