Scala Contracts

Scala
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Scala skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scala over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 269 272
Rank change year-on-year -93 +3 -77
Contract jobs citing Scala 175 373 537
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.86% 0.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.69% 2.83% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 254 371
10th Percentile £386 £375 £463
25th Percentile £425 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £588
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.36% -2.37%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £688
90th Percentile £825 £835 £836
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £465 £569
% change year-on-year -2.26% -18.24% +3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 21
10th Percentile - £27.63 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.49 £19.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.08% -6.56%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.25 £78.00
90th Percentile - £65.75 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 £20.47
% change year-on-year - +156.47% +2.81%

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 10,329 13,186 18,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 30.54% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,970 9,253 13,420
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 540 448
10th Percentile £26.21 £31.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £34.48 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +1.46% +17.33%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £79.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% +18.99%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scala.

Daily rate trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scala.

Hourly rate trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Top 13 Contract 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 30 June 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 -58 148 £550 -4.35% 710
London -54 104 £600 -4.00% 510
UK excluding London -10 47 £455 -2.26% 231
Work from Home -18 47 £500 -4.76% 332
North of England 0 23 £445 -10.10% 75
Midlands +20 13 £425 +1.19% 45
North West +17 12 £400 -15.79% 39
Yorkshire -4 11 £550 +11.11% 24
East Midlands +9 8 £410 +13.89% 14
South East +42 6 £459 -8.20% 34
West Midlands +10 5 £450 -7.22% 31
Northern Ireland -4 4 £504 - 17
East of England +26 1 £575 +53.33% 28

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 57 (32.57%) Apache Spark
2 27 (15.43%) Apache
3 14 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.29%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.14%) Luigi
5 2 (1.14%) nginx
6 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.57%) Tuxedo
6 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (33.71%) Azure
2 57 (32.57%) AWS
3 39 (22.29%) GCP
4 20 (11.43%) Serverless
5 17 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.57%) GitHub
7 13 (7.43%) Amazon S3
7 13 (7.43%) Power Platform
8 10 (5.71%) dbt
9 9 (5.14%) Amazon EMR
9 9 (5.14%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (5.14%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (5.14%) Snowflake
10 8 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (3.43%) Collibra
12 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) SSH
2 2 (1.14%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (20.00%) Big Data
2 24 (13.71%) Data Lake
2 24 (13.71%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (13.14%) Hadoop
3 23 (13.14%) NoSQL
4 20 (11.43%) Delta Lake
5 17 (9.71%) Apache Hive
6 16 (9.14%) BigQuery
7 15 (8.57%) SQL Server
8 14 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (7.43%) Power BI
10 12 (6.86%) Relational Database
11 11 (6.29%) MongoDB
12 9 (5.14%) Metadata
13 8 (4.57%) Impala
13 8 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (3.43%) Flink
14 6 (3.43%) Parquet
15 5 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (17.71%) Git
2 21 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.29%) Cucumber
4 14 (8.00%) JIRA
5 6 (3.43%) Gatling
6 5 (2.86%) GitLab
6 5 (2.86%) Selenium
7 4 (2.29%) Appium
7 4 (2.29%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.29%) Gradle
7 4 (2.29%) JMeter
7 4 (2.29%) NeoLoad
7 4 (2.29%) RStudio
7 4 (2.29%) SpecFlow
7 4 (2.29%) Xcode
8 3 (1.71%) JUnit
9 2 (1.14%) Mockito
9 2 (1.14%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.57%) JBehave
10 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
General
1 58 (33.14%) Social Skills
2 55 (31.43%) Banking
3 42 (24.00%) Finance
4 37 (21.14%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (16.57%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.43%) Front Office
7 6 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.71%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.71%) Legal
10 3 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.71%) Retail
11 2 (1.14%) Billing
11 2 (1.14%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Automotive
12 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (35.43%) Developer
2 49 (28.00%) Data Engineer
3 36 (20.57%) Scala Developer
4 24 (13.71%) Senior
5 19 (10.86%) Architect
6 18 (10.29%) Lead
7 11 (6.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 11 (6.29%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.71%) Azure Data Engineer
8 10 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (5.71%) Software Developer
9 9 (5.14%) Data Architect
10 8 (4.57%) GCP Architect
10 8 (4.57%) Scala Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Platform Architect
11 7 (4.00%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.71%) Kafka
2 22 (12.57%) PySpark
3 16 (9.14%) Play Framework
4 15 (8.57%) React
5 13 (7.43%) JSON
5 13 (7.43%) Spring
6 12 (6.86%) REST
7 10 (5.71%) AngularJS
8 9 (5.14%) Akka
9 8 (4.57%) Apache Avro
9 8 (4.57%) Spring Boot
9 8 (4.57%) Web Services
10 7 (4.00%) RESTful
11 6 (3.43%) LangChain
11 6 (3.43%) pydantic
11 6 (3.43%) YAML
12 5 (2.86%) CSS
12 5 (2.86%) HTML
12 5 (2.86%) SOAP
12 5 (2.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.71%) Algorithms
2 15 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (4.57%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.00%) Derivative
5 7 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.43%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.43%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.86%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.29%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.71%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.71%) Equities
9 3 (1.71%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.14%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.14%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.00%) Linux
2 8 (4.57%) Unix
3 4 (2.29%) Android
3 4 (2.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (47.43%) Agile
2 61 (34.86%) CI/CD
2 61 (34.86%) Data Engineering
3 58 (33.14%) ETL
4 55 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (29.14%) DevOps
6 40 (22.86%) Data Pipeline
7 39 (22.29%) Data Modelling
8 38 (21.71%) Scrum
8 38 (21.71%) Software Engineering
9 37 (21.14%) TDD
10 31 (17.71%) Analytics
10 31 (17.71%) Data Science
11 30 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
12 28 (16.00%) Data Governance
13 27 (15.43%) Machine Learning
14 25 (14.29%) Clean Code
15 23 (13.14%) BDD
15 23 (13.14%) Collaborative Working
15 23 (13.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 107 (61.14%) Python
2 70 (40.00%) SQL
3 68 (38.86%) Java
4 23 (13.14%) JavaScript
5 15 (8.57%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.14%) Bash
6 9 (5.14%) C#
6 9 (5.14%) C++
6 9 (5.14%) Kotlin
7 8 (4.57%) Ruby
7 8 (4.57%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.00%) Rust
9 6 (3.43%) Haskell
9 6 (3.43%) OCaml
10 5 (2.86%) C
10 5 (2.86%) Clojure
10 5 (2.86%) Elixir
10 5 (2.86%) R
11 4 (2.29%) Go
11 4 (2.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.86%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.43%) Degree
4 10 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.43%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.57%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.86%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.00%) QA
3 9 (5.14%) GDPR
4 5 (2.86%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 23 (13.14%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (15.43%) Kubernetes
2 21 (12.00%) Terraform
3 18 (10.29%) Ansible
4 3 (1.71%) Kibana
5 2 (1.14%) Apache Ranger
5 2 (1.14%) Control-M
5 2 (1.14%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.57%) Grafana
6 1 (0.57%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (25.14%) Databricks
2 12 (6.86%) Informatica
3 10 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.57%) Google
4 8 (4.57%) Oracle
5 7 (4.00%) Talend
6 5 (2.86%) Cloudera
7 4 (2.29%) Sybase
8 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.57%) Foundry
9 1 (0.57%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.57%) Palantir
9 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.57%) Trillium
9 1 (0.57%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.57%) webMethods