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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 291 312
Rank change year-on-year -94 +21 -119
Contract jobs citing Scala 183 298 354
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.81% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.64% 2.52% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 168 228
10th Percentile £375 £400 £459
25th Percentile £410 £484 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.96% +0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £775
90th Percentile £725 £838 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £429 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -14.20% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £39.85
25th Percentile £53.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 £80.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +2.56% +37.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +291.76%

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 11,135 11,811 14,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.57% 32.10% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,303 7,661 10,532
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £663
90th Percentile £725 £755 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 302 438
10th Percentile £29.00 £25.36 £32.31
25th Percentile £42.25 £40.75 £47.56
Median hourly rate £60.00 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +1.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.10 £75.00 £79.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 -79 154 £507 -17.65% 119
London -93 85 £563 -16.67% 77
UK excluding London -16 63 £429 -14.20% 75
Work from Home -50 44 £500 -6.98% 46
Midlands -2 29 £430 -29.74% 6
North of England -31 28 £400 -20.00% 9
West Midlands -5 24 £498 -18.71% 3
Yorkshire -29 14 £500 - 2
North West -11 12 £378 +0.67% 7
South East +3 6 £500 +25.00% 50
East Midlands - 5 £420 - 2
East of England -11 2 £488 -2.50% 3
North East -12 2 £400 -14.89%
South West +10 1 - - 3

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 51 (27.87%) Apache Spark
2 35 (19.13%) Apache
3 23 (12.57%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.92%) WebLogic
5 8 (4.37%) JBoss
6 7 (3.83%) Apache Pig
7 4 (2.19%) IIS
8 3 (1.64%) Luigi
9 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.55%) nginx
9 1 (0.55%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (34.97%) AWS
2 62 (33.88%) Azure
3 39 (21.31%) GCP
4 22 (12.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (9.29%) Power Platform
6 13 (7.10%) Amazon S3
7 11 (6.01%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (6.01%) Serverless
8 10 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.46%) dbt
9 8 (4.37%) Snowflake
10 7 (3.83%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (3.83%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (3.83%) GitHub
11 6 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.64%) Collibra
13 3 (1.64%) Datadog
13 3 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.64%) HTTP
2 1 (0.55%) Broadband
2 1 (0.55%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.39%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (14.75%) Big Data
2 27 (14.75%) Hadoop
3 22 (12.02%) NoSQL
4 21 (11.48%) Data Lake
5 17 (9.29%) Power BI
6 16 (8.74%) Apache Hive
7 15 (8.20%) MongoDB
8 13 (7.10%) Delta Lake
9 11 (6.01%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (6.01%) Data Mining
10 10 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (4.92%) BigQuery
12 8 (4.37%) HBase
12 8 (4.37%) Metadata
13 7 (3.83%) Relational Database
13 7 (3.83%) Tableau
14 6 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (3.28%) OLTP
14 6 (3.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (19.67%) Git
2 22 (12.02%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.20%) Cucumber
4 13 (7.10%) Selenium
5 10 (5.46%) Gradle
5 10 (5.46%) JUnit
6 8 (4.37%) Eclipse
6 8 (4.37%) IntelliJ
7 7 (3.83%) Xcode
8 3 (1.64%) Gatling
8 3 (1.64%) GitLab
8 3 (1.64%) Maven
9 2 (1.09%) JIRA
9 2 (1.09%) MLflow
10 1 (0.55%) Deequ
10 1 (0.55%) Mockito
10 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.55%) RSpec
10 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.55%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 41 (22.40%) Banking
3 25 (13.66%) Finance
4 19 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.84%) Investment Banking
6 12 (6.56%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.46%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.55%) Back Office
10 1 (0.55%) Front Office
10 1 (0.55%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) Law
10 1 (0.55%) Legal
10 1 (0.55%) Marketing
10 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
10 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (34.43%) Data Engineer
2 49 (26.78%) Developer
3 27 (14.75%) Scala Developer
4 20 (10.93%) Senior
5 19 (10.38%) Scala Engineer
6 16 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (8.20%) Azure Data Engineer
8 12 (6.56%) Architect
9 11 (6.01%) Data Scientist
9 11 (6.01%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (4.92%) Lead
11 6 (3.28%) iOS Developer
11 6 (3.28%) Tester
12 5 (2.73%) Data Architect
12 5 (2.73%) GCP Architect
12 5 (2.73%) Hadoop Developer
12 5 (2.73%) Java Engineer
12 5 (2.73%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.73%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (19.67%) Kafka
2 24 (13.11%) PySpark
3 20 (10.93%) Play Framework
4 17 (9.29%) REST
5 15 (8.20%) HTML
5 15 (8.20%) Spring
6 12 (6.56%) JSON
6 12 (6.56%) SOAP
7 8 (4.37%) Akka
7 8 (4.37%) EJB
7 8 (4.37%) Hibernate
7 8 (4.37%) HTML5
7 8 (4.37%) J2EE
7 8 (4.37%) J2SE
7 8 (4.37%) XML
8 7 (3.83%) CSS
8 7 (3.83%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.28%) React
9 6 (3.28%) RESTful
10 5 (2.73%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.21%) Algorithms
2 17 (9.29%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.37%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (3.83%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.83%) Mobile Banking
6 6 (3.28%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.64%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.09%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.09%) Derivative
9 2 (1.09%) Equities
9 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.09%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.09%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.10%) Linux
1 13 (7.10%) Unix
2 7 (3.83%) Android
2 7 (3.83%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.55%) Debian
3 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (43.17%) Agile
2 70 (38.25%) CI/CD
3 52 (28.42%) Data Pipeline
3 52 (28.42%) DevOps
3 52 (28.42%) ETL
4 46 (25.14%) Data Engineering
5 43 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (21.31%) Data Modelling
7 37 (20.22%) Scrum
8 36 (19.67%) Software Engineering
9 35 (19.13%) Data Science
10 33 (18.03%) TDD
11 30 (16.39%) Analytics
12 29 (15.85%) Machine Learning
13 28 (15.30%) Data Governance
14 26 (14.21%) Microservices
15 24 (13.11%) BDD
15 24 (13.11%) Mentoring
16 20 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (10.93%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 98 (53.55%) Python
2 85 (46.45%) SQL
3 81 (44.26%) Java
4 14 (7.65%) Kotlin
5 12 (6.56%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.01%) C++
7 8 (4.37%) C
7 8 (4.37%) Ruby
8 7 (3.83%) Go
8 7 (3.83%) Objective-C
8 7 (3.83%) Swift
8 7 (3.83%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.28%) C#
9 6 (3.28%) R
10 4 (2.19%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.64%) Bash
11 3 (1.64%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.64%) Rust
12 2 (1.09%) ANSI SQL
12 2 (1.09%) PureScript
Qualifications
1 13 (7.10%) SC Cleared
1 13 (7.10%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.01%) Degree
3 7 (3.83%) AWS Certification
3 7 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.55%) MCP
7 1 (0.55%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.49%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.46%) QA
3 7 (3.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) GDPR
4 1 (0.55%) MiFID
4 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (18.58%) Docker
2 7 (3.83%) HDFS
3 4 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.65%) Ansible
2 14 (7.65%) Terraform
3 10 (5.46%) Puppet
4 6 (3.28%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.73%) Grafana
6 3 (1.64%) Hadoop YARN
6 3 (1.64%) Kibana
6 3 (1.64%) Oozie
7 2 (1.09%) Control-M
8 1 (0.55%) Graphite
8 1 (0.55%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.55%) logstash
Vendors
1 42 (22.95%) Databricks
2 11 (6.01%) Splunk
3 10 (5.46%) Informatica
4 9 (4.92%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.92%) webMethods
5 6 (3.28%) Google
6 5 (2.73%) Oracle
6 5 (2.73%) Talend
7 3 (1.64%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.09%) Confluent
8 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.09%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.55%) Foundry
9 1 (0.55%) Mercator
9 1 (0.55%) Palantir
9 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.55%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.55%) Trillium
9 1 (0.55%) Vertica
9 1 (0.55%) Zoomdata