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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 366 273
Rank change year-on-year -55 -93 -8
Contract jobs citing Scala 216 172 372
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.58% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 1.70% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 116 257
10th Percentile £359 £400 £375
25th Percentile £440 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £588 £713 £699
90th Percentile £749 £825 £827
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £453
% change year-on-year +11.11% -0.66% -19.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £39.10 - £27.63
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 £36.49
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% - -28.08%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile - - £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +156.47%

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 13,578 10,121 13,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.87% 33.94% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 6,867 9,316
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £716 £756 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 236 550
10th Percentile £35.25 £25.50 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £84.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% +4.00%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -91 165 £525 -4.55% 48
London -64 109 £559 -6.77% 20
Work from Home +7 94 £493 -1.32% 24
UK excluding London -96 56 £500 +11.11% 38
North of England -53 37 £500 +25.00% 15
Yorkshire -42 27 £488 -7.14% 2
Midlands -61 8 £518 +21.76% 2
North East - 8 £484 - 1
West Midlands -58 6 £518 +15.00% 2
South East -67 4 £388 -15.58% 5
Scotland - 4 £500 -
South West - 3 £505 - 9
North West -46 2 £550 +37.50% 12
East Midlands -24 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 56 (25.93%) Apache Spark
2 24 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (10.19%) Apache
4 3 (1.39%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.93%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.46%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 87 (40.28%) AWS
2 79 (36.57%) Azure
3 44 (20.37%) GCP
4 38 (17.59%) GitHub
5 23 (10.65%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (10.19%) Amazon S3
6 22 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (9.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (8.80%) Serverless
9 14 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (6.48%) Power Platform
10 12 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (2.78%) Snowflake
15 5 (2.31%) Amazon MSK
15 5 (2.31%) AWS Step Functions
16 4 (1.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.85%) HTTP
2 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.81%) Big Data
2 31 (14.35%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 22 (10.19%) Data Lake
5 19 (8.80%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (8.33%) SQL Server
7 16 (7.41%) MongoDB
8 14 (6.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (6.48%) Delta Lake
8 14 (6.48%) Hadoop
8 14 (6.48%) Relational Database
9 12 (5.56%) Power BI
10 11 (5.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (5.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (4.63%) Flink
11 10 (4.63%) Tableau
12 8 (3.70%) BigQuery
12 8 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (3.24%) DynamoDB
13 7 (3.24%) Presto
Development Applications
1 41 (18.98%) Jenkins
2 35 (16.20%) Git
3 18 (8.33%) Gatling
4 12 (5.56%) GitLab
5 9 (4.17%) JIRA
5 9 (4.17%) Postman
6 7 (3.24%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.78%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.78%) Maven
8 5 (2.31%) JMeter
9 4 (1.85%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.85%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.85%) NeoLoad
9 4 (1.85%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.39%) JUnit
10 3 (1.39%) Mockito
10 3 (1.39%) ScalaTest
10 3 (1.39%) Selenium
10 3 (1.39%) TestNG
11 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
General
1 44 (20.37%) Finance
2 43 (19.91%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.94%) Banking
6 7 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.31%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.85%) Front Office
8 4 (1.85%) Retail
9 3 (1.39%) Back Office
9 3 (1.39%) Games
9 3 (1.39%) Legal
10 2 (0.93%) Local Government
11 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (31.02%) Data Engineer
2 58 (26.85%) Developer
3 48 (22.22%) Scala Developer
4 20 (9.26%) Scala Engineer
5 18 (8.33%) Lead
6 17 (7.87%) Senior
7 15 (6.94%) Architect
8 14 (6.48%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.63%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.70%) Data Architect
10 8 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (2.78%) Automation Test Lead
11 6 (2.78%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (2.31%) Lead Architect
13 4 (1.85%) GCP Engineer
13 4 (1.85%) Test Engineer
13 4 (1.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.20%) PySpark
2 25 (11.57%) Kafka
3 23 (10.65%) Playwright
4 20 (9.26%) Play Framework
5 15 (6.94%) Node.js
6 13 (6.02%) RESTful
7 11 (5.09%) REST
8 10 (4.63%) Apache Avro
8 10 (4.63%) Spring
9 9 (4.17%) Akka
10 8 (3.70%) CSS
10 8 (3.70%) HTML
11 7 (3.24%) Spring Boot
12 6 (2.78%) JSON
12 6 (2.78%) React
13 5 (2.31%) Apache Beam
13 5 (2.31%) OpenID
13 5 (2.31%) Protocol Buffers
14 4 (1.85%) GraphQL
14 4 (1.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.94%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.85%) Derivative
4 4 (1.85%) Equities
4 4 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (1.39%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.39%) PACS
5 3 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.93%) BYOD
6 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.93%) Sports Betting
6 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.09%) Linux
2 8 (3.70%) Unix
3 7 (3.24%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.93%) Android
4 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) Debian
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (43.98%) CI/CD
2 80 (37.04%) Agile
3 63 (29.17%) Data Pipeline
3 63 (29.17%) DevOps
4 53 (24.54%) Data Modelling
5 52 (24.07%) ETL
6 44 (20.37%) Analytics
7 41 (18.98%) Data Engineering
8 39 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 36 (16.67%) Data Governance
9 36 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 30 (13.89%) Data Science
10 30 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (12.96%) Software Engineering
12 26 (12.04%) AI
12 26 (12.04%) Platform Engineering
13 24 (11.11%) Containerisation
14 20 (9.26%) Observability
14 20 (9.26%) Validation
15 19 (8.80%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 124 (57.41%) Python
2 78 (36.11%) SQL
3 74 (34.26%) Java
4 23 (10.65%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.26%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.24%) Go
7 5 (2.31%) Bash
8 4 (1.85%) Cypher
8 4 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.39%) R
10 2 (0.93%) C#
10 2 (0.93%) PHP
10 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.46%) Korn
11 1 (0.46%) Perl
11 1 (0.46%) Ruby
11 1 (0.46%) SHACL
11 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 41 (18.98%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.70%) Degree
5 6 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (18.98%) Data Quality
2 20 (9.26%) QA
3 11 (5.09%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.31%) WCAG
5 4 (1.85%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.93%) GDPR
6 2 (0.93%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 38 (17.59%) Docker
2 4 (1.85%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (1.39%) HDFS
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 52 (24.07%) Terraform
2 37 (17.13%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.41%) Grafana
4 13 (6.02%) Kibana
5 9 (4.17%) HAProxy
6 8 (3.70%) Ansible
6 8 (3.70%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.93%) Puppet
8 1 (0.46%) Consul
8 1 (0.46%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.46%) logstash
Vendors
1 40 (18.52%) Databricks
2 18 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.63%) Google
3 10 (4.63%) Splunk
4 5 (2.31%) Confluent
5 4 (1.85%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.39%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.39%) Denodo
6 3 (1.39%) Foundry
6 3 (1.39%) Oracle
6 3 (1.39%) Palantir
7 2 (0.93%) Adobe
7 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.93%) IBM
7 2 (0.93%) Informatica
7 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.93%) Pega
8 1 (0.46%) New Relic
8 1 (0.46%) Okta
8 1 (0.46%) Reuters