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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 348 276
Rank change year-on-year -51 -72 -25
Contract jobs citing Scala 227 179 355
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.61% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.77% 1.79% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 124 253
10th Percentile £379 £400 £376
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £599 £688 £700
90th Percentile £749 £821 £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 6 2 4
10th Percentile £35.88 - £23.54
25th Percentile £46.19 £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 12,809 10,009 12,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.15% 34.17% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,466 6,797 9,080
10th Percentile £355 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £774 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.05% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 250 487
10th Percentile £41.94 £22.50 £31.70
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% +1.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £79.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% +1.07%

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 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 4 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 4 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 -76 186 £544 -1.14% 73
London -35 133 £572 -0.54% 37
Work from Home +13 92 £525 -4.55% 35
UK excluding London -86 52 £500 +6.38% 36
North of England -46 34 £494 -2.71% 21
Yorkshire -30 26 £488 -9.30% 5
Midlands -76 9 £518 +17.08% 2
North East -16 7 £525 -4.55% 5
West Midlands -60 7 £518 +8.95% 2
South East -54 4 £388 -17.55% 9
Scotland - 3 £513 -
North West -42 2 £550 +37.50% 11
South West - 2 £508 - 3
East Midlands -39 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 (31.28%) Apache Spark
2 23 (10.13%) Apache
3 19 (8.37%) 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 (41.41%) Azure
2 82 (36.12%) AWS
3 39 (17.18%) GCP
4 37 (16.30%) GitHub
5 36 (15.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (10.13%) Amazon S3
7 23 (10.13%) Power Platform
8 21 (9.25%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (7.49%) Serverless
11 14 (6.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.96%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (3.08%) Snowflake
16 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Purview
17 5 (2.20%) Amazon MSK
17 5 (2.20%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.20%) HTTP
2 1 (0.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (18.06%) NoSQL
2 33 (14.54%) Big Data
2 33 (14.54%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (14.10%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (13.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (9.69%) Data Lake
6 21 (9.25%) Power BI
7 20 (8.81%) Delta Lake
8 18 (7.93%) MongoDB
8 18 (7.93%) SQL Server
9 17 (7.49%) Relational Database
9 17 (7.49%) Tableau
10 13 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (5.73%) Hadoop
11 11 (4.85%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (4.85%) Flink
12 8 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (3.52%) Parquet
13 7 (3.08%) BigQuery
13 7 (3.08%) Presto
Development Applications
1 51 (22.47%) Git
2 44 (19.38%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.17%) Gatling
4 11 (4.85%) GitLab
5 9 (3.96%) Postman
6 7 (3.08%) JIRA
7 6 (2.64%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.64%) Maven
8 5 (2.20%) JMeter
8 5 (2.20%) Mockito
9 4 (1.76%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.76%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.76%) MLflow
9 4 (1.76%) NeoLoad
9 4 (1.76%) ScalaTest
10 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.32%) JUnit
10 3 (1.32%) Selenium
10 3 (1.32%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.32%) TestNG
General
1 45 (19.82%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.94%) Finance
3 24 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.17%) Banking
6 7 (3.08%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.20%) Front Office
9 4 (1.76%) Back Office
9 4 (1.76%) Retail
10 3 (1.32%) Games
10 3 (1.32%) Legal
11 2 (0.88%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 85 (37.44%) Data Engineer
2 54 (23.79%) Developer
3 44 (19.38%) Scala Developer
4 27 (11.89%) Senior
5 22 (9.69%) Scala Engineer
6 20 (8.81%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (7.93%) Lead
7 18 (7.93%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (7.49%) Architect
8 17 (7.49%) Azure Data Engineer
9 13 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.96%) Data Architect
10 9 (3.96%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.64%) Automation Test Lead
11 6 (2.64%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (2.20%) Lead Architect
12 5 (2.20%) Python Engineer
13 4 (1.76%) Analyst
13 4 (1.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (26.87%) PySpark
2 30 (13.22%) Kafka
3 22 (9.69%) Play Framework
4 19 (8.37%) Playwright
5 12 (5.29%) Node.js
6 11 (4.85%) REST
7 10 (4.41%) Akka
7 10 (4.41%) Apache Avro
8 9 (3.96%) RESTful
8 9 (3.96%) Spring
9 8 (3.52%) CSS
9 8 (3.52%) HTML
10 7 (3.08%) JSON
10 7 (3.08%) React
11 6 (2.64%) Spring Boot
12 5 (2.20%) Apache Beam
12 5 (2.20%) OpenID
12 5 (2.20%) Protocol Buffers
12 5 (2.20%) YAML
13 4 (1.76%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.81%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.61%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.20%) Derivative
4 5 (2.20%) Equities
5 4 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.76%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.76%) 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%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.44%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.85%) Linux
2 8 (3.52%) Unix
3 7 (3.08%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.88%) Android
4 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.44%) Debian
5 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (43.61%) CI/CD
2 92 (40.53%) Agile
3 80 (35.24%) Data Pipeline
4 70 (30.84%) DevOps
5 63 (27.75%) Data Engineering
5 63 (27.75%) Data Modelling
6 55 (24.23%) ETL
7 49 (21.59%) Data Governance
8 43 (18.94%) Analytics
9 39 (17.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (14.54%) Data Architecture
11 32 (14.10%) Test Automation
12 31 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (13.22%) Data Science
14 27 (11.89%) AI
14 27 (11.89%) Data Integration
15 26 (11.45%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (11.45%) Software Engineering
16 23 (10.13%) Integration Patterns
17 22 (9.69%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 143 (63.00%) Python
2 90 (39.65%) SQL
3 68 (29.96%) Java
4 25 (11.01%) TypeScript
5 19 (8.37%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.52%) R
7 6 (2.64%) Go
8 4 (1.76%) Bash
8 4 (1.76%) Cypher
8 4 (1.76%) 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 (30.84%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.31%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (5.29%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.96%) Degree
6 7 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.88%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.44%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (25.55%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.17%) QA
3 12 (5.29%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.20%) WCAG
5 4 (1.76%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.88%) GDPR
6 2 (0.88%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 45 (19.82%) Docker
2 4 (1.76%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (1.32%) HDFS
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 54 (23.79%) Terraform
2 45 (19.82%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.61%) Grafana
4 13 (5.73%) Kibana
5 9 (3.96%) HAProxy
6 8 (3.52%) Ansible
7 7 (3.08%) 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 62 (27.31%) Databricks
2 20 (8.81%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.41%) Google
4 9 (3.96%) Splunk
5 5 (2.20%) Confluent
6 4 (1.76%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.32%) Foundry
7 3 (1.32%) IBM
7 3 (1.32%) Mercator
7 3 (1.32%) Oracle
7 3 (1.32%) Palantir
8 2 (0.88%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.88%) Denodo
8 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.88%) Informatica
8 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.44%) Adobe
9 1 (0.44%) PayPal
9 1 (0.44%) Sybase
9 1 (0.44%) Typelevel