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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 306 299
Rank change year-on-year -118 -7 -75
Contract jobs citing Scala 211 209 329
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.70% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.67% 2.06% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 130 237
10th Percentile £380 £400 £381
25th Percentile £439 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% - -
75th Percentile £604 £722 £750
90th Percentile £749 £838 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.14
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £42.19
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - £62.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £41.50
% change year-on-year - - +105.55%

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 12,649 10,164 12,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.25% 34.19% 29.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,401 6,718 9,135
10th Percentile £355 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.98%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £716 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £480
% change year-on-year -2.56% +1.56% -4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 497 242 492
10th Percentile £41.80 £21.33 £30.69
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.69 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £74.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £61.60
% change year-on-year +1.97% +3.48% -5.23%

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 15 March 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
Top 13 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 15 March 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 -92 186 £528 -8.26% 91
London -49 135 £545 -12.73% 26
Work from Home -20 76 £575 +4.55% 78
UK excluding London -67 51 £500 +5.26% 84
Midlands -45 25 £458 -3.68% 5
West Midlands -45 24 £440 -8.71% 3
North of England -61 20 £520 -5.55% 24
Yorkshire -55 12 £527 -1.95% 10
North East -11 6 £475 -13.64% 4
South East -50 4 £577 +23.03% 21
Scotland +12 3 £513 +31.41% 7
North West -28 3 £500 -6.98% 10
South West -30 2 £508 +27.09% 9

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 70 (33.18%) Apache Spark
2 34 (16.11%) Apache
3 15 (7.11%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.27%) JBoss
4 9 (4.27%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.42%) SAS
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.47%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 99 (46.92%) Azure
2 74 (35.07%) AWS
3 45 (21.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (17.54%) GCP
5 28 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (11.85%) GitHub
7 19 (9.00%) Power Platform
8 15 (7.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (6.16%) Amazon S3
10 12 (5.69%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (5.21%) Serverless
12 10 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (4.27%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (1.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.84%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (19.91%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (18.48%) NoSQL
3 37 (17.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (12.80%) Big Data
5 24 (11.37%) Data Lake
6 21 (9.95%) Delta Lake
6 21 (9.95%) MongoDB
7 18 (8.53%) Power BI
8 17 (8.06%) Hadoop
9 14 (6.64%) Relational Database
9 14 (6.64%) Tableau
10 13 (6.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.79%) SQL Server
12 6 (2.84%) Apache Hive
12 6 (2.84%) Flink
12 6 (2.84%) Spark SQL
13 5 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (2.37%) Metadata
13 5 (2.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 68 (32.23%) Git
2 31 (14.69%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.74%) GitLab
3 10 (4.74%) Selenium
4 9 (4.27%) Eclipse
4 9 (4.27%) IntelliJ
4 9 (4.27%) JUnit
4 9 (4.27%) Postman
5 5 (2.37%) Gatling
5 5 (2.37%) Mockito
5 5 (2.37%) ScalaTest
6 4 (1.90%) JIRA
6 4 (1.90%) JMeter
6 4 (1.90%) LoadRunner
6 4 (1.90%) MLflow
6 4 (1.90%) NeoLoad
6 4 (1.90%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.42%) Gradle
7 3 (1.42%) Maven
8 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
General
1 45 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.43%) Finance
3 17 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.58%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.64%) Banking
6 9 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.84%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.42%) Back Office
8 3 (1.42%) Front Office
8 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.95%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Games
10 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 82 (38.86%) Data Engineer
2 43 (20.38%) Developer
3 29 (13.74%) Scala Developer
4 27 (12.80%) Azure Engineer
5 26 (12.32%) Senior
6 24 (11.37%) Azure Data Engineer
7 18 (8.53%) Scala Engineer
7 18 (8.53%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (7.11%) Lead
9 12 (5.69%) Architect
10 8 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.32%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.84%) Automation Test Lead
12 6 (2.84%) Data Architect
13 5 (2.37%) Java Developer
13 5 (2.37%) Java Engineer
14 4 (1.90%) Data Scientist
14 4 (1.90%) Python Developer
15 3 (1.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 3 (1.42%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (30.81%) PySpark
2 31 (14.69%) Kafka
3 29 (13.74%) Play Framework
4 23 (10.90%) REST
5 15 (7.11%) JSON
5 15 (7.11%) Spring
6 13 (6.16%) Akka
7 10 (4.74%) Playwright
8 9 (4.27%) EJB
8 9 (4.27%) Hibernate
8 9 (4.27%) HTML
8 9 (4.27%) HTML5
8 9 (4.27%) J2EE
8 9 (4.27%) J2SE
8 9 (4.27%) SOAP
8 9 (4.27%) XML
9 8 (3.79%) RESTful
10 7 (3.32%) React
11 5 (2.37%) Node.js
11 5 (2.37%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.79%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.37%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.90%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.42%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.42%) Derivative
5 3 (1.42%) Equities
5 3 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.95%) Music Streaming
6 2 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.47%) PACS
7 1 (0.47%) SCADA
7 1 (0.47%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.47%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.64%) Unix
2 7 (3.32%) Linux
3 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.95%) Android
4 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (50.71%) CI/CD
2 96 (45.50%) Agile
3 86 (40.76%) Data Pipeline
4 69 (32.70%) DevOps
5 68 (32.23%) Data Engineering
6 63 (29.86%) Data Modelling
7 55 (26.07%) ETL
8 54 (25.59%) Data Governance
9 47 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (19.43%) Analytics
11 35 (16.59%) Infrastructure as Code
12 34 (16.11%) Data Architecture
13 32 (15.17%) Data Integration
14 31 (14.69%) Data Science
15 28 (13.27%) Integration Patterns
16 24 (11.37%) Microservices
16 24 (11.37%) Software Engineering
17 23 (10.90%) Scrum
17 23 (10.90%) Test Automation
18 22 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 121 (57.35%) Python
2 103 (48.82%) SQL
3 58 (27.49%) Java
4 22 (10.43%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.27%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.32%) R
7 5 (2.37%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.90%) Cypher
8 4 (1.90%) Go
9 2 (0.95%) Bash
9 2 (0.95%) C++
9 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.47%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.47%) Clojure
10 1 (0.47%) Groovy
10 1 (0.47%) Perl
10 1 (0.47%) PHP
10 1 (0.47%) Rust
10 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 54 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 51 (24.17%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (5.21%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.79%) Degree
6 7 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.84%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.47%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (28.91%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.69%) QA
3 5 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.95%) GDPR
4 2 (0.95%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.95%) WCAG
5 1 (0.47%) MiFID
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (22.75%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 4 (1.90%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (18.48%) Kubernetes
2 30 (14.22%) Terraform
3 9 (4.27%) Puppet
4 6 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.37%) Grafana
6 4 (1.90%) Kibana
7 3 (1.42%) Ansible
8 1 (0.47%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.47%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 75 (35.55%) Databricks
2 9 (4.27%) webMethods
3 7 (3.32%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.84%) Google
5 5 (2.37%) Oracle
5 5 (2.37%) Splunk
6 4 (1.90%) Confluent
6 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.42%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.42%) Foundry
7 3 (1.42%) Mercator
7 3 (1.42%) Palantir
8 2 (0.95%) Denodo
8 2 (0.95%) IBM
8 2 (0.95%) Informatica
9 1 (0.47%) Adobe
9 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.47%) PayPal
9 1 (0.47%) Sybase
9 1 (0.47%) Typelevel