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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 292 242
Rank change year-on-year -51 -50 -32
Contract jobs citing Scala 181 348 657
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.80% 1.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.82% 2.71% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 249 465
10th Percentile £400 £375 £463
25th Percentile £431 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £684 £700 £688
90th Percentile £823 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £457 £550
% change year-on-year +2.96% -17.00% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 20
10th Percentile - £23.54 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £26.25 £19.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £41.50 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -35.91% -17.78%
75th Percentile £53.75 £57.50 £75.00
90th Percentile - £64.25 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £41.50 £41.49
% change year-on-year - +0.04% +108.36%

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 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

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 April 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 April 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 -29 156 £550 -4.35% 179
London -28 121 £575 -8.00% 134
Work from Home -3 51 £550 -1.12% 94
UK excluding London -11 39 £470 +2.96% 54
North of England +19 19 £508 +16.00% 13
Midlands +28 13 £442 -13.76% 10
Yorkshire +8 9 £538 +26.47% 3
East Midlands +12 8 £410 -20.00% 6
North West +8 7 £400 -13.51% 8
West Midlands +18 5 £475 +13.10% 4
Northern Ireland -8 4 £504 +0.75% 1
South East +27 3 £470 -18.26% 14
North East +1 3 £550 +4.76% 2

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 52 (28.73%) Apache Spark
2 25 (13.81%) Apache
3 7 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.31%) Jupyter
5 4 (2.21%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.10%) nginx
7 1 (0.55%) Luigi
7 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 58 (32.04%) Azure
2 48 (26.52%) AWS
3 27 (14.92%) GCP
4 14 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (7.73%) Power Platform
4 14 (7.73%) Serverless
5 12 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (6.08%) GitHub
7 9 (4.97%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.42%) Snowflake
9 7 (3.87%) Azure Stack
9 7 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.31%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (3.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.76%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (2.76%) Matillion
11 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.21%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.31%) SSH
2 2 (1.10%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.89%) Big Data
2 26 (14.36%) Hadoop
3 23 (12.71%) NoSQL
4 22 (12.15%) Apache Hive
5 19 (10.50%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (9.39%) Data Lake
7 16 (8.84%) SQL Server
8 15 (8.29%) Delta Lake
9 14 (7.73%) Power BI
10 13 (7.18%) BigQuery
10 13 (7.18%) MongoDB
11 11 (6.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (6.08%) Impala
11 11 (6.08%) Relational Database
12 8 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (4.42%) Tableau
13 6 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (3.31%) Parquet
13 6 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (2.76%) Flink
Development Applications
1 28 (15.47%) Git
2 17 (9.39%) Cucumber
3 16 (8.84%) JIRA
4 14 (7.73%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.31%) RStudio
6 5 (2.76%) Gatling
6 5 (2.76%) Selenium
7 4 (2.21%) Appium
7 4 (2.21%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.21%) GitLab
7 4 (2.21%) JMeter
7 4 (2.21%) NeoLoad
7 4 (2.21%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.66%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.66%) MLflow
8 3 (1.66%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.10%) JUnit
9 2 (1.10%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.55%) JBehave
10 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 56 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 48 (26.52%) Banking
3 45 (24.86%) Finance
4 40 (22.10%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (16.57%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.97%) Front Office
6 9 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.42%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.76%) Retail
9 4 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.66%) Legal
10 3 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Billing
11 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.10%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Automotive
12 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.55%) Local Government
12 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (40.33%) Developer
2 49 (27.07%) Data Engineer
3 45 (24.86%) Scala Developer
4 21 (11.60%) Senior
5 14 (7.73%) Architect
5 14 (7.73%) Java Developer
5 14 (7.73%) Lead
6 9 (4.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (4.97%) Python Engineer
6 9 (4.97%) Senior Developer
6 9 (4.97%) Software Developer
7 8 (4.42%) Gen AI Engineer
8 7 (3.87%) Senior Scala Developer
9 6 (3.31%) Java Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Java Scala Developer
9 6 (3.31%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Scala Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Software Engineer
10 5 (2.76%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.81%) Kafka
2 23 (12.71%) Play Framework
3 16 (8.84%) Akka
4 15 (8.29%) JSON
5 13 (7.18%) React
5 13 (7.18%) Spring
6 12 (6.63%) AngularJS
6 12 (6.63%) PySpark
7 11 (6.08%) RESTful
8 9 (4.97%) REST
9 8 (4.42%) Apache Avro
9 8 (4.42%) pydantic
9 8 (4.42%) Web Services
9 8 (4.42%) YAML
10 7 (3.87%) Spring Boot
11 6 (3.31%) HTML
12 5 (2.76%) CSS
12 5 (2.76%) Node.js
13 4 (2.21%) HTML5
13 4 (2.21%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.13%) Algorithms
2 11 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.52%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.97%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.97%) Derivative
4 9 (4.97%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (4.42%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (4.42%) Reference Data
6 7 (3.87%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.76%) Replication
8 5 (2.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (2.21%) N-Tier
9 4 (2.21%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.66%) Equities
10 3 (1.66%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (1.66%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.60%) Linux
2 7 (3.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (48.07%) Agile
2 63 (34.81%) CI/CD
3 59 (32.60%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (30.94%) Data Engineering
5 47 (25.97%) ETL
6 37 (20.44%) TDD
7 34 (18.78%) Analytics
7 34 (18.78%) Data Pipeline
7 34 (18.78%) DevOps
7 34 (18.78%) Machine Learning
8 33 (18.23%) Data Science
9 31 (17.13%) Scrum
10 29 (16.02%) Software Engineering
11 27 (14.92%) Artificial Intelligence
11 27 (14.92%) Data Modelling
12 25 (13.81%) Collaborative Working
12 25 (13.81%) Data Governance
12 25 (13.81%) SDLC
13 23 (12.71%) Clean Code
14 22 (12.15%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 106 (58.56%) Python
2 67 (37.02%) Java
3 64 (35.36%) SQL
4 20 (11.05%) JavaScript
4 20 (11.05%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.08%) Bash
6 7 (3.87%) Clojure
6 7 (3.87%) Elixir
6 7 (3.87%) Rust
7 6 (3.31%) C#
8 5 (2.76%) Haskell
8 5 (2.76%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.76%) R
9 4 (2.21%) C++
9 4 (2.21%) Go
9 4 (2.21%) OCaml
9 4 (2.21%) Perl
9 4 (2.21%) PHP
9 4 (2.21%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (11.60%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.42%) Degree
4 6 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.66%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.94%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.73%) QA
3 12 (6.63%) GDPR
4 3 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.55%) PERC
6 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (12.15%) Docker
2 3 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (16.57%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.50%) Terraform
3 17 (9.39%) Ansible
4 7 (3.87%) Kibana
5 2 (1.10%) Apache Ranger
5 2 (1.10%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.55%) Oozie
Vendors
1 36 (19.89%) Databricks
2 10 (5.52%) Google
2 10 (5.52%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.97%) Cloudera
4 8 (4.42%) Informatica
5 6 (3.31%) Oracle
6 5 (2.76%) Talend
7 4 (2.21%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.21%) Sybase
8 3 (1.66%) VMware
9 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.10%) Splunk
9 2 (1.10%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.55%) Hitachi