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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 324 295
Rank change year-on-year -87 -29 -60
Contract jobs citing Scala 211 202 334
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.70% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.67% 2.04% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 126 237
10th Percentile £380 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £440 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% -
75th Percentile £605 £698 £750
90th Percentile £749 £810 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +5.82% -5.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £24.14
25th Percentile £41.25 £51.25 £27.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +24.44% -32.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 £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 12,666 9,904 12,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 28.72% 34.12% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,400 6,663 9,134
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £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 £716 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £488
% change year-on-year -1.04% -1.54% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 243 482
10th Percentile £40.63 £22.27 £30.69
25th Percentile £53.69 £34.13 £46.20
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.38
90th Percentile £77.25 £85.00 £74.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +1.56% +3.90% -3.75%

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 27 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 27 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 -99 179 £543 -3.56% 55
London -68 132 £550 -8.33% 30
Work from Home -23 78 £575 +4.55% 36
UK excluding London -92 48 £500 +5.82% 45
North of England -65 23 £500 -9.09% 16
Midlands -61 18 £458 +3.51% 1
West Midlands -46 17 £440 -7.37% 1
Yorkshire -49 15 £500 -9.09% 5
North East -10 6 £475 -13.64% 1
South East -48 4 £577 +23.03% 13
Scotland +4 3 £513 +31.41% 7
North West -36 3 £500 +12.36% 10
South West -21 2 £508 +27.09% 4

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 65 (30.81%) Apache Spark
2 29 (13.74%) Apache
3 13 (6.16%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.90%) JBoss
4 4 (1.90%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.42%) SAS
6 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.47%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 100 (47.39%) Azure
2 73 (34.60%) AWS
3 44 (20.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 38 (18.01%) GCP
5 29 (13.74%) GitHub
6 28 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (8.53%) Power Platform
8 15 (7.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (6.64%) Amazon S3
10 12 (5.69%) Serverless
11 11 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (3.79%) Snowflake
14 7 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
16 5 (2.37%) Amazon MSK
16 5 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
17 4 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.84%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.43%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (18.48%) NoSQL
3 37 (17.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (10.90%) Data Lake
5 22 (10.43%) Big Data
6 21 (9.95%) Delta Lake
7 18 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (8.06%) Power BI
9 16 (7.58%) Relational Database
10 15 (7.11%) MongoDB
11 13 (6.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (6.16%) Tableau
12 12 (5.69%) SQL Server
13 11 (5.21%) Hadoop
14 8 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (3.79%) Flink
15 6 (2.84%) BigQuery
15 6 (2.84%) Spark SQL
16 5 (2.37%) Metadata
16 5 (2.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 63 (29.86%) Git
2 34 (16.11%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.74%) GitLab
4 9 (4.27%) Gatling
4 9 (4.27%) Postman
5 5 (2.37%) JIRA
5 5 (2.37%) Maven
5 5 (2.37%) Mockito
5 5 (2.37%) ScalaTest
5 5 (2.37%) Selenium
6 4 (1.90%) Eclipse
6 4 (1.90%) IntelliJ
6 4 (1.90%) JMeter
6 4 (1.90%) JUnit
6 4 (1.90%) LoadRunner
6 4 (1.90%) MLflow
6 4 (1.90%) NeoLoad
6 4 (1.90%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.42%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.95%) Gradle
General
1 44 (20.85%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.96%) Finance
3 17 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.69%) Banking
6 5 (2.37%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.42%) Back Office
8 3 (1.42%) Front Office
8 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.42%) Retail
9 1 (0.47%) Games
9 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.47%) Legal
9 1 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 79 (37.44%) Data Engineer
2 44 (20.85%) Developer
3 33 (15.64%) Scala Developer
4 27 (12.80%) Senior
5 26 (12.32%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (10.90%) Azure Data Engineer
7 17 (8.06%) Scala Engineer
7 17 (8.06%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (7.11%) Lead
9 13 (6.16%) Architect
10 10 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.84%) Automation Test Lead
12 6 (2.84%) Data Architect
13 5 (2.37%) Java Engineer
14 4 (1.90%) Python Developer
14 4 (1.90%) Python Engineer
15 3 (1.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 3 (1.42%) GCP Data Engineer
15 3 (1.42%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (30.33%) PySpark
2 31 (14.69%) Kafka
3 24 (11.37%) Play Framework
4 18 (8.53%) REST
5 14 (6.64%) Playwright
6 12 (5.69%) Akka
7 10 (4.74%) JSON
8 9 (4.27%) Node.js
8 9 (4.27%) Spring
9 8 (3.79%) RESTful
10 7 (3.32%) React
11 5 (2.37%) OpenID
11 5 (2.37%) YAML
12 4 (1.90%) EJB
12 4 (1.90%) Hibernate
12 4 (1.90%) HTML
12 4 (1.90%) HTML5
12 4 (1.90%) J2EE
12 4 (1.90%) SOAP
12 4 (1.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.37%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.42%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.42%) Derivative
6 3 (1.42%) Equities
6 3 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.95%) Music Streaming
7 2 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.47%) PACS
8 1 (0.47%) SCADA
8 1 (0.47%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.47%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.79%) Unix
2 4 (1.90%) Linux
2 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.95%) Android
3 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (49.29%) CI/CD
2 92 (43.60%) Agile
3 84 (39.81%) Data Pipeline
4 69 (32.70%) DevOps
5 68 (32.23%) Data Engineering
6 64 (30.33%) Data Modelling
7 53 (25.12%) Data Governance
8 52 (24.64%) ETL
9 40 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (18.48%) Analytics
11 34 (16.11%) Data Architecture
12 33 (15.64%) Data Integration
13 31 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (13.27%) Integration Patterns
15 27 (12.80%) Data Science
16 24 (11.37%) AI
16 24 (11.37%) Test Automation
17 23 (10.90%) Software Engineering
18 22 (10.43%) TDD
19 20 (9.48%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 125 (59.24%) Python
2 92 (43.60%) SQL
3 55 (26.07%) Java
4 23 (10.90%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.27%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.32%) Go
7 6 (2.84%) R
8 4 (1.90%) Cypher
9 3 (1.42%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.95%) Bash
10 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.47%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.47%) Groovy
11 1 (0.47%) Perl
11 1 (0.47%) PHP
11 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) Swift
11 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (27.49%) Security Cleared
2 55 (26.07%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (5.69%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.79%) Degree
6 7 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.37%) 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 59 (27.96%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.16%) QA
3 6 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.42%) WCAG
5 2 (0.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.95%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.47%) MiFID
6 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (21.80%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (0.95%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (20.38%) Kubernetes
2 36 (17.06%) Terraform
3 6 (2.84%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.37%) Grafana
5 4 (1.90%) Ansible
5 4 (1.90%) HAProxy
5 4 (1.90%) Kibana
5 4 (1.90%) Puppet
6 1 (0.47%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.47%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 72 (34.12%) Databricks
2 11 (5.21%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.32%) Google
4 5 (2.37%) Confluent
4 5 (2.37%) Oracle
5 4 (1.90%) Cloudera
5 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.90%) webMethods
6 3 (1.42%) Foundry
6 3 (1.42%) Mercator
6 3 (1.42%) Palantir
6 3 (1.42%) Splunk
7 2 (0.95%) Denodo
7 2 (0.95%) IBM
7 2 (0.95%) Informatica
8 1 (0.47%) Adobe
8 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.47%) PayPal
8 1 (0.47%) Sybase
8 1 (0.47%) Typelevel