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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 298 303
Rank change year-on-year -92 +5 -102
Contract jobs citing Scala 194 277 344
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.78% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 2.40% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 155 230
10th Percentile £373 £435 £425
25th Percentile £412 £509 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £612 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £766 £750
90th Percentile £650 £838 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -15.12% - -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £35.01
25th Percentile £53.00 - £39.85
Median hourly rate £56.00 £80.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £59.00 - £82.28
90th Percentile - - £87.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 11,393 11,557 14,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.40% 32.36% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,515 7,415 9,980
10th Percentile £349 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 282 433
10th Percentile £31.02 £22.00 £31.30
25th Percentile £48.75 £40.19 £47.50
Median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 12 December 2025.

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 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 12 December 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 -84 168 £504 -18.79% 111
London -79 106 £545 -19.26% 54
UK excluding London -26 57 £435 -15.12% 90
Work from Home -55 51 £505 -8.18% 94
Midlands -8 31 £435 -28.92% 7
West Midlands -7 26 £488 -20.26% 4
North of England -40 23 £438 -12.50% 20
Yorkshire -40 13 £488 -2.50% 4
North West -9 8 £415 - 16
East Midlands - 5 £420 - 3
North East -8 3 £400 -27.27%
South East -14 3 £604 +51.00% 33
East of England -12 2 £488 -2.50% 10
South West -12 1 - - 11

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 (33.51%) Apache Spark
2 38 (19.59%) Apache
3 19 (9.79%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (5.15%) WebLogic
5 9 (4.64%) JBoss
6 7 (3.61%) Apache Pig
7 4 (2.06%) IIS
8 2 (1.03%) Luigi
9 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.52%) nginx
9 1 (0.52%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (37.63%) Azure
2 59 (30.41%) AWS
3 34 (17.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (15.98%) GCP
5 24 (12.37%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.19%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (5.15%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.64%) Snowflake
9 8 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (4.12%) Serverless
10 7 (3.61%) dbt
11 6 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.58%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (2.58%) GitHub
12 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.55%) Amazon MSK
14 2 (1.03%) Amazon Kinesis
14 2 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.06%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) Broadband
2 1 (0.52%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.62%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (14.95%) NoSQL
3 28 (14.43%) Big Data
4 25 (12.89%) Hadoop
5 24 (12.37%) Power BI
6 21 (10.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (10.31%) Data Lake
8 17 (8.76%) Apache Hive
8 17 (8.76%) Delta Lake
9 16 (8.25%) MongoDB
10 12 (6.19%) Tableau
11 11 (5.67%) Data Mining
12 9 (4.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (4.64%) HBase
13 8 (4.12%) Metadata
13 8 (4.12%) Relational Database
14 7 (3.61%) BigQuery
14 7 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (3.09%) SQL Server
16 5 (2.58%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 44 (22.68%) Git
2 22 (11.34%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.22%) Selenium
4 11 (5.67%) Cucumber
4 11 (5.67%) JUnit
5 9 (4.64%) Eclipse
5 9 (4.64%) IntelliJ
6 6 (3.09%) Gradle
7 4 (2.06%) GitLab
7 4 (2.06%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.55%) Gatling
8 3 (1.55%) Maven
8 3 (1.55%) MLflow
8 3 (1.55%) Xcode
9 1 (0.52%) Deequ
9 1 (0.52%) Mockito
9 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.52%) RSpec
9 1 (0.52%) ScalaTest
9 1 (0.52%) WebDriver
General
1 58 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.86%) Finance
3 21 (10.82%) Banking
4 19 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.70%) Investment Banking
7 11 (5.67%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Back Office
9 1 (0.52%) Front Office
9 1 (0.52%) Games
9 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.52%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Legal
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
9 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (39.18%) Data Engineer
2 45 (23.20%) Developer
3 28 (14.43%) Scala Developer
4 23 (11.86%) Azure Engineer
4 23 (11.86%) Senior
5 22 (11.34%) Azure Data Engineer
6 16 (8.25%) Scala Engineer
7 14 (7.22%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (5.67%) Data Scientist
9 7 (3.61%) Lead
10 6 (3.09%) Architect
10 6 (3.09%) Java Engineer
10 6 (3.09%) Tester
11 5 (2.58%) Hadoop Developer
11 5 (2.58%) Java Developer
12 4 (2.06%) Analyst
12 4 (2.06%) Apache Spark Developer
12 4 (2.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (2.06%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.06%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (22.16%) PySpark
2 33 (17.01%) Kafka
3 22 (11.34%) Play Framework
4 17 (8.76%) REST
5 15 (7.73%) JSON
5 15 (7.73%) Spring
6 12 (6.19%) HTML
7 11 (5.67%) Akka
7 11 (5.67%) SOAP
8 9 (4.64%) EJB
8 9 (4.64%) Hibernate
8 9 (4.64%) HTML5
8 9 (4.64%) J2EE
8 9 (4.64%) J2SE
8 9 (4.64%) XML
9 8 (4.12%) RESTful
10 5 (2.58%) Spark Streaming
10 5 (2.58%) Spring Boot
11 4 (2.06%) Node.js
11 4 (2.06%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.31%) Algorithms
2 8 (4.12%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.61%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (2.58%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.55%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.55%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.03%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.03%) Music Streaming
7 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.03%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.52%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.52%) Derivative
8 1 (0.52%) Equities
8 1 (0.52%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.19%) Unix
2 10 (5.15%) Linux
3 4 (2.06%) Android
3 4 (2.06%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.52%) Debian
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (45.88%) Agile
2 73 (37.63%) CI/CD
3 69 (35.57%) Data Pipeline
4 55 (28.35%) Data Engineering
5 51 (26.29%) DevOps
6 48 (24.74%) ETL
7 45 (23.20%) Data Modelling
7 45 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (19.07%) Scrum
9 34 (17.53%) Data Governance
9 34 (17.53%) Data Science
10 31 (15.98%) Analytics
10 31 (15.98%) TDD
11 29 (14.95%) Machine Learning
12 27 (13.92%) Software Engineering
13 25 (12.89%) Microservices
14 24 (12.37%) Data Architecture
14 24 (12.37%) Data Integration
15 22 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (11.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 104 (53.61%) Python
2 94 (48.45%) SQL
3 75 (38.66%) Java
4 11 (5.67%) Kotlin
5 10 (5.15%) R
6 9 (4.64%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.61%) C++
7 7 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.06%) C
8 4 (2.06%) Go
8 4 (2.06%) Ruby
9 3 (1.55%) Bash
9 3 (1.55%) C#
9 3 (1.55%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.55%) Swift
10 2 (1.03%) Groovy
10 2 (1.03%) Korn
10 2 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (14.95%) SC Cleared
1 29 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.64%) Azure Certification
3 7 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.58%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.58%) Degree
5 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.03%) MCP
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (21.13%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.61%) QA
3 4 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) MiFID
4 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (20.10%) Docker
2 7 (3.61%) HDFS
3 4 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (14.95%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.73%) Terraform
3 11 (5.67%) Puppet
4 9 (4.64%) Ansible
5 7 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.09%) Grafana
7 3 (1.55%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (1.55%) Kibana
7 3 (1.55%) Oozie
8 1 (0.52%) Graphite
8 1 (0.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 59 (30.41%) Databricks
2 12 (6.19%) Splunk
3 10 (5.15%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.15%) webMethods
4 7 (3.61%) Informatica
5 6 (3.09%) Google
6 5 (2.58%) Oracle
6 5 (2.58%) Talend
7 4 (2.06%) Cloudera
7 4 (2.06%) Mercator
8 3 (1.55%) Confluent
9 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.52%) Foundry
10 1 (0.52%) IBM
10 1 (0.52%) Palantir
10 1 (0.52%) PayPal
10 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.52%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.52%) Trillium
10 1 (0.52%) Zoomdata