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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 393 281
Rank change year-on-year -21 -112 +15
Contract jobs citing Scala 265 175 317
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.53% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 1.61% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 105 191
10th Percentile £350 £380 £400
25th Percentile £411 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £507 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% -6.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £641 £688
90th Percentile £663 £758 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £420 £473
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.11% -14.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.24 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -34.38% +2.56%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.38 -
90th Percentile - £57.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 - -

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 14,215 10,846 12,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.03% 32.85% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,222 7,180 8,365
10th Percentile £363 £344 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.62% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 534 298 342
10th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £27.00
25th Percentile £46.76 £36.96 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% -

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -76 192 £500 -1.43% 168
Work from Home +10 129 £450 -10.00% 219
London -50 116 £569 -1.09% 136
UK excluding London -76 75 £474 +12.80% 72
North of England -57 41 £475 +21.79% 15
Yorkshire -25 25 £500 +5.26% 3
Midlands -41 21 £490 +15.29% 2
West Midlands -35 19 £490 -3.40% 1
North East -34 13 £425 +6.25% 5
South East -55 8 £400 -11.11% 19
Scotland - 4 £410 - 14
North West -53 3 £375 -1.32% 7
East Midlands -18 2 £304 -27.62% 1
South West -47 1 £505 - 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 55 (20.75%) Apache Spark
2 34 (12.83%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (10.94%) Apache
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Pig
4 2 (0.75%) Confluence
4 2 (0.75%) SAS
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Luigi
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 101 (38.11%) AWS
2 65 (24.53%) Azure
3 55 (20.75%) GCP
4 35 (13.21%) GitHub
5 24 (9.06%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (7.92%) Amazon S3
7 20 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (6.04%) Serverless
9 15 (5.66%) dbt
10 14 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (4.91%) Azure Databricks
12 10 (3.77%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.77%) Snowflake
13 8 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (2.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.08%) Big Data
1 32 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (11.70%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (9.06%) MongoDB
3 24 (9.06%) NoSQL
4 21 (7.92%) BigQuery
5 16 (6.04%) Flink
6 14 (5.28%) Data Lake
6 14 (5.28%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (4.53%) Hadoop
7 12 (4.53%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (3.40%) Power BI
10 8 (3.02%) Apache Hive
10 8 (3.02%) Presto
11 7 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (2.64%) Parquet
12 6 (2.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (13.58%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.79%) Gatling
3 17 (6.42%) Git
4 10 (3.77%) Cucumber
4 10 (3.77%) GitLab
5 8 (3.02%) Maven
6 6 (2.26%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.89%) JIRA
7 5 (1.89%) JMeter
7 5 (1.89%) JUnit
7 5 (1.89%) MLflow
8 4 (1.51%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.51%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.51%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.13%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.13%) ScalaTest
9 3 (1.13%) Selenium
9 3 (1.13%) TestNG
10 2 (0.75%) Gradle
10 2 (0.75%) Mockito
General
1 70 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 51 (19.25%) Public Sector
3 39 (14.72%) Finance
4 25 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.02%) Banking
7 6 (2.26%) Retail
8 5 (1.89%) Games
9 4 (1.51%) Legal
10 2 (0.75%) Advertising
10 2 (0.75%) Front Office
10 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.75%) Local Government
11 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.38%) Automotive
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Law
11 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 97 (36.60%) Developer
2 82 (30.94%) Scala Developer
3 70 (26.42%) Data Engineer
4 33 (12.45%) Senior
5 29 (10.94%) Scala Engineer
6 16 (6.04%) Lead
7 11 (4.15%) Analyst
7 11 (4.15%) Databricks Engineer
7 11 (4.15%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (3.77%) Senior Developer
8 10 (3.77%) Software Engineer
9 9 (3.40%) Architect
10 8 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.02%) Python Engineer
10 8 (3.02%) Software Developer
11 7 (2.64%) Backend Developer
11 7 (2.64%) GCP Data Engineer
11 7 (2.64%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.38%) Terraform
2 45 (16.98%) Kafka
3 35 (13.21%) Play Framework
4 28 (10.57%) REST
5 20 (7.55%) PySpark
6 19 (7.17%) Node.js
7 17 (6.42%) RESTful
8 14 (5.28%) Spring
9 13 (4.91%) Playwright
10 11 (4.15%) Apache Beam
11 10 (3.77%) Akka
11 10 (3.77%) JSON
11 10 (3.77%) Spring Boot
12 9 (3.40%) Apache Avro
12 9 (3.40%) GraphQL
13 8 (3.02%) CSS
13 8 (3.02%) HTML
14 7 (2.64%) YAML
15 6 (2.26%) LangChain
15 6 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.19%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.42%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.64%) Blog
5 6 (2.26%) AI Agents
6 5 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.51%) Sports Betting
8 3 (1.13%) BYOD
8 3 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.13%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.75%) Derivative
9 2 (0.75%) Equities
9 2 (0.75%) PACS
9 2 (0.75%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.38%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.28%) Linux
2 6 (2.26%) Unix
3 4 (1.51%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.13%) Android
4 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.75%) VMS
6 1 (0.38%) Debian
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (43.77%) CI/CD
2 108 (40.75%) Agile
3 67 (25.28%) DevOps
4 59 (22.26%) Data Pipeline
5 52 (19.62%) ETL
5 52 (19.62%) Microservices
6 48 (18.11%) Data Modelling
6 48 (18.11%) Software Engineering
7 44 (16.60%) Data Engineering
8 42 (15.85%) Analytics
9 39 (14.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (13.96%) Functional Programming
11 35 (13.21%) Test Automation
12 34 (12.83%) Scrum
13 33 (12.45%) AI
14 32 (12.08%) TDD
15 31 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (11.70%) Observability
16 29 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 132 (49.81%) Python
2 99 (37.36%) Java
3 74 (27.92%) SQL
4 21 (7.92%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.04%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.28%) Go
7 8 (3.02%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.64%) C#
9 6 (2.26%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.89%) Bash
10 5 (1.89%) R
11 4 (1.51%) Bicep
11 4 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.51%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.75%) Korn
12 2 (0.75%) Ruby
13 1 (0.38%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.38%) Swift
13 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 37 (13.96%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.66%) Degree
5 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (13.58%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.30%) QA
3 16 (6.04%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.89%) WCAG
5 3 (1.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.38%) GDPR
6 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (19.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Apache Flume
2 2 (0.75%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 56 (21.13%) Kubernetes
2 25 (9.43%) Grafana
3 12 (4.53%) Kibana
4 11 (4.15%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.40%) HAProxy
6 6 (2.26%) Ansible
7 4 (1.51%) Puppet
8 2 (0.75%) Consul
8 2 (0.75%) Control-M
9 1 (0.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 35 (13.21%) Databricks
2 23 (8.68%) Google
3 22 (8.30%) Splunk
4 16 (6.04%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.64%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.26%) Informatica
6 6 (2.26%) New Relic
7 4 (1.51%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.51%) Confluent
7 4 (1.51%) Foundry
7 4 (1.51%) KANA
7 4 (1.51%) Mistral
7 4 (1.51%) Oracle
8 2 (0.75%) Pega
8 2 (0.75%) Talend
9 1 (0.38%) Adobe
9 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.38%) IBM
9 1 (0.38%) Reuters
9 1 (0.38%) Trayport