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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 364 262
Rank change year-on-year -73 -102 +23
Contract jobs citing Scala 227 183 380
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.56% 0.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.61% 1.70% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 117 252
10th Percentile £350 £392 £375
25th Percentile £419 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +4.27% -10.21%
75th Percentile £600 £713 £699
90th Percentile £706 £825 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £455 £460
% change year-on-year +7.26% -1.20% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile £40.18 - £27.63
25th Percentile £57.44 £51.25 £36.49
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% - -30.00%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.38 £61.25
90th Percentile - £57.95 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +169.37%

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 14,143 10,777 12,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.86% 33.13% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,198 7,257 9,168
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 259 495
10th Percentile £34.01 £28.14 £30.88
25th Percentile £52.00 £36.37 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.59 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +4.00%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -108 167 £533 -3.18% 62
London -77 112 £578 -3.67% 41
Work from Home +6 107 £450 -10.00% 29
UK excluding London -88 55 £488 +7.26% 32
North of England -66 30 £494 -2.71% 11
Yorkshire -33 20 £494 -17.71% 2
Midlands -57 13 £402 -5.41% 3
West Midlands -54 10 £404 -10.33% 2
North East - 6 £484 - 3
Scotland - 5 £463 -
North West -56 4 £438 +9.38% 6
South East -67 4 £388 -17.20% 13
South West - 3 £505 - 5
East Midlands -20 2 £304 -25.85% 1

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 53 (23.35%) Apache Spark
2 29 (12.78%) Apache
3 27 (11.89%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.32%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.32%) SAS
5 2 (0.88%) Apache Pig
5 2 (0.88%) Confluence
6 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.44%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 91 (40.09%) AWS
2 69 (30.40%) Azure
3 48 (21.15%) GCP
4 36 (15.86%) GitHub
5 24 (10.57%) Amazon S3
6 21 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.49%) Serverless
9 16 (7.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (5.73%) Power Platform
11 12 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (3.96%) dbt
14 8 (3.52%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (3.52%) Snowflake
15 5 (2.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 4 (1.76%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) HTTP
2 1 (0.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.54%) Big Data
2 30 (13.22%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (11.01%) NoSQL
4 23 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (9.69%) Data Lake
6 20 (8.81%) SQL Server
7 17 (7.49%) MongoDB
8 15 (6.61%) BigQuery
9 13 (5.73%) Flink
9 13 (5.73%) Hadoop
9 13 (5.73%) Relational Database
10 12 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (4.85%) Delta Lake
11 11 (4.85%) Power BI
12 10 (4.41%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (3.52%) Apache Hive
13 8 (3.52%) Presto
13 8 (3.52%) Tableau
14 7 (3.08%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (14.98%) Jenkins
2 29 (12.78%) Git
3 14 (6.17%) Gatling
4 8 (3.52%) GitLab
5 7 (3.08%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.64%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.64%) Maven
7 5 (2.20%) JIRA
8 4 (1.76%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.76%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.32%) JUnit
9 3 (1.32%) Selenium
9 3 (1.32%) TestNG
10 1 (0.44%) Appium
10 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.44%) JMeter
10 1 (0.44%) MLflow
10 1 (0.44%) Mockito
10 1 (0.44%) ScalaTest
10 1 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (20.26%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.38%) Finance
3 28 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 27 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.17%) Banking
6 6 (2.64%) Retail
7 5 (2.20%) Games
7 5 (2.20%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.20%) Legal
8 4 (1.76%) Front Office
8 4 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.32%) Back Office
10 2 (0.88%) Local Government
11 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 71 (31.28%) Developer
2 62 (27.31%) Data Engineer
3 56 (24.67%) Scala Developer
4 24 (10.57%) Senior
5 21 (9.25%) Scala Engineer
6 14 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (5.29%) Architect
8 11 (4.85%) Analyst
8 11 (4.85%) Lead
9 9 (3.96%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (3.08%) Backend Developer
10 7 (3.08%) Data Architect
10 7 (3.08%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (3.08%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.64%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (2.64%) Python Engineer
12 5 (2.20%) GCP Data Engineer
12 5 (2.20%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.42%) Kafka
2 31 (13.66%) PySpark
3 18 (7.93%) Play Framework
4 16 (7.05%) Node.js
5 14 (6.17%) Playwright
6 13 (5.73%) REST
6 13 (5.73%) Spring
7 11 (4.85%) RESTful
8 9 (3.96%) Apache Avro
9 8 (3.52%) Apache Beam
9 8 (3.52%) CSS
9 8 (3.52%) HTML
9 8 (3.52%) JSON
9 8 (3.52%) Spring Boot
10 7 (3.08%) Akka
10 7 (3.08%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.08%) React
11 5 (2.20%) Protocol Buffers
12 4 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (1.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.05%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.61%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.76%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.76%) Derivative
4 4 (1.76%) Equities
4 4 (1.76%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (0.88%) BYOD
6 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.88%) PACS
6 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.44%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.44%) IoT
7 1 (0.44%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.73%) Linux
2 8 (3.52%) Unix
3 4 (1.76%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.88%) Android
4 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.88%) VMS
5 1 (0.44%) Debian
5 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (39.21%) CI/CD
2 81 (35.68%) Agile
3 64 (28.19%) Data Pipeline
4 60 (26.43%) DevOps
5 53 (23.35%) ETL
6 51 (22.47%) Data Modelling
7 42 (18.50%) Analytics
8 40 (17.62%) Data Engineering
8 40 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 36 (15.86%) Software Engineering
10 35 (15.42%) Data Governance
11 32 (14.10%) Data Science
12 30 (13.22%) Test Automation
13 28 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (11.89%) AI
15 26 (11.45%) Microservices
16 24 (10.57%) Containerisation
16 24 (10.57%) Functional Programming
17 23 (10.13%) Platform Engineering
18 20 (8.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 129 (56.83%) Python
2 83 (36.56%) Java
2 83 (36.56%) SQL
3 20 (8.81%) TypeScript
4 19 (8.37%) JavaScript
5 14 (6.17%) Go
6 6 (2.64%) Bash
7 4 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.76%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.32%) C#
8 3 (1.32%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.32%) R
9 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.88%) PHP
9 2 (0.88%) Ruby
9 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.44%) Korn
10 1 (0.44%) Perl
10 1 (0.44%) SHACL
10 1 (0.44%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 48 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 36 (15.86%) SC Cleared
3 34 (14.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.41%) Degree
5 5 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.44%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (18.94%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.49%) QA
3 11 (4.85%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.20%) WCAG
5 3 (1.32%) GDPR
5 3 (1.32%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.88%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 42 (18.50%) Docker
2 4 (1.76%) HDFS
3 2 (0.88%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 54 (23.79%) Terraform
2 45 (19.82%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.61%) Grafana
4 11 (4.85%) Kibana
5 9 (3.96%) Ansible
5 9 (3.96%) HAProxy
6 8 (3.52%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.88%) Consul
7 2 (0.88%) Puppet
8 1 (0.44%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.44%) logstash
Vendors
1 33 (14.54%) Databricks
2 17 (7.49%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.61%) Google
4 12 (5.29%) Splunk
5 5 (2.20%) Informatica
6 4 (1.76%) Cloudera
6 4 (1.76%) Confluent
6 4 (1.76%) KANA
7 3 (1.32%) Denodo
7 3 (1.32%) Foundry
7 3 (1.32%) New Relic
7 3 (1.32%) Oracle
7 3 (1.32%) Palantir
8 2 (0.88%) Adobe
8 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.88%) Pega
9 1 (0.44%) Okta
9 1 (0.44%) Trayport
9 1 (0.44%) Typelevel