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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 374 281
Rank change year-on-year -65 -93 +22
Contract jobs citing Scala 257 175 326
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.54% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.83% 1.65% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 107 198
10th Percentile £350 £380 £400
25th Percentile £408 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £507 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% -3.89% -10.97%
75th Percentile £588 £645 £684
90th Percentile £668 £755 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.58% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 2
10th Percentile - - £67.63
25th Percentile £37.24 £51.25 £69.69
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -28.81% -5.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.38 £77.19
90th Percentile - £57.95 £78.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - -13.46%

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 14,017 10,588 12,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.13% 32.77% 31.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,115 7,039 8,313
10th Percentile £363 £340 £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 £746 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 523 295 349
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.00 £29.55
25th Percentile £47.15 £37.23 £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 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.80 £80.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +3.17%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -74 187 £500 -1.38% 300
Work from Home +23 125 £450 -10.00% 117
London -67 113 £569 -2.15% 245
UK excluding London -76 73 £474 +12.80% 108
North of England -64 39 £475 +21.79% 25
Yorkshire -27 25 £500 +5.26% 3
Midlands -42 21 £490 +15.29% 6
West Midlands -35 19 £490 -3.40% 4
North East -27 11 £425 +6.25% 7
South East -70 8 £400 -14.53% 20
Scotland - 4 £410 - 20
North West -59 3 £375 -1.32% 15
East Midlands -27 2 £304 -27.62% 2
South West -45 1 £505 - 13

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 54 (21.01%) Apache Spark
2 33 (12.84%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (10.89%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Pig
4 2 (0.78%) Confluence
4 2 (0.78%) SAS
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 98 (38.13%) AWS
2 66 (25.68%) Azure
3 57 (22.18%) GCP
4 34 (13.23%) GitHub
5 22 (8.56%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (7.78%) Amazon S3
7 19 (7.39%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (5.84%) Serverless
10 14 (5.45%) dbt
11 13 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (5.06%) Azure Databricks
12 11 (4.28%) Power Platform
13 10 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (3.50%) Snowflake
15 8 (3.11%) Amazon EMR
15 8 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
17 6 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.45%) Big Data
2 30 (11.67%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (9.34%) NoSQL
4 22 (8.56%) MongoDB
5 21 (8.17%) BigQuery
6 16 (6.23%) Data Lake
6 16 (6.23%) Flink
7 14 (5.45%) SQL Server
8 13 (5.06%) Hadoop
9 12 (4.67%) Relational Database
10 11 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (3.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (3.89%) Power BI
12 8 (3.11%) Apache Hive
12 8 (3.11%) Presto
13 7 (2.72%) Delta Lake
13 7 (2.72%) Parquet
14 6 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 35 (13.62%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.00%) Gatling
3 16 (6.23%) Git
4 9 (3.50%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.50%) GitLab
5 7 (2.72%) Maven
6 6 (2.33%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.95%) JIRA
7 5 (1.95%) JMeter
7 5 (1.95%) MLflow
8 4 (1.56%) JUnit
8 4 (1.56%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.56%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.56%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.17%) ScalaTest
9 3 (1.17%) Selenium
9 3 (1.17%) TestNG
10 2 (0.78%) Appium
11 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 67 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.68%) Public Sector
3 38 (14.79%) Finance
4 25 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.11%) Banking
7 6 (2.33%) Retail
8 5 (1.95%) Games
9 4 (1.56%) Legal
10 3 (1.17%) Front Office
10 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.78%) Back Office
11 2 (0.78%) Local Government
12 1 (0.39%) Advertising
12 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 89 (34.63%) Developer
2 75 (29.18%) Scala Developer
3 70 (27.24%) Data Engineer
4 33 (12.84%) Senior
5 29 (11.28%) Scala Engineer
6 15 (5.84%) Lead
7 11 (4.28%) Analyst
7 11 (4.28%) Databricks Engineer
7 11 (4.28%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (3.89%) Architect
8 10 (3.89%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (3.89%) Senior Developer
8 10 (3.89%) Software Engineer
9 9 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) Python Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) Software Developer
11 7 (2.72%) Backend Developer
11 7 (2.72%) GCP Data Engineer
11 7 (2.72%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (20.62%) Terraform
2 43 (16.73%) Kafka
3 33 (12.84%) Play Framework
4 24 (9.34%) REST
5 19 (7.39%) Node.js
5 19 (7.39%) PySpark
6 17 (6.61%) RESTful
7 13 (5.06%) Playwright
7 13 (5.06%) Spring
8 11 (4.28%) Apache Beam
9 10 (3.89%) Akka
9 10 (3.89%) JSON
10 9 (3.50%) Apache Avro
10 9 (3.50%) Spring Boot
11 8 (3.11%) CSS
11 8 (3.11%) GraphQL
11 8 (3.11%) HTML
12 7 (2.72%) YAML
13 5 (1.95%) Django
13 5 (1.95%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.51%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.61%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.33%) Blog
5 5 (1.95%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.95%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.56%) Sports Betting
7 3 (1.17%) Derivative
7 3 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.17%) Equities
7 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (0.78%) BYOD
8 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.78%) PACS
8 2 (0.78%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.06%) Linux
2 6 (2.33%) Unix
3 3 (1.17%) Android
3 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.17%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.78%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) Debian
5 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (43.19%) CI/CD
2 104 (40.47%) Agile
3 67 (26.07%) DevOps
4 59 (22.96%) Data Pipeline
5 53 (20.62%) ETL
6 49 (19.07%) Microservices
7 48 (18.68%) Data Modelling
7 48 (18.68%) Software Engineering
8 44 (17.12%) Analytics
8 44 (17.12%) Data Engineering
9 39 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (13.23%) Test Automation
12 33 (12.84%) Functional Programming
13 32 (12.45%) Scrum
14 31 (12.06%) AI
15 30 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (11.28%) Data Science
16 29 (11.28%) TDD
17 28 (10.89%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 133 (51.75%) Python
2 97 (37.74%) Java
3 75 (29.18%) SQL
4 20 (7.78%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.84%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.45%) Go
7 8 (3.11%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.72%) C#
9 6 (2.33%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.95%) Bash
10 5 (1.95%) R
11 4 (1.56%) Bicep
11 4 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.17%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.78%) Korn
13 2 (0.78%) Ruby
14 1 (0.39%) PHP
14 1 (0.39%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.39%) Swift
14 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (20.23%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.40%) BPSS Clearance
3 36 (14.01%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.84%) Degree
5 6 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.40%) Data Quality
2 21 (8.17%) QA
3 15 (5.84%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.95%) WCAG
5 3 (1.17%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.78%) GDPR
7 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (19.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Apache Flume
2 2 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 53 (20.62%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.56%) Grafana
3 12 (4.67%) Kibana
4 9 (3.50%) HAProxy
4 9 (3.50%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.33%) Ansible
6 4 (1.56%) Puppet
7 2 (0.78%) Consul
7 2 (0.78%) Control-M
8 1 (0.39%) logstash
Vendors
1 35 (13.62%) Databricks
2 24 (9.34%) Google
3 21 (8.17%) Splunk
4 16 (6.23%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.33%) Informatica
5 6 (2.33%) New Relic
5 6 (2.33%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.56%) Cloudera
6 4 (1.56%) Confluent
6 4 (1.56%) Foundry
6 4 (1.56%) KANA
6 4 (1.56%) Mistral
7 2 (0.78%) Pega
7 2 (0.78%) Talend
8 1 (0.39%) Adobe
8 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.39%) IBM
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle
8 1 (0.39%) Reuters
8 1 (0.39%) Trayport