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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 340 290
Rank change year-on-year -56 -50 -47
Contract jobs citing Scala 229 185 343
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.63% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.78% 1.84% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 121 247
10th Percentile £376 £400 £379
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £663 £700
90th Percentile £749 £813 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £460
% change year-on-year +5.82% +2.72% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £34.80 - £23.54
25th Percentile £41.25 £51.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% +26.51% -35.91%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - - £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £41.50
% change year-on-year - - +0.04%

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 12,852 10,050 12,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.69% 34.03% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,520 6,806 9,111
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £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 £713 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 242 479
10th Percentile £42.50 £22.48 £31.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -1.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -74 188 £525 -4.55% 49
London -40 134 £550 -4.35% 29
Work from Home +7 91 £525 -4.55% 35
UK excluding London -91 53 £500 +5.82% 31
North of England -50 31 £488 -7.14% 10
Yorkshire -39 22 £488 -9.30% 1
Midlands -59 15 £496 +12.27% 4
West Midlands -52 13 £496 +4.47% 3
North East -15 7 £525 -4.55% 3
North West -39 3 £500 +12.36% 6
Scotland - 3 £513 - 1
South East -53 2 £388 -17.55% 9
South West - 2 £508 - 1
East Midlands -40 1 £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 74 (32.31%) Apache Spark
2 28 (12.23%) Apache
3 22 (9.61%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.75%) JBoss
4 4 (1.75%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.31%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.44%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 99 (43.23%) Azure
2 86 (37.55%) AWS
3 39 (17.03%) Azure Data Factory
4 38 (16.59%) GCP
5 33 (14.41%) GitHub
6 26 (11.35%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (10.92%) Amazon S3
8 22 (9.61%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (8.73%) Power Platform
10 19 (8.30%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (7.86%) Serverless
12 14 (6.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.93%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (3.06%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (3.06%) Snowflake
16 6 (2.62%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.18%) HTTP
2 1 (0.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (17.90%) NoSQL
2 39 (17.03%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (14.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (13.97%) Big Data
5 31 (13.54%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (9.61%) Data Lake
6 22 (9.61%) MongoDB
7 20 (8.73%) Delta Lake
8 19 (8.30%) Power BI
9 17 (7.42%) Relational Database
9 17 (7.42%) SQL Server
9 17 (7.42%) Tableau
10 15 (6.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (6.11%) Hadoop
12 11 (4.80%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (4.37%) Flink
14 9 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (3.06%) Presto
16 6 (2.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 61 (26.64%) Git
2 45 (19.65%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.68%) Gatling
4 11 (4.80%) GitLab
5 9 (3.93%) Postman
6 6 (2.62%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.62%) JIRA
6 6 (2.62%) Maven
7 5 (2.18%) JUnit
7 5 (2.18%) Mockito
7 5 (2.18%) ScalaTest
7 5 (2.18%) Selenium
8 4 (1.75%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.75%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.75%) JMeter
8 4 (1.75%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.75%) MLflow
8 4 (1.75%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.75%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
General
1 50 (21.83%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.47%) Finance
3 25 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.61%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.11%) Banking
6 7 (3.06%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.18%) Front Office
9 4 (1.75%) Back Office
9 4 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.31%) Retail
11 2 (0.87%) Legal
11 2 (0.87%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Games
12 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 85 (37.12%) Data Engineer
2 55 (24.02%) Developer
3 45 (19.65%) Scala Developer
4 25 (10.92%) Senior
5 23 (10.04%) Azure Engineer
5 23 (10.04%) Scala Engineer
6 20 (8.73%) Azure Data Engineer
7 17 (7.42%) Lead
7 17 (7.42%) Senior Data Engineer
8 16 (6.99%) Architect
9 13 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.93%) Data Architect
10 9 (3.93%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.62%) Automation Test Lead
11 6 (2.62%) Java Engineer
12 5 (2.18%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (2.18%) Lead Architect
12 5 (2.18%) Python Engineer
13 4 (1.75%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (26.64%) PySpark
2 31 (13.54%) Kafka
3 27 (11.79%) Play Framework
4 19 (8.30%) Playwright
5 16 (6.99%) REST
6 12 (5.24%) HTML
7 11 (4.80%) Akka
7 11 (4.80%) JSON
8 9 (3.93%) Node.js
8 9 (3.93%) RESTful
8 9 (3.93%) Spring
9 8 (3.49%) Apache Avro
9 8 (3.49%) CSS
10 6 (2.62%) React
11 5 (2.18%) OpenID
11 5 (2.18%) Protocol Buffers
11 5 (2.18%) YAML
12 4 (1.75%) Hibernate
12 4 (1.75%) HTML5
12 4 (1.75%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.73%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.11%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.18%) Derivative
4 5 (2.18%) Equities
5 4 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (1.31%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.31%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.31%) PACS
6 3 (1.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.87%) BYOD
7 2 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.44%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.44%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.44%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.24%) Unix
2 9 (3.93%) Linux
3 5 (2.18%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.87%) Android
4 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.44%) Debian
5 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (44.98%) CI/CD
2 97 (42.36%) Agile
3 86 (37.55%) Data Pipeline
4 72 (31.44%) DevOps
5 66 (28.82%) Data Engineering
6 64 (27.95%) Data Modelling
7 55 (24.02%) ETL
8 52 (22.71%) Data Governance
9 43 (18.78%) Analytics
9 43 (18.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (15.28%) Data Architecture
12 31 (13.54%) Test Automation
13 30 (13.10%) Data Integration
14 29 (12.66%) Data Science
15 28 (12.23%) Software Engineering
16 26 (11.35%) AI
16 26 (11.35%) Integration Patterns
17 24 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
18 23 (10.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 143 (62.45%) Python
2 98 (42.79%) SQL
3 66 (28.82%) Java
4 21 (9.17%) TypeScript
5 16 (6.99%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.06%) R
7 6 (2.62%) Go
8 4 (1.75%) Cypher
9 2 (0.87%) Bash
9 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.87%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.44%) C#
10 1 (0.44%) Perl
10 1 (0.44%) PHP
10 1 (0.44%) Ruby
10 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.44%) Swift
10 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (30.57%) Security Cleared
2 63 (27.51%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (4.80%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.93%) Degree
6 7 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.31%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.44%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (27.07%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.24%) QA
3 9 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.18%) WCAG
5 4 (1.75%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.87%) GDPR
6 2 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (22.71%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (1.31%) HDFS
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 52 (22.71%) Terraform
2 42 (18.34%) Kubernetes
3 14 (6.11%) Grafana
4 13 (5.68%) Kibana
5 9 (3.93%) HAProxy
6 6 (2.62%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.18%) Ansible
8 4 (1.75%) Puppet
9 1 (0.44%) Consul
9 1 (0.44%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.44%) logstash
9 1 (0.44%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 67 (29.26%) Databricks
2 19 (8.30%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.37%) Splunk
4 8 (3.49%) Google
5 6 (2.62%) Confluent
6 4 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.75%) webMethods
7 3 (1.31%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.31%) Foundry
7 3 (1.31%) Mercator
7 3 (1.31%) Oracle
7 3 (1.31%) Palantir
8 2 (0.87%) Denodo
8 2 (0.87%) IBM
8 2 (0.87%) Informatica
9 1 (0.44%) Adobe
9 1 (0.44%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.44%) PayPal
9 1 (0.44%) Sybase
9 1 (0.44%) Typelevel