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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 377 257
Rank change year-on-year -57 -120 +25
Contract jobs citing Scala 241 180 365
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.55% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.71% 1.66% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 114 229
10th Percentile £350 £386 £400
25th Percentile £402 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -5.91% -6.38%
75th Percentile £593 £686 £699
90th Percentile £675 £818 £832
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £420 £453
% change year-on-year +16.07% -7.28% -21.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile £37.24 - £27.63
25th Percentile £40.25 £51.25 £36.49
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% - -32.69%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.38 £61.25
90th Percentile - £57.95 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 - £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 14,132 10,838 12,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.46% 32.98% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,185 7,283 8,549
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -5.09% -3.64%
75th Percentile £617 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 264 409
10th Percentile £30.35 £28.05 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £35.75 £46.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.15 £84.04 £77.50
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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -74 177 £525 -1.87% 176
Work from Home +20 117 £450 -10.00% 78
London -66 110 £575 +0.22% 122
UK excluding London -85 64 £488 +16.07% 72
North of England -63 33 £500 +25.00% 18
Yorkshire -24 24 £500 -16.67% 6
Midlands -53 18 £481 +14.52% 16
West Midlands -50 15 £486 +14.24% 14
South East -67 8 £431 -7.85% 9
North East -38 5 £443 +10.63% 5
North West -49 4 £438 +9.38% 7
Scotland - 3 £363 - 4
East Midlands -23 2 £304 -27.62% 2
South West - 2 £543 - 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 49 (20.33%) Apache Spark
2 28 (11.62%) Apache
2 28 (11.62%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.24%) SAS
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Pig
4 2 (0.83%) Confluence
4 2 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 88 (36.51%) AWS
2 59 (24.48%) Azure
3 52 (21.58%) GCP
4 30 (12.45%) GitHub
5 23 (9.54%) Amazon S3
6 20 (8.30%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (7.05%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (6.64%) Serverless
9 14 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (5.39%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (4.98%) dbt
12 11 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.56%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.32%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (2.90%) Snowflake
15 6 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (2.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 5 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (2.07%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.69%) Big Data
2 29 (12.03%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (10.37%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (9.96%) NoSQL
5 18 (7.47%) BigQuery
5 18 (7.47%) SQL Server
6 17 (7.05%) Data Lake
7 16 (6.64%) Flink
7 16 (6.64%) MongoDB
8 13 (5.39%) Hadoop
9 12 (4.98%) Relational Database
10 11 (4.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (4.15%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (3.73%) Apache Hive
12 9 (3.73%) Power BI
13 8 (3.32%) Delta Lake
13 8 (3.32%) Presto
14 7 (2.90%) DynamoDB
14 7 (2.90%) Parquet
14 7 (2.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (13.69%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.47%) Gatling
2 18 (7.47%) Git
3 8 (3.32%) GitLab
4 7 (2.90%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.49%) Artifactory
5 6 (2.49%) Maven
6 5 (2.07%) JIRA
6 5 (2.07%) JMeter
7 4 (1.66%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.66%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.66%) NeoLoad
7 4 (1.66%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.24%) JUnit
8 3 (1.24%) Selenium
8 3 (1.24%) TestNG
9 2 (0.83%) MLflow
10 1 (0.41%) Appium
10 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.18%) Public Sector
3 37 (15.35%) Finance
4 24 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.98%) Banking
6 6 (2.49%) Retail
7 5 (2.07%) Games
8 4 (1.66%) Front Office
8 4 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.66%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.66%) Legal
9 3 (1.24%) Back Office
10 2 (0.83%) Local Government
11 1 (0.41%) Advertising
11 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 82 (34.02%) Developer
2 68 (28.22%) Scala Developer
3 64 (26.56%) Data Engineer
4 27 (11.20%) Scala Engineer
5 26 (10.79%) Senior
6 15 (6.22%) Lead
7 12 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.56%) Analyst
8 11 (4.56%) Architect
8 11 (4.56%) Software Engineer
9 8 (3.32%) Python Engineer
9 8 (3.32%) Senior Developer
10 7 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (2.90%) Backend Developer
10 7 (2.90%) GCP Data Engineer
10 7 (2.90%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (2.49%) Data Architect
11 6 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (2.49%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.52%) Kafka
2 27 (11.20%) Play Framework
3 24 (9.96%) PySpark
4 17 (7.05%) REST
5 16 (6.64%) Node.js
6 14 (5.81%) Playwright
7 12 (4.98%) RESTful
7 12 (4.98%) Spring
8 11 (4.56%) Apache Beam
9 9 (3.73%) Apache Avro
10 8 (3.32%) Akka
10 8 (3.32%) CSS
10 8 (3.32%) HTML
10 8 (3.32%) JSON
10 8 (3.32%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.90%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.49%) React
13 5 (2.07%) Protocol Buffers
13 5 (2.07%) YAML
14 4 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.71%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.66%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.66%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.66%) Derivative
4 4 (1.66%) Equities
4 4 (1.66%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (0.83%) BYOD
6 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.83%) PACS
6 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.41%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.98%) Linux
2 7 (2.90%) Unix
3 4 (1.66%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.83%) Android
4 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.83%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Debian
5 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (39.00%) CI/CD
2 89 (36.93%) Agile
3 63 (26.14%) Data Pipeline
4 58 (24.07%) DevOps
5 49 (20.33%) ETL
6 48 (19.92%) Data Modelling
7 41 (17.01%) Data Engineering
8 40 (16.60%) Microservices
8 40 (16.60%) Software Engineering
9 39 (16.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (15.77%) Analytics
11 36 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (12.45%) Data Governance
12 30 (12.45%) Data Science
12 30 (12.45%) Test Automation
13 29 (12.03%) Functional Programming
14 25 (10.37%) AI
14 25 (10.37%) Containerisation
15 23 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (9.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 126 (52.28%) Python
2 92 (38.17%) Java
3 75 (31.12%) SQL
4 18 (7.47%) TypeScript
5 17 (7.05%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.81%) Go
7 7 (2.90%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.49%) Bash
8 6 (2.49%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.66%) R
10 3 (1.24%) Bicep
10 3 (1.24%) C#
11 2 (0.83%) Korn
11 2 (0.83%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.83%) PHP
11 2 (0.83%) Ruby
12 1 (0.41%) SHACL
12 1 (0.41%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 50 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.15%) Degree
5 5 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (17.01%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.30%) QA
3 11 (4.56%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.07%) WCAG
5 3 (1.24%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.83%) GDPR
7 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (18.67%) Docker
2 4 (1.66%) HDFS
3 2 (0.83%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 51 (21.16%) Terraform
2 47 (19.50%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.22%) Grafana
4 12 (4.98%) Kibana
5 9 (3.73%) HAProxy
6 8 (3.32%) Ansible
6 8 (3.32%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.83%) Consul
7 2 (0.83%) Puppet
8 1 (0.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 31 (12.86%) Databricks
2 22 (9.13%) Google
3 17 (7.05%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.22%) Splunk
5 6 (2.49%) New Relic
6 5 (2.07%) Informatica
7 4 (1.66%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.66%) Confluent
7 4 (1.66%) KANA
8 3 (1.24%) Denodo
8 3 (1.24%) Foundry
8 3 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.83%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.83%) Oracle
9 2 (0.83%) Palantir
9 2 (0.83%) Pega
10 1 (0.41%) Adobe
10 1 (0.41%) IBM
10 1 (0.41%) Reuters
10 1 (0.41%) Trayport