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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 340 293
Rank change year-on-year -80 -47 -51
Contract jobs citing Scala 219 195 334
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.67% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 1.97% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 123 242
10th Percentile £378 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £443 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% -3.30% -1.09%
75th Percentile £603 £690 £750
90th Percentile £749 £812 £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £488
% change year-on-year +6.38% -3.59% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £31.58 - £24.14
25th Percentile £33.19 £51.25 £27.75
Median hourly rate £36.75 £52.50 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +24.44% -34.84%
75th Percentile £40.69 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.53 - £62.75
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 12,887 9,923 12,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 28.44% 33.95% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,578 6,676 9,147
10th Percentile £355 £356 £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 £718 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £478 £488
% change year-on-year -0.47% -1.95% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 242 481
10th Percentile £41.62 £22.25 £30.63
25th Percentile £54.55 £32.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.38 £67.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £61.30
% change year-on-year +1.56% +4.40% -1.92%

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 5 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
Top 13 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 5 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 -94 182 £540 -1.82% 55
London -54 132 £550 -6.38% 30
Work from Home -9 84 £550 - 36
UK excluding London -83 50 £500 +6.38% 45
North of England -69 24 £500 -6.98% 16
Midlands -60 19 £518 +17.08% 1
West Midlands -43 18 £496 +4.47% 1
Yorkshire -50 16 £494 -8.14% 5
North East -11 6 £475 -13.64% 1
South East -47 4 £577 +23.03% 13
North West -47 3 £500 +12.36% 10
Scotland - 3 £513 - 7
South West -24 2 £508 +27.09% 4

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 66 (30.14%) Apache Spark
2 29 (13.24%) Apache
3 13 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.83%) JBoss
4 4 (1.83%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.37%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.37%) SAS
6 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.46%) LiveCycle
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 99 (45.21%) Azure
2 74 (33.79%) AWS
3 43 (19.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (16.89%) GCP
5 29 (13.24%) GitHub
6 28 (12.79%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (9.13%) Power Platform
8 15 (6.85%) Amazon S3
8 15 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (5.94%) Serverless
10 12 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (3.65%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (2.28%) Amazon MSK
15 5 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.74%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (18.72%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (17.35%) NoSQL
3 37 (16.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (10.50%) Data Lake
5 22 (10.05%) Big Data
6 21 (9.59%) Delta Lake
7 19 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (8.68%) Power BI
8 15 (6.85%) MongoDB
8 15 (6.85%) Relational Database
8 15 (6.85%) Tableau
9 13 (5.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (5.48%) Hadoop
10 12 (5.48%) SQL Server
11 9 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (3.65%) Flink
13 6 (2.74%) BigQuery
13 6 (2.74%) Spark SQL
14 5 (2.28%) Neo4j
14 5 (2.28%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 63 (28.77%) Git
2 33 (15.07%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.57%) GitLab
4 9 (4.11%) Gatling
4 9 (4.11%) Postman
5 6 (2.74%) JIRA
6 5 (2.28%) Maven
6 5 (2.28%) Mockito
6 5 (2.28%) ScalaTest
6 5 (2.28%) Selenium
7 4 (1.83%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.83%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.83%) JMeter
7 4 (1.83%) JUnit
7 4 (1.83%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.83%) MLflow
7 4 (1.83%) NeoLoad
7 4 (1.83%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.37%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.91%) Gradle
General
1 47 (21.46%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.26%) Finance
3 19 (8.68%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.94%) Banking
6 6 (2.74%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.83%) Back Office
7 4 (1.83%) Front Office
7 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.83%) Retail
8 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Games
8 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.46%) Legal
8 1 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 81 (36.99%) Data Engineer
2 49 (22.37%) Developer
3 39 (17.81%) Scala Developer
4 27 (12.33%) Senior
5 25 (11.42%) Azure Engineer
6 22 (10.05%) Azure Data Engineer
7 17 (7.76%) Scala Engineer
7 17 (7.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (6.85%) Lead
9 13 (5.94%) Architect
10 10 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.74%) Automation Test Lead
12 6 (2.74%) Data Architect
13 5 (2.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 5 (2.28%) Java Engineer
13 5 (2.28%) Python Engineer
14 4 (1.83%) Analyst
14 4 (1.83%) Data Analyst
14 4 (1.83%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (29.22%) PySpark
2 33 (15.07%) Kafka
3 24 (10.96%) Play Framework
4 18 (8.22%) REST
5 14 (6.39%) Playwright
6 12 (5.48%) Akka
6 12 (5.48%) JSON
7 9 (4.11%) Node.js
8 8 (3.65%) Spring
9 7 (3.20%) React
9 7 (3.20%) RESTful
10 5 (2.28%) Apache Avro
10 5 (2.28%) OpenID
10 5 (2.28%) YAML
11 4 (1.83%) Hibernate
11 4 (1.83%) HTML5
11 4 (1.83%) J2SE
11 4 (1.83%) LDAP
11 4 (1.83%) SailPoint
11 4 (1.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.94%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.83%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.83%) Derivative
4 4 (1.83%) Equities
4 4 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.37%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.46%) BYOD
7 1 (0.46%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.46%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.65%) Unix
2 5 (2.28%) Linux
3 4 (1.83%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.91%) Android
4 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) Debian
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (46.58%) CI/CD
2 90 (41.10%) Agile
3 86 (39.27%) Data Pipeline
4 69 (31.51%) DevOps
5 67 (30.59%) Data Engineering
6 64 (29.22%) Data Modelling
7 53 (24.20%) Data Governance
8 52 (23.74%) ETL
9 41 (18.72%) Analytics
10 39 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (15.98%) Data Architecture
12 32 (14.61%) Data Integration
12 32 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (12.79%) Data Science
13 28 (12.79%) Integration Patterns
14 26 (11.87%) AI
15 24 (10.96%) Test Automation
16 23 (10.50%) Software Engineering
17 22 (10.05%) Business Intelligence
18 21 (9.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 128 (58.45%) Python
2 92 (42.01%) SQL
3 52 (23.74%) Java
4 24 (10.96%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.20%) Go
7 6 (2.74%) R
8 4 (1.83%) Cypher
9 2 (0.91%) Bash
9 2 (0.91%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.46%) C#
10 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.46%) Groovy
10 1 (0.46%) Perl
10 1 (0.46%) PHP
10 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.46%) Ruby
10 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.03%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (5.48%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.65%) Degree
6 7 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (28.31%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.94%) QA
3 8 (3.65%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.28%) WCAG
5 2 (0.91%) GDPR
5 2 (0.91%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.91%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) MiFID
System Software
1 45 (20.55%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (0.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 42 (19.18%) Kubernetes
2 38 (17.35%) Terraform
3 7 (3.20%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.74%) Grafana
5 5 (2.28%) Ansible
5 5 (2.28%) Kibana
6 4 (1.83%) HAProxy
6 4 (1.83%) Puppet
7 1 (0.46%) Consul
7 1 (0.46%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.46%) logstash
7 1 (0.46%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 72 (32.88%) Databricks
2 13 (5.94%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.74%) Google
4 5 (2.28%) Confluent
4 5 (2.28%) Oracle
5 4 (1.83%) Cloudera
5 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.83%) Splunk
5 4 (1.83%) webMethods
6 3 (1.37%) Foundry
6 3 (1.37%) Mercator
6 3 (1.37%) Palantir
7 2 (0.91%) Denodo
7 2 (0.91%) IBM
7 2 (0.91%) Informatica
8 1 (0.46%) Adobe
8 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.46%) PayPal
8 1 (0.46%) Sybase
8 1 (0.46%) Typelevel