Scala
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Scala skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scala over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 249 210
Rank change year-on-year -21 -39 -67
Contract jobs citing Scala 356 641 1,193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 1.11% 1.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.80% 3.18% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 447 749
10th Percentile £378 £463 £450
25th Percentile £450 £500 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £699 £688 £714
90th Percentile £825 £832 £814
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -16.36% +1.85% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 5
10th Percentile £23.54 - £25.95
25th Percentile £26.25 £19.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.50 £68.50 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.42% -13.02% +224.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.13 £82.50
90th Percentile £64.25 £79.20 £83.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.50 £41.49 £19.91
% change year-on-year +0.04% +108.36% -17.90%

All Programming Languages
UK

Scala is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,732 20,185 31,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.61% 34.87% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,059 14,540 23,074
10th Percentile £350 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £763 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.35% +2.46% +14.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 464 511
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.16 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.36 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.43 £61.84 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +22.45% +16.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +19.05%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scala.

Daily rate trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scala.

Hourly rate trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scala over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Top 15 Contract 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 10 May 2024. 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 -63 272 £563 -2.17% 85
London -29 210 £625 +8.70% 61
Work from Home -33 107 £525 -8.70% 88
UK excluding London +26 99 £460 -16.36% 40
Scotland +71 39 £453 -9.40% 10
North of England +17 29 £450 -21.74% 9
South East +13 19 £575 +15.00% 7
Yorkshire +20 18 £425 -24.44% 2
North West +5 9 £475 -17.39% 7
Midlands +18 8 £513 -13.87%
East Midlands - 6 £513 -
North East +16 2 £525 +16.67%
East of England +14 2 £375 -21.05%
West Midlands +4 2 £485 -18.49%
South West -13 2 £450 -18.18% 4

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 81 (22.75%) Apache Spark
2 41 (11.52%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (8.71%) Apache
4 5 (1.40%) Confluence
5 3 (0.84%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.84%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) RMDS
2 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 144 (40.45%) AWS
2 82 (23.03%) Azure
3 75 (21.07%) GCP
4 35 (9.83%) Snowflake
5 23 (6.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (5.90%) Power Platform
7 19 (5.34%) dbt
8 17 (4.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (4.78%) Serverless
9 16 (4.49%) Amazon EMR
10 15 (4.21%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.25%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.97%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.69%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.40%) CloudBees
15 5 (1.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 45 (12.64%) HTTP
2 3 (0.84%) Firewall
3 2 (0.56%) BGP
3 2 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.28%) FTP
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (16.01%) Big Data
2 47 (13.20%) Apache Cassandra
3 41 (11.52%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (8.43%) NoSQL
5 26 (7.30%) Data Lake
5 26 (7.30%) MongoDB
6 23 (6.46%) Hadoop
7 21 (5.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (5.90%) Power BI
8 20 (5.62%) Relational Database
9 19 (5.34%) Apache Hive
10 17 (4.78%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (3.65%) Tableau
12 12 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (3.37%) Impala
13 9 (2.53%) HBase
13 9 (2.53%) Spark SQL
14 7 (1.97%) Apache Ignite
14 7 (1.97%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 32 (8.99%) Git
2 25 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.90%) JIRA
4 19 (5.34%) Cucumber
5 11 (3.09%) Maven
6 10 (2.81%) Gatling
7 9 (2.53%) ScalaTest
8 8 (2.25%) Subversion
9 7 (1.97%) Mockito
10 6 (1.69%) MLflow
10 6 (1.69%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.40%) GitLab
11 5 (1.40%) Gradle
11 5 (1.40%) JUnit
11 5 (1.40%) Selenium
12 4 (1.12%) JMeter
12 4 (1.12%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.84%) Deequ
14 2 (0.56%) Android Studio
14 2 (0.56%) Ant
General
1 83 (23.31%) Finance
2 61 (17.13%) Social Skills
3 60 (16.85%) Banking
4 59 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (10.96%) Investment Banking
6 15 (4.21%) Front Office
7 10 (2.81%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.53%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.40%) Marketing
11 4 (1.12%) Electronics
11 4 (1.12%) Retail
12 2 (0.56%) Czech Language
12 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.28%) Back Office
13 1 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Law
13 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 184 (51.69%) Developer
2 130 (36.52%) Scala Developer
3 74 (20.79%) Data Engineer
4 50 (14.04%) Senior
5 44 (12.36%) Java Developer
6 26 (7.30%) Lead
7 23 (6.46%) Architect
8 22 (6.18%) Scala Engineer
9 21 (5.90%) Senior Developer
10 18 (5.06%) Java Scala Developer
11 17 (4.78%) Software Engineer
12 15 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (4.21%) Lead Data Engineer
12 15 (4.21%) Python Developer
13 13 (3.65%) Azure Data Engineer
13 13 (3.65%) Linux Developer
14 12 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
15 11 (3.09%) Senior Scala Developer
16 10 (2.81%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (28.09%) Kafka
2 62 (17.42%) RESTful
3 56 (15.73%) Akka
4 46 (12.92%) PySpark
5 23 (6.46%) Web Services
6 17 (4.78%) Spring
6 17 (4.78%) Spring Boot
7 13 (3.65%) Play Framework
8 11 (3.09%) React
8 11 (3.09%) SAML
9 9 (2.53%) NumPy
9 9 (2.53%) Pandas
9 9 (2.53%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.25%) OpenTracing
11 7 (1.97%) gRPC
11 7 (1.97%) http4s
11 7 (1.97%) Protocol Buffers
11 7 (1.97%) SciPy
12 6 (1.69%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 44 (12.36%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (6.74%) Hedge funds
3 22 (6.18%) Algorithms
4 17 (4.78%) Data Structures
5 14 (3.93%) Derivative
6 10 (2.81%) Fixed Income
6 10 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.53%) Equities
7 9 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.40%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (1.12%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
13 3 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 2 (0.56%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.27%) Linux
2 22 (6.18%) Unix
3 4 (1.12%) Mac OS X
4 3 (0.84%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (40.17%) Agile
2 83 (23.31%) Microservices
3 69 (19.38%) Data Pipeline
4 68 (19.10%) Software Engineering
5 67 (18.82%) DevOps
6 61 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (16.85%) TDD
8 58 (16.29%) ETL
9 57 (16.01%) Data Engineering
10 53 (14.89%) Analytics
10 53 (14.89%) Data Modelling
11 51 (14.33%) CI/CD
12 46 (12.92%) Machine Learning
13 42 (11.80%) Continuous Integration
14 41 (11.52%) BDD
15 40 (11.24%) GitOps
16 38 (10.67%) Pair Programming
17 37 (10.39%) Computer Science
18 35 (9.83%) Clean Code
19 34 (9.55%) OO
Programming Languages
1 149 (41.85%) Java
2 147 (41.29%) Python
3 81 (22.75%) SQL
4 20 (5.62%) Kotlin
5 17 (4.78%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.37%) Ruby
7 11 (3.09%) Shell Script
8 10 (2.81%) Go
8 10 (2.81%) Groovy
8 10 (2.81%) R
9 9 (2.53%) C++
10 8 (2.25%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.69%) C#
12 5 (1.40%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.84%) C
14 2 (0.56%) Bash
14 2 (0.56%) Haskell
14 2 (0.56%) Perl
14 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.28%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 27 (7.58%) Degree
2 22 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.81%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.53%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.53%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.12%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.56%) IBM Certification
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.56%) PhD
7 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.28%) OCP
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.12%) QA
3 2 (0.56%) MiFID
4 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) GxP
System Software
1 51 (14.33%) Docker
2 8 (2.25%) HDFS
2 8 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.56%) PowerDNS
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 82 (23.03%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.99%) Terraform
3 20 (5.62%) Ansible
3 20 (5.62%) Prometheus
4 13 (3.65%) Grafana
5 8 (2.25%) Zipkin
6 5 (1.40%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.56%) Puppet
9 1 (0.28%) Argo
9 1 (0.28%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.28%) systemd
Vendors
1 59 (16.57%) Databricks
2 20 (5.62%) Typelevel
3 16 (4.49%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.21%) Informatica
5 13 (3.65%) Talend
6 8 (2.25%) Ab Initio
6 8 (2.25%) Google
7 6 (1.69%) Virgin Media
8 5 (1.40%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.12%) Okta
9 4 (1.12%) Roku
10 3 (0.84%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.84%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.84%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.84%) Solace
11 2 (0.56%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.56%) Genesys
11 2 (0.56%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.56%) IBM
11 2 (0.56%) New Relic