Scala Contracts

Scala
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Scala skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scala over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 271 264
Rank change year-on-year -85 -7 -55
Contract jobs citing Scala 170 349 562
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.81% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.71% 2.70% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 241 394
10th Percentile £400 £375 £463
25th Percentile £425 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £578
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -7.36% -3.75%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £859
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £453 £563
% change year-on-year +0.33% -19.47% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 20
10th Percentile - £27.63 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.49 £19.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.25 £78.00
90th Percentile - £65.75 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 £20.47
% change year-on-year - +156.47% +2.81%

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 9,955 12,927 19,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.10% 30.08% 34.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,768 9,170 13,782
10th Percentile £358 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £680
90th Percentile £762 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 522 433
10th Percentile £27.00 £31.25 £26.48
25th Percentile £34.20 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -0.80% +21.95%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +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 1 June 2025.

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
Top 13 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 1 June 2025. 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 -55 144 £550 -2.22% 958
London -62 100 £600 -4.00% 267
UK excluding London +16 47 £455 +0.33% 834
Work from Home -8 47 £550 +6.21% 414
North of England +10 24 £490 +5.95% 192
Midlands +18 13 £425 +1.19% 152
North West +16 11 £400 -15.79% 93
Yorkshire +8 11 £538 +26.47% 73
East Midlands +13 8 £410 +13.89% 57
South East +43 6 £459 -8.20% 232
West Midlands +14 5 £450 -7.22% 86
Northern Ireland - 4 £504 - 16
North East +1 2 £550 +4.76% 26

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 53 (31.18%) Apache Spark
2 23 (13.53%) Apache
3 10 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.53%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.59%) Luigi
6 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 57 (33.53%) Azure
2 48 (28.24%) AWS
3 37 (21.76%) GCP
4 16 (9.41%) Serverless
5 15 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (8.24%) Power Platform
7 12 (7.06%) GitHub
8 11 (6.47%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.29%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (5.29%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (4.71%) Snowflake
11 7 (4.12%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (3.53%) Collibra
12 6 (3.53%) dbt
12 6 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (2.35%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.53%) SSH
2 2 (1.18%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (20.00%) Big Data
2 26 (15.29%) NoSQL
3 22 (12.94%) Hadoop
4 20 (11.76%) Apache Hive
4 20 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (11.18%) Data Lake
6 18 (10.59%) Delta Lake
7 15 (8.82%) BigQuery
7 15 (8.82%) SQL Server
8 14 (8.24%) Power BI
9 13 (7.65%) MongoDB
10 12 (7.06%) Relational Database
11 11 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (5.29%) Impala
13 8 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (4.71%) Metadata
14 7 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (3.53%) Flink
15 6 (3.53%) Parquet
15 6 (3.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (17.65%) Git
2 19 (11.18%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.59%) Cucumber
4 16 (9.41%) JIRA
5 6 (3.53%) RStudio
6 5 (2.94%) Gatling
6 5 (2.94%) Selenium
7 4 (2.35%) Appium
7 4 (2.35%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.35%) GitLab
7 4 (2.35%) Gradle
7 4 (2.35%) JMeter
7 4 (2.35%) NeoLoad
7 4 (2.35%) SpecFlow
7 4 (2.35%) Xcode
8 2 (1.18%) JUnit
8 2 (1.18%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.59%) JBehave
9 1 (0.59%) Mockito
9 1 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 58 (34.12%) Banking
2 57 (33.53%) Social Skills
3 43 (25.29%) Finance
4 37 (21.76%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (17.65%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.12%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.53%) Front Office
8 6 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.35%) Retail
10 3 (1.76%) Legal
10 3 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.18%) Billing
11 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.18%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.59%) Automotive
12 1 (0.59%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (40.59%) Developer
2 45 (26.47%) Data Engineer
3 42 (24.71%) Scala Developer
4 21 (12.35%) Senior
5 18 (10.59%) Architect
6 17 (10.00%) Lead
7 11 (6.47%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
8 10 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (5.88%) Software Developer
9 9 (5.29%) GCP Architect
9 9 (5.29%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (4.71%) Scala Engineer
11 7 (4.12%) Data Architect
11 7 (4.12%) Lead Data Engineer
11 7 (4.12%) Platform Architect
11 7 (4.12%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.53%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.06%) Kafka
2 20 (11.76%) Play Framework
3 16 (9.41%) PySpark
4 14 (8.24%) JSON
5 13 (7.65%) React
6 12 (7.06%) Akka
7 11 (6.47%) REST
7 11 (6.47%) Spring
8 10 (5.88%) AngularJS
9 8 (4.71%) Apache Avro
9 8 (4.71%) pydantic
9 8 (4.71%) RESTful
9 8 (4.71%) Web Services
9 8 (4.71%) YAML
10 6 (3.53%) CSS
10 6 (3.53%) HTML
10 6 (3.53%) Spring Boot
11 4 (2.35%) LangChain
11 4 (2.35%) Playwright
11 4 (2.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.82%) Algorithms
2 13 (7.65%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 10 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (4.71%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (4.71%) Reference Data
6 7 (4.12%) Derivative
6 7 (4.12%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.53%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (2.94%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.94%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.35%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.35%) Equities
9 4 (2.35%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.53%) Linux
2 9 (5.29%) Unix
3 4 (2.35%) Android
3 4 (2.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (47.06%) Agile
2 62 (36.47%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (34.71%) Data Engineering
4 56 (32.94%) CI/CD
5 52 (30.59%) ETL
6 44 (25.88%) DevOps
7 38 (22.35%) Data Pipeline
8 37 (21.76%) TDD
9 35 (20.59%) Scrum
9 35 (20.59%) Software Engineering
10 33 (19.41%) Data Science
11 32 (18.82%) Data Modelling
12 28 (16.47%) Analytics
13 26 (15.29%) BDD
13 26 (15.29%) Data Governance
13 26 (15.29%) Machine Learning
14 25 (14.71%) Artificial Intelligence
14 25 (14.71%) Clean Code
14 25 (14.71%) Collaborative Working
15 24 (14.12%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 104 (61.18%) Python
2 66 (38.82%) SQL
3 64 (37.65%) Java
4 23 (13.53%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.65%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.88%) Bash
7 9 (5.29%) C#
7 9 (5.29%) Kotlin
8 8 (4.71%) C++
8 8 (4.71%) Ruby
9 7 (4.12%) Rust
10 6 (3.53%) Haskell
10 6 (3.53%) OCaml
10 6 (3.53%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.94%) Clojure
11 5 (2.94%) Elixir
12 4 (2.35%) Go
12 4 (2.35%) Perl
12 4 (2.35%) R
12 4 (2.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (11.18%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.06%) Degree
4 10 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.53%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.35%) Data Quality
2 16 (9.41%) QA
3 12 (7.06%) GDPR
4 6 (3.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.59%) PERC
System Software
1 20 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (14.12%) Kubernetes
2 21 (12.35%) Terraform
3 18 (10.59%) Ansible
4 6 (3.53%) Kibana
5 2 (1.18%) Apache Ranger
5 2 (1.18%) Control-M
5 2 (1.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.59%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 42 (24.71%) Databricks
2 10 (5.88%) Google
2 10 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.12%) Informatica
4 5 (2.94%) Cloudera
4 5 (2.94%) Oracle
5 4 (2.35%) Sybase
6 3 (1.76%) Talend
7 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.59%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.59%) Typelevel