ScalaTest Contract Job Trends

ScalaTest
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ScalaTest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 563 610
Rank change year-on-year -15 +47 +186
Contract jobs citing ScalaTest 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.003% 0.004%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.054% 0.022% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £382 - £579
25th Percentile £385 - £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.24%
75th Percentile £395 - £622
90th Percentile £398 - £631
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £600

All Development Application Skills
UK

ScalaTest falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,509 4,577 5,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 13.24% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,802 2,877 4,018
10th Percentile £338 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.26%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £695 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.03% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 98 213
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.43 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.81 £46.44 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £89.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

ScalaTest
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ScalaTest relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

ScalaTest job vacancy trend in the UK

ScalaTest
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ScalaTest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ScalaTest

ScalaTest
Top 1 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ScalaTest within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Work from Home +18 2 £390 - 1

ScalaTest
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 1 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Mockito
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Play Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Akka
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Scala.js
2 1 (33.33%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Programming
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Sysdig