Senior Scala Engineer Contracts

Senior Scala Engineer
UK

The median Senior Scala Engineer daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 566 697
Rank change year-on-year +46 +131 +134
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Scala Engineer 1 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.016% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.018% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £455 -
25th Percentile £613 £490 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £560 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% - -
75th Percentile £638 £635 -
90th Percentile - £673 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 26,964 39,481 54,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.78% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,546 25,683 37,739
10th Percentile £295 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,040 2,653 1,507
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.83 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.18 £16.30 £19.45
Median hourly rate £28.18 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.79% -18.89% +87.50%
75th Percentile £61.31 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.70 £76.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.24 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.91% -5.88% +112.50%

Senior Scala Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Scala Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Scala Engineer in the UK

Senior Scala Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Scala Engineer in the UK

Senior Scala Engineer
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Scala Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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 +66 1 £625 +11.61% 2
London +26 1 £625 +11.61% 2

Senior Scala Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Senior Scala Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Scala Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline

Senior Scala Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks