Senior Scala Engineer Contract Job Trends

Senior Scala Engineer
UK

The median Senior Scala Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 532 584
Rank change year-on-year -121 +52 +94
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Scala Engineer 2 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.007% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.007% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £455
25th Percentile £525 £613 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £560
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +11.61% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £635
90th Percentile - - £673
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 47,495 28,303 40,138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 92.03% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,760 18,119 25,771
10th Percentile £325 £288 £283
25th Percentile £415 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,210 1,268 2,866
10th Percentile £15.72 £13.77 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.41 £16.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.26% -29.33% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

Senior Scala Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Scala Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Scala Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Scala Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Scala Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Scala Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Scala Engineer
Top 2 Contract Job 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 1 July 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
London -70 2 £550 -12.00% 2
England -119 2 £550 -12.00% 10

Senior Scala Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 July 2026, Senior Scala Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Scala Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared

Senior Scala Engineer Skill Set
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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks