Scala Contracts in the West Midlands

Scala
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 107 126
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 -30
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Scala 7 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.41% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.60% 0.98% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £440 - £305
25th Percentile £481 - £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £612 £410
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +49.27% -22.64%
75th Percentile £543 - £503
90th Percentile £600 - £531
England median daily rate £508 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -15.42% +2.13% -2.08%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 438 408 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.38% 21.41% 24.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 273 368
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £725
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile £28.18 £33.22 £17.75
25th Percentile £33.91 £35.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +129.17% -58.62%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £44.41
90th Percentile - £62.00 £97.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.75
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.59% +12.05%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the West Midlands

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Scala.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Scala

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the West Midlands

Scala
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham - 3 £507 - 6
Shropshire - 2 £425 -
Coventry - 1 - -
Solihull - 1 £625 - 1
Scala
England

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Pig
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) IIS
2 1 (14.29%) Tuxedo
2 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Datadog
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Mining
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Hive
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JBehave
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
2 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Scientist
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
2 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Swagger
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Science
1 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
1 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Data Collection
2 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Linear Algebra
2 3 (42.86%) Naive Bayes
2 3 (42.86%) Support Vector Machines
2 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Data Munging
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Predictive Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Statistics
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Korn
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) R
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Trillium
3 1 (14.29%) webMethods