Scala Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Scala
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 45 66
Rank change year-on-year -37 +21 +18
Contract jobs citing Scala 1 10 9
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.11% 1.88% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.37% 5.62% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 7
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile £388 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% -29.17%
75th Percentile £463 £550 -
90th Percentile - £663 £475
Yorkshire median daily rate £507 £538 £425
% change year-on-year -5.67% +26.47% -29.17%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 267 178 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.56% 33.52% 23.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 117 197
10th Percentile £318 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £588
90th Percentile £625 £725 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - £26.25 £20.91
25th Percentile - £27.56 £23.11
Median hourly rate - £61.61 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - +130.07% -61.74%
75th Percentile - £100.66 £44.39
90th Percentile - £102.00 £54.96
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £44.39
% change year-on-year -19.66% +38.80% -28.98%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scala relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Scala job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Scala

Scala
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 March 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
Leeds -26 1 £425 -17.07% 2
Scala
Yorkshire

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Scala Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform