Akka Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Akka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Akka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Akka over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 331 412
Rank change year-on-year +38 +81 +179
Contract jobs citing Akka 11 14 65
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.091% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.43% 0.38% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 46
10th Percentile £400 £413 -
25th Percentile £438 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £591 - £573
90th Percentile £600 - £725
UK median daily rate £538 £450 £565
% change year-on-year +19.44% -20.35% -12.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £64.30
25th Percentile - - £70.31
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Akka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Akka
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Akka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Akka trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Akka
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Akka.

Akka daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Akka
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Akka over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Akka daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Akka
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Akka.

Akka hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
1 11 (100.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Programmer
2 1 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Scala Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Software Programmer
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) Play Framework
2 7 (63.64%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) Code Quality
2 8 (72.73%) Functional Programming
2 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Microservices
4 6 (54.55%) API Integration
5 5 (45.45%) API Development
5 5 (45.45%) Clean Code
6 4 (36.36%) BDD
6 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (36.36%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
6 4 (36.36%) SDLC
6 4 (36.36%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (36.36%) TDD
6 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
7 2 (18.18%) Kanban
7 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 2 (18.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Typelevel