Hybrid/Remote Akka Contract Job Trends

Akka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Akka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 297 373
Rank change year-on-year -13 +76 +131
Contract jobs citing Akka 4 17 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.039% 0.15% 0.006%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.59% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - -
75th Percentile £425 £588 -
90th Percentile £440 £850 -
UK median daily rate £581 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +5.68% -4.35% -11.54%

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 2,712 2,872 4,148
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.53% 24.63% 24.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,766 1,894 3,006
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -7.68% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 24 45
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.48 £40.12
25th Percentile £41.00 £26.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -5.77% -
75th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £67.00 £91.88 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

Akka
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Akka and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Akka job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Akka
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Akka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Akka

Akka
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Akka.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Akka

Akka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (25.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) ScalaTest
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Play Framework
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (25.00%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Functional Programming
3 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) Java
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP