Scala Contracts with Work from Home Options

Scala
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Scala skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scala over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 209 165
Rank change year-on-year -32 -44 -38
Contract jobs citing Scala 106 297 727
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 1.18% 1.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.10% 3.17% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 205 476
10th Percentile £375 £456 £454
25th Percentile £450 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £714
90th Percentile £888 £800 £822
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £18.80 £25.79
25th Percentile £66.25 £19.00 £34.62
Median hourly rate £67.50 £19.49 £49.33
Median % change year-on-year +246.33% -60.49% +103.42%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.93 £64.04
90th Percentile - £64.33 £72.87
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £68.50 £78.75
% change year-on-year -39.42% -13.02% +224.74%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Scala is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,049 9,363 16,804
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.45% 37.27% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,659 6,853 12,474
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 203 186
10th Percentile £35.00 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.00 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

Scala
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scala trend for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scala.

Scala daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Scala over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Scala daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scala.

Scala hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (19.81%) Apache Spark
2 18 (16.98%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (11.32%) Apache
4 5 (4.72%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) RMDS
2 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (38.68%) AWS
2 31 (29.25%) Azure
3 24 (22.64%) GCP
4 15 (14.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (10.38%) dbt
6 10 (9.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (8.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (8.49%) Snowflake
8 8 (7.55%) Power Platform
9 6 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.66%) Serverless
10 4 (3.77%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.83%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.89%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.89%) Datadog
12 2 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.94%) BGP
2 1 (0.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.15%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (13.21%) Big Data
3 10 (9.43%) MongoDB
4 9 (8.49%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (7.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (7.55%) Data Lake
5 8 (7.55%) Power BI
6 7 (6.60%) Apache Arrow
6 7 (6.60%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (6.60%) Apache Ignite
6 7 (6.60%) Dremio
7 6 (5.66%) Relational Database
8 5 (4.72%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.77%) Apache Hive
9 4 (3.77%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.77%) Impala
9 4 (3.77%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.83%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.83%) Looker
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) JIRA
2 6 (5.66%) MLflow
3 4 (3.77%) GitLab
4 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.89%) Gatling
5 2 (1.89%) Git
6 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.94%) Deequ
6 1 (0.94%) Gradle
6 1 (0.94%) Mockito
6 1 (0.94%) ScalaTest
6 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (24.53%) Finance
1 26 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.92%) Banking
4 16 (15.09%) Investment Banking
5 13 (12.26%) Front Office
6 3 (2.83%) Marketing
7 2 (1.89%) Czech Language
7 2 (1.89%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.94%) Legal
8 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (44.34%) Developer
2 34 (32.08%) Data Engineer
3 29 (27.36%) Scala Developer
4 19 (17.92%) Lead
5 16 (15.09%) Java Developer
6 15 (14.15%) Senior
7 13 (12.26%) Lead Data Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Azure Data Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Java Scala Developer
9 7 (6.60%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.60%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Python Developer
11 5 (4.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Linux Developer
11 5 (4.72%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Software Developer
12 4 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.87%) Kafka
1 20 (18.87%) RESTful
2 14 (13.21%) Akka
3 11 (10.38%) PySpark
4 10 (9.43%) Play Framework
4 10 (9.43%) Web Services
5 7 (6.60%) gRPC
5 7 (6.60%) NumPy
5 7 (6.60%) Pandas
5 7 (6.60%) Protocol Buffers
5 7 (6.60%) React
5 7 (6.60%) SciPy
6 6 (5.66%) Spring
7 4 (3.77%) OAuth
7 4 (3.77%) OpenID
7 4 (3.77%) PyTorch
7 4 (3.77%) Spark Streaming
7 4 (3.77%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.77%) TensorFlow
8 3 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.64%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.32%) Derivative
3 9 (8.49%) Fixed Income
3 9 (8.49%) Hedge funds
4 7 (6.60%) Algorithms
4 7 (6.60%) Equities
5 6 (5.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (4.72%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.89%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.89%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.94%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.32%) Linux
2 9 (8.49%) Unix
3 1 (0.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (50.94%) Agile
2 30 (28.30%) Analytics
2 30 (28.30%) Software Engineering
3 29 (27.36%) Data Pipeline
4 27 (25.47%) Data Engineering
5 26 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (21.70%) Microservices
7 20 (18.87%) CI/CD
7 20 (18.87%) DevOps
8 17 (16.04%) Data Modelling
9 16 (15.09%) Computer Science
10 15 (14.15%) ETL
11 14 (13.21%) SDLC
12 13 (12.26%) Machine Learning
12 13 (12.26%) TDD
13 12 (11.32%) Clean Code
13 12 (11.32%) Data Architecture
13 12 (11.32%) Functional Programming
13 12 (11.32%) MLOps
14 11 (10.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (55.66%) Python
2 48 (45.28%) Java
3 28 (26.42%) SQL
4 10 (9.43%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.55%) Kotlin
5 8 (7.55%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.60%) Ruby
7 4 (3.77%) R
8 3 (2.83%) C#
8 3 (2.83%) C++
8 3 (2.83%) Go
9 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.94%) Bash
10 1 (0.94%) Perl
10 1 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.38%) Degree
2 10 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.49%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.77%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.94%) GxP
2 1 (0.94%) MiFID
System Software
1 12 (11.32%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.94%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 19 (17.92%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.43%) Terraform
3 6 (5.66%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.83%) Zipkin
5 1 (0.94%) Argo
5 1 (0.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (26.42%) Databricks
2 6 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.89%) Ab Initio
3 2 (1.89%) Bloomberg
3 2 (1.89%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.89%) Genesys
3 2 (1.89%) Guidewire
3 2 (1.89%) Informatica
3 2 (1.89%) ION Trading
3 2 (1.89%) Solace
3 2 (1.89%) Talend
3 2 (1.89%) Typelevel
4 1 (0.94%) Checkmarx
4 1 (0.94%) F5
4 1 (0.94%) Google
4 1 (0.94%) New Relic
4 1 (0.94%) StreamSets
4 1 (0.94%) Sybase