Scala Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Scala
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 254 241 213
Rank change year-on-year -13 -28 -46
Contract jobs citing Scala 50 104 303
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.68% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 2.03% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 80 212
10th Percentile £396 £375 £456
25th Percentile £431 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £568
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -5.33% -5.38%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £650
90th Percentile £850 £809 £799
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £18.80
25th Percentile - £66.25 £19.00
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year - +246.33% -60.49%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £52.93
90th Percentile - - £64.33
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £41.50 £64.75
% change year-on-year +26.51% -35.91% -17.78%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Scala falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Scala
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Scala trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Scala
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Scala over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 7 (14.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.00%) Azure
2 11 (22.00%) AWS
3 10 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (14.00%) GitHub
5 6 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (8.00%) GCP
6 4 (8.00%) Serverless
7 3 (6.00%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (6.00%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (6.00%) Collibra
7 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.00%) PaaS
9 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (18.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (14.00%) Big Data
3 6 (12.00%) Data Lake
3 6 (12.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.00%) Apache Hive
4 4 (8.00%) Couchbase
4 4 (8.00%) Delta Lake
4 4 (8.00%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (6.00%) HBase
5 3 (6.00%) Impala
5 3 (6.00%) Metadata
5 3 (6.00%) OLTP
5 3 (6.00%) Power BI
6 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Git
1 7 (14.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.00%) Appium
2 4 (8.00%) CircleCI
2 4 (8.00%) Gatling
2 4 (8.00%) GitLab
2 4 (8.00%) JMeter
2 4 (8.00%) NeoLoad
2 4 (8.00%) Selenium
2 4 (8.00%) SpecFlow
3 3 (6.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.00%) MLflow
4 1 (2.00%) RStudio
4 1 (2.00%) Spock
4 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (32.00%) Finance
3 12 (24.00%) Banking
4 11 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (12.00%) Front Office
5 6 (12.00%) Investment Banking
6 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Retail
7 2 (4.00%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Automotive
8 1 (2.00%) Health Technology
8 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Developer
2 13 (26.00%) Data Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Scala Developer
4 7 (14.00%) Lead
5 6 (12.00%) Software Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Developer in Test
6 4 (8.00%) Senior
6 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Software Test Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Test Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) DBA
7 3 (6.00%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.00%) UI Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Java Software Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.00%) Play Framework
2 7 (14.00%) Akka
2 7 (14.00%) Kafka
3 6 (12.00%) RESTful
4 5 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.00%) JSON
5 4 (8.00%) Playwright
6 3 (6.00%) Apache Avro
6 3 (6.00%) Spring
7 2 (4.00%) Bootstrap
7 2 (4.00%) PySpark
7 2 (4.00%) React
7 2 (4.00%) Web Services
7 2 (4.00%) XML
8 1 (2.00%) CSS
8 1 (2.00%) HTML
8 1 (2.00%) Node.js
8 1 (2.00%) NumPy
8 1 (2.00%) OAuth
8 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (8.00%) Derivative
3 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.00%) iPad
4 3 (6.00%) Replication
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.00%) Equities
5 2 (4.00%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.00%) Exotic Derivative
6 1 (2.00%) Life Science
6 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.00%) N-Tier
6 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (52.00%) Agile
2 23 (46.00%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (44.00%) CI/CD
4 20 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 15 (30.00%) DevOps
5 15 (30.00%) ETL
6 13 (26.00%) Analytics
7 11 (22.00%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (22.00%) Data Modelling
7 11 (22.00%) Data Science
8 10 (20.00%) Code Quality
8 10 (20.00%) Machine Learning
9 9 (18.00%) Microservices
9 9 (18.00%) SDLC
10 8 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (16.00%) Data Governance
10 8 (16.00%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (16.00%) MLOps
10 8 (16.00%) TDD
10 8 (16.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) Python
2 21 (42.00%) SQL
3 19 (38.00%) Java
4 6 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.00%) C#
6 4 (8.00%) C++
6 4 (8.00%) Kotlin
6 4 (8.00%) PHP
6 4 (8.00%) Ruby
7 1 (2.00%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (2.00%) Bash
7 1 (2.00%) Clojure
7 1 (2.00%) Elixir
7 1 (2.00%) Go
7 1 (2.00%) Groovy
7 1 (2.00%) Haskell
7 1 (2.00%) R
7 1 (2.00%) Rust
7 1 (2.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.00%) Degree
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.00%) QA
3 2 (4.00%) GDPR
4 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Kibana
3 1 (2.00%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (2.00%) Oozie
3 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Databricks
2 3 (6.00%) Informatica
2 3 (6.00%) VMware
3 2 (4.00%) Cloudera
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.00%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.00%) Splunk