Scala Contracts with Work from Home 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 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 220 164
Rank change year-on-year -20 -56 -32
Contract jobs citing Scala 102 260 746
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.69% 1.09% 1.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.01% 2.99% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 191 487
10th Percentile £363 £463 £450
25th Percentile £450 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +10.40%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £725
90th Percentile £888 £825 £813
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% +4.35%
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% +101.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.93 £64.04
90th Percentile - £64.33 £72.87
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £73.00 £78.44
% change year-on-year -28.08% -6.93% +220.15%

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 5,080 8,696 16,767
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.43% 36.42% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,656 6,423 12,512
10th Percentile £356 £381 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 187 184
10th Percentile £29.38 £26.96 £20.25
25th Percentile £44.88 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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 14 June 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 (20.59%) Apache Spark
2 19 (18.63%) Apache
3 18 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) RMDS
2 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (48.04%) AWS
2 27 (26.47%) Azure
3 23 (22.55%) GCP
4 14 (13.73%) Snowflake
5 13 (12.75%) dbt
6 11 (10.78%) Serverless
7 10 (9.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (9.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (7.84%) Amazon S3
9 7 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.92%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.94%) PaaS
13 2 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (1.96%) Datadog
13 2 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
14 1 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.71%) HTTP
2 1 (0.98%) BGP
2 1 (0.98%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (11.76%) Big Data
3 12 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 9 (8.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (7.84%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (6.86%) Apache Arrow
6 7 (6.86%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.88%) Apache Ignite
7 6 (5.88%) Dremio
8 5 (4.90%) Data Lake
9 4 (3.92%) Data Mining
9 4 (3.92%) Hadoop
9 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.92%) Power BI
10 3 (2.94%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.94%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.96%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (6.86%) Git
2 6 (5.88%) MLflow
3 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.94%) GitLab
5 1 (0.98%) Deequ
5 1 (0.98%) Gatling
5 1 (0.98%) Gradle
5 1 (0.98%) JIRA
5 1 (0.98%) Mockito
5 1 (0.98%) ScalaTest
5 1 (0.98%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (22.55%) Finance
2 19 (18.63%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.71%) Banking
4 13 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.76%) Front Office
5 12 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.94%) Czech Language
7 2 (1.96%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.98%) Marketing
8 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (44.12%) Developer
2 30 (29.41%) Scala Developer
3 28 (27.45%) Data Engineer
4 19 (18.63%) Lead
5 17 (16.67%) Java Developer
6 14 (13.73%) Senior
7 11 (10.78%) Lead Data Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.86%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Java Scala Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Scala Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Architect
11 5 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Snowflake Engineer
12 4 (3.92%) Java Engineer
12 4 (3.92%) Linux Developer
12 4 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (3.92%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (23.53%) Kafka
2 21 (20.59%) RESTful
3 17 (16.67%) Akka
4 14 (13.73%) PySpark
5 12 (11.76%) Play Framework
6 9 (8.82%) Web Services
7 8 (7.84%) React
8 6 (5.88%) gRPC
8 6 (5.88%) NumPy
8 6 (5.88%) Pandas
8 6 (5.88%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (5.88%) SciPy
9 5 (4.90%) Spark Streaming
9 5 (4.90%) Spring
10 4 (3.92%) PyTorch
10 4 (3.92%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.92%) TensorFlow
11 3 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (2.94%) OAuth
11 3 (2.94%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.47%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.76%) Derivative
3 9 (8.82%) Fixed Income
3 9 (8.82%) Hedge funds
4 7 (6.86%) Equities
5 6 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (4.90%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.98%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.84%) Linux
2 5 (4.90%) Unix
3 1 (0.98%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (50.98%) Agile
2 29 (28.43%) Data Pipeline
3 28 (27.45%) Software Engineering
4 27 (26.47%) Data Engineering
5 26 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (24.51%) CI/CD
6 25 (24.51%) Microservices
7 24 (23.53%) Analytics
8 20 (19.61%) Data Modelling
9 19 (18.63%) ETL
10 18 (17.65%) DevOps
11 16 (15.69%) Computer Science
12 15 (14.71%) Clean Code
12 15 (14.71%) Functional Programming
13 14 (13.73%) Machine Learning
14 13 (12.75%) SDLC
14 13 (12.75%) TDD
15 11 (10.78%) MLOps
16 10 (9.80%) Test Automation
17 9 (8.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 51 (50.00%) Java
2 48 (47.06%) Python
3 20 (19.61%) SQL
4 9 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.84%) Kotlin
6 7 (6.86%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.88%) Ruby
8 4 (3.92%) C#
8 4 (3.92%) Go
9 3 (2.94%) C++
9 3 (2.94%) R
10 2 (1.96%) Bash
10 2 (1.96%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.98%) Haskell
11 1 (0.98%) Perl
11 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (9.80%) Degree
2 7 (6.86%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.90%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.98%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (14.71%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.98%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 25 (24.51%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.76%) Terraform
3 8 (7.84%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.94%) Zipkin
5 1 (0.98%) Argo
5 1 (0.98%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (21.57%) Databricks
2 6 (5.88%) Ab Initio
2 6 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.92%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.94%) ION Trading
4 3 (2.94%) Solace
4 3 (2.94%) Typelevel
5 2 (1.96%) Genesys
5 2 (1.96%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.98%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.98%) F5
6 1 (0.98%) Google
6 1 (0.98%) Informatica
6 1 (0.98%) New Relic
6 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle