Hybrid/Remote Scala Contract Job Trends

Scala
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 212 240
Rank change year-on-year -55 +28 -74
Contract jobs citing Scala 51 106 153
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 0.87% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.43% 2.47% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 51 114
10th Percentile £400 £450 £400
25th Percentile £429 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £609
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £601 £800 £788
90th Percentile £639 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £612 £600
% change year-on-year -18.30% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £42.36
25th Percentile £53.00 - £46.13
Median hourly rate £56.00 £80.00 £53.60
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +49.27% +95.21%
75th Percentile £59.00 - £59.88
90th Percentile - - £62.95
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £80.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +23.08% -7.14%

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 3,567 4,295 5,715
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.03% 35.40% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,369 2,852 4,196
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £787 £750
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 60 147
10th Percentile £35.48 £21.25 £34.70
25th Percentile £52.94 £26.50 £51.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.88% -4.48% -3.85%
75th Percentile £67.06 £66.63 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Scala job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Scala
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Scala over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Scala daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Scala
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Scala
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 22 (43.14%) Apache Spark
2 9 (17.65%) Apache
3 5 (9.80%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (5.88%) JBoss
4 3 (5.88%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) Azure
2 16 (31.37%) AWS
3 13 (25.49%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (15.69%) GCP
5 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (7.84%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.92%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.92%) Datadog
8 2 (3.92%) dbt
8 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.92%) Serverless
8 2 (3.92%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.49%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (23.53%) NoSQL
3 10 (19.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (13.73%) Big Data
4 7 (13.73%) Data Lake
4 7 (13.73%) MongoDB
5 6 (11.76%) Power BI
6 5 (9.80%) Metadata
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (7.84%) BigQuery
7 4 (7.84%) Delta Lake
7 4 (7.84%) Hadoop
7 4 (7.84%) MySQL
7 4 (7.84%) Tableau
8 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.92%) Apache Hive
9 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (3.92%) HBase
9 2 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (35.29%) Git
2 7 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.84%) Selenium
4 3 (5.88%) Eclipse
4 3 (5.88%) GitLab
4 3 (5.88%) IntelliJ
4 3 (5.88%) JUnit
5 2 (3.92%) Gradle
6 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.96%) Gatling
6 1 (1.96%) Maven
6 1 (1.96%) ScalaTest
6 1 (1.96%) Xcode
General
1 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (35.29%) Data Engineer
2 11 (21.57%) Developer
3 10 (19.61%) Azure Data Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Scala Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Scala Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Senior
6 3 (5.88%) Hadoop Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Lead
7 2 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Tester
8 1 (1.96%) Android Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Automation Tester
8 1 (1.96%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Data Migration Lead
8 1 (1.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (33.33%) PySpark
2 13 (25.49%) Kafka
3 11 (21.57%) Play Framework
4 7 (13.73%) REST
5 6 (11.76%) JSON
6 4 (7.84%) HTML
6 4 (7.84%) SOAP
7 3 (5.88%) Akka
7 3 (5.88%) EJB
7 3 (5.88%) Hibernate
7 3 (5.88%) HTML5
7 3 (5.88%) J2EE
7 3 (5.88%) J2SE
7 3 (5.88%) RESTful
7 3 (5.88%) Spring
7 3 (5.88%) XML
8 2 (3.92%) Node.js
8 2 (3.92%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.92%) TensorFlow
8 2 (3.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.84%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Music Streaming
4 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.96%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.96%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Unix
2 2 (3.92%) Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Android
3 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.96%) Debian
3 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (56.86%) Agile
2 23 (45.10%) CI/CD
3 22 (43.14%) Data Pipeline
4 18 (35.29%) Data Engineering
5 17 (33.33%) DevOps
6 14 (27.45%) Data Modelling
6 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (23.53%) Data Governance
7 12 (23.53%) ETL
7 12 (23.53%) Microservices
8 11 (21.57%) Data Architecture
9 9 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (17.65%) Data Integration
9 9 (17.65%) Integration Patterns
9 9 (17.65%) Scrum
9 9 (17.65%) TDD
10 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (13.73%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (13.73%) Data Science
11 7 (13.73%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (54.90%) Python
2 26 (50.98%) SQL
3 16 (31.37%) Java
4 4 (7.84%) Go
4 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.92%) C++
5 2 (3.92%) Kotlin
5 2 (3.92%) R
5 2 (3.92%) Ruby
6 1 (1.96%) Bash
6 1 (1.96%) C
6 1 (1.96%) HiveQL
6 1 (1.96%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.96%) Swift
6 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.96%) MCP
4 1 (1.96%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (35.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.88%) QA
3 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (25.49%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
2 4 (7.84%) Terraform
3 3 (5.88%) Grafana
3 3 (5.88%) Puppet
4 2 (3.92%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (3.92%) Kibana
4 2 (3.92%) Oozie
5 1 (1.96%) Ansible
5 1 (1.96%) Graphite
5 1 (1.96%) logstash
Vendors
1 16 (31.37%) Databricks
2 3 (5.88%) webMethods
3 2 (3.92%) Google
3 2 (3.92%) Informatica
3 2 (3.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.96%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.96%) Confluent
4 1 (1.96%) Foundry
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.96%) Palantir
4 1 (1.96%) PayPal
4 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.96%) Splunk
4 1 (1.96%) Talend