Scala Contracts in England

Scala
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 239 235
Rank change year-on-year -55 -4 -83
Contract jobs citing Scala 265 543 874
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.73% 1.13% 1.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.44% 3.22% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 387 544
10th Percentile £375 £463 £450
25th Percentile £469 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £722 £700 £725
90th Percentile £838 £855 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 4
10th Percentile £22.93 £19.00 £47.75
25th Percentile £24.74 £30.67 £66.88
Median hourly rate £30.50 £70.00 £79.38
Median % change year-on-year -56.43% -11.81% +234.21%
75th Percentile £51.00 £75.38 £82.94
90th Percentile £61.65 £81.60 £83.73
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £68.50 £78.75
% change year-on-year -39.42% -13.02% +224.74%

All Programming Languages
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,846 16,845 25,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.81% 34.96% 36.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,871 12,314 19,084
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £772
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 408 456
10th Percentile £37.59 £26.11 £20.13
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.36 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in England

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scala in England.

Daily rate trend for Scala in England

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in England

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scala in England.

Hourly rate trend for Scala in England

Scala
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scala in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scala in England

Scala
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -25 209 £625 +8.70% 59
North of England +10 27 £475 -17.39% 9
South East +5 19 £575 +15.00% 6
Yorkshire +14 17 £425 -24.44% 3
North West +3 8 £498 -13.48% 6
Midlands +22 6 £466 -21.64%
East Midlands - 4 £436 -
West Midlands +17 2 £485 -18.49%
North East +11 2 £525 +16.67%
South West -21 2 £450 -18.18% 6
East of England +9 1 £375 -21.05%
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 66 (24.91%) Apache Spark
2 22 (8.30%) Apache
3 21 (7.92%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.89%) Confluence
5 3 (1.13%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.13%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) RMDS
2 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 108 (40.75%) AWS
2 62 (23.40%) GCP
3 58 (21.89%) Azure
4 22 (8.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (6.79%) Power Platform
6 17 (6.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (6.04%) Snowflake
8 12 (4.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (4.15%) dbt
9 11 (4.15%) Serverless
10 10 (3.77%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (3.02%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.02%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.64%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (2.26%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.89%) CloudBees
14 5 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 37 (13.96%) HTTP
2 3 (1.13%) Firewall
3 2 (0.75%) BGP
3 2 (0.75%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) FTP
4 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (18.11%) Big Data
2 45 (16.98%) Apache Cassandra
3 30 (11.32%) NoSQL
4 29 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (7.92%) Data Lake
5 21 (7.92%) Hadoop
6 18 (6.79%) MongoDB
6 18 (6.79%) Power BI
7 17 (6.42%) Apache Hive
8 16 (6.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (4.15%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (3.77%) Impala
11 9 (3.40%) HBase
11 9 (3.40%) Tableau
12 8 (3.02%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.64%) Apache Arrow
13 7 (2.64%) Apache Ignite
13 7 (2.64%) Dremio
13 7 (2.64%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (10.57%) Git
2 24 (9.06%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.04%) JIRA
4 10 (3.77%) Maven
5 9 (3.40%) Gatling
5 9 (3.40%) ScalaTest
6 8 (3.02%) Subversion
7 6 (2.26%) Mockito
7 6 (2.26%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.89%) JUnit
8 5 (1.89%) MLflow
8 5 (1.89%) Selenium
9 4 (1.51%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.51%) GitLab
9 4 (1.51%) Gradle
9 4 (1.51%) JMeter
9 4 (1.51%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.13%) Deequ
11 2 (0.75%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (24.91%) Finance
2 52 (19.62%) Social Skills
3 49 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (14.72%) Banking
5 21 (7.92%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.28%) Front Office
7 10 (3.77%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.89%) Marketing
9 4 (1.51%) Retail
10 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.75%) Czech Language
11 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Back Office
12 1 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Legal
12 1 (0.38%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.38%) Police
12 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 129 (48.68%) Developer
2 92 (34.72%) Scala Developer
3 59 (22.26%) Data Engineer
4 43 (16.23%) Senior
5 22 (8.30%) Architect
6 21 (7.92%) Lead
7 20 (7.55%) Senior Developer
8 19 (7.17%) Java Developer
9 16 (6.04%) Scala Engineer
10 14 (5.28%) Lead Data Engineer
11 12 (4.53%) Software Engineer
12 11 (4.15%) Azure Data Engineer
12 11 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.15%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (3.77%) Python Developer
13 10 (3.77%) Senior Scala Developer
14 9 (3.40%) Apache Spark Developer
14 9 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
15 7 (2.64%) Agile Developer
15 7 (2.64%) AWS Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (32.83%) Kafka
2 47 (17.74%) Akka
3 40 (15.09%) RESTful
4 33 (12.45%) PySpark
5 22 (8.30%) Web Services
6 11 (4.15%) SAML
7 10 (3.77%) React
8 9 (3.40%) NumPy
8 9 (3.40%) Pandas
8 9 (3.40%) Spark Streaming
8 9 (3.40%) Spring
8 9 (3.40%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.64%) gRPC
9 7 (2.64%) Protocol Buffers
9 7 (2.64%) SciPy
10 6 (2.26%) Apache Avro
11 5 (1.89%) Play Framework
12 4 (1.51%) JPA
12 4 (1.51%) JSON
12 4 (1.51%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.06%) Hedge funds
2 17 (6.42%) Algorithms
3 13 (4.91%) Derivative
4 11 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.77%) Fixed Income
5 10 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.40%) Equities
7 7 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.89%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.51%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.51%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.75%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.79%) Linux
2 14 (5.28%) Unix
3 4 (1.51%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.13%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (43.40%) Agile
2 59 (22.26%) Microservices
3 58 (21.89%) TDD
4 54 (20.38%) DevOps
5 49 (18.49%) Analytics
6 48 (18.11%) Data Pipeline
6 48 (18.11%) ETL
7 47 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (15.47%) Data Modelling
8 41 (15.47%) Machine Learning
9 37 (13.96%) Software Engineering
10 36 (13.58%) Continuous Integration
10 36 (13.58%) Pair Programming
11 34 (12.83%) Data Engineering
12 32 (12.08%) CI/CD
13 29 (10.94%) GitOps
14 27 (10.19%) Design Patterns
15 26 (9.81%) BDD
15 26 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
16 25 (9.43%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 113 (42.64%) Python
2 101 (38.11%) Java
3 67 (25.28%) SQL
4 16 (6.04%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.53%) Ruby
6 11 (4.15%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.77%) Go
7 10 (3.77%) Groovy
8 9 (3.40%) C++
9 8 (3.02%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.02%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.64%) R
11 6 (2.26%) C#
12 5 (1.89%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.13%) C
14 2 (0.75%) Bash
14 2 (0.75%) Haskell
14 2 (0.75%) Perl
14 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.38%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 21 (7.92%) Degree
2 17 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.40%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.02%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.51%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.51%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.75%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.75%) PhD
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.38%) OCP
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.75%) MiFID
3 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.38%) GDPR
3 1 (0.38%) GxP
System Software
1 30 (11.32%) Docker
2 8 (3.02%) HDFS
3 4 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.75%) PowerDNS
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 61 (23.02%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.42%) Terraform
3 12 (4.53%) Grafana
3 12 (4.53%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.26%) Ansible
5 5 (1.89%) Hadoop YARN
6 2 (0.75%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) Argo
7 1 (0.38%) Ganglia
7 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.38%) systemd
Vendors
1 44 (16.60%) Databricks
2 20 (7.55%) Typelevel
3 13 (4.91%) Informatica
4 11 (4.15%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.15%) Talend
5 6 (2.26%) Virgin Media
6 5 (1.89%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.51%) Google
8 3 (1.13%) Ab Initio
8 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.13%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.13%) Solace
9 2 (0.75%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.75%) F5
9 2 (0.75%) Genesys
9 2 (0.75%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.75%) IBM
9 2 (0.75%) New Relic
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle
10 1 (0.38%) Reuters