Scala Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scala
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 300 329 297
Rank change year-on-year +29 -32 -109
Contract jobs citing Scala 94 121 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.53% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% 1.82% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 88 134
10th Percentile £400 £382 £408
25th Percentile £425 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +1.85% +6.40%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £623
90th Percentile £735 £661 £771
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 1
10th Percentile £23.54 - -
25th Percentile £26.25 £19.00 -
Median hourly rate £41.50 £41.49 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +0.04% +108.36% -17.90%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 -
90th Percentile £64.25 £77.25 -
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £68.50 £78.75
% change year-on-year -39.42% -13.02% +224.74%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,786 6,635 8,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.59% 28.84% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,218 4,688 6,111
10th Percentile £315 £350 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 329 336
10th Percentile £37.96 £23.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £27.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.38
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +67 39 £453 -9.40% 6
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 the UK excluding London 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 24 (25.53%) Apache Spark
2 16 (17.02%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (7.45%) Apache
4 5 (5.32%) Confluence
5 3 (3.19%) Jupyter
5 3 (3.19%) nginx
6 1 (1.06%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 44 (46.81%) AWS
2 30 (31.91%) Azure
3 18 (19.15%) GCP
4 17 (18.09%) Snowflake
5 7 (7.45%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.26%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.26%) CloudBees
7 4 (4.26%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.13%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.13%) GitHub
9 2 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) HTTP
2 3 (3.19%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.77%) Relational Database
2 11 (11.70%) Hadoop
3 9 (9.57%) Big Data
4 8 (8.51%) Apache Cassandra
4 8 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (8.51%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.45%) NoSQL
5 7 (7.45%) Power BI
6 6 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.32%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.26%) Apache Hive
8 4 (4.26%) MySQL
9 3 (3.19%) BigQuery
9 3 (3.19%) ClickHouse
9 3 (3.19%) HBase
10 2 (2.13%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.13%) DynamoDB
10 2 (2.13%) Impala
10 2 (2.13%) Spark SQL
11 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (15.96%) JIRA
2 11 (11.70%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.45%) Git
4 5 (5.32%) Selenium
5 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.26%) Gatling
5 4 (4.26%) JMeter
5 4 (4.26%) WebDriver
6 3 (3.19%) GitLab
7 2 (2.13%) Gradle
7 2 (2.13%) Maven
8 1 (1.06%) Ant
8 1 (1.06%) ERwin
8 1 (1.06%) JUnit
8 1 (1.06%) Mockito
8 1 (1.06%) Subversion
General
1 14 (14.89%) Finance
2 13 (13.83%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.51%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.32%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.19%) Marketing
8 2 (2.13%) Retail
9 1 (1.06%) Back Office
9 1 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.06%) Police
9 1 (1.06%) Publishing
9 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (51.06%) Developer
2 33 (35.11%) Java Developer
3 24 (25.53%) Scala Developer
4 20 (21.28%) Data Engineer
5 18 (19.15%) Senior
6 16 (17.02%) Java Scala Developer
7 12 (12.77%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (12.77%) Linux Developer
8 8 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) AWS Data Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (6.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.38%) Backend Developer
10 6 (6.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Senior Developer
12 4 (4.26%) Java Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Lead
12 4 (4.26%) Senior Test Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (35.11%) Kafka
2 16 (17.02%) RESTful
3 15 (15.96%) Spring Boot
4 10 (10.64%) Spring
5 9 (9.57%) Web Services
6 8 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (8.51%) OpenTracing
7 6 (6.38%) PySpark
8 5 (5.32%) Apache Beam
8 5 (5.32%) React
9 4 (4.26%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (3.19%) Keycloak
10 3 (3.19%) OAuth
10 3 (3.19%) OpenID
10 3 (3.19%) SAML
11 2 (2.13%) Akka
11 2 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
12 1 (1.06%) AngularJS
12 1 (1.06%) Node.js
12 1 (1.06%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.53%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (12.77%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.51%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.06%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.02%) Linux
2 9 (9.57%) Unix
3 4 (4.26%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.06%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.36%) Agile
2 29 (30.85%) Software Engineering
3 27 (28.72%) DevOps
4 24 (25.53%) Data Engineering
5 20 (21.28%) Data Pipeline
6 18 (19.15%) CI/CD
6 18 (19.15%) Microservices
7 17 (18.09%) Test Automation
8 16 (17.02%) Computer Science
9 14 (14.89%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (14.89%) Data Modelling
10 12 (12.77%) Design Patterns
10 12 (12.77%) MLOps
10 12 (12.77%) SDLC
11 11 (11.70%) Continuous Delivery
11 11 (11.70%) DataOps
11 11 (11.70%) GitOps
12 10 (10.64%) End-to-End Testing
12 10 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (10.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 72 (76.60%) Java
2 41 (43.62%) Python
3 17 (18.09%) SQL
4 12 (12.77%) Kotlin
5 8 (8.51%) Groovy
5 8 (8.51%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.32%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.26%) Go
7 4 (4.26%) R
7 4 (4.26%) Ruby
8 2 (2.13%) Perl
9 1 (1.06%) C
9 1 (1.06%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.32%) Degree
4 2 (2.13%) IBM Certification
4 2 (2.13%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.06%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.06%) GDPR
2 1 (1.06%) GxP
System Software
1 31 (32.98%) Docker
2 3 (3.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (3.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (34.04%) Kubernetes
2 20 (21.28%) Terraform
3 12 (12.77%) Prometheus
4 8 (8.51%) Zipkin
5 5 (5.32%) Grafana
6 4 (4.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (18.09%) Databricks
2 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.19%) Dynatrace
3 3 (3.19%) Informatica
4 2 (2.13%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.13%) IBM
4 2 (2.13%) Talend
4 2 (2.13%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.06%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.06%) Sybase
5 1 (1.06%) Teradata
5 1 (1.06%) Typelevel