Akka
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Akka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Akka over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 599 772
Rank change year-on-year +62 +173 -191
Contract jobs citing Akka 54 120 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 0.092%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.61% 0.87% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 89 59
10th Percentile £315 - £510
25th Percentile £413 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -19.23% +10.17%
75th Percentile £550 £620 £681
90th Percentile £575 £718 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -19.57% +27.78% -26.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 7
10th Percentile - £65.60 £45.75
25th Percentile - £71.25 £55.88
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year - +32.74% -13.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Akka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,883 13,752 24,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.25% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,030 17,634
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

Akka
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Akka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Akka in the UK

Akka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Akka in the UK

Akka
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akka over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Akka in the UK

Akka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Akka in the UK

Akka
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Akka within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +40 43 £500 -3.85% 11
London +47 41 £500 - 7
Work from Home +79 14 £450 -5.26% 4
UK excluding London +49 2 £463 -19.57% 4
East of England +9 1 £375 -27.88%
North of England - 1 £550 -
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -

Akka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 32 (59.26%) AWS
2 30 (55.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 39 (72.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (61.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 11 (20.37%) MongoDB
3 8 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (12.96%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (12.96%) ScalaTest
2 4 (7.41%) Gatling
2 4 (7.41%) Git
2 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.41%) Mockito
3 1 (1.85%) CircleCI
General
1 2 (3.70%) Finance
2 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (90.74%) Developer
2 48 (88.89%) Scala Developer
3 5 (9.26%) Scala Engineer
4 2 (3.70%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (3.70%) Senior
4 2 (3.70%) Senior Developer
4 2 (3.70%) Senior Scala Developer
5 1 (1.85%) Development Engineer
5 1 (1.85%) Scala Software Engineer
5 1 (1.85%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (1.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (79.63%) RESTful
2 38 (70.37%) Kafka
3 12 (22.22%) Play Framework
4 8 (14.81%) Web Services
5 4 (7.41%) Hibernate
5 4 (7.41%) JPA
5 4 (7.41%) spray
5 4 (7.41%) Spring
5 4 (7.41%) Spring MVC
6 1 (1.85%) Express.js
6 1 (1.85%) LoopBack
6 1 (1.85%) NestJS
6 1 (1.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Linux
2 4 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (90.74%) Microservices
2 35 (64.81%) TDD
3 33 (61.11%) Agile
4 32 (59.26%) Pair Programming
5 31 (57.41%) Clean Code
6 27 (50.00%) DevOps
6 27 (50.00%) GitOps
7 25 (46.30%) Machine Learning
7 25 (46.30%) Personalization
8 15 (27.78%) Coaching
8 15 (27.78%) Functional Programming
9 13 (24.07%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (18.52%) BDD
10 10 (18.52%) High Availability
10 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (18.52%) Software Delivery
10 10 (18.52%) Unit Testing
11 8 (14.81%) CI/CD
11 8 (14.81%) Containerisation
12 6 (11.11%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 54 (100.00%) Scala
2 4 (7.41%) Java
2 4 (7.41%) SQL
3 1 (1.85%) C
3 1 (1.85%) C++
3 1 (1.85%) Go
System Software
1 14 (25.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (75.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.81%) Grafana
2 8 (14.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (35.19%) Typelevel