Scala
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 242 210
Rank change year-on-year -50 -32 -67
Contract jobs citing Scala 348 657 1,231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 1.10% 1.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.71% 3.14% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 465 780
10th Percentile £375 £463 £455
25th Percentile £450 £500 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +8.11%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £713
90th Percentile £825 £825 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -17.00% +1.85% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 5
10th Percentile £23.54 - £25.95
25th Percentile £26.25 £19.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.50 £64.75 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.91% -17.78% +224.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £82.50
90th Percentile £64.25 £78.00 £83.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.50 £41.49 £19.91
% change year-on-year +0.04% +108.36% -17.90%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,854 20,901 32,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.49% 35.02% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,130 15,092 23,463
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £760 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 471 514
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.52
% change year-on-year - +26.21% +16.52%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scala over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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 -62 262 £575 - 101
London -39 198 £625 +8.70% 76
UK excluding London +40 104 £457 -17.00% 31
Work from Home -39 104 £556 -2.41% 103
Scotland +67 39 £453 -9.40% 5
North of England +7 28 £438 -23.91% 11
South East +7 19 £575 +12.20% 3
Yorkshire +18 16 £425 -24.44% 2
North West +7 10 £463 -19.57% 8
Midlands +18 9 £513 -13.87% 2
East Midlands +27 6 £513 +2.50%
Northern Ireland +12 4 £500 - 2
East of England +13 3 £338 -28.95% 1
West Midlands +13 3 £420 -29.41% 2
North East +20 2 £525 +16.67% 1
South West -15 2 £450 -18.18% 3

Scala
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:

Application Platforms
1 83 (23.85%) Apache Spark
2 35 (10.06%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (6.90%) Apache
4 5 (1.44%) Confluence
5 3 (0.86%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.86%) nginx
6 2 (0.57%) SAS
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.29%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 131 (37.64%) AWS
2 77 (22.13%) Azure
3 71 (20.40%) GCP
4 28 (8.05%) Snowflake
5 21 (6.03%) Power Platform
6 20 (5.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (3.45%) dbt
8 10 (2.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (2.87%) Serverless
9 8 (2.30%) Amazon EMR
9 8 (2.30%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.01%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (2.01%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.72%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.44%) CloudBees
12 5 (1.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 41 (11.78%) HTTP
2 3 (0.86%) Firewall
3 2 (0.57%) BGP
3 2 (0.57%) DNS
4 1 (0.29%) FTP
4 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (18.68%) Big Data
2 46 (13.22%) Apache Cassandra
3 31 (8.91%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (8.62%) NoSQL
5 26 (7.47%) Data Lake
5 26 (7.47%) Hadoop
6 25 (7.18%) MongoDB
7 24 (6.90%) Apache Hive
8 21 (6.03%) Power BI
9 19 (5.46%) Relational Database
10 15 (4.31%) Impala
10 15 (4.31%) Tableau
11 13 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (2.59%) HBase
15 8 (2.30%) Apache Ignite
15 8 (2.30%) Dremio
15 8 (2.30%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (7.76%) Git
2 24 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 21 (6.03%) Cucumber
3 21 (6.03%) JIRA
4 11 (3.16%) Gatling
4 11 (3.16%) Maven
5 9 (2.59%) ScalaTest
6 8 (2.30%) Subversion
7 6 (1.72%) MLflow
7 6 (1.72%) Mockito
7 6 (1.72%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.44%) GitLab
8 5 (1.44%) Gradle
8 5 (1.44%) JUnit
8 5 (1.44%) Selenium
9 4 (1.15%) JMeter
9 4 (1.15%) WebDriver
10 3 (0.86%) Deequ
11 2 (0.57%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 83 (23.85%) Finance
2 64 (18.39%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (17.82%) Banking
3 62 (17.82%) Social Skills
4 43 (12.36%) Investment Banking
5 16 (4.60%) Front Office
6 9 (2.59%) Financial Institution
6 9 (2.59%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.44%) Electronics
9 4 (1.15%) Marketing
9 4 (1.15%) Retail
10 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Czech Language
11 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.29%) Back Office
12 1 (0.29%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Law
12 1 (0.29%) Legal
12 1 (0.29%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 185 (53.16%) Developer
2 130 (37.36%) Scala Developer
3 75 (21.55%) Data Engineer
4 51 (14.66%) Senior
5 42 (12.07%) Java Developer
6 24 (6.90%) Architect
7 22 (6.32%) Senior Developer
8 21 (6.03%) Lead
8 21 (6.03%) Scala Engineer
9 18 (5.17%) Java Scala Developer
9 18 (5.17%) Software Engineer
10 17 (4.89%) Python Developer
11 16 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (4.31%) Lead Data Engineer
13 14 (4.02%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (3.74%) Linux Developer
14 13 (3.74%) Senior Scala Developer
15 12 (3.45%) Azure Data Engineer
16 11 (3.16%) Python Engineer
16 11 (3.16%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (28.16%) Kafka
2 57 (16.38%) RESTful
3 52 (14.94%) Akka
4 35 (10.06%) PySpark
5 23 (6.61%) Web Services
6 17 (4.89%) Spring
7 15 (4.31%) Spring Boot
8 13 (3.74%) Play Framework
9 11 (3.16%) SAML
10 10 (2.87%) NumPy
10 10 (2.87%) Pandas
11 8 (2.30%) gRPC
11 8 (2.30%) http4s
11 8 (2.30%) Protocol Buffers
11 8 (2.30%) React
11 8 (2.30%) SciPy
12 7 (2.01%) Lambda Expressions
13 6 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (1.72%) OpenTracing
14 5 (1.44%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.07%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (6.03%) Hedge funds
3 20 (5.75%) Algorithms
4 15 (4.31%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.02%) Derivative
6 10 (2.87%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.59%) Equities
8 8 (2.30%) Fixed Income
8 8 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.44%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (1.15%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
13 3 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 2 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (0.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.06%) Linux
2 26 (7.47%) Unix
3 4 (1.15%) Mac OS X
4 3 (0.86%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (39.08%) Agile
2 79 (22.70%) Microservices
3 68 (19.54%) Software Engineering
4 65 (18.68%) DevOps
5 64 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (18.10%) Data Pipeline
7 61 (17.53%) TDD
8 54 (15.52%) Analytics
9 52 (14.94%) ETL
10 50 (14.37%) CI/CD
11 49 (14.08%) Data Engineering
12 47 (13.51%) Machine Learning
13 46 (13.22%) Data Modelling
14 40 (11.49%) Computer Science
15 39 (11.21%) Continuous Integration
16 38 (10.92%) BDD
16 38 (10.92%) GitOps
17 36 (10.34%) Pair Programming
18 33 (9.48%) Business Intelligence
19 32 (9.20%) OO
Programming Languages
1 149 (42.82%) Java
2 145 (41.67%) Python
3 86 (24.71%) SQL
4 19 (5.46%) Kotlin
5 17 (4.89%) JavaScript
6 13 (3.74%) Ruby
7 12 (3.45%) R
8 11 (3.16%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.87%) Go
9 10 (2.87%) Groovy
10 9 (2.59%) TypeScript
11 8 (2.30%) C++
12 5 (1.44%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.15%) C#
14 3 (0.86%) C
15 2 (0.57%) Bash
15 2 (0.57%) Haskell
15 2 (0.57%) Perl
16 1 (0.29%) ANSI SQL
16 1 (0.29%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 32 (9.20%) Degree
2 25 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.16%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.59%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.30%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.86%) PhD
8 2 (0.57%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.29%) OCP
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.91%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.72%) QA
3 2 (0.57%) MiFID
4 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.29%) GxP
System Software
1 45 (12.93%) Docker
2 9 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.30%) HDFS
4 3 (0.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.57%) PowerDNS
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 74 (21.26%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.91%) Terraform
3 21 (6.03%) Ansible
4 16 (4.60%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.45%) Grafana
6 6 (1.72%) Zipkin
7 5 (1.44%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.57%) Puppet
10 1 (0.29%) Argo
10 1 (0.29%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.29%) systemd
Vendors
1 56 (16.09%) Databricks
2 19 (5.46%) Typelevel
3 16 (4.60%) Informatica
3 16 (4.60%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.74%) Talend
5 10 (2.87%) Google
6 5 (1.44%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.15%) Okta
7 4 (1.15%) Roku
7 4 (1.15%) Sybase
7 4 (1.15%) Virgin Media
8 3 (0.86%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.57%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.57%) F5
9 2 (0.57%) Genesys
9 2 (0.57%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.57%) IBM
9 2 (0.57%) New Relic
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle
9 2 (0.57%) Teradata