Scala Contracts with Work from Home Options

Scala
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 246 213 166
Rank change year-on-year -33 -47 -39
Contract jobs citing Scala 101 295 728
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.68% 1.20% 1.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.02% 3.22% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 206 477
10th Percentile £363 - £450
25th Percentile £450 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £714
90th Percentile £888 £806 £815
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £18.80 £25.79
25th Percentile £66.25 £19.00 £34.62
Median hourly rate £67.50 £19.49 £49.33
Median % change year-on-year +246.33% -60.49% +103.42%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.93 £64.04
90th Percentile - £64.33 £72.87
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £68.50 £78.75
% change year-on-year -39.42% -13.02% +224.74%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,002 9,174 16,719
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.80% 37.22% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 6,731 12,427
10th Percentile £356 £390 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 195 194
10th Percentile £33.13 £32.45 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +26.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

Scala
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scala trend for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scala.

Scala daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Scala over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Scala daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scala.

Scala hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 21 (20.79%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (15.84%) Apache
3 15 (14.85%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.95%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) RMDS
2 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (42.57%) AWS
2 30 (29.70%) Azure
3 23 (22.77%) GCP
4 15 (14.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (13.86%) dbt
6 12 (11.88%) Snowflake
7 10 (9.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (9.90%) Serverless
8 9 (8.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (7.92%) Power Platform
10 7 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (5.94%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (5.94%) Amazon S3
11 6 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.96%) PowerApps
13 3 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (2.97%) Amazon Kinesis
14 2 (1.98%) Datadog
14 2 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (1.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.88%) HTTP
2 1 (0.99%) BGP
2 1 (0.99%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.83%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (12.87%) Amazon Athena
3 10 (9.90%) MongoDB
4 9 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (7.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (7.92%) Big Data
5 8 (7.92%) Power BI
6 7 (6.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (6.93%) Apache Arrow
6 7 (6.93%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (6.93%) Apache Ignite
6 7 (6.93%) Dremio
7 6 (5.94%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.94%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.96%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.97%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.97%) Spark SQL
9 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.98%) Looker
10 2 (1.98%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (6.93%) JIRA
2 6 (5.94%) Git
2 6 (5.94%) MLflow
3 4 (3.96%) GitLab
4 3 (2.97%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.99%) Deequ
5 1 (0.99%) Gatling
5 1 (0.99%) Gradle
5 1 (0.99%) Mockito
5 1 (0.99%) ScalaTest
5 1 (0.99%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (23.76%) Finance
2 23 (22.77%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.84%) Banking
4 15 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (12.87%) Front Office
5 13 (12.87%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.97%) Marketing
7 2 (1.98%) Czech Language
7 2 (1.98%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.99%) Legal
8 1 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (41.58%) Developer
2 32 (31.68%) Data Engineer
3 27 (26.73%) Scala Developer
4 20 (19.80%) Lead
5 17 (16.83%) Java Developer
6 15 (14.85%) Senior
7 13 (12.87%) Lead Data Engineer
8 8 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Java Scala Developer
9 7 (6.93%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.93%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Azure Data Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Architect
11 5 (4.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Linux Developer
11 5 (4.95%) Software Developer
12 4 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.81%) Kafka
1 19 (18.81%) RESTful
2 14 (13.86%) Akka
2 14 (13.86%) PySpark
3 10 (9.90%) Play Framework
4 9 (8.91%) Web Services
5 8 (7.92%) React
6 7 (6.93%) gRPC
6 7 (6.93%) NumPy
6 7 (6.93%) Pandas
6 7 (6.93%) Protocol Buffers
6 7 (6.93%) SciPy
7 5 (4.95%) Spring
8 4 (3.96%) PyTorch
8 4 (3.96%) Spark Streaming
8 4 (3.96%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.96%) TensorFlow
9 3 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.97%) OpenID
9 3 (2.97%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.76%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.88%) Derivative
3 10 (9.90%) Fixed Income
4 9 (8.91%) Hedge funds
5 7 (6.93%) Algorithms
5 7 (6.93%) Equities
6 6 (5.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (4.95%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.97%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.98%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.99%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.92%) Linux
2 5 (4.95%) Unix
3 1 (0.99%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (55.45%) Agile
2 29 (28.71%) Analytics
2 29 (28.71%) Data Engineering
3 28 (27.72%) Data Pipeline
3 28 (27.72%) Software Engineering
4 25 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (22.77%) Microservices
6 21 (20.79%) CI/CD
6 21 (20.79%) DevOps
7 20 (19.80%) Data Modelling
8 17 (16.83%) ETL
9 16 (15.84%) Computer Science
10 13 (12.87%) SDLC
11 12 (11.88%) Clean Code
11 12 (11.88%) Functional Programming
11 12 (11.88%) Machine Learning
11 12 (11.88%) MLOps
11 12 (11.88%) TDD
12 10 (9.90%) Test Automation
13 9 (8.91%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 55 (54.46%) Python
2 47 (46.53%) Java
3 25 (24.75%) SQL
4 10 (9.90%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.92%) Kotlin
5 8 (7.92%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.93%) Ruby
7 3 (2.97%) C#
7 3 (2.97%) C++
7 3 (2.97%) Go
7 3 (2.97%) R
8 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.99%) Bash
9 1 (0.99%) Perl
9 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (9.90%) Degree
2 8 (7.92%) Master's Degree
3 5 (4.95%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.99%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.99%) GxP
2 1 (0.99%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (12.87%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.99%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 20 (19.80%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.89%) Terraform
3 7 (6.93%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.97%) Zipkin
5 1 (0.99%) Argo
5 1 (0.99%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (26.73%) Databricks
2 6 (5.94%) Ab Initio
2 6 (5.94%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.97%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.97%) ION Trading
3 3 (2.97%) Solace
4 2 (1.98%) Genesys
4 2 (1.98%) Guidewire
4 2 (1.98%) Typelevel
5 1 (0.99%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.99%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.99%) F5
5 1 (0.99%) Google
5 1 (0.99%) Informatica
5 1 (0.99%) New Relic
5 1 (0.99%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.99%) Talend