Scala Developer Contracts

Scala Developer
UK

The median Scala Developer daily rate in the UK is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 451 552
Rank change year-on-year -13 +101 -157
Contract jobs requiring a Scala Developer 138 252 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.45% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.48% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 179 211
10th Percentile £363 £463 £475
25th Percentile £450 £500 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +11.36%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £750
90th Percentile £838 £900 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £67.65 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £72.38 £76.56
Median hourly rate £52.50 £75.00 £78.13
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £53.75 - £79.69
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Scala Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Scala Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala Developer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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 -15 101 £613 +2.08% 9
London -27 90 £675 +11.80% 5
Work from Home +12 28 £450 -25.00% 6
UK excluding London +44 20 £525 +5.00% 3
Scotland +44 9 £750 +50.00%
North of England +29 7 £475 -2.56% 2
Yorkshire +16 5 £425 -
South East +14 3 £350 -30.00% 1
North East +14 2 £525 +5.00% 2
East of England - 1 £375 -

Scala Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Scala Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Scala Developer in the job title.

1 138 (100.00%) Scala
2 60 (43.48%) Agile
3 59 (42.75%) Akka
3 59 (42.75%) Microservices
4 53 (38.41%) Kubernetes
4 53 (38.41%) RESTful
5 51 (36.96%) Kafka
6 50 (36.23%) TDD
7 49 (35.51%) HTTP
8 48 (34.78%) AWS
9 42 (30.43%) Pair Programming
10 40 (28.99%) GCP
11 37 (26.81%) Clean Code
12 36 (26.09%) Apache Cassandra
13 34 (24.64%) DevOps
13 34 (24.64%) Banking
13 34 (24.64%) Finance
14 33 (23.91%) GitOps
15 32 (23.19%) BDD
16 30 (21.74%) Machine Learning
17 28 (20.29%) Personalization
18 27 (19.57%) Java
18 27 (19.57%) OO
19 26 (18.84%) Functional Programming
20 23 (16.67%) Investment Banking
21 22 (15.94%) Software Engineering
22 21 (15.22%) Typelevel
23 18 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
23 18 (13.04%) Coaching
23 18 (13.04%) ATDD

Scala Developer Skill Set
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 14 (10.14%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.90%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 48 (34.78%) AWS
2 40 (28.99%) GCP
3 3 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (1.45%) Azure
4 2 (1.45%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.72%) GitHub
5 1 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (35.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (26.09%) Apache Cassandra
2 11 (7.97%) Big Data
3 10 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.52%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.52%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.90%) Redis
6 3 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.17%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.72%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.72%) HBase
7 1 (0.72%) Power BI
7 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (11.59%) Cucumber
2 9 (6.52%) Git
2 9 (6.52%) ScalaTest
3 6 (4.35%) Mockito
4 5 (3.62%) Gatling
5 4 (2.90%) Subversion
6 3 (2.17%) GitLab
6 3 (2.17%) Maven
7 2 (1.45%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.45%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.45%) JIRA
7 2 (1.45%) JUnit
7 2 (1.45%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.72%) CircleCI
General
1 34 (24.64%) Banking
1 34 (24.64%) Finance
2 23 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 11 (7.97%) Social Skills
4 9 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.35%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.45%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.72%) Front Office
8 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (42.75%) Akka
2 53 (38.41%) RESTful
3 51 (36.96%) Kafka
4 13 (9.42%) Play Framework
5 10 (7.25%) Web Services
6 5 (3.62%) Spring
7 4 (2.90%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.90%) JPA
7 4 (2.90%) Spark Streaming
7 4 (2.90%) spray
7 4 (2.90%) Spring MVC
8 3 (2.17%) OAuth
8 3 (2.17%) OpenID
8 3 (2.17%) React
8 3 (2.17%) SAML
9 1 (0.72%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.72%) Apache Beam
9 1 (0.72%) JMS
9 1 (0.72%) Middleware
9 1 (0.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.42%) Hedge funds
2 12 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.07%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.62%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.45%) Equities
6 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.45%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.72%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.42%) Linux
2 10 (7.25%) Unix
3 2 (1.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (43.48%) Agile
2 59 (42.75%) Microservices
3 50 (36.23%) TDD
4 42 (30.43%) Pair Programming
5 37 (26.81%) Clean Code
6 34 (24.64%) DevOps
7 33 (23.91%) GitOps
8 32 (23.19%) BDD
9 30 (21.74%) Machine Learning
10 28 (20.29%) Personalization
11 27 (19.57%) OO
12 26 (18.84%) Functional Programming
13 22 (15.94%) Software Engineering
14 18 (13.04%) ATDD
14 18 (13.04%) Coaching
14 18 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (10.87%) Unit Testing
16 14 (10.14%) CI/CD
16 14 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
17 13 (9.42%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 138 (100.00%) Scala
2 27 (19.57%) Java
3 11 (7.97%) SQL
4 3 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.45%) C#
5 2 (1.45%) Python
6 1 (0.72%) C++
6 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.72%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (1.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.72%) MiFID
System Software
1 11 (7.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 53 (38.41%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.59%) Ansible
3 6 (4.35%) Grafana
3 6 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.72%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 21 (15.22%) Typelevel
2 3 (2.17%) Virgin Media
3 2 (1.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.72%) Databricks
4 1 (0.72%) Google
4 1 (0.72%) Murex
4 1 (0.72%) Sybase