Scala Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scala
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Scala skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scala over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 356 245
Rank change year-on-year +46 -111 -35
Contract jobs citing Scala 68 67 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.31% 1.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.54% 1.17% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 51 206
10th Percentile £400 £400 £403
25th Percentile £408 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.09% +2.91%
75th Percentile £538 £630 £613
90th Percentile £593 £738 £711
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £73.00 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £78.00 £56.56
% change year-on-year +2.56% +37.90% +117.55%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Scala falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,413 5,706 9,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.76% 26.34% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,789 3,891 6,608
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.09% -2.22% +9.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 348 360
10th Percentile £30.00 £38.63 £18.58
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £58.31
Median % change year-on-year - +11.47% +29.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £80.75 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +10.53% +26.16%

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 20 September 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
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 20 September 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
North of England +47 30 £498 -15.32% 14
Scotland +54 21 £457 -26.96% 10
Yorkshire - 18 £500 - 3
North East +4 8 £498 +24.38%
Midlands +13 7 £612 +30.91% 5
West Midlands +13 6 £612 +30.91% 4
South East +3 6 £400 -20.00% 5
North West +10 4 £413 -29.79% 11
South West +1 2 £450 -35.37% 3
East of England +25 1 £500 +25.00% 2
Northern Ireland -3 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £360 - 1
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 27 (39.71%) Apache Spark
2 14 (20.59%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (19.12%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 35 (51.47%) AWS
2 27 (39.71%) Azure
3 22 (32.35%) GCP
4 8 (11.76%) Snowflake
5 6 (8.82%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 5 (7.35%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon Neptune
7 4 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.94%) dbt
8 2 (2.94%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.94%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.94%) Serverless
9 1 (1.47%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.47%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 17 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 16 (23.53%) Big Data
3 12 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 11 (16.18%) Apache Hive
4 11 (16.18%) Relational Database
5 10 (14.71%) BigQuery
6 9 (13.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (10.29%) MongoDB
8 6 (8.82%) NoSQL
8 6 (8.82%) Spark SQL
9 5 (7.35%) Power BI
9 5 (7.35%) Tableau
10 4 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (5.88%) Data Mining
10 4 (5.88%) Impala
10 4 (5.88%) Looker
11 3 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 18 (26.47%) Git
2 10 (14.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.88%) Selenium
4 3 (4.41%) GitLab
4 3 (4.41%) JIRA
5 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.94%) Maven
6 1 (1.47%) Mockito
General
1 18 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (10.29%) Finance
2 7 (10.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.41%) Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (1.47%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) Developer
2 12 (17.65%) Data Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Java Developer
3 11 (16.18%) Scala Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) Scala Developer
5 7 (10.29%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Architect
7 5 (7.35%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Backend Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Apache Spark Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (32.35%) Kafka
2 12 (17.65%) PySpark
3 9 (13.24%) RESTful
3 9 (13.24%) Spring
4 7 (10.29%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (10.29%) OpenTracing
4 7 (10.29%) Spring Boot
5 6 (8.82%) Play Framework
6 3 (4.41%) Akka
6 3 (4.41%) React
7 2 (2.94%) Web Services
8 1 (1.47%) Anaconda
8 1 (1.47%) CSS
8 1 (1.47%) Node.js
8 1 (1.47%) OAuth
8 1 (1.47%) OpenID
8 1 (1.47%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (10.29%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.35%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.94%) iPad
5 2 (2.94%) Replication
5 2 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.47%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.47%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Linux
1 2 (2.94%) Unix
2 1 (1.47%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (48.53%) Agile
2 27 (39.71%) CI/CD
3 22 (32.35%) Data Engineering
4 21 (30.88%) DevOps
5 18 (26.47%) Data Modelling
5 18 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
6 16 (23.53%) Microservices
7 15 (22.06%) Containerisation
7 15 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (20.59%) Test Automation
9 12 (17.65%) Data Cleansing
9 12 (17.65%) Data Science
9 12 (17.65%) ETL
10 11 (16.18%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (16.18%) Scrum
11 10 (14.71%) Software Engineering
12 9 (13.24%) Continuous Delivery
12 9 (13.24%) Data Analysis
12 9 (13.24%) Machine Learning
12 9 (13.24%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (54.41%) Java
2 29 (42.65%) Python
3 18 (26.47%) SQL
4 8 (11.76%) Kotlin
4 8 (11.76%) R
5 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.88%) Bash
7 3 (4.41%) C++
8 2 (2.94%) Go
8 2 (2.94%) Groovy
8 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.94%) Degree
3 2 (2.94%) IBM Certification
3 2 (2.94%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.94%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (38.24%) Docker
2 7 (10.29%) HDFS
3 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (45.59%) Kubernetes
2 13 (19.12%) Terraform
3 11 (16.18%) Prometheus
4 7 (10.29%) Zipkin
5 3 (4.41%) Kibana
6 2 (2.94%) Control-M
6 2 (2.94%) Oozie
7 1 (1.47%) Grafana
7 1 (1.47%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 12 (17.65%) Databricks
2 4 (5.88%) Dynatrace
2 4 (5.88%) Google
2 4 (5.88%) Virgin Media
3 2 (2.94%) IBM
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.94%) VMware
4 1 (1.47%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.47%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.47%) OpenAI