Scala Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 261 207
Rank change year-on-year -17 -54 -60
Contract jobs citing Scala 349 558 1,211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 1.00% 1.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.70% 2.92% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 392 760
10th Percentile £375 £463 £450
25th Percentile £450 £500 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -19.47% +2.27% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 20 5
10th Percentile £27.63 - £25.95
25th Percentile £36.49 £19.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £70.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +224.74%
75th Percentile £61.25 £78.00 £82.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £83.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £20.47 £19.91
% change year-on-year +156.47% +2.81% -17.04%

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 12,939 19,124 31,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 34.12% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,176 13,793 23,095
10th Percentile £350 £388 £388
25th Percentile £425 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £660
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 433 488
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.95 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Top 15 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 1 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 -40 270 £563 -2.17% 93
London -7 220 £625 +7.76% 66
Work from Home -34 94 £518 -9.94% 62
UK excluding London +33 85 £453 -19.47% 31
Scotland +66 36 £453 -9.40%
North of England +20 29 £463 -19.57% 16
Yorkshire +29 18 £425 -24.44% 1
South East +1 13 £500 - 5
North West +8 9 £475 -17.39% 13
Midlands +19 4 £420 -29.41% 1
North East +11 2 £525 +16.67% 2
West Midlands +8 2 £485 -18.49%
South West -9 2 £450 -35.37% 4
East Midlands - 2 £360 - 1
East of England +5 1 £375 -21.05% 1

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 79 (22.64%) Apache Spark
2 37 (10.60%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (9.17%) Apache
4 3 (0.86%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.86%) nginx
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.86%) RMDS
2 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 144 (41.26%) AWS
2 81 (23.21%) GCP
3 75 (21.49%) Azure
4 31 (8.88%) Snowflake
5 18 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (5.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 17 (4.87%) dbt
6 17 (4.87%) Serverless
7 15 (4.30%) Amazon EMR
8 14 (4.01%) Amazon S3
8 14 (4.01%) Power Platform
9 12 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (2.29%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.01%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (1.43%) CloudBees
13 5 (1.43%) GitHub
13 5 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 53 (15.19%) HTTP
2 3 (0.86%) Firewall
3 2 (0.57%) BGP
3 2 (0.57%) DNS
4 1 (0.29%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (15.76%) Big Data
2 50 (14.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 36 (10.32%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (8.60%) NoSQL
5 26 (7.45%) MongoDB
6 25 (7.16%) Hadoop
7 20 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (5.44%) Data Lake
9 18 (5.16%) Apache Hive
9 18 (5.16%) Relational Database
10 16 (4.58%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (4.01%) Power BI
12 12 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (3.15%) Impala
13 11 (3.15%) Tableau
14 9 (2.58%) HBase
15 8 (2.29%) Spark SQL
16 6 (1.72%) BigQuery
16 6 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (8.88%) Git
2 26 (7.45%) Jenkins
3 20 (5.73%) Cucumber
4 15 (4.30%) JIRA
5 11 (3.15%) Maven
6 9 (2.58%) Gatling
6 9 (2.58%) ScalaTest
7 8 (2.29%) Subversion
8 7 (2.01%) Mockito
8 7 (2.01%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.72%) MLflow
10 5 (1.43%) Gradle
10 5 (1.43%) JUnit
11 4 (1.15%) GitLab
11 4 (1.15%) JMeter
11 4 (1.15%) Selenium
11 4 (1.15%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.86%) Deequ
13 2 (0.57%) Android Studio
13 2 (0.57%) Ant
General
1 79 (22.64%) Finance
2 61 (17.48%) Banking
3 54 (15.47%) Social Skills
4 49 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (10.89%) Investment Banking
6 14 (4.01%) Front Office
7 12 (3.44%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.01%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.15%) Electronics
10 4 (1.15%) Retail
11 3 (0.86%) Marketing
12 2 (0.57%) Czech Language
13 1 (0.29%) Back Office
13 1 (0.29%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Law
13 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.29%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.29%) Publishing
13 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 193 (55.30%) Developer
2 137 (39.26%) Scala Developer
3 63 (18.05%) Data Engineer
4 49 (14.04%) Senior
5 44 (12.61%) Java Developer
6 25 (7.16%) Lead
7 23 (6.59%) Architect
8 22 (6.30%) Scala Engineer
8 22 (6.30%) Senior Developer
9 16 (4.58%) Software Engineer
10 15 (4.30%) Java Scala Developer
11 13 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (3.72%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (3.72%) Python Developer
12 12 (3.44%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (3.15%) Azure Data Engineer
13 11 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (2.87%) Apache Spark Developer
14 10 (2.87%) Scala Software Engineer
14 10 (2.87%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (32.09%) Kafka
2 68 (19.48%) RESTful
3 64 (18.34%) Akka
4 46 (13.18%) PySpark
5 22 (6.30%) Web Services
6 21 (6.02%) Spring
7 17 (4.87%) Spring Boot
8 13 (3.72%) Play Framework
9 11 (3.15%) React
9 11 (3.15%) SAML
10 10 (2.87%) Spark Streaming
11 8 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.29%) NumPy
11 8 (2.29%) OpenTracing
11 8 (2.29%) Pandas
12 7 (2.01%) http4s
13 6 (1.72%) gRPC
13 6 (1.72%) Lambda Expressions
13 6 (1.72%) Protocol Buffers
13 6 (1.72%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 44 (12.61%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (6.88%) Hedge funds
3 20 (5.73%) Algorithms
4 17 (4.87%) Data Structures
5 15 (4.30%) Derivative
6 11 (3.15%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.58%) Equities
7 9 (2.58%) Fixed Income
7 9 (2.58%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.43%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.15%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
11 3 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.57%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (8.02%) Linux
2 22 (6.30%) Unix
3 4 (1.15%) Mac OS X
4 3 (0.86%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) CentOS
5 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (40.69%) Agile
2 90 (25.79%) Microservices
3 71 (20.34%) DevOps
4 66 (18.91%) Data Pipeline
4 66 (18.91%) TDD
5 64 (18.34%) Software Engineering
6 58 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (15.76%) CI/CD
8 54 (15.47%) ETL
9 52 (14.90%) Data Engineering
9 52 (14.90%) Data Modelling
10 48 (13.75%) Machine Learning
11 45 (12.89%) Analytics
11 45 (12.89%) GitOps
11 45 (12.89%) Pair Programming
12 43 (12.32%) Continuous Integration
13 42 (12.03%) BDD
14 38 (10.89%) Clean Code
15 35 (10.03%) Computer Science
15 35 (10.03%) OO
Programming Languages
1 145 (41.55%) Java
2 130 (37.25%) Python
3 68 (19.48%) SQL
4 20 (5.73%) Kotlin
5 16 (4.58%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.44%) Go
7 11 (3.15%) Ruby
7 11 (3.15%) Shell Script
8 10 (2.87%) Groovy
9 8 (2.29%) C++
10 7 (2.01%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.72%) C#
11 6 (1.72%) R
12 5 (1.43%) Perl
12 5 (1.43%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.86%) C
14 2 (0.57%) Bash
14 2 (0.57%) Haskell
14 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.29%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 24 (6.88%) Degree
2 20 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.15%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.87%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.29%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.57%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.57%) PhD
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.29%) OCP
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.88%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.15%) QA
3 2 (0.57%) MiFID
4 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 53 (15.19%) Docker
2 8 (2.29%) HDFS
2 8 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.57%) PowerDNS
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 96 (27.51%) Kubernetes
2 32 (9.17%) Terraform
3 23 (6.59%) Prometheus
4 21 (6.02%) Ansible
5 15 (4.30%) Grafana
6 8 (2.29%) Zipkin
7 5 (1.43%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.29%) Argo
9 1 (0.29%) Control-M
9 1 (0.29%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.29%) Puppet
9 1 (0.29%) systemd
Vendors
1 50 (14.33%) Databricks
2 22 (6.30%) Typelevel
3 16 (4.58%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.44%) Informatica
5 10 (2.87%) Google
6 9 (2.58%) Ab Initio
6 9 (2.58%) Talend
7 7 (2.01%) Virgin Media
8 6 (1.72%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.43%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.15%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.15%) Okta
10 4 (1.15%) Roku
11 3 (0.86%) IBM
11 3 (0.86%) Oracle
11 3 (0.86%) Solace
12 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.57%) Genesys
12 2 (0.57%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.57%) New Relic