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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 219 162
Rank change year-on-year -36 -57 -34
Contract jobs citing Scala 94 269 741
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 1.11% 1.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 3.04% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 197 482
10th Percentile £363 £463 £450
25th Percentile £440 £475 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £723
90th Percentile £888 £814 £813
UK median daily rate £535 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% +4.35%
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 £52.50 £70.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +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 4,999 8,854 16,837
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.14% 36.52% 38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 6,538 12,568
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.33% +8.26%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 184 183
10th Percentile £27.75 £32.03 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.20
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

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 2 June 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 18 (19.15%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (18.09%) Apache
2 17 (18.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) RMDS
2 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (46.81%) AWS
2 25 (26.60%) Azure
3 22 (23.40%) GCP
4 12 (12.77%) dbt
5 11 (11.70%) Snowflake
6 10 (10.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (10.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (10.64%) Serverless
7 7 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.38%) Amazon EMR
8 6 (6.38%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (3.19%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.13%) Datadog
11 2 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.13%) PaaS
12 1 (1.06%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.83%) HTTP
2 1 (1.06%) BGP
2 1 (1.06%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.02%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (12.77%) Amazon Athena
3 10 (10.64%) MongoDB
3 10 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (9.57%) Big Data
5 8 (8.51%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (7.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (6.38%) Apache Arrow
7 6 (6.38%) Apache Ignite
7 6 (6.38%) Dremio
7 6 (6.38%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.26%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.26%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.19%) Delta Lake
9 3 (3.19%) Hadoop
9 3 (3.19%) Power BI
9 3 (3.19%) Spark SQL
10 2 (2.13%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Git
1 6 (6.38%) MLflow
2 4 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.19%) GitLab
4 1 (1.06%) Deequ
4 1 (1.06%) Gatling
4 1 (1.06%) Gradle
4 1 (1.06%) JIRA
4 1 (1.06%) Mockito
4 1 (1.06%) ScalaTest
4 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (23.40%) Finance
2 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 16 (17.02%) Banking
4 12 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.77%) Front Office
4 12 (12.77%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.13%) Czech Language
5 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.06%) Marketing
6 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (43.62%) Developer
2 28 (29.79%) Data Engineer
3 27 (28.72%) Scala Developer
4 18 (19.15%) Lead
5 16 (17.02%) Java Developer
6 13 (13.83%) Senior
7 11 (11.70%) Lead Data Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Java Scala Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Architect
10 5 (5.32%) Azure Data Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Linux Developer
11 4 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.34%) Kafka
2 19 (20.21%) RESTful
3 15 (15.96%) Akka
4 14 (14.89%) PySpark
5 10 (10.64%) Play Framework
6 9 (9.57%) Web Services
7 8 (8.51%) React
8 6 (6.38%) gRPC
8 6 (6.38%) NumPy
8 6 (6.38%) Pandas
8 6 (6.38%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (6.38%) SciPy
9 5 (5.32%) Spark Streaming
9 5 (5.32%) Spring
10 4 (4.26%) PyTorch
10 4 (4.26%) Spring Boot
10 4 (4.26%) TensorFlow
11 3 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (3.19%) HTML5
11 3 (3.19%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.53%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (12.77%) Derivative
3 9 (9.57%) Fixed Income
3 9 (9.57%) Hedge funds
4 7 (7.45%) Equities
5 6 (6.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (5.32%) Algorithms
6 5 (5.32%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (2.13%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (1.06%) Blockchain
9 1 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.45%) Linux
2 4 (4.26%) Unix
3 1 (1.06%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (51.06%) Agile
2 28 (29.79%) Data Pipeline
3 26 (27.66%) Data Engineering
3 26 (27.66%) Software Engineering
4 24 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (24.47%) CI/CD
5 23 (24.47%) Microservices
6 22 (23.40%) Analytics
7 20 (21.28%) Data Modelling
8 18 (19.15%) DevOps
8 18 (19.15%) ETL
9 15 (15.96%) Computer Science
10 13 (13.83%) Clean Code
10 13 (13.83%) SDLC
11 12 (12.77%) Functional Programming
11 12 (12.77%) Machine Learning
11 12 (12.77%) TDD
12 11 (11.70%) MLOps
13 10 (10.64%) Test Automation
14 9 (9.57%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 46 (48.94%) Java
1 46 (48.94%) Python
2 18 (19.15%) SQL
3 9 (9.57%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.51%) Kotlin
5 7 (7.45%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.38%) Ruby
7 4 (4.26%) Go
8 3 (3.19%) C#
9 2 (2.13%) C++
9 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.13%) R
10 1 (1.06%) Bash
10 1 (1.06%) Perl
10 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (9.57%) Degree
2 7 (7.45%) Master's Degree
3 6 (6.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.38%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.32%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.06%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.77%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.06%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (15.96%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.06%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 24 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.77%) Terraform
3 8 (8.51%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.19%) Zipkin
5 1 (1.06%) Argo
5 1 (1.06%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (22.34%) Databricks
2 6 (6.38%) Ab Initio
2 6 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.26%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.19%) ION Trading
4 3 (3.19%) Solace
4 3 (3.19%) Typelevel
5 2 (2.13%) Genesys
5 2 (2.13%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.06%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.06%) F5
6 1 (1.06%) Google
6 1 (1.06%) Informatica
6 1 (1.06%) New Relic
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle