Scala Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Scala
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Scala skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +5
Contract jobs citing Scala 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.41% 0.55% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.72% 1.92% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £404 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.21%
75th Percentile £411 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 58 52 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 23.77% 28.42% 26.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 27 26
10th Percentile £325 £316 £256
25th Percentile £413 £394 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +18.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £619 -
90th Percentile £608 £675 £511
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £51.80 £41.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.58% - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +12.66%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in Northern Ireland

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Scala.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Scala

Scala
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 13 September 2025. 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
County Antrim -9 1 £408 - 1
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
1 1 (100.00%) Equity Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA