Scala Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Scala
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 303 315
Rank change year-on-year -76 +12 -5
Contract jobs citing Scala 47 37 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.29% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.90% 0.98% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 31 68
10th Percentile £400 - £375
25th Percentile £426 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% -2.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £630
90th Percentile £599 £630 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £575 £578
% change year-on-year -9.74% -0.48% +0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.14
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £67.25
UK median hourly rate - - £47.35
% change year-on-year - - -24.25%

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 5,197 3,761 5,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.48% 29.38% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 2,375 3,363
10th Percentile £330 £325 £313
25th Percentile £404 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% - -3.47%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £588
90th Percentile £644 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 186 416
10th Percentile £46.25 £21.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £58.19 £44.51 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +2.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.72
90th Percentile £77.15 £85.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -6.80%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scala relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Scala job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Scala.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Scala

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 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Scala.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Scala

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 10 March 2026. 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
Midlands -52 25 £458 -3.68% 9
West Midlands -42 24 £440 -8.71% 5
North of England -60 18 £500 -9.09% 17
Yorkshire -55 12 £507 -5.67% 6
North East -13 5 £425 -22.73% 3
South East -40 3 £604 +28.78% 34
Scotland +8 2 £513 +31.41% 6
South West -25 2 £508 +27.09% 15
North West -33 2 £475 -11.63% 8
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (21.28%) Apache
2 8 (17.02%) JBoss
2 8 (17.02%) WebLogic
3 3 (6.38%) Apache Spark
4 2 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Pig
5 1 (2.13%) LiveCycle
5 1 (2.13%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (48.94%) AWS
2 11 (23.40%) Azure
3 9 (19.15%) GCP
4 8 (17.02%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (12.77%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub
8 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.28%) MongoDB
2 5 (10.64%) Neo4j
2 5 (10.64%) Power BI
3 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.51%) Hadoop
4 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.26%) Apache Hive
5 2 (4.26%) Big Data
5 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.26%) Data Mining
5 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.26%) Tableau
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.13%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.13%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Git
1 9 (19.15%) Postman
1 9 (19.15%) Selenium
2 8 (17.02%) Eclipse
2 8 (17.02%) IntelliJ
2 8 (17.02%) JUnit
3 7 (14.89%) Jenkins
4 6 (12.77%) GitLab
5 4 (8.51%) Gatling
5 4 (8.51%) JIRA
5 4 (8.51%) JMeter
5 4 (8.51%) LoadRunner
5 4 (8.51%) NeoLoad
6 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.13%) Deequ
6 1 (2.13%) REST Assured
General
1 19 (40.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Banking
4 4 (8.51%) Finance
5 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Developer
2 7 (14.89%) Lead
2 7 (14.89%) Scala Developer
2 7 (14.89%) Scala Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Automation Test Lead
3 6 (12.77%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Java Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Lead Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Python Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Test Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Test Automation Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Test Leader
6 2 (4.26%) Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.91%) Play Framework
2 12 (25.53%) REST
3 10 (21.28%) Playwright
4 9 (19.15%) Spring
5 8 (17.02%) EJB
5 8 (17.02%) Hibernate
5 8 (17.02%) HTML
5 8 (17.02%) HTML5
5 8 (17.02%) J2EE
5 8 (17.02%) J2SE
5 8 (17.02%) JSON
5 8 (17.02%) SOAP
5 8 (17.02%) XML
6 4 (8.51%) LDAP
6 4 (8.51%) OpenID
6 4 (8.51%) PySpark
6 4 (8.51%) SailPoint
7 3 (6.38%) Akka
7 3 (6.38%) Node.js
8 2 (4.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Unix
2 2 (4.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (57.45%) CI/CD
2 26 (55.32%) Agile
3 21 (44.68%) DevOps
4 20 (42.55%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (31.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (29.79%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (27.66%) Continuous Delivery
8 12 (25.53%) Microservices
9 11 (23.40%) Software Engineering
10 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (21.28%) Test Automation
11 9 (19.15%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (19.15%) ETL
11 9 (19.15%) Identity Access Management
11 9 (19.15%) Mentoring
11 9 (19.15%) Scrum
12 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (17.02%) Lean Software Development
12 8 (17.02%) Open Source
13 7 (14.89%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 26 (55.32%) Java
2 24 (51.06%) Python
3 19 (40.43%) SQL
4 11 (23.40%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.51%) Cypher
6 1 (2.13%) Bash
6 1 (2.13%) C#
6 1 (2.13%) Groovy
6 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.13%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.13%) PHP
6 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) QA
2 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.13%) GDPR
4 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Puppet
2 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.51%) Terraform
3 3 (6.38%) Kibana
4 2 (4.26%) Ansible
5 1 (2.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) webMethods
2 6 (12.77%) Databricks
3 4 (8.51%) Google
3 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.26%) Splunk
6 1 (2.13%) Adobe
6 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.13%) Informatica
6 1 (2.13%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle