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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 324 305
Rank change year-on-year -85 -19 +55
Contract jobs citing Scala 75 53 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.34% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.23% 1.22% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 33 46
10th Percentile £350 £375 £386
25th Percentile £404 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £429 £498
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -13.77% -5.24%
75th Percentile £494 £511 £538
90th Percentile £579 £605 £603
UK median daily rate £496 £507 £550
% change year-on-year -2.14% -7.82% -8.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £54.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year +23.50% -32.19% +2.56%

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 6,112 4,333 4,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.58% 27.56% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,679 2,797 2,669
10th Percentile £337 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £581
90th Percentile £671 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 206 259
10th Percentile £22.90 £33.91 £27.00
25th Percentile £48.64 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.60 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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
North of England -60 35 £443 +10.63% 27
Midlands -40 24 £486 +12.91% 5
West Midlands -40 22 £490 -1.51% 3
Yorkshire -29 19 £500 - 3
North East -27 13 £425 +6.25% 14
South East -60 9 £413 -8.33% 15
Scotland - 6 £355 - 25
North West -48 3 £375 -0.66% 10
East Midlands -20 2 £304 -27.62% 2
South West -42 1 £505 - 13
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 11 (14.67%) Apache Spark
2 8 (10.67%) Apache
3 3 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.67%) Apache Pig
4 2 (2.67%) SAS
5 1 (1.33%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (1.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (49.33%) AWS
2 18 (24.00%) GitHub
3 17 (22.67%) Azure
3 17 (22.67%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (14.67%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (13.33%) GCP
6 7 (9.33%) Amazon S3
6 7 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.67%) Azure Batch
7 5 (6.67%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.33%) Snowflake
9 3 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (4.00%) Azure Databricks
10 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.67%) BrowserStack
10 2 (2.67%) Cloud Run
10 2 (2.67%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (9.33%) Big Data
2 7 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.33%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 5 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.33%) Data Vault
4 4 (5.33%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.67%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.67%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.67%) HBase
6 2 (2.67%) Metadata
6 2 (2.67%) Power BI
6 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.67%) Sqoop
6 2 (2.67%) Trino
7 1 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Gatling
2 7 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.00%) Git
4 5 (6.67%) GitLab
5 4 (5.33%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.33%) JMeter
6 3 (4.00%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.00%) JUnit
6 3 (4.00%) LoadRunner
6 3 (4.00%) Maven
6 3 (4.00%) NeoLoad
6 3 (4.00%) ScalaTest
6 3 (4.00%) Selenium
6 3 (4.00%) TestNG
7 2 (2.67%) JIRA
7 2 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.33%) tSQLt
8 1 (1.33%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (37.33%) Public Sector
2 19 (25.33%) Finance
3 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.33%) Banking
6 3 (4.00%) Games
6 3 (4.00%) Retail
7 2 (2.67%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Advertising
8 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (37.33%) Developer
2 20 (26.67%) Scala Developer
3 12 (16.00%) Scala Engineer
3 12 (16.00%) Senior
4 10 (13.33%) Data Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Lead
6 6 (8.00%) Databricks Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Performance Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Apache Spark Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Backend Developer
9 3 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Backend Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (28.00%) Play Framework
2 18 (24.00%) Terraform
3 9 (12.00%) Kafka
4 7 (9.33%) RESTful
5 5 (6.67%) GraphQL
5 5 (6.67%) Playwright
5 5 (6.67%) REST
6 4 (5.33%) PySpark
7 3 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (4.00%) Spring
8 2 (2.67%) JSON
8 2 (2.67%) Loki
8 2 (2.67%) Node.js
8 2 (2.67%) React
9 1 (1.33%) Akka
9 1 (1.33%) Dask
9 1 (1.33%) Jinja
9 1 (1.33%) LangChain
9 1 (1.33%) NestJS
9 1 (1.33%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (14.67%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.67%) Blog
4 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.00%) Sports Betting
6 2 (2.67%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.33%) BYOD
7 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Linux
1 4 (5.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.33%) Android
2 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 40 (53.33%) Agile
3 29 (38.67%) DevOps
4 20 (26.67%) Microservices
5 19 (25.33%) Continuous Integration
5 19 (25.33%) TDD
6 17 (22.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (22.67%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (17.33%) Test Automation
9 12 (16.00%) Observability
9 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (16.00%) Scrum
9 12 (16.00%) User Research
10 11 (14.67%) Data Engineering
11 10 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 10 (13.33%) Technical Debt
12 9 (12.00%) Clean Code
12 9 (12.00%) Containerisation
12 9 (12.00%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (45.33%) Python
2 25 (33.33%) Java
3 19 (25.33%) SQL
4 8 (10.67%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.00%) Bicep
5 6 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.00%) Bash
6 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.67%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.33%) Go
8 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (21.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) Accessibility
2 11 (14.67%) Data Quality
2 11 (14.67%) QA
3 3 (4.00%) WCAG
4 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 14 (18.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Apache Flume
2 2 (2.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.00%) Grafana
3 5 (6.67%) HAProxy
4 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.67%) Ansible
5 2 (2.67%) Kibana
5 2 (2.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (16.00%) Databricks
2 9 (12.00%) Splunk
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.33%) Google
4 4 (5.33%) KANA
5 2 (2.67%) Informatica
6 1 (1.33%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.33%) IBM
6 1 (1.33%) New Relic
6 1 (1.33%) Okta
6 1 (1.33%) Pega