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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 319 297
Rank change year-on-year -90 -22 +56
Contract jobs citing Scala 71 53 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 1.24% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 34 52
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £404 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £427 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -10.11% -13.64%
75th Percentile £495 £508 £538
90th Percentile £573 £601 £593
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% -8.33%
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 4,259 4,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.60% 27.73% 24.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,719 2,750 2,718
10th Percentile £331 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £497
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.50% -0.53%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £583
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £523 £505 £526
% change year-on-year +3.47% -3.90% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 199 268
10th Percentile £26.00 £33.91 £29.33
25th Percentile £50.75 £50.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.59%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -71 35 £443 +10.63% 36
Midlands -44 23 £490 +13.95% 7
West Midlands -32 21 £490 -1.51% 7
Yorkshire -39 20 £494 -1.25% 4
North East -26 13 £425 +6.25% 17
South East -61 7 £431 -4.17% 15
Scotland - 5 £300 - 20
East Midlands -22 2 £304 -27.62%
North West -60 2 £375 -1.32% 15
South West -37 1 £505 - 16
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 (14.08%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.04%) Apache
3 3 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.82%) Apache Pig
4 2 (2.82%) SAS
5 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.89%) AWS
2 17 (23.94%) GitHub
3 16 (22.54%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (19.72%) Azure
5 11 (15.49%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (14.08%) GCP
7 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.63%) Azure Batch
8 4 (5.63%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.23%) Azure Databricks
10 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.82%) BrowserStack
10 2 (2.82%) Cloud Run
10 2 (2.82%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.41%) Datadog
11 1 (1.41%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) MongoDB
2 7 (9.86%) Big Data
2 7 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.45%) Hadoop
3 6 (8.45%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.63%) Data Vault
4 4 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.82%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.82%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.82%) HBase
6 2 (2.82%) Metadata
6 2 (2.82%) Parquet
6 2 (2.82%) Power BI
6 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.82%) Sqoop
6 2 (2.82%) Trino
7 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Gatling
2 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.04%) Git
4 4 (5.63%) GitLab
4 4 (5.63%) JMeter
5 3 (4.23%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.23%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.23%) Cypress.io
5 3 (4.23%) JUnit
5 3 (4.23%) LoadRunner
5 3 (4.23%) Maven
5 3 (4.23%) NeoLoad
5 3 (4.23%) ScalaTest
5 3 (4.23%) Selenium
5 3 (4.23%) TestNG
6 2 (2.82%) JIRA
7 1 (1.41%) Appium
7 1 (1.41%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.41%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (40.85%) Public Sector
2 16 (22.54%) Finance
3 14 (19.72%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Banking
6 3 (4.23%) Games
6 3 (4.23%) Retail
7 1 (1.41%) Advertising
7 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Legal
7 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (39.44%) Developer
2 21 (29.58%) Scala Developer
3 12 (16.90%) Scala Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) Senior
5 6 (8.45%) Data Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Lead
5 6 (8.45%) Senior Developer
5 6 (8.45%) Software Developer
6 4 (5.63%) Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Performance Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Apache Spark Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Backend Developer
7 3 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Performance Test Leader
7 3 (4.23%) QA Tester
7 3 (4.23%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Test Leader
7 3 (4.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (29.58%) Play Framework
2 18 (25.35%) Terraform
3 10 (14.08%) Kafka
4 7 (9.86%) RESTful
5 5 (7.04%) GraphQL
5 5 (7.04%) Playwright
5 5 (7.04%) REST
6 4 (5.63%) JSON
7 3 (4.23%) PySpark
7 3 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (4.23%) Spring
8 2 (2.82%) Apache Avro
8 2 (2.82%) JSON Schema
8 2 (2.82%) Loki
8 2 (2.82%) Node.js
8 2 (2.82%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (2.82%) React
9 1 (1.41%) Akka
9 1 (1.41%) NestJS
9 1 (1.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Cloud Native
1 10 (14.08%) Product Ownership
2 8 (11.27%) Blog
3 3 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.23%) Sports Betting
4 2 (2.82%) BYOD
4 2 (2.82%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) Linux
1 4 (5.63%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.41%) Android
2 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (61.97%) CI/CD
2 40 (56.34%) Agile
3 27 (38.03%) DevOps
4 20 (28.17%) Microservices
5 19 (26.76%) Continuous Integration
5 19 (26.76%) TDD
6 16 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (18.31%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (18.31%) Observability
8 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (16.90%) Scrum
8 12 (16.90%) Test Automation
8 12 (16.90%) User Research
9 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (14.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 10 (14.08%) Technical Debt
11 9 (12.68%) Clean Code
11 9 (12.68%) Containerisation
11 9 (12.68%) Integration Testing
11 9 (12.68%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (43.66%) Python
2 20 (28.17%) Java
3 14 (19.72%) SQL
4 6 (8.45%) TypeScript
5 5 (7.04%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.63%) Bicep
7 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.82%) Bash
9 1 (1.41%) Go
9 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (25.35%) BPSS Clearance
1 18 (25.35%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.63%) Degree
4 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.90%) Accessibility
2 11 (15.49%) QA
3 10 (14.08%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.23%) WCAG
5 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (18.31%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Flume
2 2 (2.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (28.17%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.90%) Grafana
3 5 (7.04%) HAProxy
4 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.82%) Ansible
5 2 (2.82%) Kibana
5 2 (2.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Splunk
2 7 (9.86%) Databricks
3 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.63%) Google
4 4 (5.63%) KANA
5 2 (2.82%) Informatica
6 1 (1.41%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.41%) IBM
6 1 (1.41%) New Relic
6 1 (1.41%) Okta
6 1 (1.41%) Pega