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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 312 369
Rank change year-on-year -7 +57 -137
Contract jobs citing Scala 64 51 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.40% 1.19% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 39
10th Percentile £375 £395 £357
25th Percentile £402 £421 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £511 £541 £582
90th Percentile £604 £612 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £581 £600
% change year-on-year -13.98% -3.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £67.60
25th Percentile - - £71.50
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £80.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +2.56% +122.86%

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 4,579 4,294 5,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.19% 25.81% 25.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,967 2,573 3,679
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £560 £580 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 219 342
10th Percentile £34.50 £25.26 £37.50
25th Percentile £51.85 £46.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.68
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.92
% change year-on-year - +0.94% +2.35%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 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
Midlands -1 30 £430 -29.74% 9
North of England -39 28 £400 -20.00% 18
West Midlands -4 25 £498 -18.71% 2
Yorkshire -30 14 £500 - 5
North West -13 12 £378 +0.67% 8
South East +7 6 £500 +25.00% 100
East Midlands - 5 £420 - 6
East of England -10 2 £488 -2.50% 20
North East -17 2 £400 -14.89% 5
South West +6 1 - - 9
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 18 (28.13%) Apache
2 15 (23.44%) Apache Spark
3 10 (15.63%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (14.06%) WebLogic
5 8 (12.50%) JBoss
6 7 (10.94%) Apache Pig
7 3 (4.69%) IIS
8 1 (1.56%) Tuxedo
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.13%) AWS
2 11 (17.19%) Cloud Computing
3 10 (15.63%) Azure
3 10 (15.63%) Power Platform
4 8 (12.50%) GCP
5 4 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.69%) GitHub
6 3 (4.69%) Serverless
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.13%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (3.13%) dbt
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.44%) Hadoop
2 11 (17.19%) Apache Hive
2 11 (17.19%) Data Mining
3 10 (15.63%) Power BI
4 9 (14.06%) Big Data
4 9 (14.06%) MongoDB
5 8 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 7 (10.94%) Data Lake
6 7 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (10.94%) Delta Lake
7 4 (6.25%) DataStage
7 4 (6.25%) Metadata
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (4.69%) HBase
8 3 (4.69%) OLTP
8 3 (4.69%) Tableau
9 2 (3.13%) BigQuery
9 2 (3.13%) Bigtable
9 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (35.94%) Git
2 13 (20.31%) Jenkins
3 9 (14.06%) Selenium
4 8 (12.50%) Eclipse
4 8 (12.50%) IntelliJ
4 8 (12.50%) JUnit
5 7 (10.94%) Gradle
5 7 (10.94%) Xcode
6 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.13%) JIRA
7 1 (1.56%) Deequ
7 1 (1.56%) Gatling
7 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
General
1 26 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.31%) Banking
3 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (10.94%) Finance
6 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) Data Engineer
2 20 (31.25%) Developer
3 9 (14.06%) Data Scientist
4 8 (12.50%) Senior
5 7 (10.94%) Scala Developer
5 7 (10.94%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) iOS Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Scala Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Architect
7 5 (7.81%) Hadoop Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Data Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Java Developer
10 2 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.13%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.44%) HTML
2 14 (21.88%) Play Framework
3 10 (15.63%) Kafka
4 9 (14.06%) JSON
4 9 (14.06%) REST
4 9 (14.06%) SOAP
4 9 (14.06%) Spring
5 8 (12.50%) EJB
5 8 (12.50%) Hibernate
5 8 (12.50%) HTML5
5 8 (12.50%) J2EE
5 8 (12.50%) J2SE
5 8 (12.50%) PySpark
5 8 (12.50%) XML
6 7 (10.94%) CSS
7 4 (6.25%) .NET
8 3 (4.69%) Middleware
8 3 (4.69%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 7 (10.94%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.94%) Mobile App
2 7 (10.94%) Mobile Banking
3 4 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.63%) Unix
2 7 (10.94%) Android
2 7 (10.94%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (46.88%) CI/CD
2 27 (42.19%) Agile
3 22 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (32.81%) DevOps
5 20 (31.25%) Data Science
6 18 (28.13%) ETL
7 17 (26.56%) Machine Learning
7 17 (26.56%) Scrum
8 16 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (25.00%) Unit Testing
9 15 (23.44%) Analytics
9 15 (23.44%) Data Engineering
9 15 (23.44%) Visualisation
10 14 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (21.88%) Data Visualisation
10 14 (21.88%) Mentoring
11 13 (20.31%) Continuous Delivery
11 13 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (18.75%) Microservices
13 11 (17.19%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 41 (64.06%) Java
2 38 (59.38%) SQL
3 35 (54.69%) Python
4 8 (12.50%) C
4 8 (12.50%) C++
5 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.94%) Kotlin
5 7 (10.94%) Objective-C
5 7 (10.94%) Ruby
5 7 (10.94%) Swift
6 3 (4.69%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.13%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.56%) Bash
8 1 (1.56%) Cypher
8 1 (1.56%) Groovy
8 1 (1.56%) Korn
8 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (7.81%) AWS Certification
2 4 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (6.25%) Degree
3 3 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.69%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (18.75%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) HDFS
2 3 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) Puppet
2 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.69%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (4.69%) Oozie
4 2 (3.13%) Control-M
4 2 (3.13%) Kibana
5 1 (1.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Databricks
2 9 (14.06%) webMethods
3 8 (12.50%) Splunk
4 4 (6.25%) Informatica
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.25%) Talend
5 2 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle
6 1 (1.56%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.56%) Trillium
6 1 (1.56%) Vertica