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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 306 309
Rank change year-on-year -98 +3 +47
Contract jobs citing Scala 56 48 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.33% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 1.18% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 32 71
10th Percentile £349 £375 £381
25th Percentile £429 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £460
Median % change year-on-year +10.01% -1.20% -19.12%
75th Percentile £562 £603 £538
90th Percentile £588 £637 £630
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% -10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £27.63
25th Percentile - - £36.49
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £65.75
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +27.62% - -28.08%

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 6,154 4,075 4,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.03% 28.19% 23.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,847 2,686 3,267
10th Percentile £335 £313 £321
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £582
90th Percentile £650 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £512 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -0.04% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 455 178 440
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.34 £35.63
25th Percentile £55.00 £46.93 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.86 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -66 37 £500 +12.36% 19
Yorkshire -25 28 £500 -9.09% 4
Midlands -64 8 £518 +21.76% 3
West Midlands -57 6 £518 +15.00% 3
North East - 6 £484 - 3
South East -66 4 £388 -15.58% 13
Scotland - 4 £500 - 2
North West -57 3 £500 +25.00% 12
South West - 3 £505 - 9
East Midlands -20 1 £304 -25.85%
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 6 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.57%) Apache
2 2 (3.57%) SAS
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Pig
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) LiveCycle
Cloud Services
1 35 (62.50%) AWS
2 21 (37.50%) Azure
3 17 (30.36%) GitHub
4 12 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (19.64%) GCP
6 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.14%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.57%) BrowserStack
9 2 (3.57%) Serverless
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.79%) Firebase
10 1 (1.79%) PaaS
10 1 (1.79%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.71%) Big Data
2 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.93%) Neo4j
4 4 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (7.14%) Hadoop
5 3 (5.36%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.57%) Data Vault
6 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.57%) Parquet
6 2 (3.57%) Power BI
6 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.79%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 19 (33.93%) Jenkins
2 14 (25.00%) Gatling
3 8 (14.29%) Postman
4 7 (12.50%) GitLab
5 6 (10.71%) Artifactory
5 6 (10.71%) JIRA
5 6 (10.71%) Maven
6 5 (8.93%) JMeter
7 4 (7.14%) Cypress.io
7 4 (7.14%) Git
7 4 (7.14%) LoadRunner
7 4 (7.14%) NeoLoad
8 3 (5.36%) Cucumber
8 3 (5.36%) JUnit
8 3 (5.36%) Selenium
8 3 (5.36%) TestNG
9 1 (1.79%) Appium
9 1 (1.79%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (19.64%) Public Sector
2 10 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Banking
3 4 (7.14%) Games
3 4 (7.14%) Retail
4 3 (5.36%) Finance
5 2 (3.57%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Developer
2 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (12.50%) Scala Developer
3 6 (10.71%) Architect
3 6 (10.71%) Data Engineer
3 6 (10.71%) Lead
4 5 (8.93%) Automation Test Lead
5 4 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Backend Developer
5 4 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Senior
5 4 (7.14%) Senior Backend Developer
5 4 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Lead Architect
6 3 (5.36%) QA Tester
6 3 (5.36%) Test Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Test Automation Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (32.14%) Playwright
2 10 (17.86%) Kafka
3 7 (12.50%) PySpark
4 6 (10.71%) GraphQL
5 5 (8.93%) OpenID
5 5 (8.93%) REST
6 4 (7.14%) LDAP
6 4 (7.14%) Node.js
6 4 (7.14%) Play Framework
6 4 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (7.14%) SailPoint
6 4 (7.14%) Spring
7 3 (5.36%) React
8 2 (3.57%) Akka
8 2 (3.57%) Apache Avro
8 2 (3.57%) JSON
8 2 (3.57%) JSON Schema
8 2 (3.57%) Loki
8 2 (3.57%) OAuth
8 2 (3.57%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
1 6 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.14%) Sports Betting
3 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.57%) BYOD
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.57%) Android
2 2 (3.57%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 27 (48.21%) Agile
3 24 (42.86%) DevOps
4 16 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 13 (23.21%) Containerisation
5 13 (23.21%) Identity Access Management
6 12 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (19.64%) Software Engineering
7 11 (19.64%) Technical Debt
8 10 (17.86%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (17.86%) ETL
8 10 (17.86%) Validation
9 9 (16.07%) Data Ingestion
9 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (14.29%) Microservices
11 7 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 7 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 39 (69.64%) Python
2 31 (55.36%) Java
3 16 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 13 (23.21%) SQL
5 4 (7.14%) Bash
5 4 (7.14%) Cypher
5 4 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.79%) C#
7 1 (1.79%) Go
7 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.79%) PHP
7 1 (1.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.36%) Degree
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) QA
2 6 (10.71%) Data Quality
3 5 (8.93%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.57%) SLA
5 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.79%) GDPR
5 1 (1.79%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 17 (30.36%) Docker
2 4 (7.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 15 (26.79%) Terraform
3 9 (16.07%) HAProxy
4 4 (7.14%) Ansible
5 3 (5.36%) Grafana
5 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.57%) Puppet
7 1 (1.79%) Kibana
7 1 (1.79%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.50%) Databricks
3 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.36%) Google
5 2 (3.57%) Informatica
5 2 (3.57%) Splunk
6 1 (1.79%) Adobe
6 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.79%) IBM
6 1 (1.79%) New Relic
6 1 (1.79%) Okta
6 1 (1.79%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.79%) Pega