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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 299 291
Rank change year-on-year -77 -8 +24
Contract jobs citing Scala 52 38 101
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.30% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 1.04% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 30 77
10th Percentile £377 £379 £379
25th Percentile £428 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £473 £460
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +2.72% -16.36%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £600
90th Percentile £587 £645 £735
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £23.54
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £41.50
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £64.25
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +27.62% +26.51% -35.91%

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 5,404 3,667 4,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.07% 28.68% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,483 2,414 3,265
10th Percentile £330 £325 £319
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £585
90th Percentile £640 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 188 387
10th Percentile £46.25 £22.40 £35.51
25th Percentile £56.86 £44.01 £48.22
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.30 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -2.97%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -56 30 £488 -7.14% 13
Yorkshire -42 22 £488 -9.30% 2
Midlands -63 15 £496 +12.27% 5
West Midlands -49 13 £496 +4.47% 4
North East -16 6 £475 -13.64% 4
North West -45 3 £500 +12.36% 7
Scotland - 3 £513 - 1
South East -53 2 £388 -17.55% 10
South West - 2 £508 - 2
East Midlands -42 1 £304 -25.85% 1
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 5 (9.62%) Apache
2 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.69%) JBoss
2 4 (7.69%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Pig
3 1 (1.92%) LiveCycle
3 1 (1.92%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (57.69%) AWS
2 20 (38.46%) Azure
3 13 (25.00%) GitHub
4 9 (17.31%) GCP
4 9 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (9.62%) Amazon S3
6 4 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.85%) Serverless
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.92%) Bitrise
8 1 (1.92%) Firebase
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.54%) MongoDB
3 5 (9.62%) Neo4j
4 4 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.77%) Big Data
5 3 (5.77%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.77%) Hadoop
5 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.77%) Power BI
6 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.85%) Parquet
6 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.85%) Tableau
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.92%) HBase
7 1 (1.92%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 18 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 13 (25.00%) Gatling
3 9 (17.31%) Postman
4 7 (13.46%) Git
4 7 (13.46%) GitLab
5 6 (11.54%) Artifactory
5 6 (11.54%) Maven
6 5 (9.62%) JUnit
6 5 (9.62%) Selenium
7 4 (7.69%) Eclipse
7 4 (7.69%) IntelliJ
7 4 (7.69%) JIRA
7 4 (7.69%) JMeter
7 4 (7.69%) LoadRunner
7 4 (7.69%) NeoLoad
8 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.92%) TestNG
General
1 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Banking
4 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Finance
5 1 (1.92%) Games
5 1 (1.92%) Legal
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Developer
2 10 (19.23%) Scala Developer
3 7 (13.46%) Data Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Automation Test Lead
4 6 (11.54%) Lead
4 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Architect
5 5 (9.62%) Java Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Lead Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Scala Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Test Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Test Automation Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Test Leader
8 2 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Kafka Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (36.54%) Playwright
2 9 (17.31%) REST
3 8 (15.38%) Play Framework
4 6 (11.54%) JSON
4 6 (11.54%) Kafka
4 6 (11.54%) PySpark
4 6 (11.54%) Spring
5 5 (9.62%) OpenID
6 4 (7.69%) Akka
6 4 (7.69%) EJB
6 4 (7.69%) Hibernate
6 4 (7.69%) HTML
6 4 (7.69%) HTML5
6 4 (7.69%) J2EE
6 4 (7.69%) J2SE
6 4 (7.69%) LDAP
6 4 (7.69%) SailPoint
6 4 (7.69%) SOAP
6 4 (7.69%) XML
7 3 (5.77%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.85%) BYOD
4 2 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.92%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.92%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Unix
2 3 (5.77%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.92%) Android
3 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (55.77%) CI/CD
2 26 (50.00%) Agile
3 23 (44.23%) DevOps
4 14 (26.92%) Identity Access Management
5 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 12 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 11 (21.15%) Containerisation
8 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (17.31%) Data Ingestion
9 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (17.31%) Validation
10 8 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (15.38%) ETL
10 8 (15.38%) Microservices
10 8 (15.38%) Technical Debt
11 7 (13.46%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (13.46%) Roadmaps
12 6 (11.54%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 35 (67.31%) Python
2 29 (55.77%) Java
3 13 (25.00%) SQL
4 12 (23.08%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.69%) Cypher
6 2 (3.85%) Bash
6 2 (3.85%) Kotlin
6 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.92%) C#
7 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.92%) PHP
7 1 (1.92%) R
7 1 (1.92%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) Degree
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) QA
2 4 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.85%) SLA
5 1 (1.92%) GDPR
5 1 (1.92%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 17 (32.69%) Docker
2 4 (7.69%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (21.15%) Terraform
3 9 (17.31%) HAProxy
4 4 (7.69%) Puppet
5 3 (5.77%) Kibana
6 2 (3.85%) Ansible
7 1 (1.92%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) Databricks
3 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 4 (7.69%) webMethods
4 3 (5.77%) Google
5 1 (1.92%) Adobe
5 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.92%) Informatica
5 1 (1.92%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.92%) Splunk