Scala Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scala
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Scala skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scala over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 310 353
Rank change year-on-year +4 +43 -108
Contract jobs citing Scala 48 95 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.45% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 1.91% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 71 64
10th Percentile £375 £381 £393
25th Percentile £400 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £460 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -19.12% +3.41%
75th Percentile £603 £538 £595
90th Percentile £637 £630 £702
UK median daily rate £550 £528 £588
% change year-on-year +4.27% -10.21% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 13
10th Percentile - £27.63 -
25th Percentile - £36.49 £19.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £20.47
Median % change year-on-year - +156.47% +2.81%
75th Percentile - £61.25 £75.50
90th Percentile - £65.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year - -28.08% -6.56%

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 4,061 4,974 6,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.10% 23.64% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,671 3,271 4,464
10th Percentile £313 £320 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £550 £582 £594
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 444 334
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.74 £26.86
25th Percentile £45.63 £52.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.82%
75th Percentile £68.25 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.74 £76.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Scala in the UK excluding London

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 July 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
North of England -4 24 £445 -10.10% 11
Midlands +19 13 £425 +1.19% 14
North West +8 12 £400 -15.79% 4
Yorkshire 0 12 £550 +11.11% 5
East Midlands +7 8 £410 +13.89% 5
South East +35 6 £459 -8.20% 9
West Midlands +6 5 £450 -7.22% 8
Northern Ireland -10 4 £504 - 4
East of England +20 1 £575 +53.33% 3
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (27.08%) Apache Spark
2 7 (14.58%) Apache
3 4 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.08%) Tuxedo
4 1 (2.08%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) AWS
2 12 (25.00%) GCP
3 9 (18.75%) Azure
4 8 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (16.67%) Serverless
5 6 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.42%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (10.42%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (10.42%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (6.25%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (6.25%) Azure AI
7 3 (6.25%) Google Compute Engine
7 3 (6.25%) Google Gemini
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon Neptune
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.17%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (4.17%) dbt
8 2 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) Big Data
2 11 (22.92%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (18.75%) Data Lake
3 9 (18.75%) NoSQL
4 7 (14.58%) Delta Lake
4 7 (14.58%) Hadoop
5 6 (12.50%) BigQuery
6 5 (10.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (10.42%) Apache Hive
6 5 (10.42%) Impala
7 4 (8.33%) DataStage
7 4 (8.33%) HBase
8 3 (6.25%) Neo4j
9 2 (4.17%) Bigtable
9 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (4.17%) Flink
9 2 (4.17%) NewSQL
9 2 (4.17%) Parquet
9 2 (4.17%) RDBMS
9 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (29.17%) Git
1 14 (29.17%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.33%) Gradle
2 4 (8.33%) Xcode
3 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) Gatling
4 1 (2.08%) JBehave
4 1 (2.08%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.08%) Selenium
4 1 (2.08%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.08%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Banking
3 10 (20.83%) Finance
4 9 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (8.33%) Manufacturing
7 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (6.25%) Legal
7 3 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (4.17%) Billing
8 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.17%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (2.08%) Automotive
9 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Developer
2 13 (27.08%) Senior
3 10 (20.83%) Architect
3 10 (20.83%) Data Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Data Architect
4 7 (14.58%) Scala Developer
5 6 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) GCP Architect
6 4 (8.33%) iOS Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Platform Architect
6 4 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Architect
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) Kafka
2 5 (10.42%) JSON
2 5 (10.42%) PySpark
3 4 (8.33%) Apache Avro
3 4 (8.33%) CSS
3 4 (8.33%) HTML
4 3 (6.25%) Akka
4 3 (6.25%) Play Framework
4 3 (6.25%) PyTorch
4 3 (6.25%) React
4 3 (6.25%) RESTful
4 3 (6.25%) Spring
4 3 (6.25%) Streamlit
4 3 (6.25%) TensorFlow
4 3 (6.25%) Web Services
5 2 (4.17%) .NET
5 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.17%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (4.17%) SOAP
5 2 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.42%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 4 (8.33%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.17%) Derivative
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.17%) Equities
5 2 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.17%) Replication
5 2 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Android
2 4 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 3 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) ETL
2 23 (47.92%) CI/CD
3 20 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (39.58%) Data Engineering
5 18 (37.50%) Agile
6 13 (27.08%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (25.00%) Analytics
8 11 (22.92%) DevOps
9 10 (20.83%) Data Governance
9 10 (20.83%) Data Modelling
10 9 (18.75%) Data Science
10 9 (18.75%) Data Security
11 8 (16.67%) Containerisation
11 8 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (16.67%) Validation
11 8 (16.67%) Visualisation
12 7 (14.58%) Data Ingestion
12 7 (14.58%) Mentoring
12 7 (14.58%) TDD
13 6 (12.50%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (54.17%) Python
2 23 (47.92%) Java
3 21 (43.75%) SQL
4 7 (14.58%) Kotlin
5 5 (10.42%) C
5 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.33%) C++
6 4 (8.33%) Objective-C
6 4 (8.33%) Ruby
6 4 (8.33%) Swift
7 3 (6.25%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.17%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (4.17%) SPARQL
8 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.08%) Bash
9 1 (2.08%) Korn
9 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (12.50%) Degree
2 5 (10.42%) AWS Certification
2 5 (10.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (4.17%) GDPR
3 2 (4.17%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.58%) Terraform
3 3 (6.25%) Kibana
4 2 (4.17%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) Control-M
5 1 (2.08%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Databricks
2 4 (8.33%) Google
2 4 (8.33%) Informatica
2 4 (8.33%) Talend
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.08%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.08%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.08%) Trillium
4 1 (2.08%) webMethods