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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 308 322
Rank change year-on-year -54 +14 -25
Contract jobs citing Scala 54 35 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.26% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 0.91% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 28 66
10th Percentile £400 £397 £393
25th Percentile £423 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £548 £556 £630
90th Percentile £596 £632 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -10.87% -0.86% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.14
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £72.80
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £47.35
% change year-on-year - +68.97% -24.25%

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 5,008 3,841 5,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.82% 28.66% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,262 2,329 3,393
10th Percentile £325 £328 £313
25th Percentile £403 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% -3.20% -2.44%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £661 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -5.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 171 417
10th Percentile £44.86 £21.00 £37.63
25th Percentile £53.88 £45.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +1.99% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% -6.92%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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
Midlands -37 28 £482 +1.37% 11
West Midlands -28 26 £482 -0.10% 6
North of England -51 24 £488 -11.36% 10
Yorkshire -46 17 £500 -6.98%
North East -14 5 £425 -22.73% 1
North West -26 3 £450 -33.33% 9
Scotland +7 2 £513 +37.40% 5
South East - 2 £605 - 28
South West -20 1 £435 +8.75% 14
East Midlands -26 1 £420 +2.44% 5
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 14 (25.93%) Apache
2 8 (14.81%) JBoss
2 8 (14.81%) WebLogic
3 6 (11.11%) Apache Pig
4 4 (7.41%) Apache Spark
5 3 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (5.56%) IIS
6 1 (1.85%) LiveCycle
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) AWS
2 11 (20.37%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) Power Platform
3 9 (16.67%) GCP
4 8 (14.81%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (7.41%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.70%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.85%) GitHub
7 1 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) Data Mining
1 10 (18.52%) Hadoop
1 10 (18.52%) MongoDB
1 10 (18.52%) Power BI
2 8 (14.81%) Apache Hive
3 5 (9.26%) Neo4j
4 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.56%) OLTP
5 2 (3.70%) Big Data
5 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.70%) Tableau
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.85%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.85%) HBase
6 1 (1.85%) Metadata
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Git
1 9 (16.67%) Postman
1 9 (16.67%) Selenium
2 8 (14.81%) Eclipse
2 8 (14.81%) IntelliJ
2 8 (14.81%) JUnit
3 7 (12.96%) Jenkins
4 5 (9.26%) Gatling
4 5 (9.26%) GitLab
5 4 (7.41%) JIRA
5 4 (7.41%) JMeter
5 4 (7.41%) LoadRunner
5 4 (7.41%) NeoLoad
6 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.85%) Deequ
7 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
General
1 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Banking
5 3 (5.56%) Finance
6 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Developer
2 11 (20.37%) Data Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Scala Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Data Scientist
4 7 (12.96%) Lead
5 6 (11.11%) Automation Test Lead
5 6 (11.11%) Scala Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Architect
6 4 (7.41%) Java Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Lead Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Test Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Test Automation Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Test Leader
8 2 (3.70%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Senior
8 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.93%) Play Framework
2 12 (22.22%) REST
3 11 (20.37%) Playwright
4 9 (16.67%) Spring
5 8 (14.81%) EJB
5 8 (14.81%) Hibernate
5 8 (14.81%) HTML
5 8 (14.81%) HTML5
5 8 (14.81%) J2EE
5 8 (14.81%) J2SE
5 8 (14.81%) JSON
5 8 (14.81%) SOAP
5 8 (14.81%) XML
6 4 (7.41%) LDAP
6 4 (7.41%) Node.js
6 4 (7.41%) OpenID
6 4 (7.41%) SailPoint
7 3 (5.56%) Akka
7 3 (5.56%) Middleware
7 3 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Algorithms
2 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Unix
2 2 (3.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (51.85%) CI/CD
2 25 (46.30%) Agile
3 21 (38.89%) DevOps
4 19 (35.19%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (27.78%) Machine Learning
6 14 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (24.07%) Continuous Delivery
8 12 (22.22%) Data Science
8 12 (22.22%) Microservices
8 12 (22.22%) Visualisation
9 11 (20.37%) Decision-Making
9 11 (20.37%) Test Automation
10 10 (18.52%) Data Collection
10 10 (18.52%) Data Visualisation
10 10 (18.52%) ETL
10 10 (18.52%) Software Engineering
11 9 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 34 (62.96%) Java
2 30 (55.56%) Python
3 22 (40.74%) SQL
4 11 (20.37%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.41%) Cypher
6 1 (1.85%) C#
6 1 (1.85%) Groovy
6 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.85%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.85%) PHP
6 1 (1.85%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.85%) Degree
4 1 (1.85%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) QA
2 4 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) GDPR
4 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (18.52%) Docker
2 4 (7.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Puppet
2 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.56%) Kibana
3 3 (5.56%) Terraform
4 2 (3.70%) Ansible
5 1 (1.85%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.85%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.85%) Oozie
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) webMethods
2 7 (12.96%) Splunk
3 4 (7.41%) Databricks
3 4 (7.41%) Google
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.85%) Adobe
4 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.85%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle