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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 320 338
Rank change year-on-year -20 +18 -69
Contract jobs citing Scala 59 33 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.24% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.28% 0.85% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 25 57
10th Percentile £379 - £375
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £630
90th Percentile £576 £607 £750
UK median daily rate £508 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -15.42% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £35.20
25th Percentile - - £46.38
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £71.50
90th Percentile - - £75.40
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £53.60
% change year-on-year - +49.27% -14.25%

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 4,611 3,872 5,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.93% 27.84% 25.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,980 2,306 3,361
10th Percentile £322 £337 £325
25th Percentile £402 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -2.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £598
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 189 359
10th Percentile £42.19 £21.25 £37.54
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.00 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% -
75th Percentile £69.45 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.07% -1.84%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -14 30 £435 -11.22% 7
North of England -51 29 £452 -9.70% 9
West Midlands -17 25 £488 -0.41% 5
Yorkshire -45 18 £500 - 6
North West - 7 £380 - 2
North East -12 5 £400 -27.27% 1
East Midlands - 5 £420 - 2
South East - 2 £605 - 11
South West -14 1 - - 3
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 17 (28.81%) Apache
2 10 (16.95%) Apache Spark
3 8 (13.56%) JBoss
3 8 (13.56%) WebLogic
4 7 (11.86%) Apache Pig
5 6 (10.17%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (5.08%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (32.20%) AWS
2 11 (18.64%) Power Platform
3 10 (16.95%) Azure
4 9 (15.25%) GCP
5 8 (13.56%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (6.78%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.42%) Hadoop
2 11 (18.64%) Apache Hive
2 11 (18.64%) Data Mining
2 11 (18.64%) Power BI
3 9 (15.25%) MongoDB
4 7 (11.86%) Big Data
5 5 (8.47%) Neo4j
5 5 (8.47%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.78%) Metadata
6 4 (6.78%) Tableau
7 3 (5.08%) HBase
7 3 (5.08%) OLTP
8 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.39%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.39%) QlikView
8 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (25.42%) Git
2 9 (15.25%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.25%) Postman
2 9 (15.25%) Selenium
3 8 (13.56%) Eclipse
3 8 (13.56%) IntelliJ
3 8 (13.56%) JUnit
4 5 (8.47%) Gatling
4 5 (8.47%) GitLab
5 4 (6.78%) JIRA
5 4 (6.78%) JMeter
5 4 (6.78%) LoadRunner
5 4 (6.78%) NeoLoad
6 3 (5.08%) Gradle
6 3 (5.08%) Xcode
7 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.69%) Deequ
8 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
General
1 21 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Banking
4 6 (10.17%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Developer
2 14 (23.73%) Data Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Scala Developer
4 9 (15.25%) Data Scientist
5 7 (11.86%) Lead
6 6 (10.17%) Automation Test Lead
6 6 (10.17%) Scala Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Hadoop Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Java Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Lead Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Senior
9 3 (5.08%) Test Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Test Automation Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Test Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Test Leader
10 2 (3.39%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.39%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (23.73%) Play Framework
2 12 (20.34%) REST
3 11 (18.64%) HTML
4 10 (16.95%) Playwright
5 9 (15.25%) Spring
6 8 (13.56%) EJB
6 8 (13.56%) Hibernate
6 8 (13.56%) HTML5
6 8 (13.56%) J2EE
6 8 (13.56%) J2SE
6 8 (13.56%) JSON
6 8 (13.56%) SOAP
6 8 (13.56%) XML
7 4 (6.78%) Akka
7 4 (6.78%) Kafka
7 4 (6.78%) LDAP
7 4 (6.78%) OpenID
7 4 (6.78%) SailPoint
8 3 (5.08%) CSS
8 3 (5.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.47%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.78%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.08%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.08%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Unix
2 3 (5.08%) Android
2 3 (5.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) CI/CD
2 23 (38.98%) Agile
3 21 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (30.51%) Data Science
4 18 (30.51%) DevOps
5 16 (27.12%) Machine Learning
6 15 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (23.73%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (23.73%) Visualisation
8 13 (22.03%) Continuous Delivery
8 13 (22.03%) Data Visualisation
9 12 (20.34%) Decision-Making
9 12 (20.34%) ETL
9 12 (20.34%) Microservices
9 12 (20.34%) Scrum
9 12 (20.34%) Unit Testing
10 11 (18.64%) Data Collection
10 11 (18.64%) Mentoring
10 11 (18.64%) Test Automation
11 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 40 (67.80%) Java
2 33 (55.93%) Python
3 27 (45.76%) SQL
4 10 (16.95%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.47%) Cypher
6 4 (6.78%) C++
6 4 (6.78%) Kotlin
7 3 (5.08%) C
7 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.08%) Objective-C
7 3 (5.08%) Ruby
7 3 (5.08%) Swift
8 2 (3.39%) R
9 1 (1.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.69%) Degree
3 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.17%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (5.08%) HDFS
3 3 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Puppet
2 4 (6.78%) Kibana
3 3 (5.08%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (5.08%) Oozie
4 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Splunk
1 8 (13.56%) webMethods
2 5 (8.47%) Databricks
2 5 (8.47%) Google
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle