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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 301 348
Rank change year-on-year -19 +47 -105
Contract jobs citing Scala 56 68 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.31% 1.54% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 52 52
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £400 £408 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -11.63% -0.23%
75th Percentile £505 £538 £626
90th Percentile £598 £593 £737
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £18.19
25th Percentile - - £42.00
Median hourly rate - - £73.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £80.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -34.38% +2.56% +37.90%

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 4,271 4,428 5,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.61% 24.71% 26.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,767 2,815 3,820
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £584 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 273 341
10th Percentile £33.91 £31.79 £37.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.84 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +12.50%

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
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 September 2025.

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 September 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 -13 31 £400 -19.60% 5
Midlands -5 18 £430 -29.74% 2
North West -3 16 £380 -7.88% 2
Yorkshire -19 14 £500 - 2
West Midlands -3 13 £498 -18.71% 2
South East +19 5 £450 +12.50% 10
East Midlands +2 5 £420 +16.67%
East of England +6 2 £488 -2.50%
South West +25 1 - - 1
North East -8 1 £400 -19.60% 1
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 (23.21%) Apache
1 13 (23.21%) Apache Spark
2 8 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (12.50%) Apache Pig
4 5 (8.93%) WebLogic
5 4 (7.14%) JBoss
6 3 (5.36%) IIS
7 1 (1.79%) Tuxedo
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) AWS
2 11 (19.64%) Azure
3 10 (17.86%) GCP
3 10 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (8.93%) Amazon S3
5 5 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (8.93%) Serverless
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (5.36%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (5.36%) Azure AI
6 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.36%) GitHub
6 3 (5.36%) Google Gemini
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon Neptune
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.57%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.21%) Hadoop
2 11 (19.64%) Apache Hive
2 11 (19.64%) Data Mining
3 10 (17.86%) Big Data
3 10 (17.86%) Power BI
4 7 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 7 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (12.50%) Delta Lake
5 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
6 4 (7.14%) DataStage
6 4 (7.14%) Metadata
6 4 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 4 (7.14%) Neo4j
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (5.36%) HBase
7 3 (5.36%) OLTP
7 3 (5.36%) Tableau
8 2 (3.57%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.57%) Bigtable
8 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (41.07%) Git
2 15 (26.79%) Jenkins
3 7 (12.50%) Gradle
3 7 (12.50%) Xcode
4 5 (8.93%) Selenium
5 4 (7.14%) Eclipse
5 4 (7.14%) IntelliJ
5 4 (7.14%) JUnit
6 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.57%) JIRA
7 1 (1.79%) Gatling
7 1 (1.79%) JBehave
7 1 (1.79%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.79%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (19.64%) Banking
4 7 (12.50%) Finance
5 4 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Legal
6 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.36%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) Data Engineer
2 16 (28.57%) Developer
3 10 (17.86%) Senior
4 9 (16.07%) Data Scientist
5 7 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) iOS Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Architect
7 5 (8.93%) Hadoop Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Scala Developer
8 4 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Data Architect
8 4 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) AWS Architect
10 2 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) HTML
2 10 (17.86%) Kafka
3 8 (14.29%) PySpark
4 7 (12.50%) CSS
5 6 (10.71%) SOAP
6 5 (8.93%) JSON
6 5 (8.93%) REST
6 5 (8.93%) Spring
7 4 (7.14%) .NET
7 4 (7.14%) EJB
7 4 (7.14%) Hibernate
7 4 (7.14%) HTML5
7 4 (7.14%) J2EE
7 4 (7.14%) J2SE
7 4 (7.14%) Play Framework
7 4 (7.14%) XML
8 3 (5.36%) Middleware
8 3 (5.36%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (5.36%) PyTorch
8 3 (5.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.79%) Algorithms
2 8 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 7 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 7 (12.50%) Mobile Banking
4 4 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Android
1 7 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 6 (10.71%) Unix
3 3 (5.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 21 (37.50%) Agile
3 18 (32.14%) Data Science
3 18 (32.14%) ETL
4 17 (30.36%) Machine Learning
4 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (28.57%) Data Engineering
6 15 (26.79%) DevOps
7 14 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (25.00%) Visualisation
8 13 (23.21%) Data Visualisation
9 12 (21.43%) Analytics
9 12 (21.43%) Decision-Making
9 12 (21.43%) Linear Algebra
9 12 (21.43%) Scrum
10 11 (19.64%) Data Collection
10 11 (19.64%) Mentoring
10 11 (19.64%) Statistics
11 10 (17.86%) Unit Testing
12 9 (16.07%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 37 (66.07%) Python
2 35 (62.50%) Java
3 32 (57.14%) SQL
4 8 (14.29%) C
4 8 (14.29%) C++
4 8 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.50%) Kotlin
5 7 (12.50%) Objective-C
5 7 (12.50%) Ruby
5 7 (12.50%) Swift
6 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.57%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (3.57%) SPARQL
7 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.79%) Bash
8 1 (1.79%) Cypher
8 1 (1.79%) Korn
8 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.79%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Degree
2 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.79%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 11 (19.64%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) HDFS
2 3 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.93%) Puppet
3 3 (5.36%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (5.36%) Oozie
4 2 (3.57%) Ansible
4 2 (3.57%) Control-M
5 1 (1.79%) Kibana
5 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Databricks
2 8 (14.29%) Splunk
3 5 (8.93%) webMethods
4 4 (7.14%) Informatica
4 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.14%) Talend
5 1 (1.79%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.79%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) Trillium
5 1 (1.79%) Vertica