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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 323 312
Rank change year-on-year -60 -11 +43
Contract jobs citing Scala 74 51 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.33% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 1.20% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 33 56
10th Percentile £350 £375 £391
25th Percentile £405 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.52% -11.58% -15.56%
75th Percentile £525 £495 £538
90th Percentile £588 £605 £606
UK median daily rate £490 £504 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% -8.41% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate £37.24 - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +27.62% -22.22% -13.46%

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 6,092 4,250 4,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.09% 27.79% 24.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,759 2,769 2,896
10th Percentile £330 £311 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £550 £588
90th Percentile £663 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £518 £503 £533
% change year-on-year +2.93% -5.68% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 203 315
10th Percentile £33.70 £30.05 £30.15
25th Percentile £53.53 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% +8.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £78.46 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +8.33%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -66 37 £488 +21.88% 23
Yorkshire -26 25 £500 - 3
Midlands -32 22 £490 +15.29% 8
West Midlands -41 20 £490 -3.45% 6
North East -30 9 £425 +6.25% 8
South East -69 9 £431 -7.85% 14
Scotland - 4 £410 - 6
North West -65 3 £375 -3.85% 12
East Midlands -21 2 £304 -27.62% 2
South West -42 2 £543 - 10
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 9 (12.16%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.05%) Apache
2 3 (4.05%) SAS
3 2 (2.70%) Apache Pig
4 1 (1.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (50.00%) AWS
2 20 (27.03%) GitHub
3 19 (25.68%) Azure
4 16 (21.62%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (14.86%) GCP
6 7 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (9.46%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.41%) Azure Batch
8 4 (5.41%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.70%) BrowserStack
10 2 (2.70%) Cloud Run
10 2 (2.70%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.70%) Serverless
11 1 (1.35%) PaaS
11 1 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.22%) SQL Server
2 11 (14.86%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.81%) Big Data
4 7 (9.46%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (8.11%) Hadoop
5 6 (8.11%) NoSQL
6 5 (6.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (6.76%) Data Lake
6 5 (6.76%) Data Vault
6 5 (6.76%) MongoDB
7 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.70%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.70%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.70%) HBase
8 2 (2.70%) Parquet
8 2 (2.70%) Power BI
8 2 (2.70%) Sqoop
9 1 (1.35%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Gatling
1 13 (17.57%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.46%) Git
3 6 (8.11%) Artifactory
3 6 (8.11%) Maven
4 4 (5.41%) GitLab
4 4 (5.41%) JMeter
5 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.05%) Cypress.io
5 3 (4.05%) JUnit
5 3 (4.05%) LoadRunner
5 3 (4.05%) NeoLoad
5 3 (4.05%) Selenium
5 3 (4.05%) TestNG
6 2 (2.70%) JIRA
7 1 (1.35%) Appium
7 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.35%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (35.14%) Public Sector
2 16 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.86%) Finance
4 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.41%) Banking
6 4 (5.41%) Games
6 4 (5.41%) Retail
7 1 (1.35%) Advertising
7 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (33.78%) Developer
2 17 (22.97%) Scala Developer
3 11 (14.86%) Scala Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Data Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Senior
7 5 (6.76%) Lead
8 4 (5.41%) Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Backend Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Performance Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Backend Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Performance Test Leader
9 3 (4.05%) QA Tester
9 3 (4.05%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Test Leader
9 3 (4.05%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.62%) Play Framework
2 13 (17.57%) Kafka
3 9 (12.16%) Playwright
4 6 (8.11%) GraphQL
4 6 (8.11%) PySpark
5 4 (5.41%) JSON
5 4 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (5.41%) REST
5 4 (5.41%) RESTful
5 4 (5.41%) Spring
6 2 (2.70%) Akka
6 2 (2.70%) Apache Avro
6 2 (2.70%) JSON Schema
6 2 (2.70%) Loki
6 2 (2.70%) Node.js
6 2 (2.70%) OAuth
6 2 (2.70%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (1.35%) IDoc
7 1 (1.35%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.41%) Blog
3 4 (5.41%) Sports Betting
4 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.70%) BYOD
5 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.70%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Linux
1 3 (4.05%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.70%) Android
2 2 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (58.11%) CI/CD
2 38 (51.35%) Agile
3 29 (39.19%) DevOps
4 18 (24.32%) Microservices
5 16 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (20.27%) Data Pipeline
6 15 (20.27%) TDD
7 14 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (18.92%) Software Engineering
8 13 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (17.57%) Technical Debt
9 11 (14.86%) Containerisation
9 11 (14.86%) Data Modelling
10 10 (13.51%) Data Engineering
10 10 (13.51%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 10 (13.51%) Observability
10 10 (13.51%) Test Automation
11 9 (12.16%) ETL
12 8 (10.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 39 (52.70%) Python
2 28 (37.84%) Java
3 15 (20.27%) SQL
4 7 (9.46%) PowerShell
4 7 (9.46%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.41%) Bash
5 4 (5.41%) Bicep
6 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.35%) Go
7 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.35%) Swift
7 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 17 (22.97%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.41%) Degree
5 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.86%) QA
2 10 (13.51%) Data Quality
3 8 (10.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.35%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (21.62%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Flume
2 2 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (24.32%) Kubernetes
1 18 (24.32%) Terraform
2 9 (12.16%) HAProxy
3 7 (9.46%) Grafana
4 3 (4.05%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.70%) Ansible
5 2 (2.70%) Puppet
6 1 (1.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.51%) Databricks
3 6 (8.11%) Splunk
4 4 (5.41%) Google
4 4 (5.41%) KANA
5 3 (4.05%) Informatica
6 1 (1.35%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.35%) IBM
6 1 (1.35%) New Relic
6 1 (1.35%) Okta
6 1 (1.35%) Pega