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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 312 324
Rank change year-on-year -38 +12 -46
Contract jobs citing Scala 58 34 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 0.87% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 26 62
10th Percentile £379 £400 £387
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.23% -7.95%
75th Percentile £542 £550 £636
90th Percentile £591 £615 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -10.87% -2.54% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £34.80
25th Percentile - - £45.38
Median hourly rate - - £58.75
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - £74.10
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 4,848 3,895 5,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.81% 28.64% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,142 2,333 3,477
10th Percentile £325 £335 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £572 £580 £588
90th Percentile £645 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 173 420
10th Percentile £46.25 £21.05 £37.61
25th Percentile £53.53 £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 £76.18 £85.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 8 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 8 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 -24 28 £482 -0.10% 6
North of England -57 28 £453 -13.71% 6
West Midlands -22 27 £488 +1.24% 5
Yorkshire -50 18 £500 - 1
North West -22 6 £378 -44.07% 5
North East -16 5 £425 -22.73%
Scotland +7 2 £513 +37.40% 4
South East - 2 £605 - 10
South West -17 1 £435 +8.75% 3
East Midlands - 1 £420 - 1
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 (24.14%) Apache
2 8 (13.79%) JBoss
2 8 (13.79%) WebLogic
3 7 (12.07%) Apache Pig
4 5 (8.62%) Apache Spark
5 4 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (5.17%) IIS
7 1 (1.72%) LiveCycle
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.21%) AWS
2 13 (22.41%) Power Platform
3 12 (20.69%) Azure
4 10 (17.24%) GCP
5 8 (13.79%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (6.90%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.45%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.41%) Power BI
2 11 (18.97%) Data Mining
2 11 (18.97%) Hadoop
3 9 (15.52%) Apache Hive
3 9 (15.52%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.90%) Neo4j
5 3 (5.17%) Big Data
5 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.17%) OLTP
5 3 (5.17%) Tableau
6 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.45%) Metadata
7 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.72%) HBase
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Git
2 9 (15.52%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.52%) Postman
2 9 (15.52%) Selenium
3 8 (13.79%) Eclipse
3 8 (13.79%) IntelliJ
3 8 (13.79%) JUnit
4 5 (8.62%) Gatling
4 5 (8.62%) GitLab
5 4 (6.90%) JIRA
5 4 (6.90%) JMeter
5 4 (6.90%) LoadRunner
5 4 (6.90%) NeoLoad
6 3 (5.17%) Gradle
6 3 (5.17%) Xcode
7 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.72%) Deequ
8 1 (1.72%) REST Assured
General
1 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.79%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Banking
3 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Finance
6 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Developer
2 13 (22.41%) Data Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Data Scientist
4 8 (13.79%) Scala Developer
5 7 (12.07%) Lead
6 6 (10.34%) Automation Test Lead
6 6 (10.34%) Scala Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Architect
7 4 (6.90%) Java Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Lead Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Test Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Test Automation Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Test Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Test Leader
9 2 (3.45%) Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) iOS Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) Play Framework
2 12 (20.69%) REST
3 11 (18.97%) HTML
4 10 (17.24%) Playwright
5 9 (15.52%) Spring
6 8 (13.79%) EJB
6 8 (13.79%) Hibernate
6 8 (13.79%) HTML5
6 8 (13.79%) J2EE
6 8 (13.79%) J2SE
6 8 (13.79%) JSON
6 8 (13.79%) SOAP
6 8 (13.79%) XML
7 4 (6.90%) LDAP
7 4 (6.90%) OpenID
7 4 (6.90%) SailPoint
8 3 (5.17%) Akka
8 3 (5.17%) Middleware
8 3 (5.17%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (5.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.17%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.17%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Unix
2 3 (5.17%) Android
2 3 (5.17%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) CI/CD
2 27 (46.55%) Agile
3 21 (36.21%) DevOps
4 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (29.31%) Machine Learning
6 16 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (25.86%) Data Science
8 14 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (24.14%) Visualisation
9 13 (22.41%) Continuous Delivery
9 13 (22.41%) Decision-Making
10 12 (20.69%) Data Visualisation
10 12 (20.69%) Microservices
10 12 (20.69%) Scrum
11 11 (18.97%) Data Collection
11 11 (18.97%) ETL
11 11 (18.97%) Test Automation
12 10 (17.24%) Analytics
12 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (17.24%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (65.52%) Java
2 35 (60.34%) Python
3 25 (43.10%) SQL
4 10 (17.24%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.90%) C++
5 4 (6.90%) Cypher
5 4 (6.90%) Kotlin
6 3 (5.17%) C
6 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.17%) Objective-C
6 3 (5.17%) Ruby
6 3 (5.17%) Swift
7 2 (3.45%) R
8 1 (1.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.45%) Degree
3 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) QA
2 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Docker
2 4 (6.90%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Puppet
2 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.17%) Kibana
4 2 (3.45%) Terraform
5 1 (1.72%) Ansible
5 1 (1.72%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.72%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.72%) Oozie
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Splunk
1 8 (13.79%) webMethods
2 6 (10.34%) Databricks
3 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.90%) Google
4 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.72%) Adobe
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle