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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 323 288
Rank change year-on-year -86 -35 +60
Contract jobs citing Scala 63 46 90
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.30% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 1.10% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 31 66
10th Percentile £345 £375 £383
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £420 £457
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -8.00% -20.61%
75th Percentile £550 £479 £538
90th Percentile £600 £613 £606
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -3.38% -5.91% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £27.63
25th Percentile - - £36.49
Median hourly rate £37.24 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £65.75
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +27.62% - -32.69%

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 6,117 4,197 4,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.49% 27.63% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,786 2,768 2,949
10th Percentile £335 £308 £325
25th Percentile £413 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -4.52% -0.50%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £588
90th Percentile £663 £619 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 186 328
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.29 £30.55
25th Percentile £53.39 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.35 £78.35
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 5 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 5 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 -47 33 £500 +25.00% 16
Yorkshire -30 24 £500 -16.67% 7
Midlands -53 18 £481 +14.52% 19
West Midlands -45 15 £486 +14.24% 17
South East -68 7 £400 -14.53% 8
North East -35 5 £443 +10.63% 2
North West -58 4 £438 +9.38% 7
Scotland - 3 £363 - 3
East Midlands -19 2 £304 -27.62% 2
South West - 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 8 (12.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.76%) Apache
2 3 (4.76%) SAS
3 2 (3.17%) Apache Pig
4 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.79%) AWS
2 18 (28.57%) Azure
3 17 (26.98%) GitHub
4 12 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (12.70%) GCP
6 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Batch
8 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.17%) BrowserStack
9 2 (3.17%) Serverless
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.59%) Firebase
10 1 (1.59%) PaaS
10 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.63%) SQL Server
2 12 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.11%) Big Data
4 6 (9.52%) NoSQL
5 5 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (7.94%) Hadoop
6 4 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.76%) Data Vault
7 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.17%) Apache Hive
8 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.17%) HBase
8 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.17%) Neo4j
8 2 (3.17%) Parquet
8 2 (3.17%) Sqoop
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 14 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 13 (20.63%) Gatling
3 7 (11.11%) Git
4 6 (9.52%) Artifactory
4 6 (9.52%) Maven
5 4 (6.35%) Cypress.io
5 4 (6.35%) GitLab
5 4 (6.35%) JMeter
6 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.76%) JUnit
6 3 (4.76%) LoadRunner
6 3 (4.76%) NeoLoad
6 3 (4.76%) Selenium
6 3 (4.76%) TestNG
7 2 (3.17%) JIRA
8 1 (1.59%) Appium
8 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.59%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 15 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Finance
5 4 (6.35%) Banking
5 4 (6.35%) Games
5 4 (6.35%) Retail
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (30.16%) Developer
2 12 (19.05%) Scala Developer
3 7 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Scala Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Lead
6 4 (6.35%) Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Backend Developer
6 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Performance Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Senior
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Backend Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Performance Test Leader
7 3 (4.76%) QA Tester
7 3 (4.76%) Test Leader
7 3 (4.76%) Tester
8 2 (3.17%) Hadoop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) Kafka
1 11 (17.46%) Play Framework
2 10 (15.87%) Playwright
3 6 (9.52%) GraphQL
3 6 (9.52%) PySpark
4 4 (6.35%) Node.js
4 4 (6.35%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (6.35%) Spring
5 3 (4.76%) React
5 3 (4.76%) RESTful
6 2 (3.17%) Akka
6 2 (3.17%) Apache Avro
6 2 (3.17%) JSON
6 2 (3.17%) JSON Schema
6 2 (3.17%) Loki
6 2 (3.17%) OAuth
6 2 (3.17%) Protocol Buffers
6 2 (3.17%) REST
7 1 (1.59%) EDIFACT
7 1 (1.59%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.35%) Sports Betting
4 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.17%) BYOD
5 2 (3.17%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Linux
1 3 (4.76%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.17%) Android
2 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (58.73%) CI/CD
2 33 (52.38%) Agile
3 28 (44.44%) DevOps
4 15 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (23.81%) Microservices
5 13 (20.63%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (19.05%) Software Engineering
7 11 (17.46%) TDD
7 11 (17.46%) Technical Debt
8 10 (15.87%) Containerisation
8 10 (15.87%) Test Automation
9 9 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 8 (12.70%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
11 7 (11.11%) Code Quality
11 7 (11.11%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (57.14%) Python
2 28 (44.44%) Java
3 13 (20.63%) SQL
4 8 (12.70%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.35%) Bash
6 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.76%) Bicep
8 1 (1.59%) C#
8 1 (1.59%) Go
8 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.59%) PHP
8 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.59%) Swift
8 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 15 (23.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (6.35%) Degree
5 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.87%) QA
2 8 (12.70%) Data Quality
3 5 (7.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.59%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (26.98%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) Apache Flume
2 2 (3.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (23.81%) Kubernetes
1 15 (23.81%) Terraform
2 9 (14.29%) HAProxy
3 3 (4.76%) Ansible
3 3 (4.76%) Grafana
3 3 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.17%) Puppet
5 1 (1.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.29%) Databricks
3 4 (6.35%) KANA
4 3 (4.76%) Informatica
5 2 (3.17%) Google
5 2 (3.17%) Splunk
6 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.59%) IBM
6 1 (1.59%) New Relic
6 1 (1.59%) Okta
6 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.59%) Pega