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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 296 307
Rank change year-on-year -82 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Scala 49 40 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.32% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.93% 1.08% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 32 67
10th Percentile £395 £391 £375
25th Percentile £425 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £630
90th Percentile £604 £628 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% -0.04% +0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £23.54
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £41.50
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £64.25
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -19.05% +24.44% -32.50%

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 5,273 3,691 4,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.94% 29.20% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,418 2,381 3,331
10th Percentile £330 £325 £313
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -1.03% -3.00%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £651 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 187 394
10th Percentile £46.25 £22.13 £35.00
25th Percentile £58.19 £42.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +3.48% -5.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -65 23 £500 -9.09% 17
Midlands -59 19 £458 -0.33% 2
West Midlands -46 18 £440 -7.37% 2
Yorkshire -55 15 £500 -9.09% 5
North East -15 6 £475 -13.64% 1
South East -48 4 £577 +23.03% 12
Scotland +7 3 £513 +31.41% 10
North West -37 3 £500 +2.04% 11
South West -27 2 £508 +27.09% 4
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 6 (12.24%) Apache
2 4 (8.16%) JBoss
2 4 (8.16%) WebLogic
3 3 (6.12%) Apache Spark
4 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (2.04%) LiveCycle
5 1 (2.04%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (55.10%) AWS
2 16 (32.65%) Azure
3 10 (20.41%) GCP
4 8 (16.33%) GitHub
5 5 (10.20%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (8.16%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.08%) Serverless
7 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.04%) Bitrise
8 1 (2.04%) Firebase
8 1 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 6 (12.24%) MongoDB
4 5 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (10.20%) Neo4j
4 5 (10.20%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.12%) Big Data
5 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.12%) Power BI
6 2 (4.08%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.08%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.08%) Tableau
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.04%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (26.53%) Jenkins
2 9 (18.37%) Postman
3 8 (16.33%) Gatling
4 7 (14.29%) Git
4 7 (14.29%) GitLab
5 5 (10.20%) Selenium
6 4 (8.16%) Eclipse
6 4 (8.16%) IntelliJ
6 4 (8.16%) JIRA
6 4 (8.16%) JMeter
6 4 (8.16%) JUnit
6 4 (8.16%) LoadRunner
6 4 (8.16%) NeoLoad
7 3 (6.12%) Artifactory
7 3 (6.12%) Maven
8 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.04%) Deequ
8 1 (2.04%) REST Assured
General
1 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.16%) Finance
3 4 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Games
6 1 (2.04%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Developer
2 8 (16.33%) Data Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Lead
3 7 (14.29%) Scala Developer
4 6 (12.24%) Automation Test Lead
4 6 (12.24%) Scala Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Java Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Lead Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Test Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Test Automation Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Test Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Test Leader
8 2 (4.08%) Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Data Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) Playwright
2 12 (24.49%) Play Framework
3 9 (18.37%) REST
4 6 (12.24%) PySpark
4 6 (12.24%) Spring
5 5 (10.20%) OpenID
6 4 (8.16%) Akka
6 4 (8.16%) EJB
6 4 (8.16%) Hibernate
6 4 (8.16%) HTML
6 4 (8.16%) HTML5
6 4 (8.16%) J2EE
6 4 (8.16%) J2SE
6 4 (8.16%) JSON
6 4 (8.16%) LDAP
6 4 (8.16%) SailPoint
6 4 (8.16%) SOAP
6 4 (8.16%) XML
7 3 (6.12%) Kafka
7 3 (6.12%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.04%) Sports Betting
4 1 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Unix
2 2 (4.08%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.04%) Android
3 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) CI/CD
2 25 (51.02%) Agile
3 20 (40.82%) DevOps
4 16 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (26.53%) Test Automation
6 12 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (22.45%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (22.45%) Software Engineering
8 10 (20.41%) Identity Access Management
8 10 (20.41%) Microservices
9 9 (18.37%) Continuous Delivery
9 9 (18.37%) ETL
10 8 (16.33%) Containerisation
10 8 (16.33%) Data Ingestion
10 8 (16.33%) Unit Testing
10 8 (16.33%) Validation
11 7 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (59.18%) Python
2 26 (53.06%) Java
3 16 (32.65%) SQL
4 12 (24.49%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.16%) Cypher
6 2 (4.08%) Bash
6 2 (4.08%) Kotlin
6 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.04%) C#
7 1 (2.04%) Groovy
7 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) PHP
7 1 (2.04%) R
7 1 (2.04%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) QA
2 5 (10.20%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.04%) GDPR
4 1 (2.04%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (24.49%) Docker
2 4 (8.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.29%) Terraform
3 4 (8.16%) HAProxy
3 4 (8.16%) Puppet
4 3 (6.12%) Kibana
5 2 (4.08%) Ansible
6 1 (2.04%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Databricks
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) Google
2 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
2 4 (8.16%) webMethods
3 1 (2.04%) Adobe
3 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.04%) Informatica
3 1 (2.04%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle