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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 319 297
Rank change year-on-year -86 -22 +62
Contract jobs citing Scala 74 53 66
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.23% 1.25% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 33 49
10th Percentile £365 £375 £400
25th Percentile £405 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.58% -13.64%
75th Percentile £514 £500 £538
90th Percentile £588 £605 £597
UK median daily rate £490 £507 £535
% change year-on-year -3.35% -5.23% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.62% -34.38% +2.56%

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 6,025 4,240 4,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.47% 27.66% 24.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,697 2,755 2,779
10th Percentile £330 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £669 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 455 204 271
10th Percentile £29.08 £31.64 £33.93
25th Percentile £51.67 £50.00 £53.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +0.97%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £79.17
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -56 40 £474 +21.47% 25
Yorkshire -21 25 £500 +5.26% 2
Midlands -44 21 £490 +15.29% 6
West Midlands -34 19 £490 -3.40% 4
North East -35 12 £425 +6.25% 8
South East -65 8 £400 -11.11% 20
Scotland - 4 £410 - 18
North West -63 3 £375 -1.32% 15
East Midlands -21 2 £304 -27.62% 2
South West -47 1 £505 - 13
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
3 2 (2.70%) Apache Pig
3 2 (2.70%) SAS
4 1 (1.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (50.00%) AWS
2 22 (29.73%) GitHub
3 19 (25.68%) Azure
3 19 (25.68%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (14.86%) GCP
5 10 (13.51%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.41%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.41%) Azure Batch
7 4 (5.41%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.05%) Azure Databricks
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.70%) BrowserStack
9 2 (2.70%) Cloud Run
9 2 (2.70%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.35%) Datadog
10 1 (1.35%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.86%) SQL Server
2 10 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.81%) MongoDB
4 7 (9.46%) Big Data
5 6 (8.11%) Hadoop
6 5 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (6.76%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.41%) Data Vault
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (4.05%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.70%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.70%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.70%) HBase
9 2 (2.70%) Parquet
9 2 (2.70%) Power BI
9 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.70%) Sqoop
10 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.35%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Gatling
2 12 (16.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.11%) Artifactory
3 6 (8.11%) Git
3 6 (8.11%) Maven
4 4 (5.41%) JMeter
5 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.05%) Cypress.io
5 3 (4.05%) GitLab
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
6 2 (2.70%) ScalaTest
7 1 (1.35%) Appium
7 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.35%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (39.19%) Public Sector
2 14 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.57%) Finance
4 8 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Games
6 4 (5.41%) Retail
7 3 (4.05%) Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Advertising
8 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (37.84%) Developer
2 20 (27.03%) Scala Developer
3 10 (13.51%) Scala Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) Senior
5 7 (9.46%) Data Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Lead
7 5 (6.76%) Software Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) Backend Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Performance Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Backend Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Apache Spark Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Performance Test Leader
9 3 (4.05%) QA Tester
9 3 (4.05%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Test Leader
9 3 (4.05%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.03%) Terraform
2 18 (24.32%) Play Framework
3 12 (16.22%) Kafka
4 9 (12.16%) Playwright
5 6 (8.11%) GraphQL
5 6 (8.11%) RESTful
6 4 (5.41%) JSON
6 4 (5.41%) PySpark
6 4 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (5.41%) REST
6 4 (5.41%) Spring
7 2 (2.70%) Akka
7 2 (2.70%) Apache Avro
7 2 (2.70%) JSON Schema
7 2 (2.70%) Loki
7 2 (2.70%) Node.js
7 2 (2.70%) OAuth
7 2 (2.70%) Protocol Buffers
8 1 (1.35%) EDIFACT
8 1 (1.35%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.81%) Product Ownership
3 7 (9.46%) Blog
4 4 (5.41%) Sports Betting
5 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.70%) BYOD
6 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.70%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 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 45 (60.81%) CI/CD
2 39 (52.70%) Agile
3 29 (39.19%) DevOps
4 20 (27.03%) Microservices
5 18 (24.32%) TDD
6 17 (22.97%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (18.92%) Data Pipeline
9 13 (17.57%) Observability
9 13 (17.57%) Software Engineering
9 13 (17.57%) Technical Debt
10 12 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (16.22%) Test Automation
11 11 (14.86%) Containerisation
11 11 (14.86%) Scrum
11 11 (14.86%) User Research
12 10 (13.51%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 9 (12.16%) Data Engineering
13 9 (12.16%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 37 (50.00%) Python
2 27 (36.49%) Java
3 13 (17.57%) SQL
4 7 (9.46%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.11%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.41%) Bicep
7 3 (4.05%) Bash
7 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.35%) Go
8 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.35%) Swift
8 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 18 (24.32%) 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%) Accessibility
1 11 (14.86%) QA
2 9 (12.16%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.70%) WCAG
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 21 (28.38%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.51%) Grafana
3 9 (12.16%) HAProxy
4 3 (4.05%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.70%) Ansible
5 2 (2.70%) Puppet
6 1 (1.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.16%) Splunk
3 8 (10.81%) Databricks
4 4 (5.41%) Google
4 4 (5.41%) KANA
5 2 (2.70%) 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