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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 296 286
Rank change year-on-year -94 -10 +32
Contract jobs citing Scala 52 40 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.31% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.94% 1.09% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 31 79
10th Percentile £350 £380 £384
25th Percentile £429 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £460
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +2.17% -16.36%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £594
90th Percentile £587 £638 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
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 £67.00 £52.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +27.62% +26.51% -39.42%

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 5,506 3,671 4,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.72% 28.72% 23.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,504 2,424 3,250
10th Percentile £325 £325 £317
25th Percentile £405 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £585
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 192 401
10th Percentile £46.25 £22.53 £37.63
25th Percentile £56.25 £42.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% +3.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.23 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% +2.67%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -45 34 £494 -2.71% 24
Yorkshire -40 26 £488 -9.30% 5
Midlands -75 9 £518 +17.08% 2
North East -15 7 £525 -4.55% 9
West Midlands -55 7 £518 +8.95% 2
South East -50 4 £388 -17.55% 15
Scotland - 3 £513 - 1
North West -47 2 £550 +37.50% 10
South West - 2 £508 - 3
East Midlands -36 1 £304 -25.85%
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 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Pig
2 1 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) LiveCycle
2 1 (1.92%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (57.69%) AWS
2 19 (36.54%) Azure
3 16 (30.77%) GitHub
4 11 (21.15%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (17.31%) GCP
6 5 (9.62%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.85%) Serverless
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.92%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.92%) Firebase
10 1 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.62%) Neo4j
3 4 (7.69%) Big Data
3 4 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 4 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.77%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.77%) Power BI
5 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.85%) Parquet
5 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.85%) Tableau
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.92%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.92%) HBase
6 1 (1.92%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 18 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 14 (26.92%) Gatling
3 9 (17.31%) Postman
4 7 (13.46%) GitLab
5 6 (11.54%) Artifactory
5 6 (11.54%) Maven
6 5 (9.62%) JIRA
6 5 (9.62%) JMeter
7 4 (7.69%) Cypress.io
7 4 (7.69%) LoadRunner
7 4 (7.69%) NeoLoad
8 3 (5.77%) Cucumber
8 3 (5.77%) Git
8 3 (5.77%) JUnit
8 3 (5.77%) Selenium
8 3 (5.77%) TestNG
General
1 11 (21.15%) Public Sector
1 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.85%) Banking
3 2 (3.85%) Games
3 2 (3.85%) Legal
3 2 (3.85%) Retail
4 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Developer
2 9 (17.31%) Scala Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Architect
3 6 (11.54%) Automation Test Lead
3 6 (11.54%) Data Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Lead
3 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Lead Architect
5 3 (5.77%) QA Tester
5 3 (5.77%) Test Architect
5 3 (5.77%) Test Automation Architect
5 3 (5.77%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Test Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Test Leader
5 3 (5.77%) Tester
6 2 (3.85%) Java Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (36.54%) Playwright
2 7 (13.46%) Kafka
3 6 (11.54%) PySpark
4 5 (9.62%) Node.js
4 5 (9.62%) OpenID
4 5 (9.62%) REST
5 4 (7.69%) Akka
5 4 (7.69%) GraphQL
5 4 (7.69%) LDAP
5 4 (7.69%) Play Framework
5 4 (7.69%) SailPoint
6 3 (5.77%) Spring
7 2 (3.85%) Apache Avro
7 2 (3.85%) JSON
7 2 (3.85%) JSON Schema
7 2 (3.85%) Loki
7 2 (3.85%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.85%) React
8 1 (1.92%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.85%) BYOD
4 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Sports Betting
4 2 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.92%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Android
3 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (55.77%) CI/CD
2 24 (46.15%) Agile
3 20 (38.46%) DevOps
4 14 (26.92%) Identity Access Management
4 14 (26.92%) Test Automation
5 13 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 10 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (19.23%) Software Engineering
7 9 (17.31%) Data Ingestion
7 9 (17.31%) ETL
7 9 (17.31%) Technical Debt
7 9 (17.31%) Validation
8 8 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (13.46%) Roadmaps
10 6 (11.54%) Code Quality
10 6 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (11.54%) Event-Driven
10 6 (11.54%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 38 (73.08%) Python
2 28 (53.85%) Java
3 15 (28.85%) TypeScript
4 10 (19.23%) SQL
5 4 (7.69%) Bash
5 4 (7.69%) Cypher
6 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.85%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.92%) C#
8 1 (1.92%) PHP
8 1 (1.92%) R
8 1 (1.92%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Security Cleared
2 15 (28.85%) SC Cleared
3 12 (23.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.85%) Degree
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) QA
2 5 (9.62%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.62%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.85%) SLA
4 1 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.92%) GDPR
4 1 (1.92%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 14 (26.92%) Docker
2 4 (7.69%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (28.85%) Kubernetes
2 13 (25.00%) Terraform
3 9 (17.31%) HAProxy
4 4 (7.69%) Ansible
5 3 (5.77%) Kibana
6 2 (3.85%) Grafana
6 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.85%) Puppet
7 1 (1.92%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Databricks
3 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.77%) Google
5 1 (1.92%) Adobe
5 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.92%) IBM
5 1 (1.92%) Informatica
5 1 (1.92%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.92%) Splunk