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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 319 347
Rank change year-on-year -21 +28 -105
Contract jobs citing Scala 57 49 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.30% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.22% 1.15% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 34 54
10th Percentile £378 £393 £375
25th Percentile £402 £403 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £514 £547 £614
90th Percentile £604 £612 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £67.60
25th Percentile - - £71.50
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £80.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +2.56% +122.86%

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 4,658 4,247 5,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.48% 25.95% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,029 2,491 3,607
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £568 £580 £600
90th Percentile £638 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 233 337
10th Percentile £41.25 £22.10 £36.20
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.30
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.20% +4.58% -

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -10 30 £430 -29.74% 4
West Midlands -4 25 £498 -18.71% 3
North of England -47 24 £438 -12.50% 6
Yorkshire -33 13 £488 -2.50% 2
North West -13 9 £415 +10.67% 3
East Midlands - 5 £420 - 1
South East -5 3 £604 +51.00% 23
North East -12 3 £400 -9.09% 1
East of England -14 2 £488 -2.50% 1
South West -2 1 - - 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 18 (31.58%) Apache
2 13 (22.81%) Apache Spark
3 9 (15.79%) WebLogic
4 8 (14.04%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (14.04%) JBoss
5 7 (12.28%) Apache Pig
6 3 (5.26%) IIS
7 1 (1.75%) Tuxedo
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (28.07%) AWS
2 10 (17.54%) Power Platform
3 8 (14.04%) Azure
3 8 (14.04%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (10.53%) GCP
5 3 (5.26%) GitHub
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.32%) Hadoop
2 11 (19.30%) Apache Hive
2 11 (19.30%) Data Mining
3 10 (17.54%) Power BI
4 9 (15.79%) Big Data
4 9 (15.79%) MongoDB
5 7 (12.28%) Data Lake
5 7 (12.28%) Delta Lake
6 5 (8.77%) NoSQL
7 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (7.02%) DataStage
7 4 (7.02%) Metadata
8 3 (5.26%) HBase
8 3 (5.26%) OLTP
8 3 (5.26%) Tableau
9 2 (3.51%) QlikView
9 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.51%) Star Schema
10 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (31.58%) Git
2 9 (15.79%) Selenium
3 8 (14.04%) Eclipse
3 8 (14.04%) IntelliJ
3 8 (14.04%) JUnit
4 7 (12.28%) Jenkins
5 4 (7.02%) Gradle
5 4 (7.02%) Xcode
6 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.75%) Deequ
7 1 (1.75%) Gatling
7 1 (1.75%) GitLab
7 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
General
1 23 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Banking
2 8 (14.04%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Finance
4 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 18 (31.58%) Developer
3 9 (15.79%) Data Scientist
4 8 (14.04%) Scala Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Scala Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Senior
6 5 (8.77%) Hadoop Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Java Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) iOS Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.51%) SQL Developer
10 1 (1.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 1 (1.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 1 (1.75%) Java Scala Developer
10 1 (1.75%) Node.js Developer
10 1 (1.75%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.56%) Play Framework
2 12 (21.05%) HTML
3 10 (17.54%) Spring
4 9 (15.79%) JSON
4 9 (15.79%) REST
4 9 (15.79%) SOAP
5 8 (14.04%) EJB
5 8 (14.04%) Hibernate
5 8 (14.04%) HTML5
5 8 (14.04%) J2EE
5 8 (14.04%) J2SE
5 8 (14.04%) PySpark
5 8 (14.04%) XML
6 5 (8.77%) Kafka
7 4 (7.02%) CSS
8 3 (5.26%) Middleware
8 3 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (3.51%) .NET
9 2 (3.51%) Node.js
9 2 (3.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.02%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (7.02%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.02%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Unix
2 4 (7.02%) Android
2 4 (7.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) CI/CD
2 21 (36.84%) Agile
3 19 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (29.82%) Data Science
4 17 (29.82%) Machine Learning
5 16 (28.07%) DevOps
6 14 (24.56%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (24.56%) Scrum
7 13 (22.81%) Continuous Delivery
7 13 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (22.81%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (22.81%) ETL
7 13 (22.81%) Unit Testing
8 12 (21.05%) Analytics
8 12 (21.05%) Data Engineering
8 12 (21.05%) Microservices
8 12 (21.05%) Visualisation
9 11 (19.30%) Data Collection
9 11 (19.30%) Data Visualisation
9 11 (19.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (59.65%) Java
2 33 (57.89%) SQL
3 28 (49.12%) Python
4 5 (8.77%) C
4 5 (8.77%) C++
4 5 (8.77%) Kotlin
5 4 (7.02%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.02%) Objective-C
5 4 (7.02%) Ruby
5 4 (7.02%) Swift
6 1 (1.75%) Bash
6 1 (1.75%) Cypher
6 1 (1.75%) Groovy
6 1 (1.75%) Korn
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.75%) R
6 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.51%) Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.26%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) HDFS
2 3 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Puppet
2 3 (5.26%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (5.26%) Oozie
3 2 (3.51%) Kibana
3 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.75%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Databricks
2 9 (15.79%) webMethods
3 8 (14.04%) Splunk
4 4 (7.02%) Informatica
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.02%) Talend
5 2 (3.51%) Google
5 2 (3.51%) Oracle
6 1 (1.75%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.75%) Trillium
6 1 (1.75%) Vertica