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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 317 335
Rank change year-on-year -35 +18 -80
Contract jobs citing Scala 52 35 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.24% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.11% 0.88% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 56
10th Percentile £378 £400 £375
25th Percentile £402 £469 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £511 £563 £630
90th Percentile £590 £612 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £612 £600
% change year-on-year -18.30% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £35.20
25th Percentile - - £46.38
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £71.50
90th Percentile - - £75.40
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £80.00 £53.60
% change year-on-year -30.00% +49.27% +53.13%

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 4,670 3,997 4,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.36% 27.13% 25.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,019 2,406 3,418
10th Percentile £315 £335 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% -2.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.14% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 188 324
10th Percentile £41.94 £21.25 £37.80
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.14 £48.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% -1.93% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 27 December 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 27 December 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 -18 30 £435 -28.92% 34
West Midlands -9 25 £488 -20.26% 16
North of England -48 20 £425 -22.73% 45
Yorkshire -43 10 £488 -2.50% 19
North West -13 7 £380 - 23
East Midlands - 5 £420 - 15
North East -9 4 £400 -27.27% 3
South East -14 3 £604 - 56
South West -4 1 - - 18
East of England -21 1 £400 -20.00% 34
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 17 (32.69%) Apache
2 12 (23.08%) Apache Spark
3 8 (15.38%) JBoss
3 8 (15.38%) WebLogic
4 7 (13.46%) Apache Pig
5 6 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (5.77%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (30.77%) AWS
2 11 (21.15%) Power Platform
3 8 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (13.46%) Azure
5 4 (7.69%) GCP
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.85%) Hadoop
2 11 (21.15%) Apache Hive
2 11 (21.15%) Data Mining
2 11 (21.15%) Power BI
3 9 (17.31%) Big Data
3 9 (17.31%) MongoDB
4 5 (9.62%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 4 (7.69%) Delta Lake
5 4 (7.69%) Metadata
5 4 (7.69%) Tableau
6 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.77%) HBase
6 3 (5.77%) OLTP
7 2 (3.85%) QlikView
7 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.92%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.92%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 15 (28.85%) Git
2 9 (17.31%) Selenium
3 8 (15.38%) Eclipse
3 8 (15.38%) IntelliJ
3 8 (15.38%) JUnit
4 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.77%) Gradle
5 3 (5.77%) Xcode
6 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.92%) Deequ
7 1 (1.92%) Gatling
7 1 (1.92%) GitLab
7 1 (1.92%) REST Assured
General
1 21 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
3 7 (13.46%) Finance
4 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Developer
2 16 (30.77%) Data Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Data Scientist
3 9 (17.31%) Scala Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Scala Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Hadoop Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Senior
6 4 (7.69%) Java Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) iOS Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) SQL Developer
9 1 (1.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 1 (1.92%) Java Scala Developer
9 1 (1.92%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.92%) Play Framework
2 11 (21.15%) HTML
3 9 (17.31%) Spring
4 8 (15.38%) EJB
4 8 (15.38%) Hibernate
4 8 (15.38%) HTML5
4 8 (15.38%) J2EE
4 8 (15.38%) J2SE
4 8 (15.38%) JSON
4 8 (15.38%) REST
4 8 (15.38%) SOAP
4 8 (15.38%) XML
5 5 (9.62%) Kafka
6 4 (7.69%) PySpark
7 3 (5.77%) Akka
7 3 (5.77%) CSS
7 3 (5.77%) Middleware
7 3 (5.77%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (3.85%) .NET
8 2 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.77%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.77%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Unix
2 3 (5.77%) Android
2 3 (5.77%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) CI/CD
2 20 (38.46%) Agile
2 20 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (34.62%) Data Science
4 17 (32.69%) Machine Learning
5 14 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (26.92%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (26.92%) DevOps
6 13 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 13 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 12 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
7 12 (23.08%) Microservices
7 12 (23.08%) Scrum
7 12 (23.08%) Unit Testing
8 11 (21.15%) Data Collection
8 11 (21.15%) Decision-Making
8 11 (21.15%) Mentoring
9 10 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (17.31%) Naive Bayes
Programming Languages
1 32 (61.54%) Java
2 29 (55.77%) SQL
3 26 (50.00%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) C++
4 4 (7.69%) Kotlin
5 3 (5.77%) C
5 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.77%) Objective-C
5 3 (5.77%) Ruby
5 3 (5.77%) Swift
6 2 (3.85%) R
7 1 (1.92%) Cypher
7 1 (1.92%) Groovy
7 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.85%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.92%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.77%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) HDFS
2 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Puppet
2 3 (5.77%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (5.77%) Kibana
2 3 (5.77%) Oozie
3 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Databricks
1 8 (15.38%) Splunk
1 8 (15.38%) webMethods
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.92%) Informatica
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.92%) Talend
4 1 (1.92%) Vertica