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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 307 318
Rank change year-on-year -35 +11 -51
Contract jobs citing Scala 54 33 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.24% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 0.86% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 24 55
10th Percentile £378 - £375
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £511 £550 £630
90th Percentile £590 £607 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -
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 - £80.00 £53.60
% change year-on-year - +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 4,502 3,819 4,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.99% 27.50% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,912 2,276 3,340
10th Percentile £318 £335 £325
25th Percentile £401 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £599
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 183 332
10th Percentile £42.13 £21.25 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.50 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% -
75th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £82.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -1.59%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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
Midlands -16 30 £435 -21.05% 12
West Midlands -11 25 £488 -11.43% 5
North of England -38 22 £425 -15.00% 20
Yorkshire -49 11 £488 -2.50% 14
North West - 7 £380 - 5
North East -10 5 £400 -27.27% 1
East Midlands - 5 £420 - 7
South East - 3 £604 - 46
South West -15 1 - - 18
East of England -17 1 £400 -20.00% 15
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 (31.48%) Apache
2 12 (22.22%) Apache Spark
3 8 (14.81%) JBoss
3 8 (14.81%) WebLogic
4 7 (12.96%) Apache Pig
5 6 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (5.56%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.63%) AWS
2 11 (20.37%) Power Platform
3 8 (14.81%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (12.96%) Azure
5 4 (7.41%) GCP
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.85%) GitHub
7 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.78%) Hadoop
2 11 (20.37%) Apache Hive
2 11 (20.37%) Data Mining
2 11 (20.37%) Power BI
3 9 (16.67%) Big Data
3 9 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 5 (9.26%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.41%) Metadata
5 4 (7.41%) Tableau
6 3 (5.56%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.56%) Delta Lake
6 3 (5.56%) HBase
6 3 (5.56%) OLTP
7 2 (3.70%) QlikView
7 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.85%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.85%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 15 (27.78%) Git
2 9 (16.67%) Selenium
3 8 (14.81%) Eclipse
3 8 (14.81%) IntelliJ
3 8 (14.81%) JUnit
4 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.56%) Gradle
5 3 (5.56%) Xcode
6 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.70%) Postman
7 1 (1.85%) Deequ
7 1 (1.85%) Gatling
7 1 (1.85%) GitLab
7 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
General
1 21 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Banking
3 7 (12.96%) Finance
4 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (35.19%) Developer
2 15 (27.78%) Data Engineer
3 10 (18.52%) Scala Developer
4 9 (16.67%) Data Scientist
5 6 (11.11%) Scala Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Hadoop Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Java Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Senior
8 3 (5.56%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Lead
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Analyst
9 2 (3.70%) Automation Test Lead
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Data Analyst
9 2 (3.70%) iOS Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) SQL Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.93%) Play Framework
2 11 (20.37%) HTML
3 9 (16.67%) Spring
4 8 (14.81%) EJB
4 8 (14.81%) Hibernate
4 8 (14.81%) HTML5
4 8 (14.81%) J2EE
4 8 (14.81%) J2SE
4 8 (14.81%) JSON
4 8 (14.81%) REST
4 8 (14.81%) SOAP
4 8 (14.81%) XML
5 5 (9.26%) Kafka
6 4 (7.41%) Akka
7 3 (5.56%) CSS
7 3 (5.56%) Middleware
7 3 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (5.56%) Playwright
7 3 (5.56%) PySpark
8 2 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.41%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.56%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Unix
2 3 (5.56%) Android
2 3 (5.56%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 21 (38.89%) Agile
2 21 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (33.33%) Data Science
4 17 (31.48%) Machine Learning
5 15 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (25.93%) DevOps
6 14 (25.93%) Visualisation
7 13 (24.07%) Continuous Delivery
7 13 (24.07%) Data Visualisation
8 12 (22.22%) Decision-Making
8 12 (22.22%) Microservices
8 12 (22.22%) Scrum
8 12 (22.22%) Unit Testing
9 11 (20.37%) Data Collection
9 11 (20.37%) Mentoring
10 10 (18.52%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (16.67%) Naive Bayes
Programming Languages
1 34 (62.96%) Java
2 28 (51.85%) Python
2 28 (51.85%) SQL
3 4 (7.41%) C++
3 4 (7.41%) Kotlin
4 3 (5.56%) C
4 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.56%) Objective-C
4 3 (5.56%) Ruby
4 3 (5.56%) Swift
4 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.70%) R
6 1 (1.85%) Cypher
6 1 (1.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) HDFS
2 3 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Puppet
2 4 (7.41%) Kibana
3 3 (5.56%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (5.56%) Oozie
4 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Splunk
1 8 (14.81%) webMethods
2 7 (12.96%) Databricks
3 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.70%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.85%) Vertica