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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 311 302
Rank change year-on-year -87 -9 +51
Contract jobs citing Scala 73 57 66
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.37% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 1.34% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 36 50
10th Percentile £350 £375 £398
25th Percentile £405 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £427 £473
Median % change year-on-year +8.31% -9.63% -12.09%
75th Percentile £497 £503 £538
90th Percentile £576 £594 £596
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% -8.33%
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 6,037 4,269 4,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.55% 27.60% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,692 2,772 2,797
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 £584
90th Percentile £669 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 202 271
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.64 £31.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £54.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% -
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 16 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 16 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 -68 39 £463 +15.63% 53
Yorkshire -35 24 £494 -1.25% 16
Midlands -40 21 £490 +13.95% 16
West Midlands -45 19 £490 -1.51% 12
North East -27 13 £425 +6.25% 14
South East -66 7 £431 -4.17% 41
Scotland - 5 £300 - 28
East Midlands -13 2 £304 -27.62% 4
North West -58 2 £375 -1.32% 23
South West -46 1 £505 - 20
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 10 (13.70%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.85%) Apache
3 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.74%) Apache Pig
3 2 (2.74%) SAS
4 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (49.32%) AWS
2 21 (28.77%) GitHub
3 19 (26.03%) GitHub Actions
4 18 (24.66%) Azure
5 11 (15.07%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (13.70%) GCP
7 5 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.48%) Azure Batch
8 4 (5.48%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.11%) Azure Databricks
10 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.74%) BrowserStack
10 2 (2.74%) Cloud Run
10 2 (2.74%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.37%) Datadog
11 1 (1.37%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (13.70%) SQL Server
3 9 (12.33%) MongoDB
4 7 (9.59%) Big Data
5 6 (8.22%) Hadoop
6 4 (5.48%) Data Vault
6 4 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.74%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.74%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.74%) HBase
8 2 (2.74%) Metadata
8 2 (2.74%) Parquet
8 2 (2.74%) Power BI
8 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.74%) Sqoop
8 2 (2.74%) Trino
9 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (17.81%) Gatling
2 10 (13.70%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.22%) Artifactory
3 6 (8.22%) Maven
4 5 (6.85%) Git
5 4 (5.48%) GitLab
5 4 (5.48%) JMeter
6 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.11%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.11%) JUnit
6 3 (4.11%) LoadRunner
6 3 (4.11%) NeoLoad
6 3 (4.11%) ScalaTest
6 3 (4.11%) Selenium
6 3 (4.11%) TestNG
7 2 (2.74%) JIRA
8 1 (1.37%) Appium
8 1 (1.37%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.37%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (39.73%) Public Sector
2 16 (21.92%) Finance
3 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Banking
6 3 (4.11%) Games
6 3 (4.11%) Retail
7 1 (1.37%) Advertising
7 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.37%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (38.36%) Developer
2 21 (28.77%) Scala Developer
3 10 (13.70%) Scala Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) Senior
5 7 (9.59%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Data Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Lead
6 6 (8.22%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.22%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Performance Analyst
8 3 (4.11%) Apache Spark Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Performance Test Leader
8 3 (4.11%) QA Tester
8 3 (4.11%) Senior Scala Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Test Leader
8 3 (4.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (28.77%) Terraform
2 19 (26.03%) Play Framework
3 10 (13.70%) Kafka
4 9 (12.33%) Playwright
5 7 (9.59%) RESTful
6 5 (6.85%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.48%) JSON
8 3 (4.11%) PySpark
8 3 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (4.11%) REST
8 3 (4.11%) Spring
9 2 (2.74%) Apache Avro
9 2 (2.74%) JSON Schema
9 2 (2.74%) Loki
9 2 (2.74%) Node.js
9 2 (2.74%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (2.74%) React
10 1 (1.37%) Akka
10 1 (1.37%) NestJS
10 1 (1.37%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.70%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.33%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.96%) Blog
4 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.11%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.74%) BYOD
5 2 (2.74%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
1 4 (5.48%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.37%) Android
2 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (61.64%) CI/CD
2 39 (53.42%) Agile
3 29 (39.73%) DevOps
4 20 (27.40%) Microservices
5 19 (26.03%) TDD
6 17 (23.29%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (17.81%) Data Pipeline
8 13 (17.81%) Observability
9 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (16.44%) Scrum
9 12 (16.44%) Technical Debt
9 12 (16.44%) User Research
10 11 (15.07%) Software Engineering
10 11 (15.07%) Test Automation
11 10 (13.70%) Containerisation
11 10 (13.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 9 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
13 8 (10.96%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 35 (47.95%) Python
2 24 (32.88%) Java
3 12 (16.44%) SQL
4 6 (8.22%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.85%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.48%) Bicep
7 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.74%) Bash
9 1 (1.37%) Go
9 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (26.03%) BPSS Clearance
1 19 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) Degree
4 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) Accessibility
2 11 (15.07%) QA
3 10 (13.70%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.11%) WCAG
5 1 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (21.92%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Flume
2 2 (2.74%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (32.88%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.07%) Grafana
3 9 (12.33%) HAProxy
4 3 (4.11%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.74%) Ansible
5 2 (2.74%) Puppet
6 1 (1.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
1 10 (13.70%) Splunk
2 7 (9.59%) Databricks
3 4 (5.48%) Google
3 4 (5.48%) KANA
4 2 (2.74%) Informatica
5 1 (1.37%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.37%) IBM
5 1 (1.37%) New Relic
5 1 (1.37%) Okta
5 1 (1.37%) Pega