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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 313 289
Rank change year-on-year -104 -24 +68
Contract jobs citing Scala 55 48 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.32% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.89% 1.16% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 32 68
10th Percentile £339 £375 £376
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £440 £457
Median % change year-on-year +10.80% -3.61% -20.61%
75th Percentile £541 £547 £538
90th Percentile £587 £635 £612
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -8.18% +2.80% -8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £27.63
25th Percentile - - £36.49
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £65.75
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +27.62% - -30.00%

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 6,187 4,138 4,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.94% 27.81% 23.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,864 2,712 3,138
10th Percentile £330 £313 £325
25th Percentile £409 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 188 372
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.31 £35.67
25th Percentile £53.76 £48.99 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.30 £79.09 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £62.50
% change year-on-year +15.30% -9.80% +3.09%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -67 29 £488 -3.94% 19
Yorkshire -38 20 £494 -17.71% 5
Midlands -56 13 £402 -5.41% 3
West Midlands -50 10 £404 -10.33% 2
South East -63 5 £400 -14.53% 14
Scotland - 5 £463 - 1
North East - 5 £443 - 6
North West -55 4 £438 +9.38% 8
South West - 3 £505 - 8
East Midlands -20 2 £304 -27.62% 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 8 (14.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.45%) Apache
2 3 (5.45%) SAS
3 2 (3.64%) Apache Pig
4 1 (1.82%) Confluence
4 1 (1.82%) LiveCycle
Cloud Services
1 32 (58.18%) AWS
2 18 (32.73%) Azure
3 17 (30.91%) GitHub
4 12 (21.82%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (12.73%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.91%) GCP
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.64%) BrowserStack
8 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.64%) Serverless
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.82%) Firebase
9 1 (1.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.64%) SQL Server
2 12 (21.82%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (12.73%) Big Data
4 6 (10.91%) NoSQL
5 5 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (9.09%) Hadoop
6 4 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.45%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.45%) Data Vault
7 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.64%) Apache Hive
8 2 (3.64%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.64%) HBase
8 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.64%) Parquet
8 2 (3.64%) Sqoop
9 1 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.82%) Neo4j
9 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (25.45%) Jenkins
2 10 (18.18%) Gatling
3 6 (10.91%) Artifactory
3 6 (10.91%) Git
3 6 (10.91%) Maven
4 4 (7.27%) Cypress.io
4 4 (7.27%) GitLab
5 3 (5.45%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.45%) JUnit
5 3 (5.45%) Selenium
5 3 (5.45%) TestNG
6 2 (3.64%) JIRA
7 1 (1.82%) Appium
7 1 (1.82%) JMeter
7 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.82%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (21.82%) Public Sector
2 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Banking
3 4 (7.27%) Finance
3 4 (7.27%) Games
3 4 (7.27%) Retail
4 2 (3.64%) Legal
5 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) Developer
2 8 (14.55%) Scala Developer
3 7 (12.73%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Backend Developer
6 4 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Performance Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Senior
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Backend Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Apache Spark Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.45%) QA Tester
7 3 (5.45%) Tester
8 2 (3.64%) Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Java Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.00%) Kafka
2 10 (18.18%) Playwright
3 8 (14.55%) PySpark
4 6 (10.91%) GraphQL
5 4 (7.27%) Node.js
5 4 (7.27%) Play Framework
5 4 (7.27%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (7.27%) Spring
6 3 (5.45%) React
7 2 (3.64%) Akka
7 2 (3.64%) Apache Avro
7 2 (3.64%) JSON
7 2 (3.64%) JSON Schema
7 2 (3.64%) Loki
7 2 (3.64%) OAuth
7 2 (3.64%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (3.64%) RESTful
8 1 (1.82%) EDIFACT
8 1 (1.82%) OpenID
8 1 (1.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.27%) Sports Betting
3 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.64%) BYOD
4 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
1 3 (5.45%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.64%) Android
2 2 (3.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.91%) CI/CD
2 26 (47.27%) Agile
3 20 (36.36%) DevOps
4 13 (23.64%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (21.82%) Software Engineering
6 11 (20.00%) Technical Debt
7 10 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (16.36%) Containerisation
8 9 (16.36%) Data Modelling
8 9 (16.36%) Test Automation
9 8 (14.55%) Data Engineering
9 8 (14.55%) Microservices
9 8 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (12.73%) Code Quality
10 7 (12.73%) ETL
10 7 (12.73%) Roadmaps
11 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.91%) Product Roadmap
12 5 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (61.82%) Python
2 25 (45.45%) Java
3 14 (25.45%) SQL
4 8 (14.55%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.27%) Bash
5 4 (7.27%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.82%) Bicep
6 1 (1.82%) C#
6 1 (1.82%) Go
6 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.82%) PHP
6 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.82%) Swift
6 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 17 (30.91%) SC Cleared
3 11 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.73%) QA
3 5 (9.09%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.64%) SLA
5 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.82%) GDPR
5 1 (1.82%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 16 (29.09%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Flume
2 2 (3.64%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 15 (27.27%) Terraform
2 9 (16.36%) HAProxy
3 3 (5.45%) Ansible
3 3 (5.45%) Grafana
3 3 (5.45%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.64%) Puppet
5 1 (1.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.55%) Databricks
3 4 (7.27%) KANA
4 3 (5.45%) Informatica
5 2 (3.64%) Splunk
6 1 (1.82%) Adobe
6 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.82%) IBM
6 1 (1.82%) New Relic
6 1 (1.82%) Okta
6 1 (1.82%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.82%) Pega