Scala Contracts in London

Scala
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Scala skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scala over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 167 188
Rank change year-on-year -23 +21 -66
Contract jobs citing Scala 210 411 618
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.20% 1.58% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.26% 3.92% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 287 403
10th Percentile £366 £463 £475
25th Percentile £500 £500 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £766
90th Percentile £876 £900 £863
England median daily rate £575 £575 £603
% change year-on-year - -4.60% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £69.75 £47.75
25th Percentile - - £66.88
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £79.38
Median % change year-on-year - -5.51% -
75th Percentile - £86.25 £82.94
90th Percentile - £90.00 £83.73
England median hourly rate £30.50 £70.00 £79.38
% change year-on-year -56.43% -11.81% +234.21%

All Programming Languages
London

Scala is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,433 10,486 16,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.81% 40.30% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,915 7,864 12,496
10th Percentile £377 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £703
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 78 109
10th Percentile £23.80 £26.10 £30.45
25th Percentile £40.79 £46.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £58.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% +17.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63.52 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.64
% change year-on-year - +23.43% +19.14%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in London

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scala in London.

Daily rate trend for Scala in London

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in London

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scala in London.

Hourly rate trend for Scala in London

Scala
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
West London +29 17 £330 - 1
Central London +19 15 £650 +13.04% 12
East London +1 5 £825 +22.22% 15
Scala
England

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 53 (25.24%) Apache Spark
2 17 (8.10%) Apache
3 16 (7.62%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.43%) RMDS
2 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (39.52%) AWS
2 55 (26.19%) GCP
3 49 (23.33%) Azure
4 18 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.24%) dbt
7 10 (4.76%) Serverless
8 9 (4.29%) Snowflake
9 8 (3.81%) Amazon EMR
9 8 (3.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (3.81%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.90%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.43%) Datadog
13 3 (1.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (15.24%) HTTP
2 2 (0.95%) BGP
2 2 (0.95%) DNS
3 1 (0.48%) FTP
3 1 (0.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (20.00%) Big Data
2 38 (18.10%) Apache Cassandra
3 23 (10.95%) NoSQL
4 21 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (7.62%) Data Lake
6 13 (6.19%) Apache Hive
7 12 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (5.71%) Hadoop
7 12 (5.71%) Power BI
8 10 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (4.29%) MongoDB
10 8 (3.81%) Impala
10 8 (3.81%) Tableau
11 7 (3.33%) Apache Arrow
11 7 (3.33%) Apache Ignite
11 7 (3.33%) Dremio
12 6 (2.86%) Parquet
12 6 (2.86%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.86%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (10.00%) Git
2 13 (6.19%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.29%) ScalaTest
4 8 (3.81%) Maven
5 7 (3.33%) Subversion
6 6 (2.86%) Mockito
6 6 (2.86%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.38%) Gatling
7 5 (2.38%) JIRA
7 5 (2.38%) MLflow
8 4 (1.90%) JUnit
9 3 (1.43%) Deequ
9 3 (1.43%) Gradle
10 2 (0.95%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.48%) GitLab
11 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.48%) Spinnaker
General
1 63 (30.00%) Finance
2 41 (19.52%) Social Skills
3 39 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (18.10%) Banking
5 21 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.67%) Front Office
7 6 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.95%) Czech Language
8 2 (0.95%) Marketing
8 2 (0.95%) Retail
9 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.48%) Law
9 1 (0.48%) Legal
9 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 110 (52.38%) Developer
2 82 (39.05%) Scala Developer
3 44 (20.95%) Data Engineer
4 24 (11.43%) Senior
5 22 (10.48%) Architect
6 17 (8.10%) Lead
7 14 (6.67%) Scala Engineer
7 14 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.24%) Azure Data Engineer
8 11 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (5.24%) Java Developer
8 11 (5.24%) Lead Data Engineer
8 11 (5.24%) Software Engineer
9 10 (4.76%) Python Developer
10 9 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.81%) Apache Spark Developer
12 7 (3.33%) AWS Architect
12 7 (3.33%) AWS Solution Architect
13 6 (2.86%) Informatica Architect
13 6 (2.86%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (30.48%) Kafka
2 46 (21.90%) Akka
3 37 (17.62%) RESTful
4 31 (14.76%) PySpark
5 13 (6.19%) Web Services
6 10 (4.76%) Spark Streaming
7 8 (3.81%) NumPy
7 8 (3.81%) Pandas
7 8 (3.81%) SAML
8 7 (3.33%) gRPC
8 7 (3.33%) Protocol Buffers
8 7 (3.33%) SciPy
8 7 (3.33%) Spring
9 6 (2.86%) Apache Avro
10 5 (2.38%) React
11 4 (1.90%) ARM Templates
11 4 (1.90%) JPA
11 4 (1.90%) JSON Schema
11 4 (1.90%) Play Framework
11 4 (1.90%) spray
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.43%) Hedge funds
2 14 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 13 (6.19%) Derivative
4 10 (4.76%) Fixed Income
5 9 (4.29%) Equities
6 8 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.38%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.38%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.38%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.90%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.90%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.95%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.67%) Linux
2 10 (4.76%) Unix
3 2 (0.95%) Android
4 1 (0.48%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (42.38%) Agile
2 54 (25.71%) Microservices
3 48 (22.86%) TDD
4 41 (19.52%) Analytics
5 39 (18.57%) DevOps
5 39 (18.57%) ETL
6 38 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (17.62%) Data Pipeline
8 35 (16.67%) Pair Programming
9 34 (16.19%) Machine Learning
10 31 (14.76%) Software Engineering
11 28 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (13.33%) GitOps
12 27 (12.86%) Data Modelling
13 24 (11.43%) Clean Code
13 24 (11.43%) Personalization
14 22 (10.48%) Unit Testing
15 21 (10.00%) CI/CD
15 21 (10.00%) Data Engineering
16 19 (9.05%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 87 (41.43%) Python
2 65 (30.95%) Java
3 52 (24.76%) SQL
4 9 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.81%) C++
5 8 (3.81%) Ruby
6 7 (3.33%) Kotlin
6 7 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.86%) C#
7 6 (2.86%) Go
7 6 (2.86%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.38%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.43%) R
10 2 (0.95%) Bash
10 2 (0.95%) C
10 2 (0.95%) Groovy
10 2 (0.95%) Haskell
10 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.48%) Clojure
11 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 16 (7.62%) Degree
2 12 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.81%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.95%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.95%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.48%) OCP
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.95%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (8.57%) Docker
2 5 (2.38%) HDFS
3 4 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.95%) PowerDNS
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 49 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.81%) Grafana
2 8 (3.81%) Prometheus
2 8 (3.81%) Terraform
3 5 (2.38%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (0.95%) Ansible
4 2 (0.95%) Puppet
5 1 (0.48%) Argo
5 1 (0.48%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.48%) systemd
Vendors
1 39 (18.57%) Databricks
2 20 (9.52%) Typelevel
3 11 (5.24%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.76%) Informatica
5 9 (4.29%) Talend
6 4 (1.90%) Google
6 4 (1.90%) Virgin Media
7 3 (1.43%) Ab Initio
7 3 (1.43%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.43%) ION Trading
7 3 (1.43%) Solace
8 2 (0.95%) F5
8 2 (0.95%) Genesys
8 2 (0.95%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.95%) New Relic
9 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.48%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.48%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle
9 1 (0.48%) Reuters