Java Scala Developer Contracts

Scala Java Developer
UK

The median Scala Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 681 830
Rank change year-on-year +111 +149 -135
Contract jobs requiring a Java Scala Developer 14 16 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.029% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.030% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 8
10th Percentile £690 £482 £404
25th Percentile - £518 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year +40.19% +7.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £587 £744
90th Percentile £765 £709 £804
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Java Scala Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Java Scala Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Java Scala Developer in the UK

Java Scala Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java Scala Developer in the UK

Java Scala Developer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Scala Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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
UK excluding London +39 12 £750 -
Scotland - 9 £750 -
Work from Home +113 6 - - 1
England +75 5 £713 +33.18% 1
London +70 2 £713 +33.18% 1
South East +15 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

Java Scala Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Java Scala Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Java Scala Developer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Java
1 14 (100.00%) Scala
2 11 (78.57%) Software Engineering
3 8 (57.14%) Linux
4 6 (42.86%) Finance
5 5 (35.71%) Financial Institution
6 4 (28.57%) Web Services
6 4 (28.57%) Unix
6 4 (28.57%) Agile
6 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
7 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
7 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
7 3 (21.43%) React
7 3 (21.43%) BDD
7 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
7 3 (21.43%) GitLab
7 3 (21.43%) OAuth
7 3 (21.43%) Kanban
7 3 (21.43%) AWS
7 3 (21.43%) OpenID
7 3 (21.43%) TDD
7 3 (21.43%) Scrum
7 3 (21.43%) OO
7 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
7 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
7 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
7 3 (21.43%) SAML
8 2 (14.29%) Hedge funds

Java Scala Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Front Office
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Web Services
2 3 (21.43%) OAuth
2 3 (21.43%) OpenID
2 3 (21.43%) React
2 3 (21.43%) SAML
3 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
1 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) Market Risk
3 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
3 1 (7.14%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Software Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
2 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) BDD
3 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
3 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
3 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
3 3 (21.43%) Kanban
3 3 (21.43%) OO
3 3 (21.43%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) TDD
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
1 14 (100.00%) Scala
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Databricks
1 1 (7.14%) Sybase