Scala Developer Contracts

Scala Developer
UK

The median Scala Developer daily rate in the UK is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 430 557
Rank change year-on-year -17 +127 -178
Contract jobs requiring a Scala Developer 132 276 318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.51% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 193 211
10th Percentile £363 £463 £488
25th Percentile £450 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £750 £719 £738
90th Percentile £838 £900 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £595 £540
% change year-on-year +9.24% +10.19% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £66.70 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £70.00 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

Scala Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scala Developer in the UK

Scala Developer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala Developer within the UK 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
England -28 93 £563 -6.25% 18
London -23 82 £650 +8.33% 12
Work from Home +3 27 £450 -25.00% 13
UK excluding London +52 24 £650 +9.24% 7
Scotland +49 13 £750 +50.00% 1
North of England +31 7 £475 -5.00% 4
Yorkshire +20 5 £425 -22.73% 4
South East +18 3 £350 -41.67% 2
North East +14 2 £525 +5.00%
East of England - 1 £375 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 Scala Developer in the job title.

1 132 (100.00%) Scala
2 55 (41.67%) Agile
3 53 (40.15%) Microservices
4 52 (39.39%) Akka
5 47 (35.61%) Kubernetes
6 46 (34.85%) RESTful
7 45 (34.09%) TDD
8 44 (33.33%) Kafka
9 42 (31.82%) AWS
9 42 (31.82%) HTTP
10 36 (27.27%) Pair Programming
10 36 (27.27%) Finance
11 33 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
11 33 (25.00%) GCP
11 33 (25.00%) Clean Code
12 31 (23.48%) BDD
12 31 (23.48%) Banking
13 30 (22.73%) Java
14 29 (21.97%) DevOps
15 28 (21.21%) GitOps
16 27 (20.45%) OO
17 26 (19.70%) Machine Learning
18 25 (18.94%) Functional Programming
18 25 (18.94%) Personalization
19 24 (18.18%) Software Engineering
20 21 (15.91%) Investment Banking
21 19 (14.39%) Typelevel
22 18 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
23 17 (12.88%) Linux
23 17 (12.88%) ATDD

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 14 (10.61%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.27%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (31.82%) AWS
2 33 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (1.52%) Azure
4 2 (1.52%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.76%) GitHub
5 1 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (31.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 10 (7.58%) Big Data
3 9 (6.82%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.03%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.03%) Redis
6 3 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.76%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.76%) HBase
7 1 (0.76%) Power BI
7 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (11.36%) Cucumber
2 9 (6.82%) Git
2 9 (6.82%) ScalaTest
3 6 (4.55%) Mockito
4 5 (3.79%) Gatling
5 4 (3.03%) Subversion
6 3 (2.27%) GitLab
6 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.27%) Maven
7 2 (1.52%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.52%) JIRA
7 2 (1.52%) JUnit
7 2 (1.52%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.76%) Gradle
General
1 36 (27.27%) Finance
2 31 (23.48%) Banking
3 21 (15.91%) Investment Banking
4 11 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 10 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.06%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.76%) Front Office
8 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Law
8 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (39.39%) Akka
2 46 (34.85%) RESTful
3 44 (33.33%) Kafka
4 12 (9.09%) Play Framework
5 10 (7.58%) Web Services
6 4 (3.03%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.03%) JPA
6 4 (3.03%) Spark Streaming
6 4 (3.03%) spray
6 4 (3.03%) Spring
6 4 (3.03%) Spring MVC
7 3 (2.27%) OAuth
7 3 (2.27%) OpenID
7 3 (2.27%) React
7 3 (2.27%) SAML
8 1 (0.76%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.76%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.85%) Hedge funds
2 11 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.06%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.52%) Equities
6 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.52%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.88%) Linux
2 10 (7.58%) Unix
3 2 (1.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.67%) Agile
2 53 (40.15%) Microservices
3 45 (34.09%) TDD
4 36 (27.27%) Pair Programming
5 33 (25.00%) Clean Code
6 31 (23.48%) BDD
7 29 (21.97%) DevOps
8 28 (21.21%) GitOps
9 27 (20.45%) OO
10 26 (19.70%) Machine Learning
11 25 (18.94%) Functional Programming
11 25 (18.94%) Personalization
12 24 (18.18%) Software Engineering
13 18 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (12.88%) ATDD
15 16 (12.12%) Coaching
16 15 (11.36%) Unit Testing
17 14 (10.61%) Design Patterns
17 14 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
18 13 (9.85%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 132 (100.00%) Scala
2 30 (22.73%) Java
3 11 (8.33%) SQL
4 3 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.52%) C#
5 2 (1.52%) Python
6 1 (0.76%) C++
6 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.76%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (0.76%) Degree
1 1 (0.76%) OCP
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.76%) MiFID
System Software
1 11 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 47 (35.61%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.36%) Ansible
3 6 (4.55%) Grafana
3 6 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 19 (14.39%) Typelevel
2 3 (2.27%) Virgin Media
3 2 (1.52%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.76%) Databricks
4 1 (0.76%) Sybase