Scala
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 243 215
Rank change year-on-year -29 -28 -68
Contract jobs citing Scala 350 627 1,184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 1.10% 1.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.76% 3.17% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 442 747
10th Percentile £381 £463 £450
25th Percentile £450 £500 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £714
90th Percentile £825 £830 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -16.36% +1.85% +6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 5
10th Percentile £23.54 - £25.95
25th Percentile £26.25 £19.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.50 £68.50 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.42% -13.02% +224.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.13 £82.50
90th Percentile £64.25 £79.20 £83.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.50 £41.49 £19.91
% change year-on-year +0.04% +108.36% -17.90%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,689 19,807 31,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.82% 34.69% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,016 14,288 23,102
10th Percentile £350 £392 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £763 £785 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.20% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 450 512
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.24 £19.56
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.10
Median % change year-on-year - +24.75% +16.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £74.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +24.05%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scala over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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 -57 268 £575 - 83
London -18 212 £625 +8.70% 58
Work from Home -28 102 £525 -8.70% 69
UK excluding London +22 94 £460 -16.36% 38
Scotland +79 39 £453 -9.40% 7
North of England +5 27 £475 -17.39% 11
South East +12 19 £575 +15.00% 6
Yorkshire +20 17 £425 -24.44% 3
North West +3 8 £498 -13.48% 8
Midlands +25 6 £466 -21.64%
East Midlands - 4 £436 -
North East +12 2 £525 +16.67%
West Midlands +8 2 £485 -18.49%
South West -13 2 £450 -18.18% 5
East of England +11 1 £375 -21.05%

Scala
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 77 (22.00%) Apache Spark
2 40 (11.43%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (8.57%) Apache
4 5 (1.43%) Confluence
5 3 (0.86%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.86%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.86%) RMDS
2 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 141 (40.29%) AWS
2 81 (23.14%) Azure
3 76 (21.71%) GCP
4 33 (9.43%) Snowflake
5 23 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (6.00%) Power Platform
7 18 (5.14%) dbt
8 17 (4.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (4.57%) Serverless
10 15 (4.29%) Amazon EMR
11 14 (4.00%) Amazon S3
12 12 (3.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (2.29%) Entra ID
15 7 (2.00%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
16 6 (1.71%) PowerApps
17 5 (1.43%) CloudBees
17 5 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 47 (13.43%) HTTP
2 3 (0.86%) Firewall
3 2 (0.57%) BGP
3 2 (0.57%) DNS
4 1 (0.29%) FTP
4 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.14%) Big Data
2 47 (13.43%) Apache Cassandra
3 39 (11.14%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (8.57%) NoSQL
5 26 (7.43%) MongoDB
6 23 (6.57%) Data Lake
7 22 (6.29%) Hadoop
8 21 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (6.00%) Power BI
9 19 (5.43%) Relational Database
10 17 (4.86%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (4.86%) Apache Hive
11 13 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (3.43%) Tableau
13 10 (2.86%) Impala
14 9 (2.57%) HBase
15 8 (2.29%) Spark SQL
16 7 (2.00%) Apache Ignite
16 7 (2.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 31 (8.86%) Git
2 24 (6.86%) Jenkins
3 21 (6.00%) JIRA
4 18 (5.14%) Cucumber
5 10 (2.86%) Maven
6 9 (2.57%) Gatling
6 9 (2.57%) ScalaTest
7 8 (2.29%) Subversion
8 7 (2.00%) Mockito
9 6 (1.71%) MLflow
9 6 (1.71%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.43%) GitLab
10 5 (1.43%) Gradle
10 5 (1.43%) JUnit
10 5 (1.43%) Selenium
11 4 (1.14%) JMeter
11 4 (1.14%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.86%) Deequ
13 2 (0.57%) Android Studio
13 2 (0.57%) Ant
General
1 82 (23.43%) Finance
2 60 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 58 (16.57%) Banking
4 56 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (10.57%) Investment Banking
6 15 (4.29%) Front Office
7 10 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.57%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.43%) Marketing
11 4 (1.14%) Electronics
11 4 (1.14%) Retail
12 2 (0.57%) Czech Language
12 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.29%) Back Office
13 1 (0.29%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Law
13 1 (0.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 183 (52.29%) Developer
2 131 (37.43%) Scala Developer
3 71 (20.29%) Data Engineer
4 49 (14.00%) Senior
5 44 (12.57%) Java Developer
6 26 (7.43%) Lead
7 23 (6.57%) Architect
8 22 (6.29%) Scala Engineer
9 20 (5.71%) Senior Developer
10 18 (5.14%) Java Scala Developer
11 17 (4.86%) Software Engineer
12 15 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (4.29%) Lead Data Engineer
13 14 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (3.71%) Linux Developer
14 13 (3.71%) Python Developer
15 12 (3.43%) Azure Data Engineer
15 12 (3.43%) Senior Data Engineer
16 10 (2.86%) Scala Software Engineer
16 10 (2.86%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (29.14%) Kafka
2 63 (18.00%) RESTful
3 58 (16.57%) Akka
4 45 (12.86%) PySpark
5 22 (6.29%) Web Services
6 17 (4.86%) Spring
6 17 (4.86%) Spring Boot
7 13 (3.71%) Play Framework
8 11 (3.14%) React
8 11 (3.14%) SAML
9 9 (2.57%) NumPy
9 9 (2.57%) Pandas
9 9 (2.57%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.29%) OpenTracing
11 7 (2.00%) gRPC
11 7 (2.00%) http4s
11 7 (2.00%) Protocol Buffers
11 7 (2.00%) SciPy
12 6 (1.71%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 44 (12.57%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (6.86%) Hedge funds
3 22 (6.29%) Algorithms
4 17 (4.86%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.00%) Derivative
6 10 (2.86%) Fixed Income
6 10 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.57%) Equities
7 9 (2.57%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.43%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (1.14%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
13 3 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 2 (0.57%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.57%) Linux
2 19 (5.43%) Unix
3 4 (1.14%) Mac OS X
4 3 (0.86%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (41.14%) Agile
2 85 (24.29%) Microservices
3 68 (19.43%) DevOps
4 67 (19.14%) Software Engineering
5 66 (18.86%) Data Pipeline
6 61 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (17.14%) TDD
8 55 (15.71%) ETL
9 54 (15.43%) Data Engineering
10 53 (15.14%) Data Modelling
11 52 (14.86%) Analytics
12 51 (14.57%) CI/CD
13 46 (13.14%) Machine Learning
14 42 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
15 41 (11.71%) GitOps
16 40 (11.43%) BDD
17 39 (11.14%) Pair Programming
18 37 (10.57%) Computer Science
19 35 (10.00%) Clean Code
20 34 (9.71%) OO
Programming Languages
1 145 (41.43%) Java
2 141 (40.29%) Python
3 75 (21.43%) SQL
4 20 (5.71%) Kotlin
5 17 (4.86%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.43%) Ruby
7 11 (3.14%) Shell Script
8 10 (2.86%) Go
8 10 (2.86%) Groovy
9 9 (2.57%) C++
9 9 (2.57%) R
10 8 (2.29%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.71%) C#
12 5 (1.43%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.86%) C
14 2 (0.57%) Bash
14 2 (0.57%) Haskell
14 2 (0.57%) Perl
14 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.29%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 27 (7.71%) Degree
2 22 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.86%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.57%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.57%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.14%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.57%) IBM Certification
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.57%) PhD
7 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.29%) OCP
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.14%) QA
3 2 (0.57%) MiFID
4 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.29%) GxP
System Software
1 50 (14.29%) Docker
2 8 (2.29%) HDFS
2 8 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.57%) PowerDNS
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 83 (23.71%) Kubernetes
2 32 (9.14%) Terraform
3 20 (5.71%) Ansible
3 20 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 13 (3.71%) Grafana
5 8 (2.29%) Zipkin
6 5 (1.43%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.57%) Puppet
9 1 (0.29%) Argo
9 1 (0.29%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.29%) systemd
Vendors
1 58 (16.57%) Databricks
2 20 (5.71%) Typelevel
3 16 (4.57%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.71%) Informatica
5 11 (3.14%) Talend
6 8 (2.29%) Ab Initio
6 8 (2.29%) Google
7 6 (1.71%) Virgin Media
8 5 (1.43%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.14%) Okta
9 4 (1.14%) Roku
10 3 (0.86%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.86%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.86%) Solace
11 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.57%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.57%) Genesys
11 2 (0.57%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.57%) IBM
11 2 (0.57%) New Relic