Scala Contracts

Scala
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Scala skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scala over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 275 201
Rank change year-on-year +4 -74 -57
Contract jobs citing Scala 365 537 1,227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 0.97% 1.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.77% 2.84% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 375 774
10th Percentile £375 £463 £450
25th Percentile £440 £500 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £725
90th Percentile £829 £844 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -19.47% +2.27% +8.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 21 6
10th Percentile £27.63 - £27.46
25th Percentile £36.49 £19.00 £45.39
Median hourly rate £52.50 £73.00 £78.44
Median % change year-on-year -28.08% -6.93% +220.15%
75th Percentile £61.25 £78.00 £81.80
90th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £83.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £20.47 £19.91
% change year-on-year +156.47% +2.81% -17.04%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,173 18,905 31,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.16% 34.04% 36.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,279 13,615 23,014
10th Percentile £350 £381 £388
25th Percentile £425 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £663
90th Percentile £765 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 534 437 496
10th Percentile £31.55 £30.45 £19.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.25 £61.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £79.19 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +24.26%

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 12 June 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 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Top 16 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 12 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
England -25 281 £563 -2.17% 70
London -4 226 £625 +7.76% 46
Work from Home -20 102 £525 -8.70% 60
UK excluding London +33 93 £453 -19.47% 29
Scotland +79 37 £453 -9.40% 2
North of England +18 32 £450 -21.74% 13
Yorkshire +26 19 £425 -24.44% 2
South East +9 16 £500 - 4
North West +3 9 £475 -17.39% 10
Midlands +12 4 £420 -29.41% 2
North East +10 4 £468 +3.89% 1
West Midlands +11 2 £485 -18.49% 1
South West -13 2 £450 -35.37% 3
East Midlands - 2 £360 - 1
East of England +5 1 £375 -21.05% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 88 (24.11%) Apache Spark
2 38 (10.41%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (10.14%) Apache
4 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.82%) nginx
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) ION MarketView
1 3 (0.82%) RMDS
2 2 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 155 (42.47%) AWS
2 88 (24.11%) GCP
3 79 (21.64%) Azure
4 35 (9.59%) Snowflake
5 18 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (4.93%) dbt
6 17 (4.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 17 (4.66%) Serverless
7 16 (4.38%) Amazon S3
8 15 (4.11%) Amazon EMR
8 15 (4.11%) Power Platform
9 12 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (2.19%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (1.64%) GitHub
13 5 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.37%) CloudBees
13 5 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 56 (15.34%) HTTP
2 3 (0.82%) Firewall
3 2 (0.55%) BGP
3 2 (0.55%) DNS
4 1 (0.27%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (17.26%) Big Data
2 52 (14.25%) Apache Cassandra
3 41 (11.23%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (9.04%) NoSQL
5 29 (7.95%) Hadoop
5 29 (7.95%) MongoDB
6 24 (6.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (6.30%) Data Lake
8 20 (5.48%) Apache Hive
8 20 (5.48%) Relational Database
9 19 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (4.38%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (4.11%) Power BI
12 12 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (3.29%) Impala
12 12 (3.29%) Tableau
13 9 (2.47%) BigQuery
13 9 (2.47%) HBase
13 9 (2.47%) Spark SQL
14 8 (2.19%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 36 (9.86%) Git
2 27 (7.40%) Jenkins
3 19 (5.21%) Cucumber
4 16 (4.38%) JIRA
5 12 (3.29%) Maven
6 9 (2.47%) Gatling
6 9 (2.47%) ScalaTest
7 8 (2.19%) Subversion
8 7 (1.92%) Mockito
8 7 (1.92%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.64%) MLflow
9 6 (1.64%) Selenium
10 5 (1.37%) JUnit
11 4 (1.10%) GitLab
11 4 (1.10%) Gradle
11 4 (1.10%) JMeter
11 4 (1.10%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.82%) Deequ
13 2 (0.55%) Android Studio
13 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 79 (21.64%) Finance
2 61 (16.71%) Banking
3 58 (15.89%) Social Skills
4 54 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (10.41%) Investment Banking
6 14 (3.84%) Front Office
7 12 (3.29%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.37%) Retail
10 4 (1.10%) Electronics
11 3 (0.82%) Czech Language
11 3 (0.82%) Marketing
12 2 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.27%) Back Office
13 1 (0.27%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.27%) Police
13 1 (0.27%) Publishing
13 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 196 (53.70%) Developer
2 140 (38.36%) Scala Developer
3 63 (17.26%) Data Engineer
4 52 (14.25%) Senior
5 45 (12.33%) Java Developer
6 26 (7.12%) Lead
7 25 (6.85%) Scala Engineer
8 24 (6.58%) Senior Developer
9 23 (6.30%) Architect
10 17 (4.66%) Software Engineer
11 14 (3.84%) Java Scala Developer
12 13 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (3.56%) Lead Data Engineer
13 11 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.01%) Python Developer
13 11 (3.01%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (3.01%) Senior Scala Developer
13 11 (3.01%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (2.74%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (32.88%) Kafka
2 71 (19.45%) RESTful
3 67 (18.36%) Akka
4 45 (12.33%) PySpark
5 24 (6.58%) Spring
6 22 (6.03%) Web Services
7 17 (4.66%) Spring Boot
8 15 (4.11%) Play Framework
9 11 (3.01%) React
9 11 (3.01%) SAML
10 10 (2.74%) Spark Streaming
11 8 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.19%) NumPy
11 8 (2.19%) OpenTracing
11 8 (2.19%) Pandas
12 7 (1.92%) http4s
13 6 (1.64%) Apache Avro
13 6 (1.64%) Lambda Expressions
13 6 (1.64%) Protocol Buffers
13 6 (1.64%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 47 (12.88%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (6.58%) Hedge funds
3 22 (6.03%) Algorithms
4 18 (4.93%) Data Structures
5 15 (4.11%) Derivative
6 11 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.47%) Equities
7 9 (2.47%) Fixed Income
7 9 (2.47%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.10%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (0.82%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.95%) Linux
2 26 (7.12%) Unix
3 4 (1.10%) Mac OS X
4 3 (0.82%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) CentOS
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (40.82%) Agile
2 95 (26.03%) Microservices
3 74 (20.27%) DevOps
4 68 (18.63%) TDD
5 67 (18.36%) Data Pipeline
6 66 (18.08%) Software Engineering
7 64 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (16.99%) CI/CD
9 57 (15.62%) ETL
10 56 (15.34%) Data Engineering
11 55 (15.07%) Data Modelling
12 53 (14.52%) Machine Learning
13 47 (12.88%) Pair Programming
14 46 (12.60%) Analytics
14 46 (12.60%) GitOps
15 45 (12.33%) Continuous Integration
16 42 (11.51%) BDD
17 41 (11.23%) Clean Code
18 37 (10.14%) Computer Science
19 34 (9.32%) OO
Programming Languages
1 157 (43.01%) Java
2 136 (37.26%) Python
3 76 (20.82%) SQL
4 20 (5.48%) Kotlin
5 18 (4.93%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.84%) Go
7 12 (3.29%) C++
7 12 (3.29%) Groovy
8 11 (3.01%) Ruby
8 11 (3.01%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.19%) C#
9 8 (2.19%) R
10 7 (1.92%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.64%) Perl
12 5 (1.37%) Bash
12 5 (1.37%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.10%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.82%) C
14 3 (0.82%) Haskell
15 2 (0.55%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 27 (7.40%) Degree
2 22 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.01%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.74%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.55%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.55%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.55%) PhD
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.64%) QA
3 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.55%) MiFID
4 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 54 (14.79%) Docker
2 9 (2.47%) HDFS
3 8 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.55%) PowerDNS
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 101 (27.67%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.32%) Terraform
3 23 (6.30%) Prometheus
4 20 (5.48%) Ansible
5 15 (4.11%) Grafana
6 8 (2.19%) Zipkin
7 5 (1.37%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.55%) Control-M
9 2 (0.55%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.27%) Argo
10 1 (0.27%) Puppet
10 1 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 51 (13.97%) Databricks
2 23 (6.30%) Typelevel
3 15 (4.11%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.56%) Informatica
5 12 (3.29%) Google
6 9 (2.47%) Ab Initio
6 9 (2.47%) Talend
7 7 (1.92%) ION Trading
7 7 (1.92%) Virgin Media
8 5 (1.37%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.10%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.10%) Okta
9 4 (1.10%) Oracle
9 4 (1.10%) Roku
10 3 (0.82%) IBM
10 3 (0.82%) Solace
11 2 (0.55%) F5
11 2 (0.55%) Genesys
11 2 (0.55%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.55%) New Relic