Senior Scala Developer Contracts

Senior Scala Developer
UK

The median Senior Scala Developer daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 June 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
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 655 797
Rank change year-on-year +76 +142 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Scala Developer 11 31 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.056% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.059% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 30
10th Percentile £350 £543 £525
25th Percentile £425 £603 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £850 £660
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +28.79% -5.71%
75th Percentile £838 £938 £688
90th Percentile - £990 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%

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 40,530 52,517 83,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,076 36,648 58,643
10th Percentile £280 £313 £316
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +2.71% +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 2,932 1,488 1,934
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.99%

Senior Scala Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Scala Developer in the UK

Senior Scala Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Scala Developer in the UK

Senior Scala Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Scala Developer over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Scala Developer in the UK

Senior Scala Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Scala Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +80 11 £650 -23.53% 3
London +65 8 £813 -4.41% 1
UK excluding London +38 3 £425 - 2
North of England - 3 £425 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 £425 -
Work from Home +108 2 £480 -23.20% 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Scala Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Scala
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) TDD
4 5 (45.45%) Finance
5 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
5 3 (27.27%) Git
5 3 (27.27%) Java
5 3 (27.27%) Unix
5 3 (27.27%) Spring
5 3 (27.27%) Fintech
6 2 (18.18%) Grafana
6 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
6 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (18.18%) ScalaTest
6 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
6 2 (18.18%) Pair Programming
6 2 (18.18%) Spring MVC
6 2 (18.18%) Release Management
6 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) Extreme Programming
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Linux
6 2 (18.18%) SQL
6 2 (18.18%) Web Services
6 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
6 2 (18.18%) MVC
6 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery

Senior 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 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
1 2 (18.18%) Redis
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Gatling
2 2 (18.18%) Mockito
2 2 (18.18%) ScalaTest
3 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
2 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) Akka
2 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 2 (18.18%) JPA
2 2 (18.18%) Play Framework
2 2 (18.18%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) spray
2 2 (18.18%) Spring MVC
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) JMS
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) Middleware
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) TDD
3 3 (27.27%) Fintech
4 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
4 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) BDD
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) Extreme Programming
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) MVC
4 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Pair Programming
4 2 (18.18%) Release Management
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Scala
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Murex