Scala
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Scala skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Scala over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 293 229
Rank change year-on-year -73 -64 +32
Permanent jobs citing Scala 746 1,159 3,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 1.19% 1.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.22% 2.77% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 285 472 1,025
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £116,125 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% +4.35%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Scala.

Salary trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +72 479 £55,000 -24.14% 33
England -204 377 £80,000 - 83
Scotland +113 335 £61,250 -11.80% 4
London -123 219 £80,000 -5.88% 61
Work from Home -125 188 £80,000 +6.67% 61
North of England -7 64 £55,000 -31.25% 11
North West -2 47 £60,000 -27.27% 9
South East -23 35 £57,500 -28.13% 8
South West -42 32 £70,576 +1.62% 3
Yorkshire +48 14 £55,000 -31.25% 2
Midlands -32 6 £52,500 -12.50%
East Midlands -30 4 £51,500 -6.36%
Wales +3 3 £55,000 - 3
North East -22 3 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland +20 2 £55,000 - 4
West Midlands -2 2 £55,000 -8.33%
East of England -55 2 £65,000 +13.04% 1

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
1 392 (52.55%) Apache Spark
2 146 (19.57%) Apache
3 45 (6.03%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 441 (59.12%) AWS
2 138 (18.50%) GCP
3 103 (13.81%) Azure
4 73 (9.79%) Amazon SQS
5 67 (8.98%) Amazon EMR
6 63 (8.45%) Serverless
7 60 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
8 54 (7.24%) Amazon EC2
9 50 (6.70%) Amazon ECS
9 50 (6.70%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (4.96%) Amazon Kinesis
11 28 (3.75%) Snowflake
12 26 (3.49%) GitHub
13 23 (3.08%) Amazon S3
13 23 (3.08%) dbt
14 19 (2.55%) Google Docs
14 19 (2.55%) SaaS
15 17 (2.28%) Lucidchart
15 17 (2.28%) Miro
15 17 (2.28%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.28%) DSL
2 5 (0.67%) Network Security
3 4 (0.54%) FTP
4 2 (0.27%) HTTP
4 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 363 (48.66%) Big Data
2 323 (43.30%) NoSQL
3 169 (22.65%) Hadoop
4 79 (10.59%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (8.18%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (7.37%) Data Lake
7 53 (7.10%) Electronic Patient Records
8 39 (5.23%) Apache Hive
9 37 (4.96%) MongoDB
10 35 (4.69%) Relational Database
11 34 (4.56%) DynamoDB
11 34 (4.56%) Redis
12 26 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
13 24 (3.22%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (2.95%) BigQuery
14 22 (2.95%) SQL Server
15 20 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
16 19 (2.55%) Flink
16 19 (2.55%) Impala
17 18 (2.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (6.30%) Git
2 25 (3.35%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.41%) Gatling
4 17 (2.28%) JIRA
5 12 (1.61%) GitLab
6 9 (1.21%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (1.21%) Spinnaker
7 8 (1.07%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.67%) Subversion
9 4 (0.54%) MLflow
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.27%) Gradle
11 2 (0.27%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.27%) JUnit
11 2 (0.27%) Maven
11 2 (0.27%) ScalaTest
12 1 (0.13%) ERwin
12 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 376 (50.40%) Finance
2 349 (46.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 328 (43.97%) Law
4 204 (27.35%) Marketing
5 162 (21.72%) Influencing Skills
6 122 (16.35%) Legal
7 119 (15.95%) Social Skills
8 72 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
9 70 (9.38%) Financial Institution
10 52 (6.97%) Banking
11 32 (4.29%) Investment Banking
12 31 (4.16%) Electronics
13 17 (2.28%) Billing
13 17 (2.28%) Front Office
14 14 (1.88%) Public Sector
15 7 (0.94%) Health Technology
15 7 (0.94%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.54%) Retail
17 3 (0.40%) Games
17 3 (0.40%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 367 (49.20%) Software Engineer
2 248 (33.24%) Scala Engineer
3 237 (31.77%) Scala Software Engineer
4 223 (29.89%) Big Data Engineer
4 223 (29.89%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 190 (25.47%) Lead
6 156 (20.91%) Java Engineer
7 152 (20.38%) Java Software Engineer
8 150 (20.11%) Lead Software Engineer
9 140 (18.77%) Senior
10 139 (18.63%) Java Scala Software Engineer
11 136 (18.23%) Developer
12 123 (16.49%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (16.49%) Lead Java Engineer
13 113 (15.15%) Data Engineer
14 111 (14.88%) AWS Software Engineer
15 106 (14.21%) Lead Big Data Engineer
16 94 (12.60%) Scala Developer
17 80 (10.72%) Senior Software Engineer
18 62 (8.31%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (11.53%) Kafka
2 53 (7.10%) GraphQL
3 48 (6.43%) REST
4 44 (5.90%) http4s
5 37 (4.96%) Web Services
6 29 (3.89%) Lambda Expressions
7 26 (3.49%) Scalaz
7 26 (3.49%) Spring
8 25 (3.35%) JSON
9 22 (2.95%) Akka
9 22 (2.95%) Spring Boot
10 21 (2.82%) React
11 18 (2.41%) Apache Beam
11 18 (2.41%) Pandas
11 18 (2.41%) RESTful
12 17 (2.28%) NumPy
13 14 (1.88%) gRPC
13 14 (1.88%) PySpark
14 13 (1.74%) Protocol Buffers
14 13 (1.74%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 125 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 88 (11.80%) Algorithms
3 47 (6.30%) Public Cloud
4 45 (6.03%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (4.83%) Data Structures
7 32 (4.29%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.49%) Blog
8 26 (3.49%) Media Streaming
9 20 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (2.41%) Blockchain
11 17 (2.28%) Hedge funds
11 17 (2.28%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.74%) Distributed Applications
12 13 (1.74%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.61%) Derivative
13 12 (1.61%) Equities
13 12 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.07%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.47%) Linux
2 10 (1.34%) Windows
3 3 (0.40%) Unix
4 2 (0.27%) VMS
4 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (66.22%) Software Engineering
2 476 (63.81%) Agile
3 371 (49.73%) CI/CD
4 350 (46.92%) SDLC
5 270 (36.19%) Operational Stability
6 227 (30.43%) Performance Tuning
7 193 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (21.05%) Machine Learning
9 127 (17.02%) Risk Management
10 122 (16.35%) Artificial Intelligence
10 122 (16.35%) Mentoring
11 114 (15.28%) Continuous Delivery
12 113 (15.15%) Decision-Making
13 100 (13.40%) Data Pipeline
14 97 (13.00%) Community of Practice
15 91 (12.20%) Analytics
16 84 (11.26%) Coaching
17 80 (10.72%) Data Modelling
18 78 (10.46%) Data Engineering
19 75 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 604 (80.97%) Java
2 398 (53.35%) SQL
3 223 (29.89%) Python
4 89 (11.93%) Kotlin
5 42 (5.63%) Go
6 38 (5.09%) TypeScript
7 26 (3.49%) JavaScript
8 21 (2.82%) Ruby
9 20 (2.68%) Bash
10 19 (2.55%) C#
11 17 (2.28%) PL/SQL
12 16 (2.14%) Clojure
13 14 (1.88%) C
14 12 (1.61%) R
15 11 (1.47%) PowerShell
16 9 (1.21%) C++
16 9 (1.21%) Groovy
17 6 (0.80%) F#
17 6 (0.80%) Haskell
17 6 (0.80%) PHP
Qualifications
1 84 (11.26%) Degree
2 56 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.61%) Master's Degree
4 12 (1.61%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.61%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.07%) Azure Certification
6 6 (0.80%) SANS
7 5 (0.67%) CISA
7 5 (0.67%) CISM
7 5 (0.67%) CISSP
7 5 (0.67%) CRISC
8 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.40%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.13%) OCP
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.83%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.42%) SLA
3 28 (3.75%) QA
4 6 (0.80%) NIST
5 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.54%) MiFID
7 1 (0.13%) GDPR
7 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 36 (4.83%) Docker
2 18 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 75 (10.05%) Terraform
2 74 (9.92%) Kubernetes
3 50 (6.70%) Ansible
4 4 (0.54%) Grafana
5 2 (0.27%) Istio
5 2 (0.27%) Kibana
5 2 (0.27%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 78 (10.46%) Google
2 71 (9.52%) Databricks
3 40 (5.36%) Microsoft
4 37 (4.96%) Oracle
5 18 (2.41%) Alteryx
6 17 (2.28%) Cognos
6 17 (2.28%) Dell
6 17 (2.28%) Sybase
7 14 (1.88%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.47%) Teradata
9 10 (1.34%) Dataiku
9 10 (1.34%) Mercator
10 9 (1.21%) Adobe
11 6 (0.80%) F5
12 4 (0.54%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.54%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.54%) Reuters
13 3 (0.40%) Informatica
13 3 (0.40%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.27%) Apple