The first table below looks at the demand for Scala skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Scala over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scala
Rank 105 85 -
Rank change year-on-year
-20 -
Permanent jobs citing Scala 11 7 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.656% 0.482% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.469% 1.069% -
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 0
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +23.07%
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
749 655 531
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 44.69% 45.08% 39.92%
Number of salaries quoted 651 610 483
Average salary £37,500 £35,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.63% +18.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,150 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Scala
West Midlands

Scala
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Scala across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Birmingham Scala Jobs Demand Trend

Scala
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Scala across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Scala Salary Trend

Scala
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Scala also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Scala.

1 14 (93.33%) Java
2 13 (86.67%) Oracle
2 13 (86.67%) Eclipse
2 13 (86.67%) Hibernate
2 13 (86.67%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (86.67%) Subversion
2 13 (86.67%) Spring
2 13 (86.67%) Maven
3 12 (80.00%) MongoDB
4 11 (73.33%) Ruby
5 10 (66.67%) Java EE
5 10 (66.67%) Degree
5 10 (66.67%) Computer Science
5 10 (66.67%) NoSQL
5 10 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (66.67%) Alfresco
5 10 (66.67%) Jackrabbit
5 10 (66.67%) Erlang
5 10 (66.67%) MySQL
5 10 (66.67%) CouchDB
5 10 (66.67%) Social Media
5 10 (66.67%) Clojure
6 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 5 (33.33%) TDD
7 4 (26.67%) MVC
8 3 (20.00%) JMX
8 3 (20.00%) OO
8 3 (20.00%) JBoss
8 3 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (20.00%) Tomcat

Scala
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Scala also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Scala. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (86.67%) Hibernate
1 13 (86.67%) Spring
2 10 (66.67%) Java EE
3 3 (20.00%) Spring MVC
3 3 (20.00%) Ajax
3 3 (20.00%) J2EE
3 3 (20.00%) SOAP
3 3 (20.00%) JMS
3 3 (20.00%) JMX
4 1 (6.667%) CSS
4 1 (6.667%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (6.667%) jQuery
4 1 (6.667%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (66.67%) Alfresco
2 3 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (6.667%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) MongoDB
2 10 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 10 (66.67%) Jackrabbit
2 10 (66.67%) MySQL
2 10 (66.67%) CouchDB
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (20.00%) JasperReports
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (6.667%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Eclipse
1 13 (86.67%) Subversion
1 13 (86.67%) Maven
2 3 (20.00%) Selenium
2 3 (20.00%) FitNesse
2 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
2 3 (20.00%) Apache Continuum
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 13 (86.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 10 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
1 10 (66.67%) Social Media
2 1 (6.667%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Android
1 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (33.33%) TDD
2 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (26.67%) MVC
4 3 (20.00%) OO
4 3 (20.00%) Multithreading
5 1 (6.667%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Java
2 11 (73.33%) Ruby
3 10 (66.67%) Erlang
3 10 (66.67%) Clojure
4 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.667%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) JBoss