Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Scala skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Scala over the 3 months to 12 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

 Scala
Location
3 months to
12 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank275236330
Rank change year-on-year
Down-39Up+94
Matching permanent IT job ads616
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London0.053 %0.012 %0.033 %
As % of the Programming Languages category0.099 %0.022 %0.062 %
Salaries quoted616
Average salary£41,250£37,500£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00 %-25.00 %
UK excluding London average salary£38,750£42,500-
% change year-on-year
-8.820 %-
City of London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
609144809690
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London54.01 %53.96 %52.62 %
Salaries quoted536537397814
Average salary£52,500£50,000£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.000 %-4.760 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£32,500£35,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£75,000£80,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
Scala LondonScala
London

Scala
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Scala across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

City of London Scala Demand Trend

Scala
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Scala across the City of London region.

City of London Scala Salary Trend

Scala
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Scala across the City of London region over the 3 months to 12 March 2010.

City of London Scala Salary Histogram

Scala
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

17 (77.78 %)Java
25 (55.56 %)Agile Software Development
34 (44.44 %)Ruby
43 (33.33 %)TDD
43 (33.33 %)Scrum
43 (33.33 %)JavaScript
43 (33.33 %)JUnit
43 (33.33 %)CSS
43 (33.33 %)OO
43 (33.33 %)XHTML
43 (33.33 %)Ruby on Rails
43 (33.33 %)RSpec
52 (22.22 %)JRuby
52 (22.22 %)C++
52 (22.22 %)SQL
52 (22.22 %)Maven
52 (22.22 %)XMPP
61 (11.11 %)Banking
61 (11.11 %)Retail
61 (11.11 %)Lucene
61 (11.11 %)Spring
61 (11.11 %)Telecoms
61 (11.11 %)Finance
61 (11.11 %)Streaming Video
61 (11.11 %)J2EE
61 (11.11 %)Oracle
61 (11.11 %)Web Services
61 (11.11 %)UNIX
61 (11.11 %)OOP
61 (11.11 %)HTML

Scala
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

City of London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13 (33.33 %)CSS
13 (33.33 %)XHTML
13 (33.33 %)Ruby on Rails
22 (22.22 %)JRuby
22 (22.22 %)XMPP
31 (11.11 %)Lucene
31 (11.11 %)Spring
31 (11.11 %)J2EE
31 (11.11 %)Web Services
31 (11.11 %)HTML
31 (11.11 %)JMS
31 (11.11 %)JGroups
31 (11.11 %)jQuery
City of London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (11.11 %)Tomcat
11 (11.11 %)GlassFish
City of London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (33.33 %)JUnit
13 (33.33 %)RSpec
22 (22.22 %)Maven
31 (11.11 %)Eclipse
31 (11.11 %)IntelliJ
31 (11.11 %)FitNesse
City of London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (11.11 %)Banking
11 (11.11 %)Retail
11 (11.11 %)Telecoms
11 (11.11 %)Finance
11 (11.11 %)Social Media
City of London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
17 (77.78 %)Developer
23 (33.33 %)Tester
23 (33.33 %)Ruby on Rails Developer
32 (22.22 %)Software Tester
32 (22.22 %)Java Developer
41 (11.11 %)Senior Java Developer
41 (11.11 %)Senior Developer
41 (11.11 %)Software Developer
41 (11.11 %)Functional Tester
City of London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (11.11 %)Streaming Video
11 (11.11 %)N-Tier
11 (11.11 %)Open Source
City of London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (11.11 %)UNIX
11 (11.11 %)VMS
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (55.56 %)Agile Software Development
23 (33.33 %)TDD
23 (33.33 %)Scrum
23 (33.33 %)OO
31 (11.11 %)OOP
31 (11.11 %)Integration Testing
31 (11.11 %)Test Scripting
31 (11.11 %)Web Development
City of London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
17 (77.78 %)Java
24 (44.44 %)Ruby
33 (33.33 %)JavaScript
42 (22.22 %)C++
42 (22.22 %)SQL
City of London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (11.11 %)Oracle