The first table below looks at the demand for Scala skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Scala over the 3 months to 24 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scala
Rank 234 240 231
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -9
Permanent jobs citing Scala 9 7 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.125% 0.099% 0.044%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.209% 0.161% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 3
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +45.45%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +23.07%
All Programming Languages
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
4315 4340 3552
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 60.06% 61.14% 51.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3788 3911 3227
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Scala
England

Scala
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Scala Salary Trend

Scala
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester -12 9 £37,500 +36.36%
Scala
England

Scala
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 25 (89.29%) Java
2 22 (78.57%) GitHub
3 21 (75.00%) Haskell
4 11 (39.29%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (39.29%) J2EE
5 10 (35.71%) E-business
6 6 (21.43%) Ruby
7 5 (17.86%) TDD
8 4 (14.29%) Linux
9 3 (10.71%) OO
9 3 (10.71%) Web Services
9 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
9 3 (10.71%) Retail
9 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (10.71%) E-Commerce
9 3 (10.71%) Mac OS X
9 3 (10.71%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
9 3 (10.71%) jQuery
9 3 (10.71%) User Stories
9 3 (10.71%) Sass
10 2 (7.143%) BDD
10 2 (7.143%) Digital Media
10 2 (7.143%) Semantic Web
10 2 (7.143%) Interactive TV
10 2 (7.143%) Automated Testing
10 2 (7.143%) Java EE
10 2 (7.143%) MVC
10 2 (7.143%) BBC

Scala
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 11 (39.29%) J2EE
2 3 (10.71%) Web Services
2 3 (10.71%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (10.71%) jQuery
2 3 (10.71%) Sass
3 2 (7.143%) Java EE
3 2 (7.143%) Hibernate
3 2 (7.143%) Spring
3 2 (7.143%) .NET
4 1 (3.571%) HTML
4 1 (3.571%) XML
4 1 (3.571%) CSS
4 1 (3.571%) Struts
4 1 (3.571%) LAMP
4 1 (3.571%) iBATIS
4 1 (3.571%) Spring Security
4 1 (3.571%) HTML5
4 1 (3.571%) JPA
4 1 (3.571%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.571%) Apache
1 1 (3.571%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.571%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (78.57%) GitHub
2 1 (3.571%) Maven
2 1 (3.571%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (10.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (92.86%) Developer
2 11 (39.29%) Scala Developer
2 11 (39.29%) Java Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Ruby Developer
4 1 (3.571%) Senior Web Developer
4 1 (3.571%) Web Developer
4 1 (3.571%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.143%) Digital Media
2 2 (7.143%) Semantic Web
2 2 (7.143%) Interactive TV
2 2 (7.143%) BBC
3 1 (3.571%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Mac OS X
3 2 (7.143%) Windows
4 1 (3.571%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) E-business
2 5 (17.86%) TDD
3 3 (10.71%) OO
3 3 (10.71%) E-Commerce
3 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
3 3 (10.71%) User Stories
4 2 (7.143%) BDD
4 2 (7.143%) Automated Testing
4 2 (7.143%) MVC
4 2 (7.143%) Content Management
5 1 (3.571%) Web Development
5 1 (3.571%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (89.29%) Java
2 21 (75.00%) Haskell
3 6 (21.43%) Ruby
4 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.143%) PHP
5 2 (7.143%) SQL
6 1 (3.571%) Python
6 1 (3.571%) Perl
6 1 (3.571%) Bash shell
6 1 (3.571%) Groovy