The first table below looks at the demand for Scala skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Scala over the 3 months to 20 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scala
Rank 67 64 71
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Scala 15 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 1.469% 0.313% 0.509%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.632% 0.514% 0.774%
Number of salaries quoted 14 2 4
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £77,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -61.29%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,750 £30,000 £75,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £30,000 £83,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +23.07%
All Programming Languages
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
570 389 517
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 55.83% 60.97% 65.78%
Number of salaries quoted 505 339 495
Average salary £40,000 £38,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £62,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Scala
Oxfordshire

Scala
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Scala Salary Trend

Scala
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Scala across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Oxford Scala Salary Histogram

Scala
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 26 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) TDD
2 10 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (34.62%) Groovy
3 9 (34.62%) Pair Programming
3 9 (34.62%) SQL
3 9 (34.62%) JUnit
3 9 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (34.62%) BDD
3 9 (34.62%) Unit Testing
4 7 (26.92%) Computer Science
5 5 (19.23%) Spring
5 5 (19.23%) Selenium
5 5 (19.23%) Multithreading
5 5 (19.23%) Degree
5 5 (19.23%) MQSeries
5 5 (19.23%) JMS
5 5 (19.23%) Python
5 5 (19.23%) C++
6 4 (15.38%) C#
6 4 (15.38%) J2EE
6 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
6 4 (15.38%) Open Source
7 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (11.54%) GitHub
7 3 (11.54%) Big Data
7 3 (11.54%) F#
7 3 (11.54%) E-business
7 3 (11.54%) Subversion
7 3 (11.54%) Haskell

Scala
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 5 (19.23%) JMS
1 5 (19.23%) Spring
2 4 (15.38%) J2EE
3 3 (11.54%) Web Services
4 2 (7.692%) XML
4 2 (7.692%) CSS
4 2 (7.692%) Django
5 1 (3.846%) Ext JS
5 1 (3.846%) JPA
5 1 (3.846%) RESTful
5 1 (3.846%) HTML5
5 1 (3.846%) Memcached
5 1 (3.846%) Node.js
5 1 (3.846%) CSS3
5 1 (3.846%) JSP
5 1 (3.846%) SOAP
5 1 (3.846%) XSLT
5 1 (3.846%) J2SE
5 1 (3.846%) JSF
5 1 (3.846%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 5 (19.23%) MQSeries
2 2 (7.692%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (3.846%) Kafka
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) Big Data
3 2 (7.692%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.846%) CouchDB
4 1 (3.846%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.846%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.846%) Redis
4 1 (3.846%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) JUnit
2 5 (19.23%) Selenium
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub
3 3 (11.54%) Subversion
General
1 1 (3.846%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (80.77%) Developer
2 19 (73.08%) Java Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Programmer
3 6 (23.08%) Java Programmer
4 5 (19.23%) Junior
5 4 (15.38%) Scala Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Junior Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Junior Java Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Graduate
6 3 (11.54%) Software Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Graduate Developer
7 2 (7.692%) Graduate Software Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (3.846%) Java Software Developer
8 1 (3.846%) C# Software Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Graduate Java Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (3.846%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (3.846%) .NET Software Developer
8 1 (3.846%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Computer Science
2 4 (15.38%) Open Source
3 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (7.692%) Machine Learning
4 2 (7.692%) Mathematics
4 2 (7.692%) Physics
5 1 (3.846%) Semantic Web
5 1 (3.846%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.846%) UNIX
1 1 (3.846%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) TDD
1 10 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (34.62%) Pair Programming
2 9 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (34.62%) Unit Testing
2 9 (34.62%) BDD
3 5 (19.23%) Multithreading
4 3 (11.54%) E-business
4 3 (11.54%) OO
5 2 (7.692%) Software Engineering
6 1 (3.846%) SOA
6 1 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
2 9 (34.62%) Groovy
3 5 (19.23%) C++
3 5 (19.23%) Python
4 4 (15.38%) C#
5 3 (11.54%) Haskell
5 3 (11.54%) F#
6 2 (7.692%) Objective-C
6 2 (7.692%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.846%) Perl
7 1 (3.846%) PHP
7 1 (3.846%) C
7 1 (3.846%) XQuery
7 1 (3.846%) Ruby
7 1 (3.846%) Clojure
7 1 (3.846%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 1 (3.846%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (3.846%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (3.846%) Puppet
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