Scala Engineer
UK

The median Scala Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 657 889 1077
Rank change year-on-year +232 +188 -263
Permanent jobs requiring a Scala Engineer 240 81 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.077% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.085% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4 74 83
10th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,875 £70,125 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +26.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £140,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £76,000 £200,000 £145,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £74,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -3.87% +40.91%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Scala Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Scala Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +223 229 - -
Scotland +114 228 - -
England +44 10 £70,000 -26.32% 3
London +78 8 £65,000 -42.86% 2
North of England +38 1 - -
North West - 1 - -

Scala Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Scala Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Scala Engineer in the job title.

1 240 (100.00%) Scala
2 239 (99.58%) Software Engineering
3 236 (98.33%) Agile
3 236 (98.33%) Java
4 228 (95.00%) SDLC
4 228 (95.00%) Operational Stability
4 228 (95.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 228 (95.00%) Finance
4 228 (95.00%) Law
5 216 (90.00%) Apache Spark
6 210 (87.50%) NoSQL
6 210 (87.50%) SQL
7 209 (87.08%) Big Data
8 185 (77.08%) CI/CD
9 159 (66.25%) Performance Tuning
10 127 (52.92%) Marketing
11 121 (50.42%) AWS
12 108 (45.00%) Influencing Skills
12 108 (45.00%) Apache
13 101 (42.08%) Risk Management
13 101 (42.08%) Legal
13 101 (42.08%) Hadoop
13 101 (42.08%) Problem-Solving
14 77 (32.08%) Machine Learning
15 76 (31.67%) Cloud Native
15 76 (31.67%) Community of Practice
16 70 (29.17%) Artificial Intelligence
17 57 (23.75%) Technical Leadership
18 52 (21.67%) Algorithms
19 51 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement

Scala Engineer Skill Set
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
1 216 (90.00%) Apache Spark
2 108 (45.00%) Apache
3 7 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 121 (50.42%) AWS
2 51 (21.25%) Amazon EC2
2 51 (21.25%) Amazon ECS
2 51 (21.25%) Amazon EKS
2 51 (21.25%) Amazon EMR
2 51 (21.25%) Amazon SQS
2 51 (21.25%) AWS Lambda
2 51 (21.25%) Serverless
3 8 (3.33%) GCP
4 7 (2.92%) Azure
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (87.50%) NoSQL
2 209 (87.08%) Big Data
3 101 (42.08%) Hadoop
4 51 (21.25%) Electronic Patient Records
5 7 (2.92%) Apache Hive
5 7 (2.92%) Presto
6 3 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.42%) MySQL
7 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
General
1 228 (95.00%) Finance
1 228 (95.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 228 (95.00%) Law
2 127 (52.92%) Marketing
3 108 (45.00%) Influencing Skills
4 101 (42.08%) Legal
5 7 (2.92%) Electronics
6 1 (0.42%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.33%) http4s
2 7 (2.92%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (0.83%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (0.42%) gRPC
4 1 (0.42%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.42%) REST
4 1 (0.42%) Scalaz
4 1 (0.42%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 76 (31.67%) Cloud Native
2 52 (21.67%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.92%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.25%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.42%) Blog
6 1 (0.42%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.42%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (99.58%) Software Engineering
2 236 (98.33%) Agile
3 228 (95.00%) Operational Stability
3 228 (95.00%) SDLC
4 185 (77.08%) CI/CD
5 159 (66.25%) Performance Tuning
6 101 (42.08%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (42.08%) Risk Management
7 77 (32.08%) Machine Learning
8 76 (31.67%) Community of Practice
9 70 (29.17%) Artificial Intelligence
10 57 (23.75%) Technical Leadership
11 51 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (21.25%) Tech Ops
11 51 (21.25%) Visualisation
12 50 (20.83%) Decision-Making
13 19 (7.92%) Architectural Design
13 19 (7.92%) Continuous Delivery
13 19 (7.92%) Information Architecture
14 9 (3.75%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 240 (100.00%) Scala
2 236 (98.33%) Java
3 210 (87.50%) SQL
4 8 (3.33%) Kotlin
4 8 (3.33%) Python
5 1 (0.42%) C#
5 1 (0.42%) Dart
5 1 (0.42%) F#
5 1 (0.42%) R
5 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.92%) QA
System Software
1 7 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (2.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (3.33%) Google
2 7 (2.92%) Databricks
2 7 (2.92%) Microsoft