Scala
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Scala skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Scala over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 288 237
Rank change year-on-year -82 -51 +30
Permanent jobs citing Scala 708 1,299 2,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 1.24% 1.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.14% 2.85% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 283 521 1,130
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,180 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £102,188
90th Percentile £118,000 £118,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
UK

Scala is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala 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 +52 462 £55,000 -24.14% 33
Scotland +107 349 £61,250 -13.70% 6
England -242 335 £80,000 - 99
London -150 203 £80,000 -8.57% 72
Work from Home -109 198 £80,000 +10.34% 101
North of England -52 34 £55,000 -33.33% 10
South East -5 33 £55,000 -8.33% 4
South West -17 32 £80,000 +15.20% 3
North West -36 24 £55,000 -33.33% 7
Yorkshire +48 6 £55,000 -31.25% 2
Midlands -24 6 £52,500 -12.50% 3
North East -17 4 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands -29 4 £51,500 -6.36%
Wales +13 3 £55,000 - 4
East of England -37 3 £65,000 +13.04% 1
Northern Ireland +32 2 £55,000 - 2
West Midlands +9 2 £55,000 -8.33% 3

Scala
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
1 401 (56.64%) Apache Spark
2 150 (21.19%) Apache
3 46 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 411 (58.05%) AWS
2 127 (17.94%) GCP
3 91 (12.85%) Azure
4 80 (11.30%) Amazon SQS
5 68 (9.60%) Amazon EMR
6 65 (9.18%) Serverless
7 63 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (7.77%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (7.20%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (4.38%) Amazon S3
11 29 (4.10%) Snowflake
12 26 (3.67%) dbt
12 26 (3.67%) SaaS
13 25 (3.53%) Google Docs
14 23 (3.25%) Lucidchart
14 23 (3.25%) Miro
14 23 (3.25%) Slack
15 17 (2.40%) GitHub
16 15 (2.12%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.54%) DSL
2 4 (0.56%) Network Security
3 3 (0.42%) FTP
4 2 (0.28%) HTTP
4 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (53.67%) Big Data
2 305 (43.08%) NoSQL
3 185 (26.13%) Hadoop
4 63 (8.90%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
6 55 (7.77%) Data Lake
7 52 (7.34%) Electronic Patient Records
8 42 (5.93%) Apache Hive
9 41 (5.79%) Relational Database
10 37 (5.23%) MongoDB
11 28 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
13 23 (3.25%) Redis
13 23 (3.25%) Scylla
13 23 (3.25%) SQL Server
14 22 (3.11%) Flink
14 22 (3.11%) RDBMS
15 20 (2.82%) BigQuery
15 20 (2.82%) Impala
15 20 (2.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (6.07%) Git
2 22 (3.11%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.54%) JIRA
4 9 (1.27%) CircleCI
4 9 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (0.99%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.56%) GitLab
6 4 (0.56%) JUnit
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.42%) MLflow
8 2 (0.28%) Gatling
8 2 (0.28%) Gradle
8 2 (0.28%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.28%) Maven
8 2 (0.28%) Subversion
9 1 (0.14%) Ant
9 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.14%) ERwin
9 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 389 (54.94%) Finance
2 362 (51.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 333 (47.03%) Law
4 208 (29.38%) Marketing
5 165 (23.31%) Influencing Skills
6 123 (17.37%) Legal
7 104 (14.69%) Social Skills
8 82 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (10.17%) Financial Institution
10 59 (8.33%) Banking
11 35 (4.94%) Investment Banking
12 18 (2.54%) Front Office
13 13 (1.84%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.41%) Electronics
15 8 (1.13%) Retail Banking
16 7 (0.99%) Health Technology
17 5 (0.71%) Retail
18 3 (0.42%) Games
19 2 (0.28%) Advertising
19 2 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 341 (48.16%) Software Engineer
2 240 (33.90%) Scala Engineer
3 236 (33.33%) Scala Software Engineer
4 228 (32.20%) Big Data Engineer
4 228 (32.20%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 174 (24.58%) Lead
6 153 (21.61%) Java Engineer
7 152 (21.47%) Java Software Engineer
8 141 (19.92%) Lead Software Engineer
9 139 (19.63%) Java Scala Software Engineer
10 132 (18.64%) Developer
11 129 (18.22%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (17.37%) Lead Java Engineer
13 121 (17.09%) Data Engineer
14 117 (16.53%) AWS Software Engineer
15 113 (15.96%) Senior
16 108 (15.25%) Lead Big Data Engineer
17 85 (12.01%) Scala Developer
18 67 (9.46%) Senior Software Engineer
19 56 (7.91%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (12.57%) Kafka
2 28 (3.95%) JSON
3 27 (3.81%) Akka
3 27 (3.81%) GraphQL
4 22 (3.11%) Apache Beam
4 22 (3.11%) Spring
5 19 (2.68%) Pandas
6 18 (2.54%) NumPy
6 18 (2.54%) Spring Boot
7 16 (2.26%) gRPC
7 16 (2.26%) PySpark
7 16 (2.26%) RESTful
8 15 (2.12%) Protocol Buffers
8 15 (2.12%) SciPy
9 14 (1.98%) React
9 14 (1.98%) REST
10 12 (1.69%) http4s
10 12 (1.69%) Node.js
11 11 (1.55%) Play Framework
12 10 (1.41%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 127 (17.94%) Cloud Native
2 96 (13.56%) Algorithms
3 46 (6.50%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.93%) Data Structures
5 34 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (4.24%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.40%) Hedge funds
9 14 (1.98%) Distributed Applications
9 14 (1.98%) Fixed Income
10 12 (1.69%) Derivative
10 12 (1.69%) Equities
10 12 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.55%) Blockchain
12 9 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.13%) Digital Signage
14 7 (0.99%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.69%) Linux
2 10 (1.41%) Windows
3 2 (0.28%) Unix
3 2 (0.28%) VMS
3 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (66.81%) Software Engineering
2 447 (63.14%) Agile
3 366 (51.69%) CI/CD
4 358 (50.56%) SDLC
5 276 (38.98%) Operational Stability
6 234 (33.05%) Performance Tuning
7 203 (28.67%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (22.03%) Machine Learning
9 128 (18.08%) Risk Management
10 124 (17.51%) Artificial Intelligence
11 117 (16.53%) Continuous Delivery
12 113 (15.96%) Decision-Making
13 110 (15.54%) Mentoring
14 99 (13.98%) Community of Practice
15 94 (13.28%) Data Pipeline
16 85 (12.01%) Data Modelling
17 84 (11.86%) Analytics
18 83 (11.72%) Data Engineering
19 76 (10.73%) Coaching
19 76 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 586 (82.77%) Java
2 412 (58.19%) SQL
3 233 (32.91%) Python
4 68 (9.60%) Kotlin
5 52 (7.34%) Go
6 29 (4.10%) JavaScript
6 29 (4.10%) TypeScript
7 28 (3.95%) Bash
8 23 (3.25%) Ruby
9 21 (2.97%) C#
10 18 (2.54%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.84%) Clojure
12 12 (1.69%) C
12 12 (1.69%) F#
12 12 (1.69%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.69%) R
13 11 (1.55%) C++
13 11 (1.55%) Haskell
14 10 (1.41%) Groovy
15 8 (1.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 61 (8.62%) Degree
2 35 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.69%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.69%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.41%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.56%) CISA
7 4 (0.56%) CISM
7 4 (0.56%) CISSP
7 4 (0.56%) CRISC
7 4 (0.56%) SANS
8 3 (0.42%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.14%) OCP
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.94%) Data Quality
1 35 (4.94%) SLA
2 21 (2.97%) QA
3 5 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.56%) NIST
5 3 (0.42%) MiFID
6 1 (0.14%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) GMP
6 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 28 (3.95%) Docker
2 11 (1.55%) HDFS
3 9 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 78 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 62 (8.76%) Terraform
3 47 (6.64%) Ansible
4 3 (0.42%) Istio
5 2 (0.28%) Grafana
5 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
6 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 76 (10.73%) Google
2 72 (10.17%) Databricks
3 39 (5.51%) Oracle
4 28 (3.95%) Microsoft
5 24 (3.39%) Dell
6 18 (2.54%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.54%) Cognos
6 18 (2.54%) Sybase
7 13 (1.84%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.55%) Teradata
9 10 (1.41%) Dataiku
10 9 (1.27%) Adobe
10 9 (1.27%) Mercator
11 6 (0.85%) F5
12 4 (0.56%) Informatica
13 3 (0.42%) Apple
13 3 (0.42%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.42%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.42%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.42%) Reuters