The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Scala skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Scala over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 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.

Scala
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank501626710
Rank change year-on-year
Up+125Up+84
Matching permanent IT job ads42224542
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.350 %0.200 %0.044 %
As % of the Programming Languages category0.652 %0.381 %0.086 %
Number of salaries quoted38022340
Average salary£55,000£57,500£60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34 %-4.16 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£40,000£40,000£40,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£85,000£80,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£32,500£55,000
% change year-on-year
+23.07 %-40.90 %
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
646836438048632
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK53.64 %52.50 %50.94 %
Number of salaries quoted569875583141348
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£70,700£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Scala
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Scala within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Scala Demand Trend

Scala
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Scala within the UK.

Scala Salary Trend

Scala
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Scala over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Scala Salary Histogram

Scala
Top 26 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+132422£55,000-8.33 %
LondonUp+85359£55,000-8.33 %
City of LondonDown-183£62,500-10.71 %
LeedsNew entry-31£40,000-
YorkshireNew entry-31£40,000-
West YorkshireNew entry-31£40,000-
South EastDown-3411£45,000-41.93 %
East of EnglandUp+87£47,500+35.71 %
North WestDown-77£40,000+45.45 %
West MidlandsNew entry-7£42,500-
BirminghamNew entry-7£42,500-
CambridgeUp+35£45,000+28.57 %
CambridgeshireDown-45£45,000+28.57 %
CheshireDown-105£40,000+45.45 %
SurreyNew entry-5£45,000-
BerkshireDown-274£27,500-
GuildfordNew entry-4£47,500-
Canary WharfNew entry-3£60,000-
OxfordUp+132£30,000-61.29 %
OxfordshireDown-12£30,000-61.29 %
Hemel HempsteadNew entry-2£50,000-
ManchesterNew entry-2£27,500-
HertfordshireNew entry-2£50,000-
Docklands, LondonUp+261£100,000+26.98 %
HammersmithNew entry-1--
SloughNew entry-1£27,500-

Scala
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1835 (92.47 %)Java
2385 (42.64 %)Ruby
3325 (35.99 %)Spring
4311 (34.44 %)C#
5306 (33.89 %)Python
6285 (31.56 %)TDD
7259 (28.68 %)Hibernate
8232 (25.69 %)Agile Software Development
9223 (24.70 %)J2EE
9223 (24.70 %)Open Source
10198 (21.93 %)Erlang
11195 (21.59 %)OO
12183 (20.27 %)F#
13180 (19.93 %)Scrum
14174 (19.27 %)Haskell
15172 (19.05 %)JavaScript
16169 (18.72 %)UNIX
17165 (18.27 %)Finance
18162 (17.94 %)Linux
19161 (17.83 %)Degree
20159 (17.61 %)Clojure
21158 (17.50 %)Perl
22157 (17.39 %)Hadoop
23147 (16.28 %)C++
24146 (16.17 %)Multithreading
25142 (15.73 %)Groovy
26128 (14.17 %)NoSQL
27121 (13.40 %).NET
28117 (12.96 %)Lisp
29114 (12.62 %)SQL

Scala
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1325 (35.99 %)Spring
2259 (28.68 %)Hibernate
3223 (24.70 %)J2EE
4121 (13.40 %).NET
5113 (12.51 %)XML
6111 (12.29 %)HTML
7107 (11.85 %)CSS
891 (10.08 %)Java EE
983 (9.192 %)Grails
1079 (8.749 %)J2SE
1171 (7.863 %)Web Services
1266 (7.309 %)JPA
1365 (7.198 %)jQuery
1463 (6.977 %)Ajax
1556 (6.202 %)Spring MVC
1556 (6.202 %)Struts
1651 (5.648 %)SOAP
1651 (5.648 %)JMS
1749 (5.426 %)Ruby on Rails
1842 (4.651 %)EJB
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
176 (8.416 %)Tomcat
266 (7.309 %)RabbitMQ
333 (3.654 %)CMS
333 (3.654 %)Apache
432 (3.544 %)ActiveMQ
525 (2.769 %)Oracle Coherence
622 (2.436 %)Jetty
718 (1.993 %)GemFire
718 (1.993 %)Adobe CQ
817 (1.883 %)Apache Solr
914 (1.550 %)GlassFish
109 (0.997 %)Alfresco
109 (0.997 %)Amazon EC2
117 (0.775 %)TIBCO EMS
126 (0.664 %)ESB
126 (0.664 %)CloudFront
135 (0.554 %)ColdFusion
144 (0.443 %)Mule
152 (0.221 %)Drupal
161 (0.111 %)nginx
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
110 (1.107 %)MS Visio
28 (0.886 %)MATLAB
37 (0.775 %)MS Excel
43 (0.332 %)SPSS
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
135 (3.876 %)Internet
225 (2.769 %)HTTP
36 (0.664 %)AMQP
43 (0.332 %)Broadband
52 (0.221 %)VoIP
52 (0.221 %)TCP/IP
61 (0.111 %)Intranet
61 (0.111 %)LDAP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1157 (17.39 %)Hadoop
2128 (14.17 %)NoSQL
390 (9.967 %)MongoDB
473 (8.084 %)RDBMS
568 (7.530 %)MySQL
648 (5.316 %)Apache Cassandra
742 (4.651 %)SQL Server
831 (3.433 %)HBase
924 (2.658 %)Data Warehouse
1022 (2.436 %)Redis
1119 (2.104 %)SQL Server 2008
1119 (2.104 %)JasperReports
1119 (2.104 %)SQL Server 2005
1218 (1.993 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1218 (1.993 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1218 (1.993 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1317 (1.883 %)KDB
1416 (1.772 %)CouchDB
1514 (1.550 %)PostgreSQL
1514 (1.550 %)Data Mining
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
178 (8.638 %)Subversion
270 (7.752 %)Git (software)
368 (7.530 %)Maven
462 (6.866 %)Cucumber
552 (5.759 %)JUnit
640 (4.430 %)Selenium
729 (3.212 %)TeamCity
823 (2.547 %)Eclipse
922 (2.436 %)Ant
1021 (2.326 %)FitNesse
1119 (2.104 %)Hudson
1119 (2.104 %)Apache Continuum
1216 (1.772 %)RSpec
1314 (1.550 %)JBehave
1413 (1.440 %)JIRA
159 (0.997 %)Spring Roo
166 (0.664 %)WATIR
175 (0.554 %)Log4j
175 (0.554 %)JMeter
175 (0.554 %)IntelliJ
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1165 (18.27 %)Finance
2108 (11.96 %)Banking
3101 (11.18 %)Games
473 (8.084 %)Front Office
532 (3.544 %)Investment Banking
623 (2.547 %)Financial Institution
720 (2.215 %)Telecoms
815 (1.661 %)Publishing
914 (1.550 %)Back Office
914 (1.550 %)Marketing
1013 (1.440 %)Multimedia
119 (0.997 %)Mandarin Language
119 (0.997 %)Aerospace
126 (0.664 %)Retail
134 (0.443 %)Online Betting
142 (0.221 %)Electronics
151 (0.111 %)Law
151 (0.111 %)Music
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1630 (69.77 %)Developer
2389 (43.08 %)Java Developer
3107 (11.85 %)Software Engineer
494 (10.41 %)Senior Developer
577 (8.527 %)C# Developer
650 (5.537 %)Software Developer
747 (5.205 %)Architect
845 (4.983 %)Senior Java Developer
930 (3.322 %)Web Developer
1027 (2.990 %)Java Software Engineer
1126 (2.879 %)Test Engineer
1225 (2.769 %)Ruby Developer
1323 (2.547 %)Python Developer
1421 (2.326 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1520 (2.215 %)Lead Developer
1619 (2.104 %)Agile Java Developer
1718 (1.993 %)PHP Developer
1718 (1.993 %)J2EE Software Engineer
1815 (1.661 %)Lead Java Developer
1815 (1.661 %)Senior Software Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1223 (24.70 %)Open Source
2110 (12.18 %)Computer Science
351 (5.648 %)Hedge funds
446 (5.094 %)Web 2.0
541 (4.540 %)Big Data
640 (4.430 %)Grid Computing
737 (4.097 %)Derivative
835 (3.876 %)Cloud Computing
929 (3.212 %)Mathematics
1028 (3.101 %)Spread Betting
1126 (2.879 %)Social Media
1224 (2.658 %)Online Games
1320 (2.215 %)BBC
1419 (2.104 %)Equities
1419 (2.104 %)iPhone
1518 (1.993 %)Equity Derivative
1617 (1.883 %)Graphic Design
1716 (1.772 %)Social Network
1716 (1.772 %)Credit Derivative
1716 (1.772 %)Streaming Video
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1169 (18.72 %)UNIX
2162 (17.94 %)Linux
392 (10.19 %)Windows
442 (4.651 %)Android
524 (2.658 %)Mac OS X
620 (2.215 %)Apple iOS
78 (0.886 %)Mac OS
87 (0.775 %)Ubuntu
94 (0.443 %)CentOS
103 (0.332 %)AIX
112 (0.221 %)Windows Mobile
121 (0.111 %)Symbian OS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1285 (31.56 %)TDD
2232 (25.69 %)Agile Software Development
3195 (21.59 %)OO
4180 (19.93 %)Scrum
5146 (16.17 %)Multithreading
695 (10.52 %)BDD
788 (9.745 %)Continuous Integration
871 (7.863 %)MVC
969 (7.641 %)UML
1066 (7.309 %)E-Commerce
1160 (6.645 %)Software Engineering
1258 (6.423 %)SOA
1357 (6.312 %)Algorithmic Trading
1450 (5.537 %)Kanban
1450 (5.537 %)OOA/OOD
1542 (4.651 %)Domain-Driven Design
1542 (4.651 %)Unit Testing
1639 (4.319 %)Pair Programming
1727 (2.990 %)B2B
1826 (2.879 %)Game Development
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1835 (92.47 %)Java
2385 (42.64 %)Ruby
3311 (34.44 %)C#
4306 (33.89 %)Python
5198 (21.93 %)Erlang
6183 (20.27 %)F#
7174 (19.27 %)Haskell
8172 (19.05 %)JavaScript
9159 (17.61 %)Clojure
10158 (17.50 %)Perl
11147 (16.28 %)C++
12142 (15.73 %)Groovy
13117 (12.96 %)Lisp
14114 (12.62 %)SQL
15106 (11.74 %)Bash shell
1670 (7.752 %)PHP
1748 (5.316 %)OCaml
1844 (4.873 %)C
1921 (2.326 %)Shell Script
2010 (1.107 %)XQuery
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1161 (17.83 %)Degree
214 (1.550 %)PhD
38 (0.886 %)ISEB
46 (0.664 %)Sun Certification
53 (0.332 %)Postgraduate
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
154 (5.980 %)QA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
17 (0.775 %)Xen
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
173 (8.084 %)Google
267 (7.420 %)JBoss
365 (7.198 %)Oracle
441 (4.540 %)Microsoft
527 (2.990 %)TIBCO
620 (2.215 %)FatWire
620 (2.215 %)Endeca
620 (2.215 %)hybris
620 (2.215 %)Facebook
719 (2.104 %)Twitter
818 (1.993 %)DataSynapse
818 (1.993 %)Sybase
913 (1.440 %)GigaSpaces
1012 (1.329 %)Zend
1110 (1.107 %)Red Hat
128 (0.886 %)BT
137 (0.775 %)Apple
146 (0.664 %)Adobe
146 (0.664 %)ION Trading
155 (0.554 %)Sun