Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

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 9 February 2010 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.

LinkScala
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank621725951
Rank change year-on-year
Up+104Up+226
Matching permanent IT job ads45122
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.057 %0.012 %0.001 %
As % of the Programming Languages category0.117 %0.026 %0.002 %
Salaries quoted39121
Average salary£37,000£47,500£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.10 %+5.550 %
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£47,500-
% change year-on-year
-21.05 %-
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
384264700891356
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK48.80 %46.51 %45.21 %
Salaries quoted331384065375843
Average salary£38,500£36,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.470 %-2.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.850 %-

Scala
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 9 February 2010 within the UK.

Scala Salary Histogram

Scala
Top 5 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 9 February 2010. 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+10645£37,000-22.10 %
LondonUp+4543£36,500-32.09 %
City of LondonUp+17£37,500-
South EastUp+472£37,500-21.05 %
OxfordshireNew entry-2£37,500-

Scala
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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.

161 (89.71 %)Java
232 (47.06 %)Agile Software Development
326 (38.24 %)JavaScript
326 (38.24 %)Linux
425 (36.76 %)Degree
522 (32.35 %)Erlang
621 (30.88 %)Ruby
719 (27.94 %)SQL
817 (25.00 %)Oracle
817 (25.00 %)F#
916 (23.53 %)Computer Science
916 (23.53 %)Ruby on Rails
916 (23.53 %)SQL Server
916 (23.53 %)CSS
1015 (22.06 %)C#
1015 (22.06 %)XHTML
1015 (22.06 %)Finance
1015 (22.06 %)Spring
1015 (22.06 %)TDD
1114 (20.59 %)Scrum
1114 (20.59 %)Windows
1114 (20.59 %)JUnit
1213 (19.12 %)Risk Management
1312 (17.65 %)J2EE
1312 (17.65 %)Maven
1312 (17.65 %)RSpec
1411 (16.18 %)JRuby
1411 (16.18 %)Python
159 (13.24 %)OO
159 (13.24 %)XML

Scala
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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
116 (23.53 %)Ruby on Rails
116 (23.53 %)CSS
215 (22.06 %)XHTML
215 (22.06 %)Spring
312 (17.65 %)J2EE
411 (16.18 %)JRuby
59 (13.24 %)XML
67 (10.29 %)XMPP
67 (10.29 %)XSLT
76 (8.824 %)Struts
76 (8.824 %)Web Services
76 (8.824 %)Hibernate
85 (7.353 %)Middleware
94 (5.882 %)AJAX
94 (5.882 %).NET
103 (4.412 %)Struts2
103 (4.412 %)XML-RPC
103 (4.412 %)JMX
103 (4.412 %)JSP
103 (4.412 %)SOAP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
17 (10.29 %)Apache
25 (7.353 %)Tomcat
33 (4.412 %)Jetty
41 (1.471 %)GlassFish
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (5.882 %)HTTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
116 (23.53 %)SQL Server
27 (10.29 %)MySQL
34 (5.882 %)PostgreSQL
43 (4.412 %)SimpleDB
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
114 (20.59 %)JUnit
212 (17.65 %)Maven
212 (17.65 %)RSpec
38 (11.76 %)Eclipse
38 (11.76 %)Mercurial
44 (5.882 %)FitNesse
44 (5.882 %)Team Foundation Server
44 (5.882 %)Subversion
44 (5.882 %)NUnit
53 (4.412 %)Log4j
53 (4.412 %)InstallShield
53 (4.412 %)VSS/SourceSafe
53 (4.412 %)Git (software)
62 (2.941 %)Selenium
62 (2.941 %)Ant
71 (1.471 %)IntelliJ
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
115 (22.06 %)Finance
27 (10.29 %)Publishing
34 (5.882 %)Education
43 (4.412 %)Games
51 (1.471 %)Government
51 (1.471 %)Home Office
51 (1.471 %)Telecoms
51 (1.471 %)Banking
51 (1.471 %)Retail
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
143 (63.24 %)Developer
221 (30.88 %)Java Developer
315 (22.06 %)Ruby on Rails Developer
413 (19.12 %)Graduate
59 (13.24 %)Tester
68 (11.76 %)Senior Developer
74 (5.882 %)Ruby Developer
74 (5.882 %)Senior Java Developer
74 (5.882 %)Build Engineer
83 (4.412 %)Software Tester
92 (2.941 %)Functional Tester
92 (2.941 %)Software Developer
101 (1.471 %)Lead Developer
101 (1.471 %)Software Engineer
101 (1.471 %)C# Developer
101 (1.471 %)Java Software Engineer
101 (1.471 %)Team Leader
101 (1.471 %)Development Team Leader
101 (1.471 %)Senior Software Developer
101 (1.471 %)Java Team Leader
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
116 (23.53 %)Computer Science
24 (5.882 %)Mathematics
24 (5.882 %)Social Network
24 (5.882 %)Cloud Computing
32 (2.941 %)Grid Computing
32 (2.941 %)Open Source
41 (1.471 %)Streaming Video
41 (1.471 %)Amazon AWS
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
126 (38.24 %)Linux
214 (20.59 %)Windows
34 (5.882 %)Android
43 (4.412 %)UNIX
52 (2.941 %)VMS
61 (1.471 %)Windows Server 2003
61 (1.471 %)Red Hat Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
132 (47.06 %)Agile Software Development
215 (22.06 %)TDD
314 (20.59 %)Scrum
413 (19.12 %)Risk Management
59 (13.24 %)OO
65 (7.353 %)SOA
74 (5.882 %)Integration Testing
74 (5.882 %)Continuous Integration
82 (2.941 %)Performance Testing
82 (2.941 %)Unit Testing
82 (2.941 %)Software Engineering
82 (2.941 %)Web Design
91 (1.471 %)Extreme Programming
91 (1.471 %)Migration
91 (1.471 %)Business Intelligence
91 (1.471 %)Project Management
91 (1.471 %)OOP
91 (1.471 %)Pair Programming
91 (1.471 %)Automated Testing
91 (1.471 %)Test Scripting
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
161 (89.71 %)Java
226 (38.24 %)JavaScript
322 (32.35 %)Erlang
421 (30.88 %)Ruby
519 (27.94 %)SQL
617 (25.00 %)F#
715 (22.06 %)C#
811 (16.18 %)Python
95 (7.353 %)XQuery
95 (7.353 %)Perl
95 (7.353 %)Haskell
104 (5.882 %)Groovy
104 (5.882 %)VB6
104 (5.882 %)XPath
104 (5.882 %)VB
104 (5.882 %)Lisp
104 (5.882 %)Smalltalk
113 (4.412 %)C++
113 (4.412 %)Jython
121 (1.471 %)PHP
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
125 (36.76 %)Degree
22 (2.941 %)ISEB
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (4.412 %)Xen
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
117 (25.00 %)Oracle
25 (7.353 %)Google
32 (2.941 %)JBoss
41 (1.471 %)Red Hat