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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 290 233
Rank change year-on-year -88 -57 +28
Permanent jobs citing Scala 712 1,237 2,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 1.22% 1.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.16% 2.81% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 285 501 1,094
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £101,250
90th Percentile £111,000 £116,250 £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 33,037 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,871 28,012 43,733
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 £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +52 465 £55,000 -24.14% 42
Scotland +110 349 £61,250 -13.70% 10
England -239 335 £80,000 - 101
London -137 203 £80,000 -7.25% 73
Work from Home -119 195 £80,000 +10.34% 94
South East -9 35 £55,000 -16.03% 5
South West -47 35 £80,000 +15.20% 4
North of England -54 32 £55,000 -32.31% 11
North West -28 22 £57,500 -30.30% 9
Yorkshire +40 7 £55,000 -31.25% 2
Midlands -29 6 £52,500 -12.50% 1
East Midlands -30 4 £51,500 -6.36%
Wales +12 3 £55,000 - 3
North East -19 3 £55,000 -
East of England -34 3 £65,000 +13.04% 1
Northern Ireland +31 2 £55,000 - 7
West Midlands +1 2 £55,000 -8.33% 1

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
1 403 (56.60%) Apache Spark
2 147 (20.65%) Apache
3 44 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.40%) 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
1 413 (58.01%) AWS
2 125 (17.56%) GCP
3 94 (13.20%) Azure
4 80 (11.24%) Amazon SQS
5 68 (9.55%) Amazon EMR
6 66 (9.27%) Serverless
7 63 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (7.72%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (7.16%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (7.16%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (4.35%) Amazon S3
11 28 (3.93%) Snowflake
12 26 (3.65%) SaaS
13 25 (3.51%) Google Docs
14 24 (3.37%) dbt
15 23 (3.23%) Lucidchart
15 23 (3.23%) Miro
15 23 (3.23%) Slack
16 18 (2.53%) GitHub
17 15 (2.11%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.53%) DSL
2 5 (0.70%) Network Security
3 3 (0.42%) FTP
4 2 (0.28%) HTTP
4 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 379 (53.23%) Big Data
2 306 (42.98%) NoSQL
3 184 (25.84%) Hadoop
4 63 (8.85%) Data Warehouse
5 56 (7.87%) Data Lake
5 56 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
6 52 (7.30%) Electronic Patient Records
7 42 (5.90%) Apache Hive
8 39 (5.48%) Relational Database
9 37 (5.20%) MongoDB
10 28 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (3.23%) Redis
11 23 (3.23%) Scylla
12 22 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
12 22 (3.09%) Flink
13 21 (2.95%) SQL Server
14 20 (2.81%) BigQuery
14 20 (2.81%) Impala
14 20 (2.81%) RDBMS
15 19 (2.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (6.32%) Git
2 22 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.53%) JIRA
4 9 (1.26%) CircleCI
4 9 (1.26%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (0.98%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (0.56%) Subversion
7 3 (0.42%) GitLab
7 3 (0.42%) JUnit
7 3 (0.42%) MLflow
7 3 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.28%) Gradle
8 2 (0.28%) Maven
9 1 (0.14%) Ant
9 1 (0.14%) ERwin
9 1 (0.14%) Gatling
9 1 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
General
1 387 (54.35%) Finance
2 364 (51.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 335 (47.05%) Law
4 210 (29.49%) Marketing
5 165 (23.17%) Influencing Skills
6 124 (17.42%) Legal
7 102 (14.33%) Social Skills
8 80 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (10.11%) Financial Institution
10 56 (7.87%) Banking
11 33 (4.63%) Investment Banking
12 16 (2.25%) Front Office
13 13 (1.83%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.40%) Electronics
15 8 (1.12%) Retail Banking
16 7 (0.98%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.56%) Retail
18 3 (0.42%) Games
19 2 (0.28%) Advertising
19 2 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 341 (47.89%) Software Engineer
2 241 (33.85%) Scala Engineer
3 236 (33.15%) Scala Software Engineer
4 228 (32.02%) Big Data Engineer
4 228 (32.02%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 176 (24.72%) Lead
6 155 (21.77%) Java Engineer
7 152 (21.35%) Java Software Engineer
8 142 (19.94%) Lead Software Engineer
9 139 (19.52%) Java Scala Software Engineer
10 129 (18.12%) Developer
11 127 (17.84%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (17.28%) Lead Java Engineer
13 119 (16.71%) Senior
14 117 (16.43%) Data Engineer
15 115 (16.15%) AWS Software Engineer
16 108 (15.17%) Lead Big Data Engineer
17 86 (12.08%) Scala Developer
18 69 (9.69%) Senior Software Engineer
19 56 (7.87%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (12.92%) Kafka
2 27 (3.79%) GraphQL
3 26 (3.65%) JSON
4 25 (3.51%) Akka
5 24 (3.37%) Spring
6 22 (3.09%) Apache Beam
7 20 (2.81%) Spring Boot
8 18 (2.53%) React
9 17 (2.39%) Pandas
9 17 (2.39%) RESTful
10 16 (2.25%) NumPy
10 16 (2.25%) PySpark
11 14 (1.97%) gRPC
11 14 (1.97%) REST
12 13 (1.83%) http4s
12 13 (1.83%) Protocol Buffers
12 13 (1.83%) SciPy
13 12 (1.69%) Node.js
13 12 (1.69%) Play Framework
14 10 (1.40%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 128 (17.98%) Cloud Native
2 95 (13.34%) Algorithms
3 48 (6.74%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.90%) Data Structures
5 34 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (4.07%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (2.67%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.39%) Hedge funds
11 14 (1.97%) Blockchain
11 14 (1.97%) Distributed Applications
11 14 (1.97%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.69%) Derivative
12 12 (1.69%) Equities
12 12 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.12%) Digital Signage
15 7 (0.98%) Replication
15 7 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.40%) Linux
1 10 (1.40%) Windows
2 2 (0.28%) Unix
2 2 (0.28%) VMS
2 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (66.43%) Software Engineering
2 446 (62.64%) Agile
3 364 (51.12%) CI/CD
4 359 (50.42%) SDLC
5 276 (38.76%) Operational Stability
6 233 (32.72%) Performance Tuning
7 199 (27.95%) Problem-Solving
8 159 (22.33%) Machine Learning
9 128 (17.98%) Risk Management
10 127 (17.84%) Artificial Intelligence
11 117 (16.43%) Continuous Delivery
12 115 (16.15%) Decision-Making
13 110 (15.45%) Mentoring
14 99 (13.90%) Community of Practice
15 96 (13.48%) Data Pipeline
16 85 (11.94%) Data Modelling
17 82 (11.52%) Analytics
18 81 (11.38%) Data Engineering
19 77 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
20 74 (10.39%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 588 (82.58%) Java
2 408 (57.30%) SQL
3 230 (32.30%) Python
4 71 (9.97%) Kotlin
5 49 (6.88%) Go
6 32 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 27 (3.79%) Bash
8 25 (3.51%) JavaScript
9 21 (2.95%) Ruby
10 20 (2.81%) C#
11 18 (2.53%) PL/SQL
12 16 (2.25%) Clojure
13 14 (1.97%) C
14 12 (1.69%) R
15 11 (1.54%) C++
15 11 (1.54%) PowerShell
16 10 (1.40%) F#
17 9 (1.26%) Haskell
18 8 (1.12%) Groovy
19 6 (0.84%) PHP
Qualifications
1 61 (8.57%) Degree
2 35 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.69%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.69%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.40%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.84%) SANS
8 5 (0.70%) CISA
8 5 (0.70%) CISM
8 5 (0.70%) CISSP
8 5 (0.70%) CRISC
9 3 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.14%) OCP
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.78%) Data Quality
1 34 (4.78%) SLA
2 21 (2.95%) QA
3 6 (0.84%) NIST
4 4 (0.56%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.42%) MiFID
6 1 (0.14%) GMP
6 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 27 (3.79%) Docker
2 11 (1.54%) HDFS
3 10 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 80 (11.24%) Kubernetes
2 65 (9.13%) Terraform
3 47 (6.60%) Ansible
4 3 (0.42%) Grafana
5 2 (0.28%) Istio
5 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
6 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 76 (10.67%) Google
2 71 (9.97%) Databricks
3 39 (5.48%) Oracle
4 29 (4.07%) Microsoft
5 24 (3.37%) Dell
6 18 (2.53%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.53%) Cognos
6 18 (2.53%) Sybase
7 13 (1.83%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.54%) Teradata
9 10 (1.40%) Dataiku
10 9 (1.26%) Adobe
10 9 (1.26%) Mercator
11 6 (0.84%) F5
12 3 (0.42%) Apple
12 3 (0.42%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.42%) Informatica
12 3 (0.42%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.42%) Reuters
13 2 (0.28%) Hortonworks