Senior Scala Engineer
UK

The median Senior Scala Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 841 971 1182
Rank change year-on-year +130 +211 -283
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Scala Engineer 55 17 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.016% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.018% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £69,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +16.13%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £96,875
90th Percentile £76,000 £110,000 £111,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +3.23% +6.90%

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 93,176 95,124 149,724
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,877 59,832 85,287
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,507
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% - +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%

Senior Scala Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Scala Engineer in the UK

Senior Scala Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Scala Engineer in the UK

Senior Scala Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Scala Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 +18 52 - -
Scotland - 51 - -
England +113 2 £75,000 -6.25% 2
North of England +29 1 - -
North West - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Scala Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (100.00%) Scala
2 54 (98.18%) Software Engineering
3 52 (94.55%) Agile
3 52 (94.55%) NoSQL
4 51 (92.73%) Artificial Intelligence
4 51 (92.73%) Machine Learning
4 51 (92.73%) Big Data
4 51 (92.73%) Performance Tuning
4 51 (92.73%) Marketing
4 51 (92.73%) Finance
4 51 (92.73%) Law
4 51 (92.73%) Java
4 51 (92.73%) SQL
4 51 (92.73%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (92.73%) Tech Ops
4 51 (92.73%) Operational Stability
4 51 (92.73%) Influencing Skills
4 51 (92.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 51 (92.73%) SDLC
4 51 (92.73%) Apache Spark
5 7 (12.73%) AWS
6 3 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (5.45%) Cryptocurrency
6 3 (5.45%) Blockchain
7 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.82%) Web Services
8 1 (1.82%) Media Streaming
8 1 (1.82%) Blog
8 1 (1.82%) Unit Testing
8 1 (1.82%) Integration Testing

Senior 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 51 (92.73%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.73%) AWS
2 1 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (94.55%) NoSQL
2 51 (92.73%) Big Data
3 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
General
1 51 (92.73%) Finance
1 51 (92.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 51 (92.73%) Influencing Skills
1 51 (92.73%) Law
1 51 (92.73%) Marketing
2 1 (1.82%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) GraphQL
1 1 (1.82%) http4s
1 1 (1.82%) REST
1 1 (1.82%) Scalaz
1 1 (1.82%) Smart Contracts
1 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.45%) Blockchain
1 3 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.82%) Blog
2 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.82%) Media Streaming
2 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (98.18%) Software Engineering
2 52 (94.55%) Agile
3 51 (92.73%) Artificial Intelligence
3 51 (92.73%) Machine Learning
3 51 (92.73%) Operational Stability
3 51 (92.73%) Performance Tuning
3 51 (92.73%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (92.73%) SDLC
3 51 (92.73%) Tech Ops
4 3 (5.45%) Cryptocurrency
5 1 (1.82%) Coaching
5 1 (1.82%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (1.82%) DevOps
5 1 (1.82%) Functional Programming
5 1 (1.82%) Integration Testing
5 1 (1.82%) Mentoring
5 1 (1.82%) Open Source
5 1 (1.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 55 (100.00%) Scala
2 51 (92.73%) Java
2 51 (92.73%) SQL
3 1 (1.82%) TypeScript