The first table below looks at the demand for Scala skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Scala over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scala
Rank 193 179 -
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -
Permanent jobs citing Scala 11 7 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.223% 0.155% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.451% 0.287% -
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 0
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +23.07%
All Programming Languages
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2437 2436 1927
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 49.41% 53.97% 47.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2127 2195 1741
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Scala
England

Scala
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Scala across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

West Midlands Scala Jobs Demand Trend

Scala
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Scala across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Scala Salary Trend

Scala
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Birmingham -12 11 £45,000 +5.88%
Scala
England

Scala
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

1 14 (93.33%) Java
2 13 (86.67%) Oracle
2 13 (86.67%) Eclipse
2 13 (86.67%) Hibernate
2 13 (86.67%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (86.67%) Subversion
2 13 (86.67%) Spring
2 13 (86.67%) Maven
3 12 (80.00%) MongoDB
4 11 (73.33%) Ruby
5 10 (66.67%) Java EE
5 10 (66.67%) Degree
5 10 (66.67%) Computer Science
5 10 (66.67%) NoSQL
5 10 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (66.67%) Alfresco
5 10 (66.67%) Jackrabbit
5 10 (66.67%) Erlang
5 10 (66.67%) MySQL
5 10 (66.67%) CouchDB
5 10 (66.67%) Social Media
5 10 (66.67%) Clojure
6 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 5 (33.33%) TDD
7 4 (26.67%) MVC
8 3 (20.00%) JMX
8 3 (20.00%) OO
8 3 (20.00%) JBoss
8 3 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (20.00%) Tomcat

Scala
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

Application Development
1 13 (86.67%) Hibernate
1 13 (86.67%) Spring
2 10 (66.67%) Java EE
3 3 (20.00%) Spring MVC
3 3 (20.00%) Ajax
3 3 (20.00%) J2EE
3 3 (20.00%) SOAP
3 3 (20.00%) JMS
3 3 (20.00%) JMX
4 1 (6.667%) CSS
4 1 (6.667%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (6.667%) jQuery
4 1 (6.667%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (66.67%) Alfresco
2 3 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (6.667%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) MongoDB
2 10 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 10 (66.67%) Jackrabbit
2 10 (66.67%) MySQL
2 10 (66.67%) CouchDB
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (20.00%) JasperReports
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (6.667%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Eclipse
1 13 (86.67%) Subversion
1 13 (86.67%) Maven
2 3 (20.00%) Selenium
2 3 (20.00%) FitNesse
2 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
2 3 (20.00%) Apache Continuum
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 13 (86.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 10 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
1 10 (66.67%) Social Media
2 1 (6.667%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Android
1 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (33.33%) TDD
2 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (26.67%) MVC
4 3 (20.00%) OO
4 3 (20.00%) Multithreading
5 1 (6.667%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Java
2 11 (73.33%) Ruby
3 10 (66.67%) Erlang
3 10 (66.67%) Clojure
4 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.667%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) JBoss