Scala Job Trends in England

Scala
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Scala skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 527 460
Rank change year-on-year -2 -67 -44
Permanent jobs citing Scala 190 128 398
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.29% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 0.98% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 103 68 194
10th Percentile £49,500 £54,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £62,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £108,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £128,750 £110,375 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.92% +1.67% -6.25%

All Programming Languages
England

Scala falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,078 13,109 25,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.15% 30.15% 30.60%
Number of salaries quoted 11,772 8,859 20,006
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,125
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Scala relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Scala job vacancy trend in England

Scala
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Scala.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Scala

Scala
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala in England over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Scala in England

Scala
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the England region over the 6 months to 20 July 2026. 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
London -24 100 £105,000 +27.27% 57
North of England -9 30 £57,500 -8.00% 14
North West +8 19 £57,500 -28.13% 7
South West - 18 £63,500 - 5
East of England -5 13 £100,000 +53.85%
Midlands -20 12 £85,000 +28.30% 3
West Midlands -15 7 £85,000 +28.30% 2
South East -22 7 £55,000 -21.43% 14
Yorkshire -27 6 £90,000 +83.67% 3
North East -42 5 £55,500 - 4
East Midlands - 5 - - 1
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 47 (24.74%) Apache Spark
2 29 (15.26%) Apache
3 15 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.58%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.58%) SAS
5 2 (1.05%) Luigi
6 1 (0.53%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 103 (54.21%) AWS
2 85 (44.74%) GCP
3 58 (30.53%) Azure
4 25 (13.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 18 (9.47%) GitHub
7 15 (7.89%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.32%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.74%) Cloud Composer
12 8 (4.21%) Serverless
12 8 (4.21%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.16%) Dagster
14 6 (3.16%) dbt
15 5 (2.63%) SaaS
16 4 (2.11%) AWS Data Pipeline
16 4 (2.11%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 51 (26.84%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.63%) Big Data
2 22 (11.58%) Metadata
3 21 (11.05%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 17 (8.95%) Power BI
6 16 (8.42%) BigQuery
7 15 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (7.37%) Hadoop
9 13 (6.84%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (6.32%) Data Vault
10 12 (6.32%) NoSQL
11 11 (5.79%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (5.26%) SQL Server
13 9 (4.74%) Relational Database
13 9 (4.74%) Tableau
14 8 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (3.16%) MongoDB
15 6 (3.16%) MySQL
16 5 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (2.63%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 19 (10.00%) Git
2 11 (5.79%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.68%) GitLab
4 3 (1.58%) Gatling
4 3 (1.58%) Maven
4 3 (1.58%) Postman
4 3 (1.58%) Selenium
5 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.05%) JUnit
6 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 42 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.32%) Finance
3 19 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.32%) Law
5 7 (3.68%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.16%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.11%) Advertising
7 4 (2.11%) Marketing
8 3 (1.58%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.05%) Legal
10 1 (0.53%) Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Billing
10 1 (0.53%) Front Office
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (30.53%) Data Engineer
2 44 (23.16%) Senior
3 40 (21.05%) Scala Engineer
4 39 (20.53%) Developer
5 30 (15.79%) Lead
6 29 (15.26%) Software Engineer
7 21 (11.05%) Scala Developer
8 19 (10.00%) Architect
9 17 (8.95%) Scala Software Engineer
10 15 (7.89%) Data Architect
10 15 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (6.32%) Lead Software Engineer
11 12 (6.32%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.79%) Consultant
13 10 (5.26%) Software Consultant
14 9 (4.74%) Senior Scala Engineer
15 7 (3.68%) Technical Leader
16 6 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
16 6 (3.16%) Senior Manager
16 6 (3.16%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (23.68%) gRPC
2 25 (13.16%) Kafka
3 20 (10.53%) PySpark
4 6 (3.16%) Node.js
4 6 (3.16%) React
5 4 (2.11%) OAuth
5 4 (2.11%) OpenID
5 4 (2.11%) Spring
5 4 (2.11%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.58%) Apache Beam
6 3 (1.58%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.58%) Hibernate
6 3 (1.58%) JPA
6 3 (1.58%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.58%) Play Framework
6 3 (1.58%) Playwright
6 3 (1.58%) RESTful
6 3 (1.58%) Spring MVC
6 3 (1.58%) Swagger
7 2 (1.05%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 49 (25.79%) Distributed Systems
2 45 (23.68%) Over-the-Top Content
2 45 (23.68%) Video\Live Streaming
3 18 (9.47%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.21%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.68%) Robotics
7 6 (3.16%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.16%) Social Media
8 5 (2.63%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.53%) IoT
9 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.53%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Linux
1 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 83 (43.68%) Data Science
3 74 (38.95%) Software Engineering
4 72 (37.89%) Machine Learning
5 60 (31.58%) Analytics
6 57 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (28.95%) Coaching
7 55 (28.95%) Data Modelling
8 54 (28.42%) Containerisation
8 54 (28.42%) Data Engineering
9 52 (27.37%) Data Pipeline
10 50 (26.32%) Microservices
11 49 (25.79%) Clean Code
11 49 (25.79%) Continuous Delivery
12 45 (23.68%) Personalization
13 40 (21.05%) ETL
14 38 (20.00%) Agile
15 37 (19.47%) AI
16 33 (17.37%) Business Intelligence
17 31 (16.32%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 122 (64.21%) Python
2 64 (33.68%) Java
3 62 (32.63%) SQL
4 46 (24.21%) Go
5 13 (6.84%) C++
6 11 (5.79%) Rust
7 10 (5.26%) Bicep
8 8 (4.21%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.68%) C
9 7 (3.68%) Clojure
9 7 (3.68%) Erlang
10 6 (3.16%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.63%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.11%) Elixir
12 4 (2.11%) Ruby
13 3 (1.58%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.05%) C#
14 2 (1.05%) PHP
14 2 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.37%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.21%) Degree
5 8 (4.21%) SnowPro
6 4 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (22.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.58%) QA
4 2 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 65 (34.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.47%) Terraform
3 3 (1.58%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.58%) Kibana
4 2 (1.05%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (23.68%) Typelevel
2 32 (16.84%) Databricks
3 23 (12.11%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.11%) Google
6 3 (1.58%) Splunk
7 2 (1.05%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.53%) Braze
8 1 (0.53%) GoCardless
8 1 (0.53%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.53%) mParticle
8 1 (0.53%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.53%) PayPal
8 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.53%) Zuora