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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 506 410
Rank change year-on-year -64 -96 +36
Permanent jobs citing Scala 192 141 391
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.32% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.15% 1.15% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 124 71 163
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £50,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,625 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £128,125 £115,000 £104,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -

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 16,664 12,282 21,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.16% 28.06% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,212 8,191 14,866
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -59 101 £105,000 +16.67% 228
North of England -29 41 £66,250 +1.92% 32
North West -1 22 £66,250 -17.19% 19
South West - 20 £63,500 - 14
East of England -8 13 £100,000 +53.85% 4
North East -55 11 £57,500 -11.54% 9
Yorkshire -45 8 £90,000 +57.89% 4
Midlands -42 6 £81,500 +25.38% 7
South East -38 5 £55,000 -25.42% 19
East Midlands - 5 - - 3
West Midlands -27 1 £81,500 +25.38% 4
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 49 (25.52%) Apache Spark
2 34 (17.71%) Apache
3 9 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.56%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.56%) SAS
5 2 (1.04%) Luigi
6 1 (0.52%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 82 (42.71%) AWS
2 75 (39.06%) Azure
3 56 (29.17%) GCP
4 37 (19.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 29 (15.10%) Azure Databricks
5 29 (15.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 26 (13.54%) Microsoft Purview
7 21 (10.94%) GitHub
7 21 (10.94%) Power Platform
8 17 (8.85%) Snowflake
9 16 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (6.77%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.73%) Serverless
13 10 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.60%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (2.08%) SaaS
16 3 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.67%) Big Data
2 28 (14.58%) Delta Lake
3 27 (14.06%) Metadata
4 23 (11.98%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (11.46%) Data Vault
6 20 (10.42%) Hadoop
7 19 (9.90%) Power BI
8 17 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (7.81%) NoSQL
11 13 (6.77%) Tableau
12 11 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (5.21%) BigQuery
13 10 (5.21%) Relational Database
14 9 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (4.69%) Data Lake
14 9 (4.69%) MongoDB
14 9 (4.69%) SQL Server
15 6 (3.13%) MySQL
16 4 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 18 (9.38%) Git
2 16 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.17%) GitLab
4 5 (2.60%) Maven
5 3 (1.56%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.56%) Gatling
5 3 (1.56%) JUnit
5 3 (1.56%) Postman
5 3 (1.56%) Selenium
6 2 (1.04%) Gradle
6 2 (1.04%) Mockito
7 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 49 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.92%) Finance
3 26 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.21%) Law
5 7 (3.65%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.65%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.60%) Legal
6 5 (2.60%) Marketing
7 4 (2.08%) Advertising
8 3 (1.56%) Banking
8 3 (1.56%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.04%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (29.17%) Data Engineer
2 38 (19.79%) Developer
3 37 (19.27%) Senior
4 34 (17.71%) Architect
5 31 (16.15%) Lead
6 29 (15.10%) Data Architect
7 27 (14.06%) Software Engineer
8 20 (10.42%) Scala Engineer
9 18 (9.38%) Scala Developer
10 13 (6.77%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (6.25%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.73%) Consultant
12 11 (5.73%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (5.21%) Software Consultant
14 9 (4.69%) Scala Software Engineer
15 8 (4.17%) Databricks Data Engineer
15 8 (4.17%) Databricks Engineer
16 7 (3.65%) Technical Leader
17 6 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
17 6 (3.13%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.67%) PySpark
2 25 (13.02%) Terraform
3 23 (11.98%) Kafka
4 18 (9.38%) gRPC
5 8 (4.17%) React
6 6 (3.13%) Spring
6 6 (3.13%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.60%) Hibernate
7 5 (2.60%) JPA
7 5 (2.60%) Node.js
7 5 (2.60%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.60%) Play Framework
7 5 (2.60%) Spring MVC
7 5 (2.60%) Swagger
8 4 (2.08%) CrewAI
8 4 (2.08%) LangChain
8 4 (2.08%) RESTful
9 3 (1.56%) Apache Beam
9 3 (1.56%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (1.56%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.79%) Cloud Native
2 26 (13.54%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (9.38%) Over-the-Top Content
3 18 (9.38%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.65%) Robotics
6 5 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.04%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.04%) Blog
9 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.52%) IoT
10 1 (0.52%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Linux
1 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (44.79%) CI/CD
2 74 (38.54%) Analytics
3 72 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 66 (34.38%) Data Engineering
5 61 (31.77%) AI
5 61 (31.77%) Machine Learning
6 60 (31.25%) Software Engineering
7 58 (30.21%) Data Science
8 55 (28.65%) Agile
9 52 (27.08%) Data Pipeline
10 43 (22.40%) Business Intelligence
11 41 (21.35%) DevOps
11 41 (21.35%) ETL
11 41 (21.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (17.71%) Containerisation
13 34 (17.71%) Lakehouse
14 33 (17.19%) Data Architecture
15 32 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (15.10%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 118 (61.46%) Python
2 80 (41.67%) SQL
3 73 (38.02%) Java
4 23 (11.98%) Go
5 16 (8.33%) Bicep
6 11 (5.73%) Rust
6 11 (5.73%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.69%) C++
7 9 (4.69%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.65%) C
8 7 (3.65%) Clojure
8 7 (3.65%) Erlang
8 7 (3.65%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.13%) Ruby
10 4 (2.08%) C#
10 4 (2.08%) Elixir
10 4 (2.08%) R
11 3 (1.56%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.04%) PHP
13 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.98%) Azure Certification
4 19 (9.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (8.33%) SnowPro
6 9 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.69%) Degree
7 5 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (27.60%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.60%) QA
4 2 (1.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 45 (23.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (15.10%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.08%) Grafana
3 3 (1.56%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.56%) Kibana
4 2 (1.04%) Ansible
4 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (25.52%) Databricks
2 32 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.38%) Typelevel
4 5 (2.60%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.60%) Splunk
5 4 (2.08%) Google
6 3 (1.56%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle
8 1 (0.52%) Informatica
8 1 (0.52%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.52%) Workday