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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 492 483
Rank change year-on-year -16 -9 -199
Permanent jobs citing Scala 177 132 367
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.34% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 1.08% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 70 77 251
10th Percentile £47,459 £53,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £109,750 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £101,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.11% -8.75%

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 14,651 12,178 27,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.71% 31.81% 31.81%
Number of salaries quoted 10,429 8,281 22,463
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -5 101 £100,000 +42.86% 48
South West -43 15 £79,100 +17.19% 7
East of England -3 13 £100,000 +53.85% 2
North of England -38 13 £75,000 +20.00% 18
South East -22 12 £55,000 -21.43% 5
West Midlands -21 11 £81,500 +12.41% 3
Midlands -27 11 £81,500 +12.41% 4
Yorkshire -51 6 £90,000 +83.67% 3
North West -1 5 £75,000 -6.25% 11
North East -41 2 £57,500 -8.00% 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 36 (20.34%) Apache Spark
2 15 (8.47%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (7.91%) Apache
4 5 (2.82%) IIS
5 2 (1.13%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.13%) Luigi
5 2 (1.13%) SAS
6 1 (0.56%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 98 (55.37%) AWS
2 77 (43.50%) GCP
3 45 (25.42%) Azure
4 23 (12.99%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (11.30%) GitHub
6 17 (9.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (9.04%) Amazon S3
8 14 (7.91%) Power Platform
9 9 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (5.08%) Cloud Composer
10 8 (4.52%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (3.95%) dbt
12 6 (3.39%) Dagster
12 6 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (3.39%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.82%) Serverless
14 4 (2.26%) AWS Data Pipeline
14 4 (2.26%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 74 (41.81%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.30%) Big Data
1 20 (11.30%) Metadata
2 19 (10.73%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (10.17%) Delta Lake
3 18 (10.17%) NoSQL
4 16 (9.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (8.47%) Data Lake
5 15 (8.47%) Hadoop
6 14 (7.91%) BigQuery
7 12 (6.78%) Power BI
7 12 (6.78%) Tableau
8 10 (5.65%) Relational Database
9 9 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (5.08%) SQL Server
10 8 (4.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (4.52%) MongoDB
11 7 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (3.95%) MySQL
12 5 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (2.82%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 29 (16.38%) Jenkins
2 22 (12.43%) Git
2 22 (12.43%) TeamCity
3 5 (2.82%) GitLab
4 2 (1.13%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.13%) Gatling
4 2 (1.13%) JUnit
4 2 (1.13%) Maven
General
1 28 (15.82%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.99%) Finance
3 20 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.95%) Marketing
6 6 (3.39%) Law
7 5 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.26%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.13%) Billing
9 2 (1.13%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.13%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Games
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (36.16%) Data Engineer
2 52 (29.38%) Senior
3 51 (28.81%) Scala Engineer
4 38 (21.47%) Software Engineer
5 28 (15.82%) Developer
6 27 (15.25%) Scala Software Engineer
7 23 (12.99%) Scala Developer
8 21 (11.86%) Lead
9 19 (10.73%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (7.34%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 11 (6.21%) Lead Software Engineer
11 11 (6.21%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.52%) Architect
12 8 (4.52%) Senior Manager
13 7 (3.95%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.95%) Systems Engineer
14 6 (3.39%) Backend Developer
14 6 (3.39%) Senior Scala Developer
14 6 (3.39%) Software Developer
15 5 (2.82%) Data Science Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (25.42%) gRPC
2 25 (14.12%) PySpark
3 22 (12.43%) Akka
3 22 (12.43%) Kafka
4 6 (3.39%) Node.js
5 5 (2.82%) Play Framework
5 5 (2.82%) React
6 4 (2.26%) OAuth
6 4 (2.26%) OpenID
7 3 (1.69%) .NET
7 3 (1.69%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.69%) Spring
8 2 (1.13%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.13%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.13%) Memcached
8 2 (1.13%) Playwright
8 2 (1.13%) WireMock
9 1 (0.56%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (38.42%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (37.85%) Over-the-Top Content
3 58 (32.77%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.08%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.95%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.39%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.39%) Social Media
7 5 (2.82%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.26%) Robotics
9 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.13%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.13%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.56%) IoT
11 1 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
1 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (49.72%) CI/CD
2 87 (49.15%) Data Science
3 80 (45.20%) Analytics
4 74 (41.81%) Software Engineering
5 69 (38.98%) Machine Learning
6 65 (36.72%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (35.03%) Data Pipeline
8 58 (32.77%) Agile
9 53 (29.94%) Coaching
10 51 (28.81%) ETL
11 50 (28.25%) Microservices
12 49 (27.68%) Containerisation
12 49 (27.68%) Continuous Delivery
13 48 (27.12%) Data Modelling
14 47 (26.55%) Data Engineering
15 46 (25.99%) Clean Code
16 45 (25.42%) Personalization
17 43 (24.29%) DevOps
18 32 (18.08%) Open Source
19 28 (15.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 125 (70.62%) Python
2 62 (35.03%) SQL
3 49 (27.68%) Java
4 46 (25.99%) Go
5 10 (5.65%) C++
6 8 (4.52%) Rust
7 7 (3.95%) R
8 6 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.82%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.26%) C
10 4 (2.26%) Clojure
10 4 (2.26%) Elixir
10 4 (2.26%) Erlang
10 4 (2.26%) Ruby
11 3 (1.69%) Bicep
11 3 (1.69%) C#
11 3 (1.69%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.13%) PHP
12 2 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.17%) Degree
2 13 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (7.34%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.21%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.52%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.95%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.82%) MBA
7 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (23.16%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.69%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 84 (47.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (20.34%) Kubernetes
2 24 (13.56%) Terraform
3 3 (1.69%) Control-M
4 2 (1.13%) Ansible
4 2 (1.13%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 45 (25.42%) Typelevel
2 32 (18.08%) Databricks
3 12 (6.78%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.82%) BT
5 4 (2.26%) Google
6 3 (1.69%) BMC
6 3 (1.69%) IBM
6 3 (1.69%) Talend
7 2 (1.13%) Braze
7 2 (1.13%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.13%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.13%) mParticle
7 2 (1.13%) Oracle
7 2 (1.13%) Palantir
7 2 (1.13%) PayPal
7 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.13%) Zuora
8 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.56%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.56%) OpenAI