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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 438 442
Rank change year-on-year -49 +4 -181
Permanent jobs citing Scala 121 305 244
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.53% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 1.60% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 72 136 210
10th Percentile £48,650 - £56,475
25th Percentile £62,188 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £98,125 £97,500 £112,312
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £142,625
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -3.13% -3.03% +3.13%

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 10,245 19,014 18,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.72% 33.20% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,662 11,425 15,383
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,603 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,822 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +3 85 £90,000 +8.13% 33
North of England -52 24 £65,000 -5.45% 11
Yorkshire -15 15 £49,000 -1.00% 3
West Midlands +57 8 £65,000 - 2
Midlands +52 8 £65,000 -7.14% 3
North East -6 6 £65,000 -10.34%
North West -10 5 £75,000 +9.09% 8
South East +25 1 - - 31
South West +21 1 £75,000 -9.09% 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 32 (26.45%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.96%) Apache
2 6 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.48%) Luigi
4 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (57.85%) AWS
2 45 (37.19%) Azure
3 28 (23.14%) GCP
4 26 (21.49%) Power Platform
5 20 (16.53%) Serverless
6 15 (12.40%) Amazon Kinesis
6 15 (12.40%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (11.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (10.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (9.92%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (7.44%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.96%) GitHub
12 5 (4.13%) Azure Storage
12 5 (4.13%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.31%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.31%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) Broadband
2 1 (0.83%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (28.10%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (21.49%) Power BI
3 21 (17.36%) Big Data
4 17 (14.05%) Data Lake
5 16 (13.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (13.22%) Hadoop
6 11 (9.09%) Metadata
6 11 (9.09%) NoSQL
7 10 (8.26%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (8.26%) MySQL
8 9 (7.44%) Apache Hive
9 8 (6.61%) DynamoDB
10 7 (5.79%) Power Query
11 6 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (4.96%) Data Vault
12 5 (4.13%) MongoDB
13 4 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
13 4 (3.31%) SQL Server
14 3 (2.48%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (8.26%) Git
1 10 (8.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.65%) CircleCI
2 2 (1.65%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.65%) Gatling
2 2 (1.65%) git-flow
2 2 (1.65%) JMeter
2 2 (1.65%) JUnit
2 2 (1.65%) REST Assured
2 2 (1.65%) Selenium
3 1 (0.83%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (42.15%) Finance
2 34 (28.10%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.26%) Financial Institution
4 10 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.61%) Law
6 7 (5.79%) Banking
7 6 (4.96%) Legal
7 6 (4.96%) Marketing
8 3 (2.48%) Retail
9 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Advertising
10 1 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 51 (42.15%) Data Engineer
2 38 (31.40%) Senior
3 28 (23.14%) Developer
3 28 (23.14%) Lead
4 19 (15.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 18 (14.88%) Software Engineer
6 15 (12.40%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (9.92%) Azure Data Engineer
7 12 (9.92%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (9.92%) Java Developer
7 12 (9.92%) Scala Developer
8 11 (9.09%) Lead Developer
9 10 (8.26%) AWS Data Engineer
9 10 (8.26%) Senior Developer
10 9 (7.44%) Lead Data Engineer
11 7 (5.79%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.96%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (4.96%) Lead Java Developer
12 6 (4.96%) Principal Developer
12 6 (4.96%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.66%) Kafka
2 10 (8.26%) React
2 10 (8.26%) Spark Streaming
2 10 (8.26%) Spring
3 9 (7.44%) Flutter
4 8 (6.61%) boto
5 5 (4.13%) PySpark
5 5 (4.13%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.31%) Web Services
7 3 (2.48%) .NET
7 3 (2.48%) Memcached
7 3 (2.48%) RESTful
8 2 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.65%) Play Framework
8 2 (1.65%) PostGIS
8 2 (1.65%) REST
8 2 (1.65%) XML
9 1 (0.83%) NetworkX
9 1 (0.83%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 28 (23.14%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.74%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.26%) Data Structures
3 10 (8.26%) e-Learning
3 10 (8.26%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (6.61%) Derivative
5 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.13%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.31%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (2.48%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.83%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.44%) Linux
2 3 (2.48%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) Android
3 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (37.19%) Data Pipeline
2 44 (36.36%) Data Engineering
3 43 (35.54%) Data Modelling
3 43 (35.54%) Machine Learning
4 41 (33.88%) Agile
5 38 (31.40%) CI/CD
6 36 (29.75%) Analytics
7 34 (28.10%) DevOps
8 32 (26.45%) ETL
9 31 (25.62%) Data Science
10 27 (22.31%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (19.83%) AI
12 24 (19.83%) Data Governance
13 23 (19.01%) Mentoring
13 23 (19.01%) Software Engineering
14 17 (14.05%) Computer Science
14 17 (14.05%) SDLC
14 17 (14.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 69 (57.02%) Java
2 66 (54.55%) Python
3 50 (41.32%) SQL
4 35 (28.93%) Kotlin
5 10 (8.26%) Ruby
6 9 (7.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (7.44%) Go
7 8 (6.61%) C#
7 8 (6.61%) R
8 5 (4.13%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.31%) F#
9 4 (3.31%) Haskell
9 4 (3.31%) OCaml
10 2 (1.65%) Bicep
10 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.65%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.83%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.83%) Elixir
11 1 (0.83%) Perl
11 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (14.05%) Degree
2 11 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.79%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.79%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.13%) PhD
6 3 (2.48%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.83%) CISSP
8 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.83%) OSCP
8 1 (0.83%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.22%) Data Quality
1 16 (13.22%) GDPR
2 6 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.48%) QA
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 12 (9.92%) Docker
2 10 (8.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (14.05%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.61%) Terraform
3 3 (2.48%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.65%) Ansible
4 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.65%) Puppet
5 1 (0.83%) Argo
5 1 (0.83%) Grafana
5 1 (0.83%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 33 (27.27%) Databricks
2 6 (4.96%) Google
2 6 (4.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.96%) Oracle
3 5 (4.13%) Palantir
4 1 (0.83%) Cloudera
4 1 (0.83%) Informatica
4 1 (0.83%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.83%) Rackspace
4 1 (0.83%) Salesforce