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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 521 465
Rank change year-on-year -22 -56 -41
Permanent jobs citing Scala 191 131 409
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.30% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 1.00% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 103 70 205
10th Percentile £49,500 £53,375 £49,850
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,563 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -1.56% -
75th Percentile £108,250 £99,375 £95,000
90th Percentile £128,750 £110,125 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -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 15,965 13,091 26,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.20% 30.22% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,668 8,844 20,551
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,750
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 £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 17 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 17 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 -22 100 £105,000 +31.25% 41
North of England -13 30 £57,500 -8.00% 10
North West +9 19 £57,500 -28.13% 6
South West -35 18 £63,500 -5.93% 5
East of England 0 13 £100,000 +53.85%
Midlands -21 13 £85,000 +28.30% 3
West Midlands -15 8 £85,000 +28.30% 2
South East -25 7 £55,000 -21.43% 13
Yorkshire -38 6 £90,000 +83.67% 1
North East -54 5 £55,500 - 3
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 46 (24.08%) Apache Spark
2 29 (15.18%) Apache
3 15 (7.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.57%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.57%) SAS
5 2 (1.05%) Luigi
6 1 (0.52%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 105 (54.97%) AWS
2 86 (45.03%) GCP
3 56 (29.32%) Azure
4 24 (12.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (9.95%) GitHub
6 18 (9.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 18 (9.42%) Power Platform
7 15 (7.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (6.81%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.28%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.71%) Cloud Composer
11 8 (4.19%) Serverless
11 8 (4.19%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.14%) Dagster
13 6 (3.14%) dbt
14 5 (2.62%) SaaS
15 4 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (2.09%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 53 (27.75%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.04%) Big Data
2 22 (11.52%) Metadata
3 21 (10.99%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (9.95%) Delta Lake
5 16 (8.38%) BigQuery
5 16 (8.38%) Power BI
6 14 (7.33%) Hadoop
6 14 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (6.81%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (6.28%) Data Vault
8 12 (6.28%) NoSQL
9 9 (4.71%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.71%) SQL Server
9 9 (4.71%) Tableau
10 7 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (3.14%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.62%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (2.62%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.62%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (9.95%) Git
2 12 (6.28%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.66%) GitLab
4 3 (1.57%) Gatling
4 3 (1.57%) Maven
4 3 (1.57%) Postman
4 3 (1.57%) Selenium
5 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.05%) JUnit
6 1 (0.52%) MLflow
6 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (21.99%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.23%) Finance
3 18 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.28%) Law
5 7 (3.66%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.14%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.09%) Advertising
7 4 (2.09%) Marketing
8 3 (1.57%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.05%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Billing
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (30.37%) Data Engineer
2 45 (23.56%) Senior
3 41 (21.47%) Scala Engineer
4 40 (20.94%) Developer
5 30 (15.71%) Lead
6 29 (15.18%) Software Engineer
7 22 (11.52%) Scala Developer
8 18 (9.42%) Architect
9 17 (8.90%) Scala Software Engineer
10 16 (8.38%) Senior Data Engineer
11 15 (7.85%) Data Architect
12 12 (6.28%) Lead Software Engineer
12 12 (6.28%) Software Developer
13 11 (5.76%) Consultant
14 10 (5.24%) Senior Scala Engineer
14 10 (5.24%) Software Consultant
15 7 (3.66%) Technical Leader
16 6 (3.14%) Senior Developer
16 6 (3.14%) Senior Manager
16 6 (3.14%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (23.56%) gRPC
2 24 (12.57%) Kafka
3 20 (10.47%) PySpark
4 7 (3.66%) React
5 6 (3.14%) Node.js
6 4 (2.09%) OAuth
6 4 (2.09%) OpenID
6 4 (2.09%) Spring
6 4 (2.09%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.57%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.57%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.57%) Hibernate
7 3 (1.57%) JPA
7 3 (1.57%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.57%) Play Framework
7 3 (1.57%) Playwright
7 3 (1.57%) RESTful
7 3 (1.57%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.57%) Swagger
8 2 (1.05%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 49 (25.65%) Distributed Systems
2 47 (24.61%) Video\Live Streaming
3 46 (24.08%) Over-the-Top Content
4 18 (9.42%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.24%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.19%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (3.66%) Robotics
8 6 (3.14%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (3.14%) Social Media
9 5 (2.62%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.52%) IoT
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.52%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Linux
1 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (47.64%) CI/CD
2 82 (42.93%) Data Science
3 74 (38.74%) Software Engineering
4 71 (37.17%) Machine Learning
5 61 (31.94%) Analytics
6 56 (29.32%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (28.80%) Coaching
8 54 (28.27%) Containerisation
8 54 (28.27%) Data Engineering
8 54 (28.27%) Data Modelling
9 52 (27.23%) Data Pipeline
10 50 (26.18%) Continuous Delivery
10 50 (26.18%) Microservices
11 49 (25.65%) Clean Code
12 45 (23.56%) Personalization
13 40 (20.94%) Agile
13 40 (20.94%) ETL
14 35 (18.32%) AI
15 32 (16.75%) Business Intelligence
16 31 (16.23%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 122 (63.87%) Python
2 64 (33.51%) Java
3 62 (32.46%) SQL
4 46 (24.08%) Go
5 13 (6.81%) C++
6 11 (5.76%) Rust
7 10 (5.24%) Bicep
8 9 (4.71%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.66%) C
9 7 (3.66%) Clojure
9 7 (3.66%) Erlang
10 6 (3.14%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.62%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.09%) Elixir
12 4 (2.09%) Ruby
13 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.05%) C#
14 2 (1.05%) PHP
14 2 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.52%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.33%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.19%) Degree
5 8 (4.19%) SnowPro
6 4 (2.09%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (21.99%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.57%) QA
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 67 (35.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.95%) Terraform
3 3 (1.57%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.57%) Kibana
4 2 (1.05%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (23.56%) Typelevel
2 31 (16.23%) Databricks
3 22 (11.52%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.62%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.09%) Google
6 3 (1.57%) Splunk
7 2 (1.05%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.52%) Braze
8 1 (0.52%) GoCardless
8 1 (0.52%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.52%) mParticle
8 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.52%) PayPal
8 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.52%) Zuora