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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 515 432
Rank change year-on-year -26 -83 +7
Permanent jobs citing Scala 197 134 370
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.31% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.17% 1.07% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 121 71 161
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,875 £64,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

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 16,772 12,505 21,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.64% 28.54% 29.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12,230 8,350 15,710
10th Percentile £38,735 £33,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,125 £83,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -38 104 £105,000 +16.67% 119
North of England -22 38 £66,250 +1.92% 24
South West - 22 £63,500 - 10
North West +17 21 £57,500 -28.13% 13
East of England -18 12 £100,000 +53.85% 2
Midlands -29 9 £85,000 +30.77% 9
North East -57 9 £56,500 -13.08% 8
Yorkshire -37 8 £90,000 +61.43% 3
South East -24 5 £55,000 -25.42% 15
East Midlands - 5 - - 3
West Midlands -25 4 £85,000 +30.77% 6
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 48 (24.37%) Apache Spark
2 34 (17.26%) Apache
3 8 (4.06%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.52%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.52%) SAS
5 2 (1.02%) Luigi
6 1 (0.51%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 89 (45.18%) AWS
2 70 (35.53%) Azure
3 64 (32.49%) GCP
4 34 (17.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 26 (13.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 24 (12.18%) Microsoft Purview
7 21 (10.66%) Power Platform
8 19 (9.64%) GitHub
9 15 (7.61%) Snowflake
10 14 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (6.09%) Amazon S3
12 9 (4.57%) Serverless
13 8 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (2.03%) SaaS
16 3 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
16 3 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
16 3 (1.52%) AWS Data Pipeline
16 3 (1.52%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.71%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.23%) Big Data
2 27 (13.71%) Delta Lake
3 25 (12.69%) Metadata
4 23 (11.68%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (10.15%) Data Vault
6 19 (9.64%) Hadoop
6 19 (9.64%) Power BI
7 16 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (7.61%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (6.60%) NoSQL
10 12 (6.09%) Tableau
11 11 (5.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (5.58%) Relational Database
12 10 (5.08%) BigQuery
13 9 (4.57%) Data Lake
13 9 (4.57%) SQL Server
14 8 (4.06%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (3.55%) MongoDB
16 6 (3.05%) MySQL
17 4 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 17 (8.63%) Git
2 13 (6.60%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.06%) GitLab
4 4 (2.03%) Maven
5 3 (1.52%) Gatling
5 3 (1.52%) Postman
5 3 (1.52%) Selenium
6 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.02%) JUnit
7 1 (0.51%) Gradle
7 1 (0.51%) MLflow
7 1 (0.51%) Mockito
General
1 45 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.81%) Finance
3 26 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.08%) Law
5 8 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.55%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.05%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.54%) Legal
8 5 (2.54%) Marketing
9 4 (2.03%) Advertising
10 3 (1.52%) Banking
10 3 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.02%) Games
12 1 (0.51%) Front Office
12 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (28.43%) Data Engineer
2 40 (20.30%) Developer
3 39 (19.80%) Senior
4 31 (15.74%) Lead
5 30 (15.23%) Architect
6 29 (14.72%) Software Engineer
7 28 (14.21%) Scala Engineer
8 26 (13.20%) Data Architect
9 21 (10.66%) Scala Developer
10 12 (6.09%) Senior Data Engineer
10 12 (6.09%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.58%) Consultant
11 11 (5.58%) Lead Software Engineer
11 11 (5.58%) Scala Software Engineer
12 10 (5.08%) Software Consultant
13 8 (4.06%) Senior Scala Engineer
14 7 (3.55%) Technical Leader
15 6 (3.05%) Java Developer
15 6 (3.05%) Senior Technical Manager
15 6 (3.05%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.72%) PySpark
2 27 (13.71%) gRPC
3 22 (11.17%) Kafka
4 8 (4.06%) React
5 6 (3.05%) Node.js
6 5 (2.54%) Spring
6 5 (2.54%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.03%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.03%) JPA
7 4 (2.03%) OAuth
7 4 (2.03%) OpenAPI
7 4 (2.03%) OpenID
7 4 (2.03%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.03%) RESTful
7 4 (2.03%) Spring MVC
7 4 (2.03%) Swagger
8 3 (1.52%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.52%) LangChain
8 3 (1.52%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.27%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.77%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (13.71%) Over-the-Top Content
3 27 (13.71%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.06%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.55%) Robotics
6 5 (2.54%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.03%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.03%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.51%) Blog
10 1 (0.51%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.51%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) Linux
1 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (46.70%) CI/CD
2 71 (36.04%) Analytics
3 70 (35.53%) Machine Learning
4 68 (34.52%) Software Engineering
5 67 (34.01%) Data Science
6 66 (33.50%) Data Modelling
7 63 (31.98%) Data Engineering
8 59 (29.95%) AI
9 51 (25.89%) Agile
9 51 (25.89%) Data Pipeline
10 43 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (21.32%) Containerisation
12 41 (20.81%) Business Intelligence
12 41 (20.81%) ETL
13 40 (20.30%) DevOps
14 39 (19.80%) Infrastructure as Code
15 38 (19.29%) Coaching
16 34 (17.26%) Microservices
17 33 (16.75%) Clean Code
18 32 (16.24%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 123 (62.44%) Python
2 75 (38.07%) SQL
3 71 (36.04%) Java
4 32 (16.24%) Go
5 15 (7.61%) Bicep
6 11 (5.58%) Rust
6 11 (5.58%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.57%) C++
8 8 (4.06%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.55%) C
9 7 (3.55%) Clojure
9 7 (3.55%) Erlang
9 7 (3.55%) JavaScript
10 6 (3.05%) Ruby
11 4 (2.03%) C#
11 4 (2.03%) Elixir
11 4 (2.03%) R
12 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.02%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (23.86%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.74%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.66%) Azure Certification
4 17 (8.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (7.11%) SnowPro
6 9 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.57%) Degree
7 5 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (25.89%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.06%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.03%) QA
4 2 (1.02%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (26.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (13.20%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.17%) Terraform
3 3 (1.52%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.52%) Kibana
4 2 (1.02%) Ansible
4 2 (1.02%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (22.84%) Databricks
2 30 (15.23%) Microsoft
3 27 (13.71%) Typelevel
4 5 (2.54%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.03%) Google
5 4 (2.03%) Splunk
6 2 (1.02%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.51%) Informatica
7 1 (0.51%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle
7 1 (0.51%) Workday