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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 528 428
Rank change year-on-year -12 -100 -9
Permanent jobs citing Scala 196 126 371
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.29% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 0.97% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 113 68 170
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £64,250
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 £128,750 £111,250 £102,750
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 16,574 12,978 21,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.05% 29.74% 29.46%
Number of salaries quoted 12,082 8,725 16,267
10th Percentile £37,525 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 2 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 2 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 -32 102 £105,000 +16.67% 76
North of England -22 34 £75,000 +15.38% 15
South West - 22 £63,500 - 5
North West +13 21 £57,500 -28.13% 6
East of England -11 13 £100,000 +53.85%
Midlands -23 12 £85,000 +30.77% 13
West Midlands -36 7 £85,000 +30.77% 12
Yorkshire -40 7 £90,000 +61.43% 7
South East -25 6 £55,000 -25.42% 12
North East -51 6 £55,500 -14.62% 2
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 52 (26.53%) Apache Spark
2 32 (16.33%) Apache
3 15 (7.65%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.53%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.53%) SAS
5 2 (1.02%) Luigi
6 1 (0.51%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 99 (50.51%) AWS
2 78 (39.80%) GCP
3 64 (32.65%) Azure
4 29 (14.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 20 (10.20%) Microsoft Purview
6 20 (10.20%) Power Platform
7 17 (8.67%) GitHub
8 13 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.12%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (5.61%) Snowflake
11 9 (4.59%) Cloud Composer
12 8 (4.08%) Serverless
13 7 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.06%) Dagster
14 6 (3.06%) dbt
15 4 (2.04%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 4 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (2.04%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 42 (21.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.29%) Big Data
1 28 (14.29%) Metadata
2 23 (11.73%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (11.73%) Delta Lake
3 18 (9.18%) Power BI
4 17 (8.67%) Hadoop
5 16 (8.16%) BigQuery
5 16 (8.16%) Data Vault
6 15 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (6.63%) NoSQL
9 12 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (5.61%) Relational Database
10 11 (5.61%) Tableau
11 9 (4.59%) SQL Server
12 8 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (3.06%) MongoDB
13 6 (3.06%) MySQL
14 5 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (2.55%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (8.67%) Git
2 12 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.57%) GitLab
4 3 (1.53%) Gatling
4 3 (1.53%) Maven
4 3 (1.53%) Postman
4 3 (1.53%) Selenium
5 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.51%) JUnit
5 1 (0.51%) MLflow
General
1 47 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.39%) Finance
3 22 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.16%) Law
5 7 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.55%) Marketing
6 5 (2.55%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.04%) Advertising
7 4 (2.04%) Legal
8 3 (1.53%) Banking
8 3 (1.53%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.02%) Games
10 1 (0.51%) Front Office
10 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (31.12%) Data Engineer
2 47 (23.98%) Senior
3 38 (19.39%) Developer
4 35 (17.86%) Scala Engineer
5 30 (15.31%) Lead
6 29 (14.80%) Software Engineer
7 24 (12.24%) Architect
8 20 (10.20%) Data Architect
8 20 (10.20%) Scala Developer
9 18 (9.18%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (6.63%) Scala Software Engineer
11 12 (6.12%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.61%) Consultant
12 11 (5.61%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (5.10%) Senior Scala Engineer
13 10 (5.10%) Software Consultant
14 7 (3.57%) Technical Leader
15 6 (3.06%) Senior Manager
15 6 (3.06%) Senior Technical Manager
15 6 (3.06%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.37%) gRPC
2 27 (13.78%) Kafka
3 25 (12.76%) PySpark
4 6 (3.06%) Node.js
4 6 (3.06%) React
5 4 (2.04%) OAuth
5 4 (2.04%) OpenID
5 4 (2.04%) RESTful
5 4 (2.04%) Spring
5 4 (2.04%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.53%) Apache Beam
6 3 (1.53%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.53%) Hibernate
6 3 (1.53%) JPA
6 3 (1.53%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.53%) Play Framework
6 3 (1.53%) Playwright
6 3 (1.53%) Spring MVC
6 3 (1.53%) Swagger
7 2 (1.02%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (21.94%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (18.37%) Over-the-Top Content
2 36 (18.37%) Video\Live Streaming
3 28 (14.29%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.10%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.57%) Robotics
7 6 (3.06%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.06%) Social Media
8 5 (2.55%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.53%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.51%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.51%) IoT
11 1 (0.51%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) Linux
1 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (46.43%) CI/CD
2 78 (39.80%) Data Science
3 72 (36.73%) Machine Learning
3 72 (36.73%) Software Engineering
4 69 (35.20%) Analytics
5 63 (32.14%) Data Engineering
5 63 (32.14%) Data Modelling
6 56 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
7 49 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (24.49%) AI
9 47 (23.98%) Containerisation
10 45 (22.96%) Coaching
11 43 (21.94%) ETL
12 42 (21.43%) Agile
12 42 (21.43%) Microservices
13 41 (20.92%) Continuous Delivery
14 40 (20.41%) Clean Code
15 37 (18.88%) Business Intelligence
16 36 (18.37%) DevOps
16 36 (18.37%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 126 (64.29%) Python
2 72 (36.73%) Java
3 71 (36.22%) SQL
4 40 (20.41%) Go
5 15 (7.65%) C++
6 12 (6.12%) Bicep
7 11 (5.61%) Rust
8 9 (4.59%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.57%) C
9 7 (3.57%) Clojure
9 7 (3.57%) Erlang
9 7 (3.57%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.06%) JavaScript
11 5 (2.55%) Ruby
12 4 (2.04%) Elixir
12 4 (2.04%) R
13 3 (1.53%) C#
13 3 (1.53%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.02%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.18%) Azure Certification
4 15 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (5.61%) SnowPro
6 8 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.08%) Degree
7 4 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (23.98%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.02%) GDPR
3 2 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 59 (30.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.69%) Terraform
3 3 (1.53%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.53%) Kibana
4 2 (1.02%) Ansible
Vendors
1 38 (19.39%) Databricks
2 36 (18.37%) Typelevel
3 26 (13.27%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.55%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.04%) Google
6 3 (1.53%) Splunk
7 2 (1.02%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.51%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.51%) OpenAI