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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 463 464
Rank change year-on-year -31 +1 -208
Permanent jobs citing Scala 152 199 319
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.47% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% 1.35% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 59 121 271
10th Percentile £45,985 - £52,500
25th Percentile £51,825 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,592
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.84% -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 11,414 14,782 24,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.55% 34.69% 36.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,396 9,178 20,608
10th Percentile £34,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +12 99 £100,000 +17.65% 17
North of England -36 13 £75,000 +20.00% 14
West Midlands +22 11 £65,250 -10.00% 4
Midlands +6 11 £65,250 -8.42% 4
South West +2 9 £55,200 -18.22% 7
South East -19 8 £55,000 -21.43% 7
Yorkshire -47 7 £49,000 -12.11% 2
North West -3 6 £75,000 +25.00% 10
East of England - 1 - - 5
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 28 (18.42%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.29%) IIS
4 3 (1.97%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 73 (48.03%) AWS
2 49 (32.24%) GCP
3 35 (23.03%) Azure
4 19 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (11.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (9.21%) GitHub
8 13 (8.55%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (7.89%) Power Platform
10 10 (6.58%) Serverless
11 9 (5.92%) Amazon S3
11 9 (5.92%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (5.92%) dbt
12 8 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
12 8 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.61%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (4.61%) Snowflake
14 6 (3.95%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (3.95%) Dagster
15 3 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 57 (37.50%) Broadband
2 1 (0.66%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.47%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (13.16%) Data Lake
3 17 (11.18%) Big Data
3 17 (11.18%) Hadoop
4 16 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (10.53%) Metadata
5 14 (9.21%) Delta Lake
6 12 (7.89%) NoSQL
6 12 (7.89%) Power BI
7 10 (6.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (5.92%) MySQL
9 8 (5.26%) BigQuery
9 8 (5.26%) Tableau
10 7 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (4.61%) Apache Hive
10 7 (4.61%) DynamoDB
10 7 (4.61%) SQL Server
11 6 (3.95%) Data Mining
12 5 (3.29%) MongoDB
12 5 (3.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (18.42%) Jenkins
2 23 (15.13%) TeamCity
3 21 (13.82%) Git
4 3 (1.97%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.97%) JUnit
5 2 (1.32%) Gatling
5 2 (1.32%) JMeter
5 2 (1.32%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.32%) Selenium
6 1 (0.66%) JIRA
General
1 33 (21.71%) Finance
2 25 (16.45%) Social Skills
3 20 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.58%) Marketing
6 6 (3.95%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.95%) Law
7 5 (3.29%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Legal
9 3 (1.97%) Retail
10 2 (1.32%) Billing
10 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Advertising
11 1 (0.66%) Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Front Office
11 1 (0.66%) Games
11 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 55 (36.18%) Data Engineer
1 55 (36.18%) Senior
2 38 (25.00%) Scala Engineer
3 34 (22.37%) Software Engineer
4 28 (18.42%) Developer
5 23 (15.13%) Senior Data Engineer
6 21 (13.82%) Scala Developer
6 21 (13.82%) Scala Software Engineer
7 11 (7.24%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.24%) Senior Scala Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Lead
8 9 (5.92%) Senior Scala Developer
9 7 (4.61%) AWS Data Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Azure Data Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Ruby Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Software Developer
11 5 (3.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.76%) gRPC
2 25 (16.45%) Kafka
3 23 (15.13%) Akka
4 21 (13.82%) PySpark
5 6 (3.95%) boto
5 6 (3.95%) Play Framework
5 6 (3.95%) Spark Streaming
5 6 (3.95%) Spring
6 5 (3.29%) Memcached
7 3 (1.97%) .NET
7 3 (1.97%) React
8 2 (1.32%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.66%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.66%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.66%) LAMP
9 1 (0.66%) NetworkX
9 1 (0.66%) Node.js
9 1 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.66%) WireMock
9 1 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (33.55%) Video\Live Streaming
2 50 (32.89%) Over-the-Top Content
3 49 (32.24%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (7.89%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.95%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.95%) e-Learning
5 6 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.95%) Social Media
6 5 (3.29%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.29%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.63%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.66%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Android
2 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (46.71%) Analytics
2 64 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 61 (40.13%) Data Science
4 55 (36.18%) Agile
5 53 (34.87%) Data Pipeline
5 53 (34.87%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (32.89%) Machine Learning
7 49 (32.24%) Software Engineering
8 44 (28.95%) Data Engineering
9 43 (28.29%) Data Modelling
10 37 (24.34%) DevOps
11 36 (23.68%) ETL
12 34 (22.37%) Continuous Delivery
13 33 (21.71%) Microservices
14 32 (21.05%) Coaching
14 32 (21.05%) Open Source
14 32 (21.05%) TDD
15 31 (20.39%) Data Governance
16 30 (19.74%) Containerisation
16 30 (19.74%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 92 (60.53%) Python
2 52 (34.21%) Java
3 51 (33.55%) SQL
4 27 (17.76%) Go
5 17 (11.18%) Kotlin
6 10 (6.58%) Ruby
7 8 (5.26%) R
8 6 (3.95%) C++
9 4 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.63%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.97%) Bicep
10 3 (1.97%) C#
10 3 (1.97%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.66%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.66%) Perl
12 1 (0.66%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (13.16%) Degree
2 11 (7.24%) Master's Degree
3 10 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.58%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.92%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.29%) MBA
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.66%) CISSP
8 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) OSCP
8 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.76%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.24%) GDPR
3 6 (3.95%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 58 (38.16%) Docker
2 7 (4.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 21 (13.82%) Terraform
3 3 (1.97%) Control-M
4 1 (0.66%) Argo
4 1 (0.66%) Grafana
4 1 (0.66%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 37 (24.34%) Databricks
2 27 (17.76%) Typelevel
3 5 (3.29%) BT
3 5 (3.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.63%) Oracle
4 4 (2.63%) Palantir
5 3 (1.97%) BMC
5 3 (1.97%) IBM
5 3 (1.97%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.97%) Talend
6 2 (1.32%) GoCardless
6 2 (1.32%) mParticle
6 2 (1.32%) PayPal
6 2 (1.32%) Zuora
7 1 (0.66%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.66%) Google
7 1 (0.66%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.66%) Rackspace