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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 398 442
Rank change year-on-year -85 +44 -156
Permanent jobs citing Scala 131 342 256
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.57% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 1.77% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 73 137 221
10th Percentile £50,000 - £56,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.40% +3.52%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £111,746
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £78,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -

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 10,535 19,318 19,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.03% 32.19% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7,787 11,448 15,961
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £111,075 £107,500
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 18 November 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 18 November 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 -28 96 £90,000 +12.50% 88
North of England -66 23 £65,000 - 14
Yorkshire -11 14 £57,000 +15.17% 3
West Midlands +60 8 £65,000 - 5
Midlands +53 8 £65,000 -7.14% 7
North East -12 6 £65,000 - 1
North West -34 5 £75,000 +12.78% 10
South East +36 1 - - 13
South West +34 1 £75,000 -25.00%
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 31 (23.66%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.58%) Apache
3 5 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.29%) Luigi
5 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 81 (61.83%) AWS
2 48 (36.64%) Azure
3 31 (23.66%) GCP
4 24 (18.32%) Power Platform
5 22 (16.79%) Serverless
6 16 (12.21%) Amazon Kinesis
6 16 (12.21%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (10.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (9.16%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (7.63%) Amazon S3
11 8 (6.11%) GitHub
12 6 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (3.05%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (3.05%) Azure Storage
14 4 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (3.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) Broadband
1 2 (1.53%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (26.72%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (19.85%) Big Data
3 24 (18.32%) Power BI
4 17 (12.98%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (12.98%) Data Lake
5 16 (12.21%) Hadoop
5 16 (12.21%) NoSQL
6 12 (9.16%) Metadata
7 10 (7.63%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (7.63%) DynamoDB
7 10 (7.63%) MySQL
8 9 (6.87%) Apache Hive
9 8 (6.11%) Power Query
10 6 (4.58%) Data Vault
10 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
11 5 (3.82%) MongoDB
11 5 (3.82%) SQL Server
12 4 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (3.05%) Delta Lake
12 4 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.63%) Git
1 10 (7.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.05%) git-flow
3 2 (1.53%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.53%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.53%) Gatling
3 2 (1.53%) JMeter
3 2 (1.53%) JUnit
3 2 (1.53%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.53%) Selenium
4 1 (0.76%) JIRA
4 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (45.80%) Finance
2 39 (29.77%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (14.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (12.21%) Law
6 14 (10.69%) Banking
7 10 (7.63%) Financial Institution
8 9 (6.87%) Public Sector
9 7 (5.34%) Legal
9 7 (5.34%) Marketing
10 4 (3.05%) Retail
11 3 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.53%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 53 (40.46%) Data Engineer
2 39 (29.77%) Senior
3 34 (25.95%) Lead
4 29 (22.14%) Developer
5 26 (19.85%) Software Engineer
6 19 (14.50%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (14.50%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) Azure Data Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) Java Engineer
8 12 (9.16%) Java Developer
8 12 (9.16%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (9.16%) Scala Developer
9 11 (8.40%) Lead Developer
10 10 (7.63%) AWS Data Engineer
10 10 (7.63%) Lead Data Engineer
10 10 (7.63%) Senior Developer
11 8 (6.11%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Lead Java Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.66%) Kafka
2 14 (10.69%) Spring
3 11 (8.40%) React
4 10 (7.63%) Spark Streaming
5 9 (6.87%) Flutter
6 8 (6.11%) boto
6 8 (6.11%) Web Services
7 7 (5.34%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (5.34%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.82%) PySpark
8 5 (3.82%) REST
8 5 (3.82%) RESTful
9 3 (2.29%) .NET
9 3 (2.29%) Memcached
10 2 (1.53%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.53%) Play Framework
10 2 (1.53%) XML
11 1 (0.76%) Apache NiFi
11 1 (0.76%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 34 (25.95%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (13.74%) Cloud Native
3 12 (9.16%) Derivative
4 10 (7.63%) e-Learning
4 10 (7.63%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (6.87%) Data Structures
5 9 (6.87%) Management Information System
6 8 (6.11%) Equity Derivative
7 7 (5.34%) Algorithms
7 7 (5.34%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.76%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.76%) Over-the-Top Content
10 1 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.40%) Linux
2 3 (2.29%) Unix
3 1 (0.76%) Android
3 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.93%) Agile
2 45 (34.35%) Data Engineering
2 45 (34.35%) Data Pipeline
2 45 (34.35%) Machine Learning
3 44 (33.59%) Data Modelling
4 43 (32.82%) CI/CD
5 39 (29.77%) Analytics
6 36 (27.48%) ETL
7 33 (25.19%) DevOps
8 31 (23.66%) Data Science
8 31 (23.66%) Software Engineering
9 30 (22.90%) AI
10 26 (19.85%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (19.85%) Data Governance
11 25 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (19.08%) SDLC
12 22 (16.79%) Mentoring
13 21 (16.03%) Microservices
14 19 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (14.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 78 (59.54%) Java
2 69 (52.67%) Python
3 52 (39.69%) SQL
4 43 (32.82%) Kotlin
5 10 (7.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (7.63%) Ruby
6 9 (6.87%) Go
7 8 (6.11%) C#
7 8 (6.11%) R
8 5 (3.82%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.05%) F#
9 4 (3.05%) Haskell
9 4 (3.05%) OCaml
10 2 (1.53%) Bicep
10 2 (1.53%) Groovy
10 2 (1.53%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.76%) Clojure
11 1 (0.76%) Elixir
11 1 (0.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (14.50%) Degree
2 10 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.87%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.34%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.82%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.82%) PhD
6 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.76%) CISSP
8 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) OSCP
8 1 (0.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.74%) GDPR
2 17 (12.98%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.29%) QA
5 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) MiFID
5 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (12.21%) Docker
2 10 (7.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (17.56%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.16%) Terraform
3 3 (2.29%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.53%) Ansible
4 2 (1.53%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.53%) Puppet
5 1 (0.76%) Grafana
5 1 (0.76%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 32 (24.43%) Databricks
2 7 (5.34%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.58%) Google
4 5 (3.82%) Oracle
5 4 (3.05%) Palantir
6 3 (2.29%) Informatica
7 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.76%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.76%) Rackspace
7 1 (0.76%) Reuters
7 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.76%) Talend