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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 433 434
Rank change year-on-year -56 +1 -167
Permanent jobs citing Scala 126 277 244
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.54% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.22% 1.57% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 79 129 204
10th Percentile £48,200 - £56,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £111,746
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £143,375
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 10,320 17,613 17,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.04% 34.22% 40.77%
Number of salaries quoted 7,801 10,653 14,662
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,250 £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 £85,420 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £110,000
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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -3 83 £90,000 +7.00% 34
North of England -50 24 £65,000 -10.34% 6
Yorkshire -25 15 £49,000 -1.00%
West Midlands +35 10 £65,000 - 5
Midlands +33 10 £65,000 -7.14% 8
North East -9 6 £65,000 -10.34%
North West -8 5 £75,000 - 6
South East +25 4 - - 23
South West +10 3 £55,200 -33.09% 2
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 33 (26.19%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.97%) Apache
4 3 (2.38%) IIS
4 3 (2.38%) Luigi
5 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (50.79%) AWS
2 45 (35.71%) Azure
3 25 (19.84%) Power Platform
4 24 (19.05%) GCP
5 18 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (14.29%) Serverless
6 17 (13.49%) Amazon Kinesis
6 17 (13.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (11.90%) Amazon S3
7 15 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (7.94%) Amazon SageMaker
11 8 (6.35%) Snowflake
12 7 (5.56%) GitHub
13 6 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (3.17%) Azure Storage
14 4 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (3.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) Broadband
2 1 (0.79%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (26.98%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (19.84%) Power BI
3 21 (16.67%) Big Data
4 20 (15.87%) Data Lake
4 20 (15.87%) Hadoop
5 17 (13.49%) Metadata
6 16 (12.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (8.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (8.73%) NoSQL
8 10 (7.94%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (7.14%) Apache Hive
9 9 (7.14%) Delta Lake
9 9 (7.14%) MySQL
10 8 (6.35%) DynamoDB
11 6 (4.76%) Power Query
11 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
11 6 (4.76%) Tableau
12 5 (3.97%) Couchbase
12 5 (3.97%) Data Vault
12 5 (3.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (9.52%) Git
2 11 (8.73%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.59%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.59%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.59%) Gatling
3 2 (1.59%) JMeter
3 2 (1.59%) JUnit
3 2 (1.59%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.59%) Selenium
4 1 (0.79%) JIRA
4 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (35.71%) Finance
2 31 (24.60%) Social Skills
3 27 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.94%) Financial Institution
6 8 (6.35%) Marketing
7 5 (3.97%) Legal
8 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.38%) Retail
9 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.79%) Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 60 (47.62%) Data Engineer
2 43 (34.13%) Senior
3 27 (21.43%) Developer
4 23 (18.25%) Senior Data Engineer
5 22 (17.46%) Lead
6 12 (9.52%) Azure Data Engineer
6 12 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (9.52%) Scala Developer
6 12 (9.52%) Software Engineer
7 11 (8.73%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (8.73%) Java Developer
7 11 (8.73%) Lead Developer
8 10 (7.94%) AWS Data Engineer
8 10 (7.94%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.35%) Lead Data Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Lead Java Developer
10 6 (4.76%) Principal Developer
10 6 (4.76%) Principal Java Developer
10 6 (4.76%) Ruby Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.84%) Kafka
2 15 (11.90%) PySpark
3 10 (7.94%) React
3 10 (7.94%) Spark Streaming
4 9 (7.14%) Flutter
5 8 (6.35%) boto
6 7 (5.56%) Spring
7 5 (3.97%) Memcached
7 5 (3.97%) Play Framework
8 4 (3.17%) .NET
9 2 (1.59%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.59%) PostGIS
9 2 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.59%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.59%) XML
10 1 (0.79%) MapLibre
10 1 (0.79%) NetworkX
10 1 (0.79%) PyTorch
10 1 (0.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.73%) Data Structures
3 10 (7.94%) e-Learning
4 9 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 9 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.76%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.97%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.17%) Derivative
7 4 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.79%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.79%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (2.38%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Android
3 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
2 50 (39.68%) Data Engineering
2 50 (39.68%) Data Modelling
3 48 (38.10%) Analytics
4 44 (34.92%) Agile
4 44 (34.92%) DevOps
5 43 (34.13%) Machine Learning
6 41 (32.54%) ETL
7 37 (29.37%) CI/CD
8 36 (28.57%) Data Science
9 30 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (21.43%) Data Governance
11 22 (17.46%) Computer Science
11 22 (17.46%) Mentoring
12 21 (16.67%) AI
13 17 (13.49%) Decision-Making
13 17 (13.49%) Roadmaps
14 15 (11.90%) Software Engineering
15 14 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 77 (61.11%) Python
2 65 (51.59%) Java
3 55 (43.65%) SQL
4 29 (23.02%) Kotlin
5 11 (8.73%) R
6 10 (7.94%) Ruby
7 9 (7.14%) Go
8 8 (6.35%) C#
8 8 (6.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.97%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.17%) F#
10 4 (3.17%) Haskell
10 4 (3.17%) OCaml
11 3 (2.38%) Bicep
11 3 (2.38%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.59%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.79%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.79%) Elixir
13 1 (0.79%) Perl
13 1 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (17.46%) Degree
2 12 (9.52%) Master's Degree
3 11 (8.73%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.94%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.35%) Azure Certification
5 8 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.97%) PhD
7 3 (2.38%) MBA
8 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.79%) CISSP
9 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.79%) OSCP
9 1 (0.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (20.63%) Data Quality
2 16 (12.70%) GDPR
3 5 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.17%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.38%) QA
6 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (7.94%) HDFS
2 8 (6.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (11.11%) Terraform
2 11 (8.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.38%) Control-M
3 3 (2.38%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.59%) Ansible
4 2 (1.59%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.59%) Puppet
5 1 (0.79%) Argo
5 1 (0.79%) Grafana
5 1 (0.79%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 40 (31.75%) Databricks
2 7 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.76%) Oracle
4 5 (3.97%) Google
4 5 (3.97%) Palantir
5 3 (2.38%) BMC
5 3 (2.38%) BT
5 3 (2.38%) IBM
5 3 (2.38%) Talend
6 1 (0.79%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.79%) Informatica
6 1 (0.79%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.79%) Rackspace
6 1 (0.79%) Salesforce