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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 519 392
Rank change year-on-year -53 -127 +49
Permanent jobs citing Scala 190 116 379
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.27% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.14% 1.01% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 128 62 136
10th Percentile £53,375 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,665 £63,125 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -1.54%
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,625
90th Percentile £125,625 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -

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 16,661 11,455 20,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.01% 26.51% 31.20%
Number of salaries quoted 12,101 7,505 12,430
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -62 100 £105,000 +16.67% 236
North of England -39 44 £66,250 +1.92% 39
North West -9 25 £66,250 -17.19% 14
South West - 22 £91,000 - 18
North East -60 11 £57,500 -11.54% 19
Yorkshire -35 8 £90,000 +57.89% 6
East of England -23 7 £135,500 +108.46% 16
South East -37 6 £43,750 - 22
Midlands -54 6 £81,500 +25.38% 15
East Midlands - 5 - - 5
West Midlands -38 1 £81,500 +25.38% 10
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 54 (28.42%) Apache Spark
2 43 (22.63%) Apache
3 11 (5.79%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.58%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.58%) SAS
5 2 (1.05%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 86 (45.26%) Azure
2 64 (33.68%) AWS
3 46 (24.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 43 (22.63%) GCP
5 38 (20.00%) Azure Databricks
6 32 (16.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 27 (14.21%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (12.11%) Power Platform
9 20 (10.53%) GitHub
10 19 (10.00%) Snowflake
11 18 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (8.42%) Amazon S3
13 14 (7.37%) Serverless
14 13 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (6.84%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (3.68%) SaaS
16 6 (3.16%) Cloud Composer
16 6 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
17 5 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (20.00%) Big Data
2 33 (17.37%) Metadata
3 30 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (15.26%) Delta Lake
5 21 (11.05%) Hadoop
5 21 (11.05%) Power BI
6 20 (10.53%) Data Vault
7 18 (9.47%) NoSQL
8 17 (8.95%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (7.89%) Tableau
10 14 (7.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (7.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (6.84%) BigQuery
11 13 (6.84%) Data Lake
11 13 (6.84%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (6.84%) Relational Database
12 8 (4.21%) Flink
12 8 (4.21%) MongoDB
12 8 (4.21%) SQL Server
13 7 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 23 (12.11%) Git
2 20 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.21%) GitLab
4 4 (2.11%) Maven
5 3 (1.58%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.58%) JUnit
5 3 (1.58%) Postman
5 3 (1.58%) Selenium
6 2 (1.05%) Gatling
6 2 (1.05%) Gradle
6 2 (1.05%) Mockito
7 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 59 (31.05%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.26%) Finance
3 26 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.26%) Law
5 9 (4.74%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.68%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.63%) Legal
7 5 (2.63%) Marketing
8 4 (2.11%) Advertising
8 4 (2.11%) Banking
9 3 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.05%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Front Office
11 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (31.58%) Data Engineer
2 43 (22.63%) Senior
3 35 (18.42%) Architect
4 32 (16.84%) Developer
5 31 (16.32%) Data Architect
6 29 (15.26%) Lead
7 21 (11.05%) Software Engineer
8 16 (8.42%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (6.84%) Scala Developer
10 12 (6.32%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.79%) Azure Data Engineer
11 11 (5.79%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (5.79%) Consultant
11 11 (5.79%) Lead Software Engineer
11 11 (5.79%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (5.79%) Scala Engineer
12 10 (5.26%) Software Consultant
13 8 (4.21%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 8 (4.21%) Databricks Engineer
13 8 (4.21%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.47%) PySpark
2 29 (15.26%) Kafka
3 27 (14.21%) Terraform
4 8 (4.21%) React
5 6 (3.16%) Apache Beam
5 6 (3.16%) Spring
5 6 (3.16%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.63%) Hibernate
6 5 (2.63%) JPA
6 5 (2.63%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.63%) Play Framework
6 5 (2.63%) Spring MVC
6 5 (2.63%) Swagger
6 5 (2.63%) YAML
7 4 (2.11%) CrewAI
7 4 (2.11%) LangChain
7 4 (2.11%) RESTful
8 3 (1.58%) .NET
8 3 (1.58%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (22.63%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (3.68%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.68%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.68%) Robotics
4 4 (2.11%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.11%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.58%) Digital Signage
5 3 (1.58%) IPTV
5 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.05%) Blog
6 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) Life Science
7 1 (0.53%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.58%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (43.68%) Data Modelling
2 74 (38.95%) Analytics
3 73 (38.42%) Data Engineering
4 68 (35.79%) CI/CD
5 65 (34.21%) AI
6 64 (33.68%) Data Pipeline
7 63 (33.16%) Agile
8 48 (25.26%) DevOps
8 48 (25.26%) ETL
9 45 (23.68%) Business Intelligence
10 43 (22.63%) Data Science
11 41 (21.58%) Machine Learning
11 41 (21.58%) Software Engineering
12 40 (21.05%) Data Architecture
12 40 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (18.42%) Technical Leadership
14 32 (16.84%) Lakehouse
15 29 (15.26%) Mentoring
16 28 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (13.68%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 106 (55.79%) Python
2 90 (47.37%) SQL
3 78 (41.05%) Java
4 16 (8.42%) Bicep
5 11 (5.79%) Kotlin
5 11 (5.79%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.74%) C++
8 8 (4.21%) R
9 7 (3.68%) C
9 7 (3.68%) Clojure
9 7 (3.68%) Erlang
9 7 (3.68%) Rust
10 5 (2.63%) Go
11 4 (2.11%) C#
11 4 (2.11%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.05%) PHP
13 2 (1.05%) Ruby
14 1 (0.53%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 59 (31.05%) Security Cleared
2 42 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 28 (14.74%) Azure Certification
4 19 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (8.42%) SnowPro
6 11 (5.79%) Degree
7 8 (4.21%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.58%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (32.63%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.74%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.16%) QA
4 3 (1.58%) SLA
5 2 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (16.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (17.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.11%) Grafana
3 3 (1.58%) Kibana
4 2 (1.05%) Ansible
4 2 (1.05%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (30.53%) Databricks
2 38 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.26%) Google
4 8 (4.21%) Splunk
5 5 (2.63%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.11%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.58%) Cisco
7 3 (1.58%) New Relic
7 3 (1.58%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.58%) Polycom
8 2 (1.05%) Oracle
9 1 (0.53%) Informatica
9 1 (0.53%) Workday