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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 517 441
Rank change year-on-year -20 -76 -10
Permanent jobs citing Scala 200 129 384
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.30% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.23% 0.99% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 111 71 180
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £49,975
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,625 £63,750
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 £123,750 £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 16,311 13,067 23,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.20% 30.08% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11,881 8,816 17,886
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -20 105 £105,000 +16.67% 62
North of England -20 33 £66,250 +1.92% 15
North West +16 20 £57,500 -28.13% 7
South West - 20 £63,500 - 4
East of England -5 13 £100,000 +53.85%
Midlands -29 12 £85,000 +30.77% 5
West Midlands -19 7 £85,000 +30.77% 4
South East -31 7 £55,000 -21.43% 15
Yorkshire -41 7 £90,000 +44.00% 5
North East -47 6 £55,500 -14.62% 4
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 50 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 30 (15.00%) Apache
3 15 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.50%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.50%) SAS
5 2 (1.00%) Luigi
6 1 (0.50%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 106 (53.00%) AWS
2 87 (43.50%) GCP
3 64 (32.00%) Azure
4 29 (14.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (10.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 21 (10.50%) Power Platform
6 19 (9.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 17 (8.50%) GitHub
8 14 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.00%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (5.00%) Snowflake
11 9 (4.50%) Cloud Composer
12 8 (4.00%) Serverless
13 7 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.00%) Dagster
14 6 (3.00%) dbt
15 4 (2.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 4 (2.00%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (2.00%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 51 (25.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.00%) Big Data
1 26 (13.00%) Metadata
2 24 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (11.00%) Delta Lake
4 19 (9.50%) Power BI
5 16 (8.00%) BigQuery
6 15 (7.50%) Data Vault
6 15 (7.50%) Hadoop
6 15 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (6.50%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (6.50%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (5.50%) Relational Database
9 11 (5.50%) Tableau
10 10 (5.00%) SQL Server
11 9 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (3.00%) MongoDB
12 6 (3.00%) MySQL
13 5 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (2.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 19 (9.50%) Git
2 12 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.50%) GitLab
4 3 (1.50%) Gatling
4 3 (1.50%) Maven
4 3 (1.50%) Postman
4 3 (1.50%) Selenium
5 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.00%) JUnit
6 1 (0.50%) MLflow
General
1 45 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.00%) Finance
3 21 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.50%) Law
5 7 (3.50%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.00%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.00%) Advertising
7 4 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.00%) Marketing
8 3 (1.50%) Banking
8 3 (1.50%) Digital Healthcare
8 3 (1.50%) Legal
9 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.50%) Front Office
9 1 (0.50%) Games
9 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (31.00%) Data Engineer
2 47 (23.50%) Senior
3 40 (20.00%) Developer
3 40 (20.00%) Scala Engineer
4 30 (15.00%) Lead
4 30 (15.00%) Software Engineer
5 23 (11.50%) Architect
6 22 (11.00%) Scala Developer
7 19 (9.50%) Data Architect
8 17 (8.50%) Senior Data Engineer
9 16 (8.00%) Scala Software Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.50%) Consultant
11 11 (5.50%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (5.00%) Senior Scala Engineer
12 10 (5.00%) Software Consultant
13 7 (3.50%) Technical Leader
14 6 (3.00%) Senior Manager
14 6 (3.00%) Senior Technical Manager
14 6 (3.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.50%) gRPC
2 27 (13.50%) Kafka
3 24 (12.00%) PySpark
4 6 (3.00%) Node.js
5 5 (2.50%) React
6 4 (2.00%) OAuth
6 4 (2.00%) OpenID
6 4 (2.00%) RESTful
6 4 (2.00%) Spring
6 4 (2.00%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.50%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.50%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.50%) Hibernate
7 3 (1.50%) JPA
7 3 (1.50%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.50%) Play Framework
7 3 (1.50%) Playwright
7 3 (1.50%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.50%) Swagger
8 2 (1.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 51 (25.50%) Distributed Systems
2 45 (22.50%) Over-the-Top Content
2 45 (22.50%) Video\Live Streaming
3 25 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.50%) Robotics
7 6 (3.00%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.00%) Social Media
8 5 (2.50%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.50%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.50%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.50%) IoT
10 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.50%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
1 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (49.00%) CI/CD
2 86 (43.00%) Data Science
3 77 (38.50%) Software Engineering
4 76 (38.00%) Machine Learning
5 65 (32.50%) Analytics
6 62 (31.00%) Data Modelling
7 61 (30.50%) Data Engineering
8 59 (29.50%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (28.00%) Data Pipeline
10 55 (27.50%) Containerisation
11 54 (27.00%) Coaching
12 51 (25.50%) Microservices
13 50 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
14 49 (24.50%) Clean Code
15 45 (22.50%) Personalization
16 43 (21.50%) AI
16 43 (21.50%) ETL
17 42 (21.00%) Agile
18 37 (18.50%) Business Intelligence
19 35 (17.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 131 (65.50%) Python
2 69 (34.50%) Java
2 69 (34.50%) SQL
3 47 (23.50%) Go
4 14 (7.00%) C++
5 12 (6.00%) Bicep
6 11 (5.50%) Rust
7 7 (3.50%) C
7 7 (3.50%) Clojure
7 7 (3.50%) Erlang
7 7 (3.50%) Kotlin
7 7 (3.50%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.00%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.00%) Elixir
9 4 (2.00%) Ruby
10 3 (1.50%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.50%) R
11 2 (1.00%) C#
11 2 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.50%) Azure Certification
4 14 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (5.00%) SnowPro
6 8 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.00%) Degree
7 4 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (23.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.50%) QA
4 2 (1.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 67 (33.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (10.50%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.50%) Terraform
3 3 (1.50%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.50%) Kibana
4 2 (1.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (22.50%) Typelevel
2 37 (18.50%) Databricks
3 26 (13.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.50%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.00%) Google
6 3 (1.50%) Splunk
7 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.50%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.50%) OpenAI