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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 469 448
Rank change year-on-year -10 -21 -198
Permanent jobs citing Scala 148 209 322
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.47% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% 1.36% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 64 121 273
10th Percentile £47,000 - £55,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £60,000
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 £107,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £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 11,123 15,395 24,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.81% 34.42% 36.58%
Number of salaries quoted 8,273 9,222 20,736
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,250
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 £103,750 £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 14 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 14 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 +13 97 £95,000 +11.76% 24
North of England -29 17 £75,000 +17.65% 6
Yorkshire -45 9 £49,000 -
West Midlands +24 8 £65,000 -10.34% 6
North West +13 8 £75,000 +15.38% 6
Midlands +12 8 £65,000 -7.14% 7
South East -3 8 £55,000 -21.43% 9
South West -10 8 £55,200 -18.22% 3
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 27 (18.24%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.38%) Apache
2 5 (3.38%) IIS
3 4 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 69 (46.62%) AWS
2 41 (27.70%) Azure
3 40 (27.03%) GCP
4 20 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (12.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (10.81%) Power Platform
7 15 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (9.46%) Amazon Kinesis
9 13 (8.78%) GitHub
9 13 (8.78%) Serverless
10 10 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (6.08%) Amazon S3
11 9 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (5.41%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (4.73%) Amazon SageMaker
13 7 (4.73%) Snowflake
14 5 (3.38%) dbt
15 3 (2.03%) Amazon EMR
16 2 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
16 2 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (29.05%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.92%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (14.86%) Data Lake
3 21 (14.19%) Big Data
4 19 (12.84%) Hadoop
5 16 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (10.81%) Power BI
6 14 (9.46%) Delta Lake
6 14 (9.46%) Metadata
7 12 (8.11%) NoSQL
8 11 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (6.08%) MySQL
10 8 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (5.41%) Apache Hive
10 8 (5.41%) Tableau
11 7 (4.73%) DynamoDB
11 7 (4.73%) SQL Server
12 6 (4.05%) Data Mining
13 5 (3.38%) Couchbase
13 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
13 5 (3.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 23 (15.54%) TeamCity
3 21 (14.19%) Git
4 3 (2.03%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.03%) JUnit
5 2 (1.35%) Gatling
5 2 (1.35%) JMeter
5 2 (1.35%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.35%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 36 (24.32%) Finance
2 27 (18.24%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.43%) Marketing
6 7 (4.73%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.70%) Legal
8 4 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.70%) Retail
9 2 (1.35%) Billing
9 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Front Office
10 1 (0.68%) Games
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Law
Job Titles
1 56 (37.84%) Data Engineer
2 49 (33.11%) Senior
3 32 (21.62%) Software Engineer
4 30 (20.27%) Scala Engineer
5 28 (18.92%) Developer
6 19 (12.84%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (12.16%) Scala Developer
7 18 (12.16%) Scala Software Engineer
8 15 (10.14%) Lead
9 12 (8.11%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.08%) Senior Scala Developer
10 9 (6.08%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) AWS Data Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Azure Data Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Ruby Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.54%) Akka
2 22 (14.86%) Kafka
2 22 (14.86%) PySpark
3 18 (12.16%) gRPC
4 7 (4.73%) boto
4 7 (4.73%) React
4 7 (4.73%) Spark Streaming
5 6 (4.05%) Play Framework
5 6 (4.05%) Spring
6 5 (3.38%) Memcached
7 4 (2.70%) .NET
8 3 (2.03%) Flutter
9 2 (1.35%) PostGIS
10 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.68%) LAMP
10 1 (0.68%) NetworkX
10 1 (0.68%) Node.js
10 1 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (29.73%) Distributed Systems
2 42 (28.38%) Video\Live Streaming
3 41 (27.70%) Over-the-Top Content
4 8 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (4.73%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.73%) e-Learning
6 6 (4.05%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.05%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.38%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.68%) Anti-Piracy
10 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) Social Media
10 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.38%) Linux
2 2 (1.35%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Android
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (49.32%) Analytics
2 59 (39.86%) Agile
3 58 (39.19%) CI/CD
4 53 (35.81%) Data Pipeline
5 52 (35.14%) Data Science
6 48 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (30.41%) Data Engineering
7 45 (30.41%) Data Modelling
7 45 (30.41%) Machine Learning
8 41 (27.70%) Software Engineering
9 39 (26.35%) DevOps
10 37 (25.00%) ETL
11 33 (22.30%) TDD
12 32 (21.62%) Data Analytics
12 32 (21.62%) Open Source
13 28 (18.92%) Data Governance
13 28 (18.92%) Scrum
14 25 (16.89%) Continuous Delivery
14 25 (16.89%) Microservices
14 25 (16.89%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 86 (58.11%) Python
2 53 (35.81%) Java
3 51 (34.46%) SQL
4 21 (14.19%) Go
5 20 (13.51%) Kotlin
6 10 (6.76%) Ruby
7 9 (6.08%) R
8 6 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.70%) C#
9 4 (2.70%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.70%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.03%) Bicep
11 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.68%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.68%) C++
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (14.19%) Degree
2 11 (7.43%) Master's Degree
3 10 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.76%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.08%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.38%) MBA
7 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) OSCP
8 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.27%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.78%) GDPR
3 6 (4.05%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 48 (32.43%) Docker
2 9 (6.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 20 (13.51%) Terraform
3 3 (2.03%) Control-M
4 1 (0.68%) Argo
4 1 (0.68%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 40 (27.03%) Databricks
2 18 (12.16%) Typelevel
3 6 (4.05%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.38%) BT
4 5 (3.38%) Oracle
5 4 (2.70%) Palantir
6 3 (2.03%) BMC
6 3 (2.03%) IBM
6 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.03%) Talend
7 2 (1.35%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.35%) mParticle
7 2 (1.35%) PayPal
7 2 (1.35%) Zuora
8 1 (0.68%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.68%) Google
8 1 (0.68%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.68%) Rackspace