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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 494 494
Rank change year-on-year -23 0 -216
Permanent jobs citing Scala 169 134 351
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.34% 0.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 1.05% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 64 84 257
10th Percentile £47,214 - £52,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,313 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £102,300 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -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 14,545 12,741 27,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.81% 32.35% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10,268 8,904 22,390
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -19 97 £100,000 +48.15% 41
South East -20 13 £55,000 -21.43% 11
South West -35 13 £48,975 -26.08% 12
East of England -11 12 £100,000 +53.85% 8
North of England -43 12 £66,250 -1.85% 29
West Midlands -21 10 £75,000 +3.45% 3
Midlands -23 10 £75,000 +3.45% 8
Yorkshire -51 6 £90,000 +61.43% 11
North West +4 4 £75,000 -6.25% 10
North East -39 2 £57,500 -8.00% 8
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 30 (17.75%) Apache Spark
2 16 (9.47%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (5.92%) Apache
4 5 (2.96%) IIS
5 2 (1.18%) Luigi
6 1 (0.59%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.59%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 95 (56.21%) AWS
2 76 (44.97%) GCP
3 42 (24.85%) Azure
4 21 (12.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (11.24%) GitHub
6 18 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (10.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 13 (7.69%) Power Platform
9 9 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (5.33%) Cloud Composer
10 8 (4.73%) Amazon SageMaker
10 8 (4.73%) dbt
11 7 (4.14%) Snowflake
12 6 (3.55%) Dagster
12 6 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.37%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 4 (2.37%) Prefect
14 3 (1.78%) SaaS
14 3 (1.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 74 (43.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.06%) Metadata
2 16 (9.47%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (9.47%) Delta Lake
3 15 (8.88%) Big Data
3 15 (8.88%) Data Lake
4 14 (8.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (8.28%) BigQuery
4 14 (8.28%) Hadoop
4 14 (8.28%) NoSQL
5 11 (6.51%) Power BI
6 10 (5.92%) Tableau
7 8 (4.73%) MongoDB
7 8 (4.73%) MySQL
7 8 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (4.73%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.14%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.96%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (2.96%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 27 (15.98%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.02%) TeamCity
3 21 (12.43%) Git
4 4 (2.37%) GitLab
5 2 (1.18%) Gatling
5 2 (1.18%) Maven
6 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.59%) JUnit
General
1 23 (13.61%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.83%) Finance
4 13 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.14%) Marketing
6 6 (3.55%) Law
7 5 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.18%) Billing
10 2 (1.18%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.18%) Legal
11 1 (0.59%) Advertising
11 1 (0.59%) Games
11 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (34.91%) Data Engineer
2 51 (30.18%) Scala Engineer
3 49 (28.99%) Senior
4 36 (21.30%) Software Engineer
5 28 (16.57%) Developer
6 27 (15.98%) Scala Software Engineer
7 23 (13.61%) Scala Developer
8 17 (10.06%) Lead
8 17 (10.06%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (7.69%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) Architect
12 7 (4.14%) Senior Developer
12 7 (4.14%) Senior Manager
12 7 (4.14%) Systems Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) Backend Developer
13 6 (3.55%) Senior Scala Developer
13 6 (3.55%) Software Developer
14 5 (2.96%) Data Science Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (26.63%) gRPC
2 23 (13.61%) PySpark
3 22 (13.02%) Akka
4 18 (10.65%) Kafka
5 6 (3.55%) Node.js
6 5 (2.96%) Play Framework
6 5 (2.96%) React
7 4 (2.37%) OAuth
7 4 (2.37%) OpenID
8 3 (1.78%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.78%) Spring
9 2 (1.18%) .NET
9 2 (1.18%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.18%) Memcached
9 2 (1.18%) Playwright
9 2 (1.18%) PostGIS
10 1 (0.59%) D3.js
10 1 (0.59%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 68 (40.24%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (39.64%) Over-the-Top Content
3 56 (33.14%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.33%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.55%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.55%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.55%) Social Media
6 5 (2.96%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.78%) Robotics
8 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.59%) IoT
10 1 (0.59%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.59%) Linux
1 1 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (49.70%) CI/CD
2 83 (49.11%) Data Science
3 78 (46.15%) Analytics
4 71 (42.01%) Software Engineering
5 69 (40.83%) Machine Learning
6 61 (36.09%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (34.32%) Data Pipeline
8 54 (31.95%) Agile
9 52 (30.77%) Coaching
10 49 (28.99%) Containerisation
10 49 (28.99%) Microservices
11 48 (28.40%) Continuous Delivery
11 48 (28.40%) ETL
12 45 (26.63%) Clean Code
12 45 (26.63%) Data Modelling
12 45 (26.63%) Personalization
13 44 (26.04%) Data Engineering
14 40 (23.67%) DevOps
15 30 (17.75%) Open Source
16 28 (16.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 121 (71.60%) Python
2 59 (34.91%) SQL
3 46 (27.22%) Go
4 45 (26.63%) Java
5 9 (5.33%) C++
6 7 (4.14%) Rust
7 6 (3.55%) R
7 6 (3.55%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.37%) Elixir
8 4 (2.37%) Ruby
9 3 (1.78%) Bicep
9 3 (1.78%) C
9 3 (1.78%) C#
9 3 (1.78%) Clojure
9 3 (1.78%) Erlang
9 3 (1.78%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.18%) PHP
11 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.65%) Degree
2 13 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (6.51%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.33%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.55%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.96%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.96%) MBA
7 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (22.49%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.18%) QA
4 1 (0.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 82 (48.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (20.12%) Kubernetes
2 24 (14.20%) Terraform
3 3 (1.78%) Control-M
4 2 (1.18%) Ansible
4 2 (1.18%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.59%) Argo
5 1 (0.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 45 (26.63%) Typelevel
2 30 (17.75%) Databricks
3 12 (7.10%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.96%) BT
5 4 (2.37%) Google
6 3 (1.78%) BMC
6 3 (1.78%) IBM
6 3 (1.78%) Talend
7 2 (1.18%) Braze
7 2 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.18%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.18%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.18%) mParticle
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle
7 2 (1.18%) Palantir
7 2 (1.18%) PayPal
7 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.18%) Zuora
8 1 (0.59%) OpenAI