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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 522 443
Rank change year-on-year -23 -79 -5
Permanent jobs citing Scala 192 126 378
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.29% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 0.97% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 111 68 175
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £49,850
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £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 £130,000 £111,250 £104,000
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 16,326 12,958 22,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.09% 29.83% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,891 8,708 17,187
10th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £46,250
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 29 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 29 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 -23 100 £105,000 +16.67% 65
North of England -19 34 £75,000 +15.38% 17
North West +3 21 £57,500 -28.13% 5
South West - 20 £63,500 - 6
East of England -12 13 £100,000 +53.85%
Midlands -30 12 £85,000 +30.77% 9
West Midlands -28 7 £85,000 +30.77% 8
Yorkshire -34 7 £90,000 +61.43% 6
South East -34 6 £55,000 -25.42% 12
North East -49 6 £55,500 -14.62% 7
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 (26.04%) Apache Spark
2 30 (15.63%) Apache
3 15 (7.81%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.56%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.56%) SAS
5 2 (1.04%) Luigi
6 1 (0.52%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 98 (51.04%) AWS
2 78 (40.63%) GCP
3 64 (33.33%) Azure
4 29 (15.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (10.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 20 (10.42%) Microsoft Purview
6 20 (10.42%) Power Platform
7 17 (8.85%) GitHub
8 13 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (5.73%) Snowflake
11 9 (4.69%) Cloud Composer
12 8 (4.17%) Serverless
13 7 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.13%) Dagster
14 6 (3.13%) dbt
15 4 (2.08%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 4 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (2.08%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 42 (21.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.06%) Metadata
2 26 (13.54%) Big Data
3 23 (11.98%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (11.98%) Delta Lake
4 18 (9.38%) Power BI
5 16 (8.33%) BigQuery
5 16 (8.33%) Data Vault
6 15 (7.81%) Hadoop
6 15 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (6.77%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (6.77%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (5.73%) Relational Database
9 11 (5.73%) Tableau
10 9 (4.69%) SQL Server
11 8 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (3.13%) MongoDB
12 6 (3.13%) MySQL
13 5 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (8.85%) Git
2 12 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.65%) GitLab
4 3 (1.56%) Gatling
4 3 (1.56%) Maven
4 3 (1.56%) Postman
4 3 (1.56%) Selenium
5 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.52%) JUnit
5 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 45 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.23%) Finance
3 21 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.81%) Law
5 7 (3.65%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.60%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.08%) Advertising
7 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.08%) Marketing
8 3 (1.56%) Banking
8 3 (1.56%) Digital Healthcare
8 3 (1.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.52%) Front Office
9 1 (0.52%) Games
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (30.73%) Data Engineer
2 46 (23.96%) Senior
3 37 (19.27%) Developer
4 35 (18.23%) Scala Engineer
5 30 (15.63%) Lead
6 28 (14.58%) Software Engineer
7 24 (12.50%) Architect
8 20 (10.42%) Data Architect
9 19 (9.90%) Scala Developer
10 17 (8.85%) Senior Data Engineer
11 13 (6.77%) Scala Software Engineer
12 12 (6.25%) Software Developer
13 11 (5.73%) Consultant
13 11 (5.73%) Lead Software Engineer
14 10 (5.21%) Senior Scala Engineer
14 10 (5.21%) Software Consultant
15 7 (3.65%) Technical Leader
16 6 (3.13%) Java Developer
16 6 (3.13%) Senior Technical Manager
16 6 (3.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.75%) gRPC
2 27 (14.06%) Kafka
3 25 (13.02%) PySpark
4 6 (3.13%) Node.js
4 6 (3.13%) React
5 4 (2.08%) OAuth
5 4 (2.08%) OpenID
5 4 (2.08%) RESTful
5 4 (2.08%) Spring
5 4 (2.08%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.56%) Apache Beam
6 3 (1.56%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.56%) Hibernate
6 3 (1.56%) JPA
6 3 (1.56%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.56%) Play Framework
6 3 (1.56%) Playwright
6 3 (1.56%) Spring MVC
6 3 (1.56%) Swagger
7 2 (1.04%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 42 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (18.75%) Over-the-Top Content
2 36 (18.75%) Video\Live Streaming
3 27 (14.06%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.21%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.65%) Robotics
7 6 (3.13%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.13%) Social Media
8 5 (2.60%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.52%) IoT
11 1 (0.52%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Linux
1 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (46.35%) CI/CD
2 77 (40.10%) Data Science
3 70 (36.46%) Machine Learning
3 70 (36.46%) Software Engineering
4 66 (34.38%) Analytics
5 62 (32.29%) Data Modelling
6 61 (31.77%) Data Engineering
7 55 (28.65%) Data Pipeline
8 49 (25.52%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (23.96%) AI
9 46 (23.96%) Containerisation
10 45 (23.44%) Coaching
11 42 (21.88%) ETL
11 42 (21.88%) Microservices
12 41 (21.35%) Agile
12 41 (21.35%) Continuous Delivery
13 40 (20.83%) Clean Code
14 37 (19.27%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (18.75%) Personalization
16 35 (18.23%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 124 (64.58%) Python
2 70 (36.46%) Java
2 70 (36.46%) SQL
3 39 (20.31%) Go
4 14 (7.29%) C++
5 12 (6.25%) Bicep
6 11 (5.73%) Rust
7 9 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.65%) C
8 7 (3.65%) Clojure
8 7 (3.65%) Erlang
8 7 (3.65%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.13%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.60%) Ruby
11 4 (2.08%) Elixir
11 4 (2.08%) R
12 3 (1.56%) C#
12 3 (1.56%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (18.23%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.02%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.38%) Azure Certification
4 15 (7.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (5.73%) SnowPro
6 8 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.17%) Degree
7 4 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (23.96%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.04%) GDPR
3 2 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 58 (30.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.90%) Terraform
3 3 (1.56%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.56%) Kibana
4 2 (1.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 38 (19.79%) Databricks
2 36 (18.75%) Typelevel
3 26 (13.54%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.60%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.08%) Google
6 3 (1.56%) Splunk
7 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.52%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.52%) OpenAI