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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 523 424
Rank change year-on-year -10 -99 +18
Permanent jobs citing Scala 201 135 371
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.31% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 1.07% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 120 71 164
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £63,938
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 £115,000 £102,500
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 16,674 12,610 21,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.70% 28.82% 29.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,106 8,403 15,882
10th Percentile £38,469 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,094
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 August 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 August 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 -47 105 £105,000 +16.67% 115
North of England -28 37 £75,000 +15.38% 15
South West - 22 £63,500 - 10
North West +12 21 £57,500 -28.13% 6
East of England -7 13 £100,000 +53.85% 2
Midlands -20 11 £85,000 +30.77% 13
Yorkshire -42 8 £90,000 +61.43% 4
North East -58 8 £55,500 -14.62% 5
West Midlands -24 6 £85,000 +30.77% 10
South East -29 5 £55,000 -25.42% 11
East Midlands - 5 - - 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 53 (26.37%) Apache Spark
2 34 (16.92%) Apache
3 13 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.49%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.49%) SAS
5 2 (1.00%) Luigi
6 1 (0.50%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 94 (46.77%) AWS
2 69 (34.33%) Azure
2 69 (34.33%) GCP
3 33 (16.42%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (12.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 24 (11.94%) Microsoft Purview
6 21 (10.45%) Power Platform
7 19 (9.45%) GitHub
8 15 (7.46%) Snowflake
9 14 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (6.47%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.48%) Serverless
12 8 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.98%) Cloud Composer
13 5 (2.49%) Dagster
13 5 (2.49%) dbt
13 5 (2.49%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (15.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.93%) Big Data
1 30 (14.93%) Metadata
2 27 (13.43%) Delta Lake
3 23 (11.44%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (9.95%) Data Vault
5 19 (9.45%) Hadoop
5 19 (9.45%) Power BI
6 16 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (7.46%) BigQuery
7 15 (7.46%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (6.47%) NoSQL
9 12 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (5.97%) Tableau
10 11 (5.47%) Relational Database
11 9 (4.48%) SQL Server
12 8 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (3.98%) Data Lake
13 6 (2.99%) MongoDB
13 6 (2.99%) MySQL
14 4 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 17 (8.46%) Git
2 13 (6.47%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.98%) GitLab
4 4 (1.99%) Maven
5 3 (1.49%) Gatling
5 3 (1.49%) Postman
5 3 (1.49%) Selenium
6 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.00%) JUnit
7 1 (0.50%) Gradle
7 1 (0.50%) MLflow
7 1 (0.50%) Mockito
General
1 49 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.40%) Finance
3 26 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.46%) Law
5 7 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.48%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.49%) Legal
6 5 (2.49%) Marketing
6 5 (2.49%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.99%) Advertising
8 3 (1.49%) Banking
8 3 (1.49%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.00%) Games
10 1 (0.50%) Front Office
10 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (29.85%) Data Engineer
2 46 (22.89%) Senior
3 39 (19.40%) Developer
4 31 (15.42%) Lead
5 30 (14.93%) Architect
6 28 (13.93%) Scala Engineer
6 28 (13.93%) Software Engineer
7 26 (12.94%) Data Architect
8 20 (9.95%) Scala Developer
9 17 (8.46%) Senior Data Engineer
10 12 (5.97%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.47%) Consultant
11 11 (5.47%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (4.98%) Scala Software Engineer
12 10 (4.98%) Software Consultant
13 9 (4.48%) Senior Scala Engineer
14 7 (3.48%) Technical Leader
15 6 (2.99%) Principal Engineer
15 6 (2.99%) Senior Technical Manager
15 6 (2.99%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.43%) PySpark
2 27 (13.43%) gRPC
2 27 (13.43%) Kafka
3 8 (3.98%) React
4 6 (2.99%) Node.js
5 5 (2.49%) Spring
5 5 (2.49%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.99%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.99%) JPA
6 4 (1.99%) OAuth
6 4 (1.99%) OpenAPI
6 4 (1.99%) OpenID
6 4 (1.99%) RESTful
6 4 (1.99%) Spring MVC
6 4 (1.99%) Swagger
7 3 (1.49%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.49%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.49%) CrewAI
7 3 (1.49%) LangChain
7 3 (1.49%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.41%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (13.43%) Over-the-Top Content
3 27 (13.43%) Video\Live Streaming
4 9 (4.48%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.98%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.48%) Robotics
7 5 (2.49%) Anti-Piracy
7 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.49%) Social Media
8 4 (1.99%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.50%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.50%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
1 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (45.77%) CI/CD
2 75 (37.31%) Analytics
3 72 (35.82%) Data Science
4 70 (34.83%) Data Modelling
4 70 (34.83%) Machine Learning
5 68 (33.83%) Data Engineering
6 67 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 59 (29.35%) AI
8 56 (27.86%) Data Pipeline
9 50 (24.88%) Agile
10 45 (22.39%) ETL
11 42 (20.90%) Containerisation
11 42 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (20.40%) Business Intelligence
12 41 (20.40%) DevOps
13 40 (19.90%) Infrastructure as Code
14 38 (18.91%) Coaching
15 34 (16.92%) Microservices
16 32 (15.92%) Clean Code
16 32 (15.92%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 128 (63.68%) Python
2 80 (39.80%) SQL
3 76 (37.81%) Java
4 32 (15.92%) Go
5 15 (7.46%) Bicep
6 14 (6.97%) C++
7 11 (5.47%) Rust
7 11 (5.47%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.98%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.48%) C
9 7 (3.48%) Clojure
9 7 (3.48%) Erlang
9 7 (3.48%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.99%) Ruby
11 4 (1.99%) C#
11 4 (1.99%) Elixir
11 4 (1.99%) R
12 3 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.45%) Azure Certification
4 17 (8.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (6.97%) SnowPro
6 9 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.48%) Degree
7 5 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (25.37%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.99%) QA
4 2 (1.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 53 (26.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (12.44%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.95%) Terraform
3 3 (1.49%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.49%) Kibana
4 2 (1.00%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (21.89%) Databricks
2 29 (14.43%) Microsoft
3 27 (13.43%) Typelevel
4 5 (2.49%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.99%) Google
6 3 (1.49%) Splunk
7 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.50%) Informatica
8 1 (0.50%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle
8 1 (0.50%) Workday