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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 450 497
Rank change year-on-year -34 +47 -223
Permanent jobs citing Scala 173 163 327
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.45% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 1.31% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 61 107 269
10th Percentile £47,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £109,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% -3.13%

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 12,950 12,420 26,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.99% 33.96% 33.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,315 9,353 22,358
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,625
25th Percentile £47,046 £47,683 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -14 104 £100,000 +26.98% 30
South West -26 14 £55,200 -16.68% 4
West Midlands -6 13 £70,250 -3.10% 1
Midlands -29 13 £70,250 -3.10% 1
North of England -61 13 £75,000 +20.00% 16
South East -41 11 £55,000 -21.43% 13
Yorkshire -57 7 £49,000 -12.11% 5
East of England - 7 £100,000 -
North West -25 6 £75,000 +5.26% 10
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 31 (17.92%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.20%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.89%) IIS
4 3 (1.73%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 92 (53.18%) AWS
2 67 (38.73%) GCP
3 35 (20.23%) Azure
4 18 (10.40%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (9.83%) GitHub
6 15 (8.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (7.51%) Amazon S3
8 12 (6.94%) Power Platform
9 10 (5.78%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (5.20%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (4.62%) Amazon SageMaker
11 8 (4.62%) dbt
12 7 (4.05%) Snowflake
13 6 (3.47%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (3.47%) Dagster
13 6 (3.47%) Serverless
14 5 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (2.31%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 75 (43.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.83%) Data Lake
2 16 (9.25%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (8.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (8.67%) Delta Lake
3 15 (8.67%) Metadata
4 14 (8.09%) Big Data
4 14 (8.09%) Hadoop
4 14 (8.09%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.94%) Power BI
6 11 (6.36%) Tableau
7 9 (5.20%) MySQL
8 8 (4.62%) BigQuery
8 8 (4.62%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (4.05%) DynamoDB
10 6 (3.47%) Data Mining
10 6 (3.47%) MongoDB
11 5 (2.89%) Couchbase
11 5 (2.89%) Redis
12 4 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 29 (16.76%) Jenkins
2 23 (13.29%) TeamCity
3 22 (12.72%) Git
4 4 (2.31%) GitLab
5 3 (1.73%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.73%) Gatling
5 3 (1.73%) JUnit
6 2 (1.16%) JMeter
6 2 (1.16%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.58%) JIRA
7 1 (0.58%) Maven
General
1 27 (15.61%) Finance
2 20 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (11.56%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.09%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.20%) Marketing
5 6 (3.47%) Law
6 5 (2.89%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.73%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.73%) Retail
9 2 (1.16%) Billing
9 2 (1.16%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.58%) Front Office
10 1 (0.58%) Games
10 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (31.79%) Data Engineer
2 53 (30.64%) Senior
3 52 (30.06%) Scala Engineer
4 42 (24.28%) Software Engineer
5 32 (18.50%) Developer
6 27 (15.61%) Scala Software Engineer
7 26 (15.03%) Scala Developer
8 21 (12.14%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (7.51%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 11 (6.36%) Lead
10 11 (6.36%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.78%) Senior Developer
12 8 (4.62%) Senior Scala Developer
13 7 (4.05%) Systems Engineer
14 6 (3.47%) Backend Developer
14 6 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
14 6 (3.47%) Ruby Engineer
14 6 (3.47%) Software Developer
15 5 (2.89%) Data Science Manager
15 5 (2.89%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (26.01%) gRPC
2 23 (13.29%) Akka
3 22 (12.72%) Kafka
3 22 (12.72%) PySpark
4 6 (3.47%) Play Framework
4 6 (3.47%) Spring
5 5 (2.89%) Memcached
6 4 (2.31%) Node.js
6 4 (2.31%) OAuth
6 4 (2.31%) OpenID
7 3 (1.73%) .NET
7 3 (1.73%) boto
7 3 (1.73%) React
7 3 (1.73%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.16%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.58%) D3.js
9 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.58%) REST
9 1 (0.58%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 69 (39.88%) Video\Live Streaming
2 68 (39.31%) Over-the-Top Content
3 64 (36.99%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (6.94%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.47%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.47%) Social Media
6 5 (2.89%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.89%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.73%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.73%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.58%) IoT
10 1 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.73%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Android
2 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (49.13%) CI/CD
2 83 (47.98%) Data Science
3 76 (43.93%) Analytics
4 74 (42.77%) Machine Learning
5 71 (41.04%) Software Engineering
6 68 (39.31%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (30.64%) Agile
8 52 (30.06%) Continuous Delivery
9 51 (29.48%) Microservices
10 49 (28.32%) Coaching
10 49 (28.32%) Containerisation
11 48 (27.75%) Data Pipeline
12 46 (26.59%) Clean Code
13 45 (26.01%) Personalization
14 39 (22.54%) Data Engineering
14 39 (22.54%) Data Modelling
15 35 (20.23%) DevOps
15 35 (20.23%) ETL
16 32 (18.50%) Open Source
17 30 (17.34%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 113 (65.32%) Python
2 51 (29.48%) SQL
3 46 (26.59%) Java
4 45 (26.01%) Go
5 15 (8.67%) Kotlin
6 12 (6.94%) Ruby
7 7 (4.05%) R
8 6 (3.47%) C++
9 4 (2.31%) Bicep
9 4 (2.31%) Elixir
9 4 (2.31%) Rust
9 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.73%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.16%) C#
11 2 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.58%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (11.56%) Degree
2 12 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (6.94%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.20%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.47%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.89%) MBA
7 1 (0.58%) CISSP
7 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.58%) OSCP
7 1 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.03%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.05%) GDPR
3 6 (3.47%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 82 (47.40%) Docker
2 3 (1.73%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (19.65%) Kubernetes
2 23 (13.29%) Terraform
3 3 (1.73%) Control-M
4 1 (0.58%) Argo
4 1 (0.58%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 45 (26.01%) Typelevel
2 34 (19.65%) Databricks
3 8 (4.62%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.89%) BT
5 4 (2.31%) Oracle
5 4 (2.31%) Palantir
6 3 (1.73%) BMC
6 3 (1.73%) IBM
6 3 (1.73%) Talend
7 2 (1.16%) Braze
7 2 (1.16%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.16%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.16%) mParticle
7 2 (1.16%) PayPal
7 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.16%) Zuora
8 1 (0.58%) Google