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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 504 482
Rank change year-on-year -12 -22 -156
Permanent jobs citing Scala 184 131 399
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.23% 1.03% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 72 70 256
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,250 £70,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% -8.20% -4.69%
75th Percentile £113,125 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% -9.38%

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 14,927 12,683 28,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.23% 32.27% 30.79%
Number of salaries quoted 10,678 8,486 22,842
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -33 102 £107,500 +53.57% 31
South West -28 16 £55,500 -17.78% 9
North of England -40 16 £75,000 +20.00% 20
East of England +5 13 £100,000 +53.85% 1
Midlands -10 13 £81,500 +12.41% 2
South East -16 12 £55,000 -21.43% 4
West Midlands -11 11 £81,500 +12.41%
North West +11 9 £66,250 -17.19% 12
Yorkshire -47 5 £90,000 +83.67% 3
North East -43 2 £57,500 -8.00% 5
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
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 37 (20.11%) Apache Spark
2 18 (9.78%) Apache
3 15 (8.15%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.72%) IIS
5 3 (1.63%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.63%) SAS
6 2 (1.09%) Luigi
7 1 (0.54%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 101 (54.89%) AWS
2 80 (43.48%) GCP
3 46 (25.00%) Azure
4 23 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (10.87%) GitHub
6 16 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 16 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (8.70%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.89%) Cloud Composer
8 8 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
8 8 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (3.80%) dbt
9 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (3.26%) Dagster
10 6 (3.26%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.72%) SaaS
11 5 (2.72%) Serverless
12 4 (2.17%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 74 (40.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.41%) Metadata
2 20 (10.87%) Big Data
2 20 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (10.33%) Delta Lake
3 19 (10.33%) NoSQL
4 15 (8.15%) BigQuery
4 15 (8.15%) Hadoop
5 14 (7.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (7.61%) Power BI
5 14 (7.61%) Tableau
6 12 (6.52%) Data Lake
7 10 (5.43%) Relational Database
8 9 (4.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (4.35%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.26%) MongoDB
11 5 (2.72%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (2.72%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.72%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (16.85%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.96%) Git
2 22 (11.96%) TeamCity
3 5 (2.72%) GitLab
4 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.09%) Gatling
4 2 (1.09%) JUnit
4 2 (1.09%) Maven
5 1 (0.54%) MLflow
5 1 (0.54%) Postman
5 1 (0.54%) Selenium
General
1 33 (17.93%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.04%) Finance
3 20 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.89%) Marketing
6 8 (4.35%) Law
7 5 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.17%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Advertising
9 2 (1.09%) Billing
9 2 (1.09%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.09%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Games
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (34.24%) Data Engineer
2 53 (28.80%) Senior
3 51 (27.72%) Scala Engineer
4 37 (20.11%) Software Engineer
5 30 (16.30%) Developer
6 27 (14.67%) Scala Software Engineer
7 23 (12.50%) Lead
7 23 (12.50%) Scala Developer
8 18 (9.78%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (7.07%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 11 (5.98%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Architect
12 9 (4.89%) Senior Manager
13 8 (4.35%) Senior Developer
14 7 (3.80%) Software Developer
14 7 (3.80%) Systems Engineer
15 6 (3.26%) Backend Developer
15 6 (3.26%) Data Architect
15 6 (3.26%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (24.46%) gRPC
2 26 (14.13%) PySpark
3 22 (11.96%) Akka
3 22 (11.96%) Kafka
4 7 (3.80%) Play Framework
4 7 (3.80%) React
5 6 (3.26%) Node.js
6 4 (2.17%) OAuth
6 4 (2.17%) OpenID
7 3 (1.63%) .NET
7 3 (1.63%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.63%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.63%) Spring
8 2 (1.09%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.09%) Playwright
8 2 (1.09%) WireMock
9 1 (0.54%) D3.js
9 1 (0.54%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.54%) REST
9 1 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 68 (36.96%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (36.41%) Over-the-Top Content
3 57 (30.98%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.26%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.26%) Social Media
7 5 (2.72%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.17%) Robotics
9 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.54%) IoT
10 1 (0.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.54%) Linux
1 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 85 (46.20%) Data Science
3 81 (44.02%) Analytics
4 76 (41.30%) Software Engineering
5 67 (36.41%) Machine Learning
6 63 (34.24%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (33.15%) Agile
7 61 (33.15%) Data Pipeline
8 55 (29.89%) Coaching
9 50 (27.17%) Containerisation
9 50 (27.17%) Data Engineering
9 50 (27.17%) Data Modelling
10 49 (26.63%) ETL
10 49 (26.63%) Microservices
11 48 (26.09%) Continuous Delivery
12 46 (25.00%) Clean Code
13 45 (24.46%) Personalization
14 42 (22.83%) DevOps
15 30 (16.30%) Open Source
16 28 (15.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 126 (68.48%) Python
2 63 (34.24%) SQL
3 50 (27.17%) Java
4 46 (25.00%) Go
5 10 (5.43%) C++
6 8 (4.35%) Rust
6 8 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.80%) R
8 5 (2.72%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.17%) Bicep
9 4 (2.17%) C
9 4 (2.17%) Clojure
9 4 (2.17%) Elixir
9 4 (2.17%) Erlang
9 4 (2.17%) Ruby
10 3 (1.63%) C#
10 3 (1.63%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.63%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.09%) PHP
12 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (8.70%) Degree
2 15 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.43%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.43%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.72%) MBA
7 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.54%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (23.37%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.72%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.63%) QA
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 86 (46.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (20.65%) Kubernetes
2 24 (13.04%) Terraform
3 3 (1.63%) Control-M
3 3 (1.63%) Kibana
4 2 (1.09%) Ansible
4 2 (1.09%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 45 (24.46%) Typelevel
2 32 (17.39%) Databricks
3 14 (7.61%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.72%) BT
5 4 (2.17%) Google
6 3 (1.63%) BMC
6 3 (1.63%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.63%) IBM
6 3 (1.63%) Talend
7 2 (1.09%) Braze
7 2 (1.09%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.09%) mParticle
7 2 (1.09%) PayPal
7 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.09%) Zuora
8 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.54%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.54%) Splunk