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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 527 477
Rank change year-on-year -5 -50 -111
Permanent jobs citing Scala 189 124 427
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.30% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 0.97% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 94 68 237
10th Percentile £47,875 £51,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,750 £73,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.49% -4.84% -3.13%
75th Percentile £114,375 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £103,425 £105,000
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 15,741 12,759 28,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.40% 31.05% 30.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,425 8,606 22,670
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £85,000 £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 30 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 30 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 -23 102 £107,500 +34.38% 34
North of England -42 26 £57,500 -8.00% 9
South West -44 18 £63,500 -5.93% 8
North West +11 16 £56,500 -29.38% 9
East of England -6 13 £100,000 +53.85%
Midlands -27 11 £85,000 +23.64% 1
West Midlands -17 8 £85,000 +23.64% 1
South East -26 7 £55,000 -21.43% 9
Yorkshire -34 5 £90,000 +83.67%
North East - 5 £55,500 -
East Midlands - 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 44 (23.28%) Apache Spark
2 28 (14.81%) Apache
3 15 (7.94%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.59%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.59%) SAS
5 2 (1.06%) Luigi
6 1 (0.53%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 102 (53.97%) AWS
2 85 (44.97%) GCP
3 52 (27.51%) Azure
4 23 (12.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (11.11%) GitHub
6 17 (8.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (8.47%) Power Platform
8 15 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.35%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.35%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.76%) Cloud Composer
12 8 (4.23%) Serverless
13 7 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.17%) Dagster
14 6 (3.17%) dbt
14 6 (3.17%) SaaS
14 6 (3.17%) Snowflake
15 4 (2.12%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (2.12%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 63 (33.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.58%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (10.05%) Big Data
2 19 (10.05%) Delta Lake
2 19 (10.05%) Metadata
3 16 (8.47%) BigQuery
4 14 (7.41%) Power BI
5 13 (6.88%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (6.88%) Hadoop
6 12 (6.35%) NoSQL
7 11 (5.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.76%) Data Vault
8 9 (4.76%) Relational Database
9 8 (4.23%) SQL Server
9 8 (4.23%) Tableau
10 7 (3.70%) Data Lake
11 6 (3.17%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.65%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (2.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (11.64%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.11%) Git
3 11 (5.82%) TeamCity
4 6 (3.17%) GitLab
5 3 (1.59%) Gatling
5 3 (1.59%) Maven
5 3 (1.59%) Postman
5 3 (1.59%) Selenium
6 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.06%) JUnit
7 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 40 (21.16%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.87%) Finance
3 14 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.35%) Law
5 7 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.17%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.65%) Marketing
8 4 (2.12%) Advertising
9 3 (1.59%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (1.06%) Billing
10 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.06%) Legal
11 1 (0.53%) Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Front Office
11 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (31.22%) Data Engineer
2 46 (24.34%) Scala Engineer
2 46 (24.34%) Senior
3 39 (20.63%) Developer
4 34 (17.99%) Software Engineer
5 31 (16.40%) Lead
6 24 (12.70%) Scala Software Engineer
7 21 (11.11%) Scala Developer
8 16 (8.47%) Senior Data Engineer
9 14 (7.41%) Architect
9 14 (7.41%) Lead Software Engineer
9 14 (7.41%) Software Developer
10 12 (6.35%) Data Architect
11 11 (5.82%) Consultant
12 10 (5.29%) Senior Scala Engineer
12 10 (5.29%) Software Consultant
13 9 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.76%) Senior Developer
14 7 (3.70%) Technical Leader
15 6 (3.17%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (23.81%) gRPC
2 21 (11.11%) Kafka
3 20 (10.58%) PySpark
4 11 (5.82%) Akka
5 8 (4.23%) React
6 6 (3.17%) Node.js
7 4 (2.12%) OAuth
7 4 (2.12%) OpenID
7 4 (2.12%) Spring
7 4 (2.12%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.59%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.59%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.59%) JPA
8 3 (1.59%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.59%) Play Framework
8 3 (1.59%) Playwright
8 3 (1.59%) RESTful
8 3 (1.59%) Spring MVC
8 3 (1.59%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 57 (30.16%) Video\Live Streaming
2 56 (29.63%) Over-the-Top Content
3 50 (26.46%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.41%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.29%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.23%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.70%) Robotics
8 6 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.17%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (3.17%) Social Media
9 3 (1.59%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.53%) IoT
11 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.53%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Linux
1 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (47.09%) CI/CD
2 81 (42.86%) Data Science
3 76 (40.21%) Software Engineering
4 69 (36.51%) Analytics
5 66 (34.92%) Machine Learning
6 56 (29.63%) Coaching
7 55 (29.10%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (28.04%) Containerisation
8 53 (28.04%) Data Modelling
9 52 (27.51%) Data Pipeline
10 50 (26.46%) Data Engineering
11 48 (25.40%) Continuous Delivery
11 48 (25.40%) Microservices
12 47 (24.87%) Clean Code
13 46 (24.34%) Agile
14 45 (23.81%) Personalization
15 40 (21.16%) ETL
16 31 (16.40%) DevOps
17 28 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
18 26 (13.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 118 (62.43%) Python
2 59 (31.22%) SQL
3 57 (30.16%) Java
4 46 (24.34%) Go
5 13 (6.88%) C++
6 11 (5.82%) Rust
7 9 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.23%) Bicep
9 7 (3.70%) C
9 7 (3.70%) Clojure
9 7 (3.70%) Erlang
10 5 (2.65%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.12%) Elixir
11 4 (2.12%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.12%) Ruby
12 3 (1.59%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.06%) C#
13 2 (1.06%) PHP
13 2 (1.06%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.35%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.23%) Degree
6 6 (3.17%) SnowPro
7 4 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (21.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.59%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 76 (40.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (15.34%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.58%) Terraform
3 3 (1.59%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.59%) Kibana
4 2 (1.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (23.81%) Typelevel
2 30 (15.87%) Databricks
3 19 (10.05%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.65%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.12%) Google
6 3 (1.59%) Splunk
7 2 (1.06%) Braze
7 2 (1.06%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.06%) mParticle
7 2 (1.06%) PayPal
7 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.06%) Zuora
8 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.53%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.53%) OpenAI