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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 527 480
Rank change year-on-year +17 -47 -143
Permanent jobs citing Scala 196 124 411
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.31% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 0.98% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 90 68 246
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,063 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -11.11% -1.56%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £124,375 £101,700 £111,875
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 15,477 12,697 29,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.37% 31.71% 30.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11,187 8,552 23,249
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,269 £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 £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 23 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 23 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 -13 111 £110,000 +37.50% 30
North of England -20 24 £57,500 -8.00% 11
South West -41 17 £63,500 -5.93% 9
North West +20 16 £55,500 -30.63% 9
East of England -5 13 £100,000 +53.85% 1
Midlands -28 11 £85,000 +23.64%
West Midlands -16 8 £85,000 +23.64%
South East -26 7 £55,000 -21.43% 6
Yorkshire -36 4 £90,000 +83.67% 1
North East -48 4 £56,500 -9.60% 1
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 (22.45%) Apache Spark
2 27 (13.78%) Apache
3 15 (7.65%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.53%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.53%) SAS
5 2 (1.02%) Luigi
6 1 (0.51%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 101 (51.53%) AWS
2 84 (42.86%) GCP
3 52 (26.53%) Azure
4 23 (11.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (10.71%) GitHub
6 17 (8.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (8.16%) Power Platform
8 12 (6.12%) Amazon S3
8 12 (6.12%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.59%) Cloud Composer
11 7 (3.57%) Serverless
12 6 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.06%) Dagster
12 6 (3.06%) dbt
12 6 (3.06%) SaaS
12 6 (3.06%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (2.04%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 74 (37.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.20%) Delta Lake
2 19 (9.69%) Big Data
2 19 (9.69%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (9.69%) Metadata
3 15 (7.65%) BigQuery
4 14 (7.14%) Power BI
5 13 (6.63%) Hadoop
6 12 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (6.12%) NoSQL
7 11 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (4.59%) Data Vault
9 9 (4.59%) Relational Database
10 8 (4.08%) Data Lake
10 8 (4.08%) SQL Server
10 8 (4.08%) Tableau
11 6 (3.06%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (2.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (16.33%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.22%) TeamCity
3 21 (10.71%) Git
4 6 (3.06%) GitLab
5 3 (1.53%) Gatling
5 3 (1.53%) Maven
6 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.02%) JUnit
6 2 (1.02%) Postman
6 2 (1.02%) Selenium
7 1 (0.51%) MLflow
General
1 39 (19.90%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.80%) Finance
3 14 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.12%) Law
5 7 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.06%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.55%) Marketing
8 4 (2.04%) Advertising
9 3 (1.53%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (1.02%) Billing
10 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.02%) Legal
11 1 (0.51%) Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Front Office
11 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (30.61%) Data Engineer
2 52 (26.53%) Scala Engineer
3 51 (26.02%) Senior
4 39 (19.90%) Software Engineer
5 38 (19.39%) Developer
6 30 (15.31%) Lead
7 28 (14.29%) Scala Software Engineer
8 23 (11.73%) Scala Developer
9 16 (8.16%) Senior Data Engineer
10 15 (7.65%) Architect
11 14 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
11 14 (7.14%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 14 (7.14%) Software Developer
12 12 (6.12%) Data Architect
13 10 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (5.10%) Senior Developer
14 9 (4.59%) Consultant
15 8 (4.08%) Software Consultant
16 7 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
16 7 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.96%) gRPC
2 22 (11.22%) Akka
3 21 (10.71%) PySpark
4 20 (10.20%) Kafka
5 8 (4.08%) React
6 6 (3.06%) Node.js
7 4 (2.04%) OAuth
7 4 (2.04%) OpenID
8 3 (1.53%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.53%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.53%) Play Framework
8 3 (1.53%) Playwright
8 3 (1.53%) Spring
8 3 (1.53%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.02%) JPA
9 2 (1.02%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.02%) RESTful
9 2 (1.02%) Spring MVC
9 2 (1.02%) Swagger
9 2 (1.02%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 68 (34.69%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (34.18%) Over-the-Top Content
3 51 (26.02%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.10%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.08%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.57%) Robotics
8 6 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.06%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (3.06%) Social Media
9 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.51%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.51%) IoT
11 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.51%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) Linux
1 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (45.92%) CI/CD
2 82 (41.84%) Data Science
3 80 (40.82%) Analytics
3 80 (40.82%) Software Engineering
4 66 (33.67%) Machine Learning
5 56 (28.57%) Coaching
5 56 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (28.06%) Agile
7 53 (27.04%) Data Modelling
7 53 (27.04%) Data Pipeline
8 52 (26.53%) Containerisation
9 49 (25.00%) Data Engineering
10 48 (24.49%) Continuous Delivery
10 48 (24.49%) Microservices
11 47 (23.98%) Clean Code
12 45 (22.96%) Personalization
13 40 (20.41%) ETL
14 35 (17.86%) TDD
15 34 (17.35%) Open Source
16 33 (16.84%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 119 (60.71%) Python
2 60 (30.61%) SQL
3 54 (27.55%) Java
4 46 (23.47%) Go
5 13 (6.63%) C++
6 11 (5.61%) Rust
7 9 (4.59%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.08%) Bicep
9 7 (3.57%) C
9 7 (3.57%) Clojure
9 7 (3.57%) Erlang
10 5 (2.55%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.04%) Elixir
11 4 (2.04%) Ruby
12 3 (1.53%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.53%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.02%) C#
13 2 (1.02%) PHP
13 2 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.18%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.12%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.59%) Degree
4 9 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.06%) SnowPro
6 4 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (20.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.53%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.53%) QA
System Software
1 86 (43.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (19.90%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.71%) Terraform
3 3 (1.53%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.53%) Kibana
4 2 (1.02%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (22.96%) Typelevel
2 31 (15.82%) Databricks
3 19 (9.69%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.04%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.04%) Google
5 2 (1.02%) Braze
5 2 (1.02%) GoCardless
5 2 (1.02%) mParticle
5 2 (1.02%) PayPal
5 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.02%) Splunk
5 2 (1.02%) Zuora
6 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.51%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.51%) OpenAI