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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 500 502
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -229
Permanent jobs citing Scala 168 138 339
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.35% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 1.09% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 61 85 262
10th Percentile £47,000 - £52,500
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 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £119,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -6.25%

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 14,130 12,688 27,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.39% 32.62% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9,913 9,165 22,439
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,850 £35,225
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -17 97 £100,000 +60.00% 41
South East -29 13 £55,000 -21.43% 15
South West -39 13 £48,975 -26.08% 3
North of England -55 13 £57,500 -11.54% 24
West Midlands -13 11 £65,500 -9.66% 2
Midlands -27 11 £65,500 -9.66% 2
East of England -6 8 £100,000 +53.85% 1
Yorkshire -53 6 £49,000 -12.11% 5
North West -24 5 £82,500 +4.76% 10
North East -30 2 £57,500 -8.00% 9
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 (18.45%) Apache Spark
2 13 (7.74%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.57%) Apache
4 5 (2.98%) IIS
5 1 (0.60%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.60%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 97 (57.74%) AWS
2 74 (44.05%) GCP
3 44 (26.19%) Azure
4 21 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (11.31%) GitHub
6 17 (10.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 14 (8.33%) Power Platform
8 9 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
9 8 (4.76%) dbt
10 7 (4.17%) Cloud Composer
10 7 (4.17%) Snowflake
11 6 (3.57%) Dagster
11 6 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (2.38%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 4 (2.38%) Prefect
12 4 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 74 (44.05%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.71%) Metadata
2 17 (10.12%) Data Lake
2 17 (10.12%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (9.52%) Delta Lake
4 15 (8.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (8.93%) Big Data
4 15 (8.93%) Hadoop
5 14 (8.33%) NoSQL
6 12 (7.14%) Power BI
7 11 (6.55%) BigQuery
7 11 (6.55%) Tableau
8 10 (5.95%) MySQL
8 10 (5.95%) SQL Server
9 9 (5.36%) MongoDB
10 8 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (4.17%) Relational Database
12 6 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (3.57%) Data Mining
13 5 (2.98%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.10%) Git
2 22 (13.10%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.38%) GitLab
4 2 (1.19%) Gatling
4 2 (1.19%) Maven
5 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.60%) JUnit
General
1 24 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (13.10%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.90%) Finance
4 14 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.76%) Marketing
6 6 (3.57%) Law
7 5 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.79%) Legal
10 2 (1.19%) Billing
10 2 (1.19%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.19%) Retail
11 1 (0.60%) Advertising
11 1 (0.60%) Games
11 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (35.12%) Data Engineer
2 51 (30.36%) Scala Engineer
2 51 (30.36%) Senior
3 34 (20.24%) Software Engineer
4 29 (17.26%) Developer
5 27 (16.07%) Scala Software Engineer
6 24 (14.29%) Scala Developer
7 19 (11.31%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (7.74%) Lead
8 13 (7.74%) Senior Scala Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Senior Developer
11 7 (4.17%) Architect
11 7 (4.17%) Senior Scala Developer
11 7 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
12 6 (3.57%) Backend Developer
12 6 (3.57%) Lead Software Engineer
12 6 (3.57%) Senior Manager
12 6 (3.57%) Software Developer
13 5 (2.98%) Data Science Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (26.79%) gRPC
2 24 (14.29%) PySpark
3 22 (13.10%) Akka
4 20 (11.90%) Kafka
5 6 (3.57%) Node.js
6 5 (2.98%) Play Framework
6 5 (2.98%) React
7 4 (2.38%) OAuth
7 4 (2.38%) OpenID
7 4 (2.38%) Spring
8 3 (1.79%) .NET
8 3 (1.79%) Memcached
9 2 (1.19%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.19%) Playwright
9 2 (1.19%) PostGIS
10 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.60%) GeoPandas
10 1 (0.60%) MapLibre
10 1 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.60%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 68 (40.48%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (39.88%) Over-the-Top Content
3 57 (33.93%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.95%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.57%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.57%) Social Media
6 5 (2.98%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.38%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.60%) IoT
10 1 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.60%) Linux
1 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (50.60%) Data Science
2 83 (49.40%) CI/CD
3 79 (47.02%) Analytics
4 73 (43.45%) Machine Learning
5 66 (39.29%) Software Engineering
6 63 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (33.93%) Data Pipeline
8 54 (32.14%) Agile
9 52 (30.95%) Coaching
10 50 (29.76%) Microservices
11 49 (29.17%) Containerisation
11 49 (29.17%) Continuous Delivery
12 46 (27.38%) ETL
13 45 (26.79%) Clean Code
13 45 (26.79%) Data Engineering
13 45 (26.79%) Personalization
14 43 (25.60%) Data Modelling
15 40 (23.81%) DevOps
16 29 (17.26%) Open Source
17 28 (16.67%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 121 (72.02%) Python
2 61 (36.31%) SQL
3 46 (27.38%) Go
4 41 (24.40%) Java
5 7 (4.17%) R
6 6 (3.57%) C++
6 6 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.38%) Bicep
7 4 (2.38%) C#
7 4 (2.38%) Elixir
7 4 (2.38%) Ruby
7 4 (2.38%) Rust
8 3 (1.79%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.79%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.19%) PHP
9 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.60%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 20 (11.90%) Degree
2 13 (7.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 11 (6.55%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.76%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.98%) MBA
8 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.79%) GDPR
4 2 (1.19%) QA
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 83 (49.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 25 (14.88%) Terraform
3 3 (1.79%) Control-M
4 2 (1.19%) Ansible
4 2 (1.19%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.60%) Argo
Vendors
1 45 (26.79%) Typelevel
2 32 (19.05%) Databricks
3 12 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.98%) BT
5 3 (1.79%) BMC
5 3 (1.79%) Google
5 3 (1.79%) IBM
5 3 (1.79%) Oracle
5 3 (1.79%) Palantir
5 3 (1.79%) Talend
6 2 (1.19%) Braze
6 2 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.19%) GoCardless
6 2 (1.19%) Mapbox
6 2 (1.19%) mParticle
6 2 (1.19%) PayPal
6 2 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.19%) Zuora
7 1 (0.60%) OpenAI