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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 454 407
Rank change year-on-year -16 -47 -148
Permanent jobs citing Scala 142 235 266
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.47% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 1.39% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 78 127 225
10th Percentile £48,050 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,313 £59,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £143,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 10,272 16,939 17,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.75% 34.03% 39.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7,735 10,080 14,868
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,238 £39,749
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,452 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,968
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.23% -3.13%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 +19 92 £90,000 +5.88% 89
North of England -24 28 £65,000 - 105
Yorkshire -20 16 £49,000 -1.00% 52
West Midlands +38 10 £65,000 - 46
Midlands +33 10 £65,000 -7.14% 86
North West +21 8 £75,000 -3.23% 46
South East +18 6 - - 129
North East -4 6 £65,000 +4.00% 7
South West +17 3 £55,200 -33.09% 48
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 35 (24.65%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.52%) Apache
3 5 (3.52%) IIS
4 3 (2.11%) Luigi
5 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 68 (47.89%) AWS
2 49 (34.51%) Azure
3 27 (19.01%) GCP
4 25 (17.61%) Power Platform
5 21 (14.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (13.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (11.97%) Amazon Kinesis
7 17 (11.97%) Serverless
8 14 (9.86%) Amazon S3
8 14 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (7.75%) AWS Step Functions
11 10 (7.04%) Snowflake
12 9 (6.34%) Amazon SageMaker
13 8 (5.63%) GitHub
14 5 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (2.82%) dbt
16 3 (2.11%) Azure Storage
16 3 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.15%) Broadband
2 1 (0.70%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (24.65%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (17.61%) Big Data
2 25 (17.61%) Power BI
3 24 (16.90%) Hadoop
4 23 (16.20%) Data Lake
5 17 (11.97%) Metadata
6 16 (11.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (9.86%) NoSQL
8 13 (9.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (7.75%) Delta Lake
10 10 (7.04%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (6.34%) Apache Hive
11 9 (6.34%) MySQL
12 8 (5.63%) DynamoDB
12 8 (5.63%) Tableau
13 6 (4.23%) Data Mining
13 6 (4.23%) Power Query
13 6 (4.23%) SQL Server
14 5 (3.52%) Couchbase
14 5 (3.52%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 21 (14.79%) Jenkins
2 14 (9.86%) Git
3 12 (8.45%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.41%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.41%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.41%) Gatling
4 2 (1.41%) JMeter
4 2 (1.41%) JUnit
4 2 (1.41%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.41%) Selenium
5 1 (0.70%) JIRA
General
1 46 (32.39%) Finance
2 33 (23.24%) Social Skills
3 31 (21.83%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.04%) Financial Institution
5 10 (7.04%) Marketing
6 5 (3.52%) Legal
6 5 (3.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.82%) Retail
8 3 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Advertising
10 1 (0.70%) Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Front Office
10 1 (0.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 64 (45.07%) Data Engineer
2 53 (37.32%) Senior
3 32 (22.54%) Developer
4 24 (16.90%) Senior Data Engineer
5 20 (14.08%) Lead
6 18 (12.68%) Software Engineer
7 16 (11.27%) Scala Developer
8 14 (9.86%) Senior Developer
9 12 (8.45%) Azure Data Engineer
9 12 (8.45%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (7.75%) Java Developer
10 11 (7.75%) Lead Developer
11 10 (7.04%) AWS Data Engineer
11 10 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (6.34%) Senior Scala Developer
13 8 (5.63%) Lead Data Engineer
14 7 (4.93%) Scala Engineer
15 6 (4.23%) Principal Developer
15 6 (4.23%) Principal Java Developer
15 6 (4.23%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.01%) Kafka
2 18 (12.68%) PySpark
3 12 (8.45%) Akka
4 10 (7.04%) React
4 10 (7.04%) Spark Streaming
5 9 (6.34%) Flutter
6 8 (5.63%) boto
6 8 (5.63%) Spring
7 7 (4.93%) Play Framework
8 5 (3.52%) Memcached
9 4 (2.82%) .NET
10 3 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.41%) ARM Templates
11 2 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.41%) PostGIS
11 2 (1.41%) Spring Boot
11 2 (1.41%) XML
12 1 (0.70%) GraphQL
12 1 (0.70%) PyTorch
12 1 (0.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 31 (21.83%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.45%) Over-the-Top Content
2 12 (8.45%) Video\Live Streaming
3 11 (7.75%) Data Structures
4 10 (7.04%) e-Learning
5 9 (6.34%) Cloud Native
5 9 (6.34%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (5.63%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.52%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.11%) Derivative
9 3 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.41%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.70%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.63%) Linux
2 3 (2.11%) Unix
3 1 (0.70%) Android
3 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (44.37%) Analytics
2 60 (42.25%) Data Pipeline
3 59 (41.55%) Agile
4 53 (37.32%) Data Modelling
5 52 (36.62%) Data Engineering
6 47 (33.10%) DevOps
7 43 (30.28%) ETL
7 43 (30.28%) Machine Learning
8 41 (28.87%) CI/CD
9 40 (28.17%) Data Science
10 35 (24.65%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (21.13%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (19.72%) Data Governance
13 25 (17.61%) Computer Science
14 24 (16.90%) AI
14 24 (16.90%) TDD
15 22 (15.49%) Mentoring
16 21 (14.79%) Data Analytics
17 20 (14.08%) Roadmaps
17 20 (14.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (58.45%) Python
2 70 (49.30%) Java
3 62 (43.66%) SQL
4 29 (20.42%) Kotlin
5 13 (9.15%) R
6 10 (7.04%) Ruby
7 9 (6.34%) Go
8 8 (5.63%) C#
8 8 (5.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.52%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.11%) Bicep
10 3 (2.11%) F#
10 3 (2.11%) Haskell
10 3 (2.11%) OCaml
10 3 (2.11%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.11%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.70%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.70%) Groovy
11 1 (0.70%) Perl
11 1 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (17.61%) Degree
2 13 (9.15%) Master's Degree
3 11 (7.75%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.63%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.52%) MBA
7 4 (2.82%) PhD
8 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.70%) CISSP
9 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.70%) OSCP
9 1 (0.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.72%) Data Quality
2 16 (11.27%) GDPR
3 6 (4.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.11%) QA
6 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (14.08%) Docker
2 10 (7.04%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (14.79%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.27%) Terraform
3 3 (2.11%) Control-M
4 2 (1.41%) Ansible
4 2 (1.41%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.41%) Puppet
5 1 (0.70%) Argo
5 1 (0.70%) Grafana
5 1 (0.70%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 44 (30.99%) Databricks
2 7 (4.93%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.23%) Oracle
4 5 (3.52%) BT
4 5 (3.52%) Google
4 5 (3.52%) Palantir
5 3 (2.11%) BMC
5 3 (2.11%) IBM
5 3 (2.11%) Talend
6 1 (0.70%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.70%) Informatica
6 1 (0.70%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.70%) Rackspace
6 1 (0.70%) Salesforce