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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 484 483
Rank change year-on-year -38 -1 -206
Permanent jobs citing Scala 177 131 360
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.34% 0.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 1.08% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 69 76 252
10th Percentile £47,418 £53,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £109,000 £96,563 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £101,250 £114,375
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 14,702 12,097 27,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.78% 31.75% 32.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10,425 8,227 22,385
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,552 £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 23 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 23 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 -6 102 £100,000 +48.15% 32
South West -40 15 £79,100 +17.19% 7
North of England -55 13 £75,000 +20.00% 12
East of England +2 12 £100,000 +53.85%
South East -26 12 £55,000 -21.43% 6
Midlands -22 11 £81,500 +12.41% 4
West Midlands -25 11 £81,500 +12.41% 3
Yorkshire -45 6 £90,000 +83.67% 3
North West -4 5 £75,000 -6.25% 6
North East -41 2 £57,500 -8.00% 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 37 (20.90%) Apache Spark
2 15 (8.47%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (7.91%) Apache
4 5 (2.82%) IIS
5 2 (1.13%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.13%) Luigi
5 2 (1.13%) SAS
6 1 (0.56%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 98 (55.37%) AWS
2 77 (43.50%) GCP
3 46 (25.99%) Azure
4 24 (13.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (11.30%) GitHub
7 17 (9.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (9.04%) Amazon S3
9 15 (8.47%) Power Platform
10 9 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (5.08%) Cloud Composer
11 8 (4.52%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (3.95%) dbt
13 6 (3.39%) Dagster
13 6 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (3.39%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.82%) Serverless
15 4 (2.26%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 4 (2.26%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 74 (41.81%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.30%) Big Data
1 20 (11.30%) Data Warehouse
1 20 (11.30%) Metadata
2 18 (10.17%) Delta Lake
2 18 (10.17%) NoSQL
3 17 (9.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (8.47%) Data Lake
4 15 (8.47%) Hadoop
5 14 (7.91%) BigQuery
6 13 (7.34%) Power BI
6 13 (7.34%) Tableau
7 10 (5.65%) Relational Database
8 9 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (5.08%) SQL Server
9 8 (4.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (4.52%) MongoDB
9 8 (4.52%) MySQL
10 7 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (2.82%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 30 (16.95%) Jenkins
2 23 (12.99%) Git
3 22 (12.43%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.82%) GitLab
5 2 (1.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.13%) Gatling
5 2 (1.13%) JUnit
5 2 (1.13%) Maven
General
1 28 (15.82%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.99%) Finance
3 20 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.95%) Marketing
6 6 (3.39%) Law
7 5 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.13%) Billing
10 2 (1.13%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.13%) Legal
11 1 (0.56%) Advertising
11 1 (0.56%) Games
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (36.16%) Data Engineer
2 52 (29.38%) Senior
3 51 (28.81%) Scala Engineer
4 37 (20.90%) Software Engineer
5 28 (15.82%) Developer
6 27 (15.25%) Scala Software Engineer
7 23 (12.99%) Scala Developer
8 20 (11.30%) Lead
9 19 (10.73%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (7.34%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 11 (6.21%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.65%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (4.52%) Architect
13 8 (4.52%) Senior Manager
14 7 (3.95%) Senior Developer
14 7 (3.95%) Systems Engineer
15 6 (3.39%) Backend Developer
15 6 (3.39%) Senior Scala Developer
15 6 (3.39%) Software Developer
16 5 (2.82%) Data Science Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (25.42%) gRPC
2 26 (14.69%) PySpark
3 23 (12.99%) Kafka
4 22 (12.43%) Akka
5 6 (3.39%) Node.js
6 5 (2.82%) Play Framework
6 5 (2.82%) React
7 4 (2.26%) OAuth
7 4 (2.26%) OpenID
8 3 (1.69%) .NET
8 3 (1.69%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.69%) Spring
9 2 (1.13%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.13%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (1.13%) Memcached
9 2 (1.13%) Playwright
9 2 (1.13%) WireMock
10 1 (0.56%) PostGIS
10 1 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (38.42%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (37.85%) Over-the-Top Content
3 58 (32.77%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.08%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.95%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.39%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.39%) Social Media
7 5 (2.82%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.69%) Robotics
9 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.13%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.13%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.56%) IoT
11 1 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
1 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (49.72%) CI/CD
2 87 (49.15%) Data Science
3 80 (45.20%) Analytics
4 73 (41.24%) Software Engineering
5 69 (38.98%) Machine Learning
6 65 (36.72%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (35.59%) Data Pipeline
8 59 (33.33%) Agile
9 53 (29.94%) Coaching
10 51 (28.81%) ETL
11 50 (28.25%) Microservices
12 49 (27.68%) Containerisation
12 49 (27.68%) Continuous Delivery
12 49 (27.68%) Data Modelling
13 48 (27.12%) Data Engineering
14 46 (25.99%) Clean Code
15 45 (25.42%) Personalization
16 44 (24.86%) DevOps
17 31 (17.51%) Open Source
18 29 (16.38%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 125 (70.62%) Python
2 63 (35.59%) SQL
3 48 (27.12%) Java
4 46 (25.99%) Go
5 9 (5.08%) C++
6 7 (3.95%) R
6 7 (3.95%) Rust
7 6 (3.39%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.82%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.26%) Elixir
9 4 (2.26%) Ruby
10 3 (1.69%) Bicep
10 3 (1.69%) C
10 3 (1.69%) C#
10 3 (1.69%) Clojure
10 3 (1.69%) Erlang
10 3 (1.69%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.13%) PHP
11 2 (1.13%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.17%) Degree
2 14 (7.91%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (6.21%) Master's Degree
5 9 (5.08%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.52%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.82%) MBA
8 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (23.73%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.69%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 85 (48.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (20.90%) Kubernetes
2 24 (13.56%) Terraform
3 3 (1.69%) Control-M
4 2 (1.13%) Ansible
4 2 (1.13%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 45 (25.42%) Typelevel
2 33 (18.64%) Databricks
3 12 (6.78%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.82%) BT
5 4 (2.26%) Google
6 3 (1.69%) BMC
6 3 (1.69%) IBM
6 3 (1.69%) Talend
7 2 (1.13%) Braze
7 2 (1.13%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.13%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.13%) mParticle
7 2 (1.13%) Oracle
7 2 (1.13%) Palantir
7 2 (1.13%) PayPal
7 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.13%) Zuora
8 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.56%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.56%) OpenAI