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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 441 424
Rank change year-on-year -42 -17 -161
Permanent jobs citing Scala 128 268 245
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.53% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 1.55% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 79 128 205
10th Percentile £48,200 - £56,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £111,746
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 10,339 17,323 17,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.97% 34.18% 40.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,821 10,404 14,671
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,025 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £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 £107,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 20 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 20 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 +10 83 £90,000 +5.88% 71
North of England -42 25 £65,000 -5.45% 7
Yorkshire -16 15 £49,000 -1.00%
West Midlands +39 10 £65,000 - 3
Midlands +27 10 £65,000 -7.14% 4
North West +4 6 £75,000 -3.23% 6
North East -6 6 £65,000 -3.70% 1
South East +25 5 - - 38
South West +7 3 £55,200 -33.09% 6
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 34 (26.56%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.91%) Apache
4 4 (3.13%) IIS
5 3 (2.34%) Luigi
6 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (50.78%) AWS
2 47 (36.72%) Azure
3 25 (19.53%) GCP
3 25 (19.53%) Power Platform
4 19 (14.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (14.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (14.06%) Serverless
6 17 (13.28%) Amazon Kinesis
7 15 (11.72%) Amazon S3
7 15 (11.72%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
8 12 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (7.81%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (7.03%) Snowflake
11 8 (6.25%) GitHub
12 6 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (3.13%) Azure Storage
13 4 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) Broadband
2 1 (0.78%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (26.56%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (19.53%) Power BI
3 23 (17.97%) Big Data
4 22 (17.19%) Hadoop
5 21 (16.41%) Data Lake
6 17 (13.28%) Metadata
7 16 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (9.38%) NoSQL
9 10 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (7.81%) Delta Lake
10 9 (7.03%) Apache Hive
10 9 (7.03%) MySQL
11 8 (6.25%) DynamoDB
12 7 (5.47%) Tableau
13 6 (4.69%) Power Query
13 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
14 5 (3.91%) Couchbase
14 5 (3.91%) Data Vault
14 5 (3.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (10.16%) Git
2 11 (8.59%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.56%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.56%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.56%) Gatling
3 2 (1.56%) JMeter
3 2 (1.56%) JUnit
3 2 (1.56%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.56%) Selenium
4 1 (0.78%) JIRA
4 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (35.94%) Finance
2 32 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 29 (22.66%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.81%) Financial Institution
6 9 (7.03%) Marketing
7 5 (3.91%) Legal
8 4 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.34%) Retail
10 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Advertising
11 1 (0.78%) Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 61 (47.66%) Data Engineer
2 44 (34.38%) Senior
3 27 (21.09%) Developer
4 23 (17.97%) Senior Data Engineer
5 21 (16.41%) Lead
6 13 (10.16%) Software Engineer
7 12 (9.38%) Azure Data Engineer
7 12 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (9.38%) Scala Developer
8 11 (8.59%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (8.59%) Java Developer
8 11 (8.59%) Lead Developer
9 10 (7.81%) AWS Data Engineer
9 10 (7.81%) Senior Developer
10 8 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (4.69%) Lead Java Developer
11 6 (4.69%) Principal Developer
11 6 (4.69%) Principal Java Developer
11 6 (4.69%) Ruby Engineer
11 6 (4.69%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.53%) Kafka
2 16 (12.50%) PySpark
3 10 (7.81%) React
3 10 (7.81%) Spark Streaming
4 9 (7.03%) Flutter
5 8 (6.25%) boto
6 7 (5.47%) Spring
7 6 (4.69%) Play Framework
8 5 (3.91%) Memcached
9 4 (3.13%) .NET
10 2 (1.56%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.56%) PostGIS
10 2 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.56%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.56%) XML
11 1 (0.78%) GeoPandas
11 1 (0.78%) MapLibre
11 1 (0.78%) PyTorch
11 1 (0.78%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.59%) Data Structures
3 10 (7.81%) e-Learning
4 9 (7.03%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (6.25%) Cloud Native
6 7 (5.47%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.91%) Virtual Team
8 4 (3.13%) Derivative
8 4 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.56%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.78%) Over-the-Top Content
11 1 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.03%) Linux
2 3 (2.34%) Unix
3 1 (0.78%) Android
3 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (45.31%) Data Pipeline
2 51 (39.84%) Data Engineering
2 51 (39.84%) Data Modelling
3 50 (39.06%) Analytics
4 46 (35.94%) Agile
4 46 (35.94%) DevOps
5 44 (34.38%) Machine Learning
6 42 (32.81%) ETL
7 39 (30.47%) CI/CD
8 38 (29.69%) Data Science
9 32 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (23.44%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (21.88%) Data Governance
12 24 (18.75%) Computer Science
13 23 (17.97%) AI
14 22 (17.19%) Mentoring
15 18 (14.06%) Decision-Making
15 18 (14.06%) Roadmaps
16 16 (12.50%) Software Engineering
17 14 (10.94%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 80 (62.50%) Python
2 67 (52.34%) Java
3 58 (45.31%) SQL
4 29 (22.66%) Kotlin
5 12 (9.38%) R
6 10 (7.81%) Ruby
7 9 (7.03%) Go
8 8 (6.25%) C#
8 8 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.91%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.13%) F#
10 4 (3.13%) Haskell
10 4 (3.13%) OCaml
11 3 (2.34%) Bicep
11 3 (2.34%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.56%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.78%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.78%) Groovy
13 1 (0.78%) Perl
13 1 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (18.75%) Degree
2 13 (10.16%) Master's Degree
3 11 (8.59%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.81%) SC Cleared
5 9 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (6.25%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.91%) PhD
8 4 (3.13%) MBA
9 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.78%) CISSP
10 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.78%) OSCP
10 1 (0.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.09%) Data Quality
2 16 (12.50%) GDPR
3 5 (3.91%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.34%) QA
5 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (7.81%) HDFS
2 8 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (11.72%) Terraform
2 11 (8.59%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.34%) Control-M
3 3 (2.34%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.56%) Ansible
4 2 (1.56%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.56%) Puppet
5 1 (0.78%) Argo
5 1 (0.78%) Grafana
5 1 (0.78%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 42 (32.81%) Databricks
2 7 (5.47%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.69%) Oracle
4 5 (3.91%) Google
4 5 (3.91%) Palantir
5 4 (3.13%) BT
6 3 (2.34%) BMC
6 3 (2.34%) IBM
6 3 (2.34%) Talend
7 1 (0.78%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.78%) Informatica
7 1 (0.78%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.78%) Rackspace
7 1 (0.78%) Salesforce