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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 520 426
Rank change year-on-year -9 -94 +4
Permanent jobs citing Scala 198 135 369
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.31% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 1.07% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 121 71 161
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,875 £64,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

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 16,784 12,601 21,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.70% 28.65% 29.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12,203 8,420 15,711
10th Percentile £38,250 £33,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,617 £61,305
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +2.14% -5.68%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -48 105 £105,000 +16.67% 43
North of England -38 38 £66,250 +1.92% 19
South West - 22 £63,500 - 7
North West +1 21 £57,500 -28.13% 7
East of England -8 12 £100,000 +53.85%
Midlands -22 9 £85,000 +30.77% 7
North East -59 9 £56,500 -13.08% 7
Yorkshire -37 8 £90,000 +61.43% 5
South East -40 5 £55,000 -25.42% 13
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
West Midlands -18 4 £85,000 +30.77% 5
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 49 (24.75%) Apache Spark
2 34 (17.17%) Apache
3 9 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.52%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.52%) SAS
5 2 (1.01%) Luigi
6 1 (0.51%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 90 (45.45%) AWS
2 70 (35.35%) Azure
3 65 (32.83%) GCP
4 34 (17.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 26 (13.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 24 (12.12%) Microsoft Purview
7 21 (10.61%) Power Platform
8 19 (9.60%) GitHub
9 15 (7.58%) Snowflake
10 14 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (6.06%) Amazon S3
12 9 (4.55%) Serverless
13 8 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (2.02%) Cloud Composer
15 4 (2.02%) SaaS
16 3 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
16 3 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
16 3 (1.52%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 28 (14.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.15%) Big Data
2 27 (13.64%) Delta Lake
3 26 (13.13%) Metadata
4 23 (11.62%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (10.10%) Data Vault
6 19 (9.60%) Hadoop
6 19 (9.60%) Power BI
7 16 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (7.58%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (6.57%) NoSQL
10 12 (6.06%) Tableau
11 11 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (5.56%) BigQuery
11 11 (5.56%) Relational Database
12 9 (4.55%) Data Lake
12 9 (4.55%) SQL Server
13 8 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (3.54%) MongoDB
15 6 (3.03%) MySQL
16 4 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 17 (8.59%) Git
2 13 (6.57%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.04%) GitLab
4 4 (2.02%) Maven
5 3 (1.52%) Gatling
5 3 (1.52%) Postman
5 3 (1.52%) Selenium
6 2 (1.01%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.01%) JUnit
7 1 (0.51%) Gradle
7 1 (0.51%) MLflow
7 1 (0.51%) Mockito
General
1 46 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.71%) Finance
3 26 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.56%) Law
5 8 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.54%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.03%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.53%) Legal
8 5 (2.53%) Marketing
9 4 (2.02%) Advertising
10 3 (1.52%) Banking
10 3 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.01%) Games
12 1 (0.51%) Front Office
12 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (28.79%) Data Engineer
2 40 (20.20%) Developer
2 40 (20.20%) Senior
3 31 (15.66%) Lead
4 30 (15.15%) Architect
5 29 (14.65%) Software Engineer
6 28 (14.14%) Scala Engineer
7 26 (13.13%) Data Architect
8 21 (10.61%) Scala Developer
9 13 (6.57%) Senior Data Engineer
10 12 (6.06%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.56%) Consultant
11 11 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
11 11 (5.56%) Scala Software Engineer
12 10 (5.05%) Software Consultant
13 8 (4.04%) Senior Scala Engineer
14 7 (3.54%) Technical Leader
15 6 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
15 6 (3.03%) Senior Manager
15 6 (3.03%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.65%) PySpark
2 27 (13.64%) gRPC
3 23 (11.62%) Kafka
4 8 (4.04%) React
5 6 (3.03%) Node.js
6 5 (2.53%) Spring
6 5 (2.53%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.02%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.02%) JPA
7 4 (2.02%) OAuth
7 4 (2.02%) OpenAPI
7 4 (2.02%) OpenID
7 4 (2.02%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.02%) RESTful
7 4 (2.02%) Spring MVC
7 4 (2.02%) Swagger
8 3 (1.52%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.52%) CrewAI
8 3 (1.52%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.68%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (13.64%) Over-the-Top Content
3 27 (13.64%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.04%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.54%) Robotics
6 5 (2.53%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.53%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.51%) Anti-Piracy
10 1 (0.51%) Blog
10 1 (0.51%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.51%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) Linux
1 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (46.46%) CI/CD
2 72 (36.36%) Analytics
3 70 (35.35%) Machine Learning
4 68 (34.34%) Data Science
4 68 (34.34%) Software Engineering
5 67 (33.84%) Data Modelling
6 64 (32.32%) Data Engineering
7 59 (29.80%) AI
8 52 (26.26%) Data Pipeline
9 51 (25.76%) Agile
10 43 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (21.21%) Containerisation
11 42 (21.21%) ETL
12 41 (20.71%) Business Intelligence
13 40 (20.20%) DevOps
14 39 (19.70%) Infrastructure as Code
15 38 (19.19%) Coaching
16 34 (17.17%) Microservices
17 33 (16.67%) Clean Code
18 32 (16.16%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 124 (62.63%) Python
2 76 (38.38%) SQL
3 72 (36.36%) Java
4 32 (16.16%) Go
5 15 (7.58%) Bicep
6 11 (5.56%) Rust
6 11 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.05%) C++
8 8 (4.04%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.54%) C
9 7 (3.54%) Clojure
9 7 (3.54%) Erlang
9 7 (3.54%) JavaScript
10 6 (3.03%) Ruby
11 4 (2.02%) C#
11 4 (2.02%) Elixir
11 4 (2.02%) R
12 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.01%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (23.74%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.61%) Azure Certification
4 17 (8.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (7.07%) SnowPro
6 9 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.55%) Degree
7 5 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (25.76%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.04%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.02%) QA
4 2 (1.01%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (26.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (13.13%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.11%) Terraform
3 3 (1.52%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.52%) Kibana
4 2 (1.01%) Ansible
4 2 (1.01%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (22.73%) Databricks
2 30 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 27 (13.64%) Typelevel
4 5 (2.53%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.02%) Google
5 4 (2.02%) Splunk
6 2 (1.01%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.51%) Informatica
7 1 (0.51%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle
7 1 (0.51%) Workday