Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 11 April 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Scala skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Scala over the 6 months to 11 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Scala
UK > England
6 months to
11 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 243 219 202
Rank change year-on-year -24 -17 -17
Permanent jobs citing Scala 990 1,626 2,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.34% 1.55% 1.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.41% 2.85% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 772 1,309 1,922
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £108,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +3.70%

Scala is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
England
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 41,038 57,009 75,371
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England 55.58% 54.41% 54.64%
Number of salaries quoted 33,721 47,916 63,152
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in England

Scala
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Scala in England.

Salary trend for Scala in England

Scala
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala in England over the 6 months to 11 April 2021.

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 11 April 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
London 0 713 £81,500 +1.88% 143
North of England +13 142 £57,500 +4.55% 33
Yorkshire +3 76 £57,500 +4.55% 11
South East +30 62 £55,000 - 21
North West +11 47 £57,500 - 20
South West -5 23 £57,500 +4.55% 6
North East +24 19 £55,000 +0.60% 2
Midlands -33 17 £47,500 -20.83% 6
East of England +50 15 £62,500 -12.28% 5
West Midlands +22 10 £46,250 -15.91% 4
East Midlands -36 7 £50,500 -30.34% 2
Scala
UK

For the 6 months to 11 April 2021, IT jobs citing Scala also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region with a requirement for Scala.

1 756 (76.36%) Java
2 622 (62.83%) Python
3 528 (53.33%) AWS
4 514 (51.92%) Agile Software Development
5 361 (36.46%) Software Engineering
6 332 (33.54%) JavaScript
7 325 (32.83%) Kubernetes
8 307 (31.01%) DevOps
9 303 (30.61%) SQL
10 296 (29.90%) Docker
11 295 (29.80%) Finance
12 286 (28.89%) Azure
13 266 (26.87%) GCP
14 252 (25.45%) C#
15 250 (25.25%) Apache Spark
16 247 (24.95%) TDD
17 240 (24.24%) Microservices
18 224 (22.63%) Kotlin
19 210 (21.21%) Kafka
20 208 (21.01%) Big Data
21 180 (18.18%) TypeScript
22 177 (17.88%) NoSQL
23 171 (17.27%) Go
24 168 (16.97%) AngularJS
25 161 (16.26%) React
26 158 (15.96%) C++
27 156 (15.76%) Terraform
28 154 (15.56%) Hadoop
29 148 (14.95%) Git (software)
30 147 (14.85%) Spring

Scala
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 250 (25.25%) Apache Spark
2 108 (10.91%) Apache
3 37 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
4 34 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (2.73%) Confluence
6 16 (1.62%) Luigi
7 11 (1.11%) JBoss
7 11 (1.11%) Tomcat
7 11 (1.11%) WebLogic
8 10 (1.01%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.81%) Tornado
10 6 (0.61%) Apache Synapse
11 5 (0.51%) nginx
11 5 (0.51%) SAS
12 4 (0.40%) Apache Pig
12 4 (0.40%) IIS
12 4 (0.40%) Jetty
13 2 (0.20%) CMS
13 2 (0.20%) DataSynapse
13 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (2.12%) InVision
1 21 (2.12%) Sketch
2 2 (0.20%) SPSS
2 2 (0.20%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Sentinel
Cloud Services
1 528 (53.33%) AWS
2 286 (28.89%) Azure
3 266 (26.87%) GCP
4 95 (9.60%) Serverless
5 88 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 73 (7.37%) Amazon EC2
7 67 (6.77%) Amazon S3
8 57 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (4.75%) Power Platform
10 34 (3.43%) Amazon Kinesis
11 31 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (3.13%) GitHub
12 27 (2.73%) SaaS
13 21 (2.12%) Amazon EMR
14 18 (1.82%) Slack
15 17 (1.72%) Cloud Functions
16 13 (1.31%) PaaS
17 12 (1.21%) IaaS
18 10 (1.01%) OpenShift
19 9 (0.91%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.12%) HTTP
2 10 (1.01%) Firewall
2 10 (1.01%) Internet
3 8 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (21.01%) Big Data
2 177 (17.88%) NoSQL
3 154 (15.56%) Hadoop
4 87 (8.79%) MongoDB
5 83 (8.38%) Relational Database
6 79 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
7 65 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
8 63 (6.36%) Data Lake
9 62 (6.26%) Amazon DynamoDB
10 58 (5.86%) Apache Hive
11 47 (4.75%) Power BI
12 42 (4.24%) Apache Cassandra
13 33 (3.33%) Apache Ignite
13 33 (3.33%) Tableau
14 32 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
14 32 (3.23%) MySQL
14 32 (3.23%) RDBMS
15 30 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 30 (3.03%) BigQuery
15 30 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 148 (14.95%) Git (software)
2 115 (11.62%) Jenkins
3 57 (5.76%) JIRA
4 53 (5.35%) JUnit
5 52 (5.25%) Maven
5 52 (5.25%) Selenium
6 31 (3.13%) IntelliJ
7 28 (2.83%) Cucumber
7 28 (2.83%) Cypress.io
8 23 (2.32%) JMeter
9 22 (2.22%) Eclipse
10 21 (2.12%) PostCSS
11 14 (1.41%) Appium
12 11 (1.11%) CircleCI
12 11 (1.11%) WebDriver
13 10 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (1.01%) TestComplete
13 10 (1.01%) TestNG
13 10 (1.01%) Zephyr
14 9 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 295 (29.80%) Finance
2 88 (8.89%) Banking
3 77 (7.78%) Front Office
4 45 (4.55%) Games
5 24 (2.42%) Retail
6 22 (2.22%) Marketing
7 18 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 17 (1.72%) Law
9 10 (1.01%) Advertising
10 9 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.61%) Electronics
11 6 (0.61%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.51%) Legal
13 4 (0.40%) French Language
14 3 (0.30%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.30%) Publishing
15 2 (0.20%) Czech Language
15 2 (0.20%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.20%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.10%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 398 (40.20%) Developer
2 223 (22.53%) Data Engineer
3 208 (21.01%) Software Engineer
4 167 (16.87%) Java Developer
5 103 (10.40%) Scala Developer
6 78 (7.88%) Senior Developer
7 73 (7.37%) Scala Engineer
8 57 (5.76%) Python Engineer
8 57 (5.76%) React Developer
9 50 (5.05%) Java Engineer
10 48 (4.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 47 (4.75%) Full Stack Developer
11 47 (4.75%) Senior Data Engineer
12 40 (4.04%) Python Software Engineer
13 38 (3.84%) Big Data Engineer
13 38 (3.84%) Java Software Engineer
14 35 (3.54%) Python Developer
15 33 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
16 32 (3.23%) Java Scala Developer
16 32 (3.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (21.21%) Kafka
2 168 (16.97%) AngularJS
3 161 (16.26%) React
4 147 (14.85%) Spring
5 133 (13.43%) Node.js
6 124 (12.53%) Vue.js
7 116 (11.72%) RESTful
8 107 (10.81%) Spring Boot
9 85 (8.59%) GraphQL
9 85 (8.59%) HTML
10 82 (8.28%) CSS
11 81 (8.18%) Web Services
12 67 (6.77%) HTML5
13 63 (6.36%) REST
14 52 (5.25%) Akka
15 51 (5.15%) Play Framework
16 44 (4.44%) .NET
17 39 (3.94%) JSON
18 32 (3.23%) Sass
18 32 (3.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 73 (7.37%) Equities
2 72 (7.27%) Algorithms
3 71 (7.17%) Derivative
4 68 (6.87%) Hedge funds
5 67 (6.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 64 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
7 62 (6.26%) Fixed Income
8 52 (5.25%) Greenfield Project
9 49 (4.95%) Data Structures
10 48 (4.85%) User Experience
11 38 (3.84%) Credit Risk
12 27 (2.73%) Blog
13 20 (2.02%) Social Network
14 18 (1.82%) Cloud Native
15 17 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
16 16 (1.62%) Video\Live Streaming
17 15 (1.52%) Mobile App
18 13 (1.31%) Market Risk
18 13 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
19 9 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 88 (8.89%) Linux
2 47 (4.75%) Unix
3 27 (2.73%) Android
4 21 (2.12%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.92%) Windows
6 8 (0.81%) Solaris
7 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (51.92%) Agile Software Development
2 361 (36.46%) Software Engineering
3 307 (31.01%) DevOps
4 247 (24.95%) TDD
5 240 (24.24%) Microservices
6 137 (13.84%) Analytics
7 128 (12.93%) Data Science
8 121 (12.22%) Test Automation
9 119 (12.02%) Machine Learning
10 105 (10.61%) Artificial Intelligence
11 103 (10.40%) OOP
12 100 (10.10%) ETL
13 94 (9.49%) OO
13 94 (9.49%) Unit Testing
14 92 (9.29%) Computer Science
15 91 (9.19%) Open Source
16 88 (8.89%) Asset Management
17 86 (8.69%) SOLID
18 84 (8.48%) Data Engineering
19 74 (7.47%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Programming Languages
1 756 (76.36%) Java
2 622 (62.83%) Python
3 332 (33.54%) JavaScript
4 303 (30.61%) SQL
5 252 (25.45%) C#
6 224 (22.63%) Kotlin
7 180 (18.18%) TypeScript
8 171 (17.27%) Go
9 158 (15.96%) C++
10 118 (11.92%) Ruby
11 61 (6.16%) Clojure
12 60 (6.06%) Java 8
13 50 (5.05%) ES6
14 45 (4.55%) R
15 40 (4.04%) Groovy
16 38 (3.84%) PHP
17 36 (3.64%) Bash Shell
18 27 (2.73%) Shell Script
19 24 (2.42%) C
20 21 (2.12%) ES7
Qualifications
1 78 (7.88%) Degree
2 34 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (2.12%) SANS
4 14 (1.41%) Security Cleared
5 9 (0.91%) PhD
6 7 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.71%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.10%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.08%) QA
2 22 (2.22%) WCAG
3 13 (1.31%) GDPR
4 12 (1.21%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.30%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.10%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.10%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.10%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 296 (29.90%) Docker
2 13 (1.31%) HDFS
3 8 (0.81%) Apache Flume
4 4 (0.40%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 325 (32.83%) Kubernetes
2 156 (15.76%) Terraform
3 46 (4.65%) Ansible
4 28 (2.83%) Puppet
5 20 (2.02%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.72%) Grafana
7 12 (1.21%) Opscode Chef
8 9 (0.91%) Oozie
9 4 (0.40%) Istio
9 4 (0.40%) Marathon
9 4 (0.40%) Mesos
10 1 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.10%) Rancher
Vendors
1 60 (6.06%) Google
2 47 (4.75%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.24%) Databricks
4 39 (3.94%) Oracle
5 13 (1.31%) Cloudera
6 11 (1.11%) Adobe
6 11 (1.11%) Talend
7 9 (0.91%) Hortonworks
8 8 (0.81%) TIBCO
9 7 (0.71%) Solace
10 6 (0.61%) webMethods
11 5 (0.51%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.51%) GigaSpaces
11 5 (0.51%) Informatica
11 5 (0.51%) Teradata
12 4 (0.40%) Facebook
13 3 (0.30%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.30%) Cognos
13 3 (0.30%) MicroStrategy
13 3 (0.30%) Splunk