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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 509 405
Rank change year-on-year -69 -104 +44
Permanent jobs citing Scala 189 120 379
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.28% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 1.04% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 127 64 136
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,079 £62,500 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -3.22%
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £126,250 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -

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 16,765 11,555 20,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.13% 26.72% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12,230 7,598 12,802
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -55 100 £105,000 +16.67% 251
North of England -40 44 £66,250 +1.92% 35
North West -12 25 £66,250 -17.19% 16
South West - 19 £73,750 - 16
North East -57 11 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Yorkshire -35 8 £90,000 +83.67% 3
East of England -34 7 £135,500 +108.46% 11
South East -43 7 £55,000 - 18
Midlands -49 6 £81,500 +25.38% 15
East Midlands - 5 - - 3
West Midlands -47 1 £81,500 +25.38% 12
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 53 (28.04%) Apache Spark
2 42 (22.22%) Apache
3 12 (6.35%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.59%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.59%) SAS
5 2 (1.06%) Luigi
6 1 (0.53%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 85 (44.97%) Azure
2 64 (33.86%) AWS
3 45 (23.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 43 (22.75%) GCP
5 37 (19.58%) Azure Databricks
6 31 (16.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 27 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (12.17%) Power Platform
9 20 (10.58%) GitHub
10 19 (10.05%) Snowflake
11 18 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (6.88%) Amazon S3
14 12 (6.35%) Serverless
15 11 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (3.70%) SaaS
17 6 (3.17%) Cloud Composer
17 6 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
18 5 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
18 5 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (20.11%) Big Data
2 31 (16.40%) Metadata
3 29 (15.34%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (15.34%) Delta Lake
4 22 (11.64%) Hadoop
5 21 (11.11%) Power BI
6 20 (10.58%) Data Vault
6 20 (10.58%) NoSQL
7 18 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (8.47%) Tableau
9 14 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (7.41%) Relational Database
10 13 (6.88%) BigQuery
10 13 (6.88%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (6.35%) Data Lake
12 9 (4.76%) MongoDB
12 9 (4.76%) SQL Server
13 7 (3.70%) Flink
14 6 (3.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (12.70%) Git
2 21 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.70%) GitLab
4 5 (2.65%) Maven
5 3 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.59%) Gatling
5 3 (1.59%) JUnit
5 3 (1.59%) Postman
5 3 (1.59%) Selenium
6 2 (1.06%) Gradle
6 2 (1.06%) Mockito
7 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 57 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 49 (25.93%) Finance
3 27 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.29%) Law
5 9 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.65%) Legal
7 5 (2.65%) Marketing
8 4 (2.12%) Advertising
8 4 (2.12%) Banking
9 3 (1.59%) Digital Healthcare
9 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.06%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Front Office
11 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (32.28%) Data Engineer
2 44 (23.28%) Senior
3 33 (17.46%) Architect
3 33 (17.46%) Developer
4 29 (15.34%) Data Architect
5 28 (14.81%) Lead
6 20 (10.58%) Software Engineer
7 17 (8.99%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (6.88%) Scala Developer
9 12 (6.35%) Software Developer
10 11 (5.82%) Consultant
10 11 (5.82%) Scala Engineer
11 10 (5.29%) Azure Data Engineer
11 10 (5.29%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (5.29%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (5.29%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (5.29%) Software Consultant
12 8 (4.23%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Databricks Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.58%) PySpark
2 29 (15.34%) Kafka
3 28 (14.81%) Terraform
4 8 (4.23%) React
5 6 (3.17%) Apache Beam
5 6 (3.17%) Spring
5 6 (3.17%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.65%) Hibernate
6 5 (2.65%) JPA
6 5 (2.65%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.65%) Play Framework
6 5 (2.65%) Spring MVC
6 5 (2.65%) Swagger
6 5 (2.65%) YAML
7 4 (2.12%) CrewAI
7 4 (2.12%) LangChain
7 4 (2.12%) RESTful
8 3 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.59%) Playwright
8 3 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.16%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.70%) Robotics
5 4 (2.12%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.12%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.12%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.12%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.59%) Digital Signage
6 3 (1.59%) IPTV
6 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.06%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.06%) Blog
7 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.53%) Life Science
8 1 (0.53%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.59%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 75 (39.68%) Analytics
3 74 (39.15%) Data Engineering
4 68 (35.98%) CI/CD
5 65 (34.39%) AI
5 65 (34.39%) Data Pipeline
6 63 (33.33%) Agile
7 47 (24.87%) DevOps
7 47 (24.87%) ETL
8 45 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
8 45 (23.81%) Data Science
9 42 (22.22%) Machine Learning
10 41 (21.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 40 (21.16%) Software Engineering
12 39 (20.63%) Data Architecture
13 33 (17.46%) Technical Leadership
14 32 (16.93%) Lakehouse
15 27 (14.29%) Mentoring
15 27 (14.29%) Roadmaps
16 26 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 108 (57.14%) Python
2 91 (48.15%) SQL
3 80 (42.33%) Java
4 16 (8.47%) Bicep
5 11 (5.82%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.29%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.29%) Kotlin
7 9 (4.76%) C++
8 8 (4.23%) R
9 7 (3.70%) C
9 7 (3.70%) Clojure
9 7 (3.70%) Erlang
9 7 (3.70%) Rust
10 5 (2.65%) Go
11 4 (2.12%) C#
11 4 (2.12%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.59%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.06%) PHP
13 2 (1.06%) Ruby
14 1 (0.53%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 57 (30.16%) Security Cleared
2 39 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 28 (14.81%) Azure Certification
4 19 (10.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (8.47%) SnowPro
6 13 (6.88%) Degree
7 9 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (4.23%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.12%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.65%) QA
4 3 (1.59%) SLA
5 2 (1.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (17.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.12%) Grafana
3 3 (1.59%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.59%) Kibana
4 2 (1.06%) Ansible
4 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 57 (30.16%) Databricks
2 36 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.23%) Google
3 8 (4.23%) Splunk
4 5 (2.65%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.59%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.59%) Cisco
5 3 (1.59%) New Relic
5 3 (1.59%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.59%) Polycom
6 2 (1.06%) Oracle
7 1 (0.53%) Informatica
7 1 (0.53%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.53%) Workday