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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 514 435
Rank change year-on-year -19 -79 +9
Permanent jobs citing Scala 206 129 371
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.30% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.23% 1.01% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 119 67 165
10th Percentile £53,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,625 £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 £111,250 £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 16,755 12,719 21,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.81% 29.13% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,169 8,481 15,921
10th Percentile £38,000 £34,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,918
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.60% -6.28%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,000
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 11 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 11 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 -24 109 £105,000 +16.67% 123
North of England -29 35 £75,000 +15.38% 19
South West - 24 £63,500 - 12
North West +3 21 £57,500 -28.13% 8
East of England -17 13 £100,000 +53.85% 3
Midlands -42 11 £85,000 +30.77% 12
Yorkshire -38 7 £90,000 +61.43% 6
North East -56 7 £55,500 -14.62% 5
West Midlands -35 6 £85,000 +30.77% 10
South East -37 6 £55,000 -25.42% 8
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
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 (25.73%) Apache Spark
2 34 (16.50%) Apache
3 14 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.46%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.46%) SAS
5 2 (0.97%) Luigi
6 1 (0.49%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 102 (49.51%) AWS
2 78 (37.86%) GCP
3 68 (33.01%) Azure
4 32 (15.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (11.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (11.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 21 (10.19%) Power Platform
8 18 (8.74%) GitHub
9 14 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (6.80%) Snowflake
10 13 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (5.83%) Amazon S3
12 8 (3.88%) Cloud Composer
12 8 (3.88%) Serverless
13 7 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.43%) Dagster
14 5 (2.43%) dbt
14 5 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (1.94%) Prefect
15 4 (1.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (19.42%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.56%) Big Data
2 29 (14.08%) Metadata
3 26 (12.62%) Delta Lake
4 23 (11.17%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (9.22%) Data Vault
5 19 (9.22%) Hadoop
5 19 (9.22%) Power BI
6 16 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (7.28%) BigQuery
8 14 (6.80%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (6.31%) NoSQL
10 12 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (5.83%) Relational Database
10 12 (5.83%) Tableau
11 9 (4.37%) SQL Server
12 8 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (3.88%) Data Lake
13 7 (3.40%) MySQL
14 6 (2.91%) MongoDB
15 5 (2.43%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 17 (8.25%) Git
2 12 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.40%) GitLab
4 3 (1.46%) Gatling
4 3 (1.46%) Maven
4 3 (1.46%) Postman
4 3 (1.46%) Selenium
5 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.49%) JUnit
5 1 (0.49%) MLflow
General
1 47 (22.82%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.90%) Finance
3 25 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.28%) Law
5 7 (3.40%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.43%) Legal
7 5 (2.43%) Marketing
7 5 (2.43%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.94%) Advertising
9 3 (1.46%) Banking
9 3 (1.46%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.97%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.97%) Games
11 1 (0.49%) Front Office
11 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (30.58%) Data Engineer
2 46 (22.33%) Senior
3 40 (19.42%) Developer
4 34 (16.50%) Scala Engineer
5 31 (15.05%) Lead
5 31 (15.05%) Software Engineer
6 28 (13.59%) Architect
7 24 (11.65%) Data Architect
8 22 (10.68%) Scala Developer
9 17 (8.25%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (6.31%) Scala Software Engineer
11 12 (5.83%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.34%) Consultant
12 11 (5.34%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (4.85%) Software Consultant
14 9 (4.37%) Senior Scala Engineer
15 7 (3.40%) Technical Leader
16 6 (2.91%) Principal Engineer
16 6 (2.91%) Senior Technical Manager
16 6 (2.91%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.99%) gRPC
2 28 (13.59%) PySpark
3 26 (12.62%) Kafka
4 8 (3.88%) React
5 6 (2.91%) Node.js
6 4 (1.94%) OAuth
6 4 (1.94%) OpenID
6 4 (1.94%) RESTful
6 4 (1.94%) Spring
6 4 (1.94%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.46%) .NET
7 3 (1.46%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.46%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.46%) Hibernate
7 3 (1.46%) JPA
7 3 (1.46%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.46%) Play Framework
7 3 (1.46%) Playwright
7 3 (1.46%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.87%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (16.99%) Over-the-Top Content
2 35 (16.99%) Video\Live Streaming
3 34 (16.50%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.37%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.40%) Robotics
7 5 (2.43%) Anti-Piracy
7 5 (2.43%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.43%) Social Media
8 4 (1.94%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.97%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.49%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.49%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.49%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.49%) Linux
1 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (47.09%) CI/CD
2 80 (38.83%) Data Science
3 77 (37.38%) Machine Learning
4 75 (36.41%) Analytics
4 75 (36.41%) Software Engineering
5 68 (33.01%) Data Engineering
5 68 (33.01%) Data Modelling
6 57 (27.67%) AI
6 57 (27.67%) Data Pipeline
7 49 (23.79%) Containerisation
7 49 (23.79%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (23.30%) Agile
9 46 (22.33%) Coaching
9 46 (22.33%) ETL
10 42 (20.39%) Microservices
11 40 (19.42%) Business Intelligence
11 40 (19.42%) Continuous Delivery
11 40 (19.42%) DevOps
12 39 (18.93%) Clean Code
13 38 (18.45%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 134 (65.05%) Python
2 78 (37.86%) SQL
3 75 (36.41%) Java
4 40 (19.42%) Go
5 14 (6.80%) Bicep
5 14 (6.80%) C++
6 11 (5.34%) Rust
6 11 (5.34%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.40%) C
7 7 (3.40%) Clojure
7 7 (3.40%) Erlang
7 7 (3.40%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.40%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.91%) Ruby
9 4 (1.94%) C#
9 4 (1.94%) Elixir
9 4 (1.94%) R
10 3 (1.46%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.97%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (21.36%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.71%) Azure Certification
4 16 (7.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (6.31%) SnowPro
6 9 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.37%) Degree
7 5 (2.43%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.94%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (24.76%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.40%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.97%) GDPR
3 2 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 60 (29.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (11.65%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.19%) Terraform
3 3 (1.46%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.46%) Kibana
4 2 (0.97%) Ansible
Vendors
1 43 (20.87%) Databricks
2 35 (16.99%) Typelevel
3 28 (13.59%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.43%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.94%) Google
6 3 (1.46%) Splunk
7 2 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.49%) Informatica
8 1 (0.49%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.49%) Workday