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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 529 431
Rank change year-on-year -15 -98 +2
Permanent jobs citing Scala 200 130 371
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.30% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 1.02% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 120 68 165
10th Percentile £53,625 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,938 £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 16,690 12,697 21,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 29.07% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,155 8,459 15,920
10th Percentile £38,000 £34,000 £36,494
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,939
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,031
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 12 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 12 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 -44 104 £105,000 +16.67% 213
North of England -35 36 £75,000 +15.38% 28
South West - 22 £63,500 - 11
North West -2 21 £57,500 -28.13% 15
East of England -19 13 £100,000 +53.85% 3
Midlands -14 11 £85,000 +30.77% 16
North East -53 8 £55,500 -14.62% 7
Yorkshire -33 7 £90,000 +61.43% 6
West Midlands -20 6 £85,000 +30.77% 13
South East -30 6 £55,000 -25.42% 11
East Midlands - 5 - - 3
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 (26.50%) Apache Spark
2 34 (17.00%) Apache
3 14 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.50%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.50%) SAS
5 2 (1.00%) Luigi
6 1 (0.50%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 95 (47.50%) AWS
2 70 (35.00%) GCP
3 69 (34.50%) Azure
4 32 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (12.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (11.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 21 (10.50%) Power Platform
8 19 (9.50%) GitHub
9 14 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (7.00%) Snowflake
10 13 (6.50%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.50%) Serverless
12 8 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.00%) Cloud Composer
13 5 (2.50%) Dagster
13 5 (2.50%) dbt
13 5 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.00%) Prefect
14 4 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (16.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.00%) Big Data
2 29 (14.50%) Metadata
3 26 (13.00%) Delta Lake
4 23 (11.50%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (9.50%) Data Vault
5 19 (9.50%) Hadoop
5 19 (9.50%) Power BI
6 17 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (7.50%) BigQuery
7 15 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (7.00%) NoSQL
9 12 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (6.00%) Relational Database
9 12 (6.00%) Tableau
10 9 (4.50%) SQL Server
11 8 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (4.00%) Data Lake
12 7 (3.50%) MongoDB
12 7 (3.50%) MySQL
13 5 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 18 (9.00%) Git
2 13 (6.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.00%) GitLab
4 4 (2.00%) Maven
5 3 (1.50%) Gatling
5 3 (1.50%) Postman
5 3 (1.50%) Selenium
6 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.00%) JUnit
7 1 (0.50%) Gradle
7 1 (0.50%) MLflow
7 1 (0.50%) Mockito
General
1 48 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.50%) Finance
3 25 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.50%) Law
5 7 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.50%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.50%) Legal
6 5 (2.50%) Marketing
6 5 (2.50%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.00%) Advertising
8 3 (1.50%) Banking
8 3 (1.50%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.00%) Games
10 1 (0.50%) Front Office
10 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (30.50%) Data Engineer
2 46 (23.00%) Senior
3 39 (19.50%) Developer
4 31 (15.50%) Lead
5 29 (14.50%) Architect
6 28 (14.00%) Scala Engineer
6 28 (14.00%) Software Engineer
7 25 (12.50%) Data Architect
8 20 (10.00%) Scala Developer
9 17 (8.50%) Senior Data Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.50%) Consultant
11 11 (5.50%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (5.00%) Scala Software Engineer
12 10 (5.00%) Software Consultant
13 9 (4.50%) Senior Scala Engineer
14 7 (3.50%) Technical Leader
15 6 (3.00%) Principal Engineer
15 6 (3.00%) Senior Manager
15 6 (3.00%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (14.00%) PySpark
2 27 (13.50%) gRPC
2 27 (13.50%) Kafka
3 8 (4.00%) React
4 6 (3.00%) Node.js
5 5 (2.50%) Spring
5 5 (2.50%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.00%) Hibernate
6 4 (2.00%) JPA
6 4 (2.00%) OAuth
6 4 (2.00%) OpenAPI
6 4 (2.00%) OpenID
6 4 (2.00%) RESTful
6 4 (2.00%) Spring MVC
6 4 (2.00%) Swagger
7 3 (1.50%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.50%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.50%) CrewAI
7 3 (1.50%) LangChain
7 3 (1.50%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.50%) Cloud Native
1 35 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (13.50%) Over-the-Top Content
2 27 (13.50%) Video\Live Streaming
3 9 (4.50%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.50%) Robotics
6 5 (2.50%) Anti-Piracy
6 5 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.50%) Social Media
7 4 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.50%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.50%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
1 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (45.50%) CI/CD
2 75 (37.50%) Analytics
3 72 (36.00%) Data Science
4 70 (35.00%) Data Modelling
5 69 (34.50%) Data Engineering
5 69 (34.50%) Machine Learning
6 67 (33.50%) Software Engineering
7 58 (29.00%) AI
8 57 (28.50%) Data Pipeline
9 50 (25.00%) Agile
10 46 (23.00%) ETL
11 42 (21.00%) Containerisation
12 41 (20.50%) DevOps
12 41 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (19.50%) Infrastructure as Code
15 38 (19.00%) Coaching
16 34 (17.00%) Microservices
17 32 (16.00%) Clean Code
17 32 (16.00%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 127 (63.50%) Python
2 79 (39.50%) SQL
3 76 (38.00%) Java
4 32 (16.00%) Go
5 14 (7.00%) Bicep
5 14 (7.00%) C++
6 11 (5.50%) Rust
6 11 (5.50%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.00%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.50%) C
8 7 (3.50%) Clojure
8 7 (3.50%) Erlang
8 7 (3.50%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.00%) Ruby
10 4 (2.00%) C#
10 4 (2.00%) Elixir
10 4 (2.00%) R
11 3 (1.50%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (6.50%) SnowPro
6 10 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.00%) Degree
7 5 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (25.50%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.50%) QA
4 2 (1.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 53 (26.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.50%) Terraform
3 3 (1.50%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.50%) Kibana
4 2 (1.00%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (21.50%) Databricks
2 28 (14.00%) Microsoft
3 27 (13.50%) Typelevel
4 5 (2.50%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.00%) Google
6 3 (1.50%) Splunk
7 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.50%) Informatica
8 1 (0.50%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle
8 1 (0.50%) Workday