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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 520 466
Rank change year-on-year -10 -54 -81
Permanent jobs citing Scala 195 129 423
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.30% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.22% 0.99% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 97 71 224
10th Percentile £48,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -0.68% -8.75%

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 15,945 13,022 27,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.43% 30.62% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 11,583 8,821 22,048
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -23 103 £105,000 +31.25% 53
North of England -28 27 £57,500 -8.00% 16
South West -37 20 £63,500 -5.93% 10
North West +4 17 £57,500 -28.13% 10
East of England -11 13 £100,000 +53.85%
Midlands -15 13 £85,000 +28.30% 5
West Midlands -11 8 £85,000 +28.30% 4
South East -29 7 £55,000 -21.43% 12
Yorkshire -31 5 £90,000 +83.67% 4
North East -41 5 £55,500 - 2
East Midlands - 5 - - 1
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 45 (23.08%) Apache Spark
2 28 (14.36%) Apache
3 15 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.54%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.54%) SAS
5 2 (1.03%) Luigi
6 1 (0.51%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 103 (52.82%) AWS
2 85 (43.59%) GCP
3 53 (27.18%) Azure
4 23 (11.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (10.26%) GitHub
6 17 (8.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 17 (8.72%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 13 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (5.64%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.62%) Cloud Composer
10 8 (4.10%) Serverless
11 7 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.59%) Snowflake
12 6 (3.08%) Dagster
12 6 (3.08%) dbt
12 6 (3.08%) SaaS
13 4 (2.05%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (2.05%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 63 (32.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.28%) Big Data
2 21 (10.77%) Metadata
3 20 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (9.23%) Delta Lake
5 16 (8.21%) BigQuery
6 15 (7.69%) Power BI
7 14 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (6.67%) Hadoop
9 12 (6.15%) NoSQL
10 11 (5.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (5.13%) Data Vault
12 9 (4.62%) Relational Database
12 9 (4.62%) SQL Server
13 8 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (4.10%) Tableau
14 6 (3.08%) MongoDB
15 5 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (2.56%) Data Lake
15 5 (2.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (11.28%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.26%) Git
3 11 (5.64%) TeamCity
4 7 (3.59%) GitLab
5 3 (1.54%) Gatling
5 3 (1.54%) Maven
5 3 (1.54%) Postman
5 3 (1.54%) Selenium
6 2 (1.03%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.03%) JUnit
7 1 (0.51%) MLflow
General
1 41 (21.03%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.90%) Finance
3 15 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.15%) Law
5 7 (3.59%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.56%) Marketing
8 4 (2.05%) Advertising
9 3 (1.54%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (1.03%) Billing
10 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.03%) Legal
11 1 (0.51%) Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Front Office
11 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (29.74%) Data Engineer
2 49 (25.13%) Senior
3 45 (23.08%) Scala Engineer
4 41 (21.03%) Developer
5 34 (17.44%) Software Engineer
6 30 (15.38%) Lead
7 23 (11.79%) Scala Developer
8 22 (11.28%) Scala Software Engineer
9 16 (8.21%) Architect
9 16 (8.21%) Senior Data Engineer
10 14 (7.18%) Software Developer
11 13 (6.67%) Data Architect
11 13 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
12 11 (5.64%) Consultant
12 11 (5.64%) Senior Scala Engineer
13 10 (5.13%) Software Consultant
14 9 (4.62%) Senior Developer
15 7 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
15 7 (3.59%) Technical Leader
16 6 (3.08%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (23.08%) gRPC
2 24 (12.31%) Kafka
3 19 (9.74%) PySpark
4 11 (5.64%) Akka
5 8 (4.10%) React
6 6 (3.08%) Node.js
7 4 (2.05%) OAuth
7 4 (2.05%) OpenID
7 4 (2.05%) Spring
7 4 (2.05%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.54%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.54%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.54%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.54%) JPA
8 3 (1.54%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.54%) Play Framework
8 3 (1.54%) Playwright
8 3 (1.54%) RESTful
8 3 (1.54%) Spring MVC
8 3 (1.54%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 57 (29.23%) Video\Live Streaming
2 56 (28.72%) Over-the-Top Content
3 50 (25.64%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (8.21%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.13%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.10%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.59%) Robotics
8 6 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.08%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (3.08%) Social Media
9 5 (2.56%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.51%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.51%) IoT
11 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.51%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) Linux
1 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (45.64%) CI/CD
2 81 (41.54%) Data Science
3 77 (39.49%) Software Engineering
4 69 (35.38%) Analytics
4 69 (35.38%) Machine Learning
5 56 (28.72%) Coaching
5 56 (28.72%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (27.18%) Containerisation
6 53 (27.18%) Data Modelling
7 51 (26.15%) Data Engineering
7 51 (26.15%) Data Pipeline
8 50 (25.64%) Continuous Delivery
8 50 (25.64%) Microservices
9 49 (25.13%) Clean Code
10 48 (24.62%) Agile
11 45 (23.08%) Personalization
12 38 (19.49%) ETL
13 30 (15.38%) AI
13 30 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
13 30 (15.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 119 (61.03%) Python
2 60 (30.77%) Java
3 59 (30.26%) SQL
4 46 (23.59%) Go
5 13 (6.67%) C++
6 11 (5.64%) Rust
7 10 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.62%) Bicep
9 7 (3.59%) C
9 7 (3.59%) Clojure
9 7 (3.59%) Erlang
10 6 (3.08%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.56%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.05%) Elixir
12 4 (2.05%) Ruby
13 3 (1.54%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.03%) C#
14 2 (1.03%) PHP
14 2 (1.03%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.77%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.10%) Degree
6 7 (3.59%) SnowPro
7 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (20.51%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.54%) QA
3 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 76 (38.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (14.87%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.74%) Terraform
3 3 (1.54%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.54%) Kibana
4 2 (1.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (23.08%) Typelevel
2 30 (15.38%) Databricks
3 21 (10.77%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.05%) Google
6 3 (1.54%) Splunk
7 2 (1.03%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.03%) Braze
7 2 (1.03%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.03%) mParticle
7 2 (1.03%) PayPal
7 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.03%) Zuora
8 1 (0.51%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.51%) OpenAI