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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 498 493
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 -220
Permanent jobs citing Scala 173 133 353
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.34% 0.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 1.05% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 66 83 253
10th Percentile £47,296 - £52,500
25th Percentile £56,063 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £106,750 £96,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £102,450 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -5.41% -7.50%

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 14,550 12,686 27,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.70% 32.20% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,297 8,850 22,385
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 20 May 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 20 May 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 0 100 £100,000 +42.86% 27
South West -49 15 £79,100 +19.40% 6
East of England -6 12 £100,000 +53.85% 1
South East -20 12 £55,000 -21.43% 5
North of England -39 12 £66,250 +6.00% 16
Midlands -23 10 £75,000 +3.45% 2
West Midlands -24 10 £75,000 +3.45% 1
Yorkshire -48 6 £90,000 +61.43% 3
North West +2 4 £75,000 -6.25% 7
North East -39 2 £57,500 -8.00% 6
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 34 (19.65%) Apache Spark
2 15 (8.67%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (6.36%) Apache
4 5 (2.89%) IIS
5 2 (1.16%) Luigi
6 1 (0.58%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 96 (55.49%) AWS
2 77 (44.51%) GCP
3 46 (26.59%) Azure
4 24 (13.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (11.56%) GitHub
7 17 (9.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (8.67%) Amazon S3
8 15 (8.67%) Power Platform
9 9 (5.20%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (5.20%) Cloud Composer
10 8 (4.62%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (4.05%) dbt
12 6 (3.47%) Dagster
12 6 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (3.47%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.31%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 4 (2.31%) Prefect
13 4 (2.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 74 (42.77%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.56%) Metadata
2 19 (10.98%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (10.40%) Big Data
3 18 (10.40%) Delta Lake
4 17 (9.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (9.83%) NoSQL
5 15 (8.67%) Data Lake
6 14 (8.09%) BigQuery
6 14 (8.09%) Hadoop
7 13 (7.51%) Power BI
7 13 (7.51%) Tableau
8 10 (5.78%) Relational Database
9 9 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (4.62%) MongoDB
10 8 (4.62%) MySQL
10 8 (4.62%) SQL Server
11 7 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (2.89%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (2.89%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 30 (17.34%) Jenkins
2 22 (12.72%) Git
2 22 (12.72%) TeamCity
3 5 (2.89%) GitLab
4 2 (1.16%) Gatling
4 2 (1.16%) Maven
5 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.58%) JUnit
General
1 25 (14.45%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.72%) Finance
3 20 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.51%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.05%) Marketing
6 6 (3.47%) Law
7 5 (2.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.73%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.16%) Billing
10 2 (1.16%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.16%) Legal
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Games
11 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (35.84%) Data Engineer
2 51 (29.48%) Scala Engineer
3 49 (28.32%) Senior
4 37 (21.39%) Software Engineer
5 28 (16.18%) Developer
6 27 (15.61%) Scala Software Engineer
7 23 (13.29%) Scala Developer
8 19 (10.98%) Lead
9 18 (10.40%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (7.51%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 11 (6.36%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.78%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (4.62%) Architect
14 7 (4.05%) Senior Developer
14 7 (4.05%) Senior Manager
14 7 (4.05%) Systems Engineer
15 6 (3.47%) Backend Developer
15 6 (3.47%) Senior Scala Developer
15 6 (3.47%) Software Developer
16 5 (2.89%) Data Science Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (26.01%) gRPC
2 26 (15.03%) PySpark
3 22 (12.72%) Akka
3 22 (12.72%) Kafka
4 6 (3.47%) Node.js
5 5 (2.89%) Play Framework
5 5 (2.89%) React
6 4 (2.31%) OAuth
6 4 (2.31%) OpenID
7 3 (1.73%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.73%) Spring
8 2 (1.16%) .NET
8 2 (1.16%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.16%) Memcached
8 2 (1.16%) Playwright
9 1 (0.58%) D3.js
9 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.58%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.58%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 68 (39.31%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (38.73%) Over-the-Top Content
3 58 (33.53%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.20%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.05%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.47%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.47%) Social Media
7 5 (2.89%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.89%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.73%) Robotics
9 3 (1.73%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.58%) IoT
11 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.58%) Linux
1 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (50.29%) CI/CD
2 85 (49.13%) Data Science
3 77 (44.51%) Analytics
4 72 (41.62%) Software Engineering
5 68 (39.31%) Machine Learning
6 63 (36.42%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (35.26%) Data Pipeline
8 57 (32.95%) Agile
9 52 (30.06%) Coaching
10 50 (28.90%) ETL
10 50 (28.90%) Microservices
11 49 (28.32%) Containerisation
11 49 (28.32%) Continuous Delivery
12 47 (27.17%) Data Modelling
13 46 (26.59%) Clean Code
13 46 (26.59%) Data Engineering
14 45 (26.01%) Personalization
15 44 (25.43%) DevOps
16 31 (17.92%) Open Source
17 29 (16.76%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 123 (71.10%) Python
2 61 (35.26%) SQL
3 46 (26.59%) Go
3 46 (26.59%) Java
4 9 (5.20%) C++
5 7 (4.05%) R
5 7 (4.05%) Rust
6 6 (3.47%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.31%) Elixir
7 4 (2.31%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.31%) Ruby
8 3 (1.73%) Bicep
8 3 (1.73%) C
8 3 (1.73%) C#
8 3 (1.73%) Clojure
8 3 (1.73%) Erlang
8 3 (1.73%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.16%) PHP
10 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.40%) Degree
2 13 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (7.51%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.36%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.62%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.89%) MBA
6 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (23.70%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.89%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.16%) QA
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 85 (49.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (21.39%) Kubernetes
2 24 (13.87%) Terraform
3 3 (1.73%) Control-M
4 2 (1.16%) Ansible
4 2 (1.16%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.58%) Kibana
Vendors
1 45 (26.01%) Typelevel
2 33 (19.08%) Databricks
3 12 (6.94%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.89%) BT
5 4 (2.31%) Google
6 3 (1.73%) BMC
6 3 (1.73%) IBM
6 3 (1.73%) Talend
7 2 (1.16%) Braze
7 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.16%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.16%) mParticle
7 2 (1.16%) Oracle
7 2 (1.16%) Palantir
7 2 (1.16%) PayPal
7 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.16%) Zuora
8 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.58%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.58%) OpenAI