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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 462 457
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 -206
Permanent jobs citing Scala 146 208 320
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.46% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 1.35% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 67 120 271
10th Percentile £47,000 - £55,000
25th Percentile £53,700 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.56% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% -3.13% -

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 10,849 15,463 24,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.74% 34.32% 36.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8,099 9,135 20,703
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +15 97 £95,000 +11.76% 59
North of England -32 19 £75,000 +17.65% 5
Yorkshire -50 11 £49,000 - 1
North West +19 8 £75,000 +15.38% 4
West Midlands +23 7 £64,250 - 7
Midlands +14 7 £64,250 -8.21% 13
South East -2 7 - - 29
South West -11 6 £55,200 -18.22% 10
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 32 (21.92%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.42%) Apache
2 5 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.42%) IIS
3 3 (2.05%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 68 (46.58%) AWS
2 41 (28.08%) Azure
3 33 (22.60%) GCP
4 20 (13.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (13.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 17 (11.64%) Power Platform
7 15 (10.27%) Amazon Kinesis
7 15 (10.27%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (9.59%) Serverless
9 13 (8.90%) GitHub
10 11 (7.53%) Amazon S3
10 11 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (6.16%) AWS Step Functions
11 9 (6.16%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (4.79%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (4.79%) Snowflake
13 5 (3.42%) dbt
14 3 (2.05%) Amazon EMR
15 2 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (23.29%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (21.23%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (15.75%) Big Data
3 22 (15.07%) Data Lake
3 22 (15.07%) Hadoop
4 17 (11.64%) Power BI
5 16 (10.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (10.27%) Metadata
7 14 (9.59%) Delta Lake
8 13 (8.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (8.90%) NoSQL
9 9 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (6.16%) Apache Hive
10 8 (5.48%) MySQL
10 8 (5.48%) Tableau
11 7 (4.79%) DynamoDB
11 7 (4.79%) SQL Server
12 6 (4.11%) Data Mining
12 6 (4.11%) Power Query
13 5 (3.42%) Couchbase
13 5 (3.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (19.18%) Jenkins
2 23 (15.75%) TeamCity
3 20 (13.70%) Git
4 3 (2.05%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.05%) JUnit
5 2 (1.37%) Gatling
5 2 (1.37%) JMeter
5 2 (1.37%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.37%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 38 (26.03%) Finance
2 30 (20.55%) Social Skills
3 27 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.22%) Marketing
6 8 (5.48%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.42%) Legal
7 5 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.74%) Retail
9 2 (1.37%) Billing
9 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Front Office
10 1 (0.68%) Games
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Law
Job Titles
1 59 (40.41%) Data Engineer
2 50 (34.25%) Senior
3 29 (19.86%) Software Engineer
4 28 (19.18%) Developer
5 23 (15.75%) Scala Engineer
6 20 (13.70%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (12.33%) Lead
8 15 (10.27%) Scala Developer
8 15 (10.27%) Scala Software Engineer
9 13 (8.90%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.16%) AWS Data Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) Azure Data Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) Senior Scala Developer
11 8 (5.48%) Lead Data Engineer
11 8 (5.48%) Senior Scala Engineer
12 7 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (4.11%) Java Developer
13 6 (4.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.81%) Kafka
2 23 (15.75%) Akka
3 22 (15.07%) PySpark
4 10 (6.85%) React
5 9 (6.16%) gRPC
6 8 (5.48%) boto
6 8 (5.48%) Spark Streaming
7 6 (4.11%) Flutter
7 6 (4.11%) Play Framework
7 6 (4.11%) Spring
8 5 (3.42%) Memcached
9 4 (2.74%) .NET
10 3 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.37%) PostGIS
12 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
12 1 (0.68%) GeoPandas
12 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
12 1 (0.68%) NetworkX
12 1 (0.68%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.71%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (22.60%) Video\Live Streaming
3 32 (21.92%) Over-the-Top Content
4 9 (6.16%) Data Structures
4 9 (6.16%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (5.48%) Algorithms
5 8 (5.48%) e-Learning
6 6 (4.11%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.42%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.68%) Anti-Piracy
10 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.42%) Linux
2 3 (2.05%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Android
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (50.68%) Analytics
2 60 (41.10%) Agile
3 54 (36.99%) Data Pipeline
4 50 (34.25%) CI/CD
5 48 (32.88%) Data Modelling
6 47 (32.19%) Data Engineering
7 45 (30.82%) Data Science
8 40 (27.40%) DevOps
8 40 (27.40%) ETL
8 40 (27.40%) Machine Learning
8 40 (27.40%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (23.97%) TDD
10 33 (22.60%) Data Analytics
10 33 (22.60%) Software Engineering
11 32 (21.92%) Open Source
12 30 (20.55%) Data Governance
13 27 (18.49%) Scrum
14 25 (17.12%) Mentoring
14 25 (17.12%) Pair Programming
15 24 (16.44%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 81 (55.48%) Python
2 59 (40.41%) Java
3 54 (36.99%) SQL
4 23 (15.75%) Kotlin
5 15 (10.27%) Go
6 10 (6.85%) Ruby
7 9 (6.16%) R
8 7 (4.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.74%) C#
9 4 (2.74%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.74%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.05%) Bicep
11 2 (1.37%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.68%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.68%) C++
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (15.07%) Degree
2 10 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (6.85%) Master's Degree
2 10 (6.85%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.48%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.42%) MBA
6 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) CISSP
7 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) OSCP
7 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (19.86%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.27%) GDPR
3 6 (4.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.05%) QA
6 2 (1.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 39 (26.71%) Docker
2 10 (6.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (19.18%) Kubernetes
2 20 (13.70%) Terraform
3 3 (2.05%) Control-M
4 2 (1.37%) Ansible
4 2 (1.37%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.37%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) Argo
5 1 (0.68%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 41 (28.08%) Databricks
2 9 (6.16%) Typelevel
3 6 (4.11%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.42%) BT
4 5 (3.42%) Oracle
5 4 (2.74%) Palantir
6 3 (2.05%) BMC
6 3 (2.05%) IBM
6 3 (2.05%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.05%) Talend
7 2 (1.37%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.37%) mParticle
7 2 (1.37%) PayPal
7 2 (1.37%) Zuora
8 1 (0.68%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.68%) Google
8 1 (0.68%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.68%) Rackspace