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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 500 476
Rank change year-on-year -14 -24 -191
Permanent jobs citing Scala 182 130 376
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.34% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.22% 1.05% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 72 75 252
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,000 £51,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £110,625 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £101,250 £108,625
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.11% -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 14,953 12,439 27,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.98% 32.15% 31.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10,696 8,439 22,585
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 30 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 30 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 -18 104 £100,000 +42.86% 40
South West -39 15 £79,100 +17.19% 12
North of England -57 14 £75,000 +20.00% 20
East of England -3 13 £100,000 +53.85% 2
South East -22 12 £55,000 -21.43% 5
Midlands -24 12 £81,500 +12.41% 3
West Midlands -23 11 £81,500 +12.41% 2
North West +2 7 £66,250 -17.19% 13
Yorkshire -50 5 £90,000 +83.67% 1
North East -43 2 £57,500 -8.00% 6
East Midlands - 1 - - 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 37 (20.33%) Apache Spark
2 17 (9.34%) Apache
3 15 (8.24%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.75%) IIS
5 3 (1.65%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.65%) SAS
6 2 (1.10%) Luigi
7 1 (0.55%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 100 (54.95%) AWS
2 78 (42.86%) GCP
3 46 (25.27%) Azure
4 24 (13.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (11.54%) GitHub
6 20 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (9.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (8.79%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.69%) Power Platform
10 9 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (4.95%) Cloud Composer
11 8 (4.40%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (3.85%) dbt
12 7 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.30%) Dagster
13 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (3.30%) Serverless
13 6 (3.30%) Snowflake
14 4 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.20%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 74 (40.66%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.54%) Big Data
2 20 (10.99%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (10.99%) Metadata
3 19 (10.44%) NoSQL
4 18 (9.89%) Delta Lake
5 16 (8.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (8.79%) Hadoop
6 15 (8.24%) BigQuery
6 15 (8.24%) Data Lake
7 12 (6.59%) Power BI
7 12 (6.59%) Tableau
8 10 (5.49%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.95%) SQL Server
10 8 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.30%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (2.75%) Data Mining
12 5 (2.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (16.48%) Jenkins
2 23 (12.64%) Git
3 22 (12.09%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.75%) GitLab
5 2 (1.10%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.10%) Gatling
5 2 (1.10%) JUnit
5 2 (1.10%) Maven
6 1 (0.55%) Postman
6 1 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 32 (17.58%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.74%) Finance
3 21 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.40%) Marketing
6 7 (3.85%) Law
7 5 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Advertising
9 2 (1.10%) Billing
9 2 (1.10%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.10%) Legal
10 1 (0.55%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (35.16%) Data Engineer
2 53 (29.12%) Senior
3 51 (28.02%) Scala Engineer
4 38 (20.88%) Software Engineer
5 29 (15.93%) Developer
6 27 (14.84%) Scala Software Engineer
7 23 (12.64%) Lead
7 23 (12.64%) Scala Developer
8 18 (9.89%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (7.14%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 11 (6.04%) Lead Software Engineer
10 11 (6.04%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.95%) Senior Manager
12 8 (4.40%) Architect
12 8 (4.40%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
14 6 (3.30%) Backend Developer
14 6 (3.30%) Senior Scala Developer
14 6 (3.30%) Software Developer
15 5 (2.75%) Data Science Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (24.73%) gRPC
2 25 (13.74%) PySpark
3 23 (12.64%) Kafka
4 22 (12.09%) Akka
5 6 (3.30%) Node.js
5 6 (3.30%) Play Framework
5 6 (3.30%) React
6 4 (2.20%) OAuth
6 4 (2.20%) OpenID
6 4 (2.20%) Spring
7 3 (1.65%) .NET
7 3 (1.65%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.65%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.10%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.10%) Memcached
8 2 (1.10%) Playwright
8 2 (1.10%) WireMock
9 1 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.55%) REST
9 1 (0.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 68 (37.36%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (36.81%) Over-the-Top Content
3 58 (31.87%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.49%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.30%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.30%) Social Media
7 5 (2.75%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.20%) Robotics
9 3 (1.65%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.55%) IoT
11 1 (0.55%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.55%) Linux
1 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (49.45%) CI/CD
2 86 (47.25%) Data Science
3 82 (45.05%) Analytics
4 76 (41.76%) Software Engineering
5 67 (36.81%) Machine Learning
6 63 (34.62%) Data Pipeline
6 63 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (32.97%) Agile
8 54 (29.67%) Coaching
9 52 (28.57%) ETL
10 50 (27.47%) Containerisation
10 50 (27.47%) Data Modelling
10 50 (27.47%) Microservices
11 49 (26.92%) Continuous Delivery
11 49 (26.92%) Data Engineering
12 46 (25.27%) Clean Code
13 45 (24.73%) Personalization
14 43 (23.63%) DevOps
15 30 (16.48%) Open Source
16 28 (15.38%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 126 (69.23%) Python
2 63 (34.62%) SQL
3 52 (28.57%) Java
4 46 (25.27%) Go
5 10 (5.49%) C++
6 8 (4.40%) Rust
7 7 (3.85%) R
7 7 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.75%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.20%) C
9 4 (2.20%) Clojure
9 4 (2.20%) Elixir
9 4 (2.20%) Erlang
9 4 (2.20%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.20%) Ruby
10 3 (1.65%) Bicep
10 3 (1.65%) C#
10 3 (1.65%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.10%) PHP
12 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (9.89%) Degree
2 13 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.04%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.40%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.75%) MBA
7 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (23.63%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.65%) QA
4 1 (0.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 85 (46.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (20.33%) Kubernetes
2 24 (13.19%) Terraform
3 3 (1.65%) Control-M
3 3 (1.65%) Kibana
4 2 (1.10%) Ansible
4 2 (1.10%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 45 (24.73%) Typelevel
2 31 (17.03%) Databricks
3 12 (6.59%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.75%) BT
5 4 (2.20%) Google
6 3 (1.65%) BMC
6 3 (1.65%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.65%) IBM
6 3 (1.65%) Talend
7 2 (1.10%) Braze
7 2 (1.10%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.10%) mParticle
7 2 (1.10%) PayPal
7 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.10%) Zuora
8 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.55%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.55%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.55%) Splunk