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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 494 483
Rank change year-on-year -26 -11 -150
Permanent jobs citing Scala 185 130 407
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.33% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 1.03% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 74 70 258
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,750 £70,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.36% -8.20% -4.69%
75th Percentile £111,625 £96,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,125 £107,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% -9.38%

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 14,938 12,658 28,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.29% 32.24% 30.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,693 8,465 22,961
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 £85,000 £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 10 June 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 June 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 -4 102 £107,500 +45.76% 31
North of England -32 17 £75,000 +20.00% 20
South West -35 17 £59,500 -11.85% 9
East of England 0 13 £100,000 +53.85% 1
Midlands -4 13 £81,500 +12.41% 1
West Midlands -9 11 £81,500 +12.41%
South East -15 11 £55,000 -21.43% 6
North West +10 10 £57,500 -28.13% 12
Yorkshire -49 5 £90,000 +83.67% 3
North East -40 2 £57,500 -8.00% 5
East Midlands - 2 - - 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 36 (19.46%) Apache Spark
2 18 (9.73%) Apache
3 15 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.16%) IIS
5 3 (1.62%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.62%) SAS
6 2 (1.08%) Luigi
7 1 (0.54%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 100 (54.05%) AWS
2 80 (43.24%) GCP
3 45 (24.32%) Azure
4 22 (11.89%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (10.27%) GitHub
6 18 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (8.65%) Amazon S3
7 16 (8.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (8.11%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.86%) Cloud Composer
10 8 (4.32%) Amazon SageMaker
10 8 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (3.78%) dbt
12 6 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (3.24%) Dagster
12 6 (3.24%) SaaS
12 6 (3.24%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.70%) Serverless
14 4 (2.16%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 74 (40.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.89%) Metadata
2 19 (10.27%) Big Data
2 19 (10.27%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (10.27%) Delta Lake
3 18 (9.73%) NoSQL
4 15 (8.11%) BigQuery
5 14 (7.57%) Hadoop
6 13 (7.03%) Power BI
7 12 (6.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (6.49%) Tableau
8 11 (5.95%) Data Lake
9 10 (5.41%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (4.32%) SQL Server
12 6 (3.24%) MongoDB
13 5 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (2.70%) Data Vault
14 4 (2.16%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (16.22%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.89%) TeamCity
3 20 (10.81%) Git
4 5 (2.70%) GitLab
5 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.08%) Gatling
5 2 (1.08%) JUnit
5 2 (1.08%) Maven
6 1 (0.54%) MLflow
6 1 (0.54%) Postman
6 1 (0.54%) Selenium
General
1 33 (17.84%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.97%) Finance
3 19 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.86%) Marketing
6 8 (4.32%) Law
7 4 (2.16%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.62%) Advertising
9 2 (1.08%) Billing
9 2 (1.08%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.08%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Games
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (33.51%) Data Engineer
2 53 (28.65%) Senior
3 51 (27.57%) Scala Engineer
4 37 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 32 (17.30%) Developer
6 27 (14.59%) Scala Software Engineer
7 23 (12.43%) Lead
7 23 (12.43%) Scala Developer
8 18 (9.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (7.03%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 11 (5.95%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (5.41%) Architect
11 10 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.86%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.86%) Software Developer
13 8 (4.32%) Senior Manager
14 7 (3.78%) Data Architect
14 7 (3.78%) Systems Engineer
15 6 (3.24%) Backend Developer
15 6 (3.24%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (24.32%) gRPC
2 25 (13.51%) PySpark
3 22 (11.89%) Akka
4 21 (11.35%) Kafka
5 8 (4.32%) React
6 7 (3.78%) Play Framework
7 6 (3.24%) Node.js
8 4 (2.16%) OAuth
8 4 (2.16%) OpenID
9 3 (1.62%) .NET
9 3 (1.62%) Apache Beam
9 3 (1.62%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (1.62%) Spring
10 2 (1.08%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.08%) Playwright
10 2 (1.08%) WireMock
11 1 (0.54%) D3.js
11 1 (0.54%) PostGIS
11 1 (0.54%) REST
11 1 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 68 (36.76%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (36.22%) Over-the-Top Content
3 56 (30.27%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.86%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.32%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.78%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.24%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.24%) Social Media
8 4 (2.16%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.16%) Robotics
9 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.54%) IoT
10 1 (0.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.54%) Linux
1 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (47.57%) CI/CD
2 84 (45.41%) Data Science
3 80 (43.24%) Analytics
4 76 (41.08%) Software Engineering
5 67 (36.22%) Machine Learning
6 62 (33.51%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (32.97%) Agile
8 59 (31.89%) Data Pipeline
9 56 (30.27%) Coaching
10 50 (27.03%) Containerisation
11 49 (26.49%) Data Engineering
11 49 (26.49%) Data Modelling
11 49 (26.49%) Microservices
12 48 (25.95%) Continuous Delivery
12 48 (25.95%) ETL
13 46 (24.86%) Clean Code
14 45 (24.32%) Personalization
15 40 (21.62%) DevOps
16 30 (16.22%) Open Source
16 30 (16.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 125 (67.57%) Python
2 61 (32.97%) SQL
3 51 (27.57%) Java
4 46 (24.86%) Go
5 10 (5.41%) C++
6 9 (4.86%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.32%) Rust
8 6 (3.24%) R
9 5 (2.70%) Bicep
9 5 (2.70%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.16%) C
10 4 (2.16%) Clojure
10 4 (2.16%) Elixir
10 4 (2.16%) Erlang
10 4 (2.16%) Ruby
11 3 (1.62%) C#
11 3 (1.62%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.08%) PHP
13 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (8.65%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.11%) Degree
3 11 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.95%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.86%) Master's Degree
5 8 (4.32%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.16%) MBA
8 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.08%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (22.70%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.16%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.62%) QA
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 85 (45.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (12.97%) Terraform
3 3 (1.62%) Control-M
3 3 (1.62%) Kibana
4 2 (1.08%) Ansible
4 2 (1.08%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 45 (24.32%) Typelevel
2 30 (16.22%) Databricks
3 15 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.16%) BT
4 4 (2.16%) Google
5 3 (1.62%) BMC
5 3 (1.62%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.62%) IBM
5 3 (1.62%) Talend
6 2 (1.08%) Braze
6 2 (1.08%) GoCardless
6 2 (1.08%) mParticle
6 2 (1.08%) PayPal
6 2 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.08%) Zuora
7 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.54%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.54%) Splunk