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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 458 431
Rank change year-on-year 0 -27 -179
Permanent jobs citing Scala 148 216 299
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.45% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.42% 1.34% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 74 121 258
10th Percentile £47,450 - £54,850
25th Percentile £58,125 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £109,688
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

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 10,442 16,119 21,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.28% 33.80% 37.74%
Number of salaries quoted 7,835 9,459 17,832
10th Percentile £32,838 £38,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £48,750 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +30 97 £90,000 +5.88% 60
North of England -15 25 £65,000 -5.45% 12
Yorkshire -30 15 £49,000 - 6
West Midlands +32 9 £65,000 - 2
Midlands +29 9 £65,000 -7.14% 7
North West +22 8 £75,000 -3.23% 4
South West +15 6 £55,200 -18.22% 9
South East +10 6 - - 32
North East -5 4 £65,000 +4.00% 2
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 (22.97%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.38%) Apache
3 5 (3.38%) IIS
4 3 (2.03%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (43.92%) AWS
2 47 (31.76%) Azure
3 27 (18.24%) GCP
4 22 (14.86%) Power Platform
5 21 (14.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (12.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (11.49%) Amazon Kinesis
8 15 (10.14%) Serverless
9 13 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (8.11%) Amazon S3
10 12 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (6.76%) GitHub
11 10 (6.76%) Snowflake
12 9 (6.08%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (4.73%) Amazon SageMaker
15 4 (2.70%) dbt
16 3 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
16 3 (2.03%) Amazon EMR
17 2 (1.35%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.22%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (22.30%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (16.89%) Big Data
3 24 (16.22%) Hadoop
4 23 (15.54%) Data Lake
5 22 (14.86%) Power BI
6 16 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (10.81%) Metadata
7 15 (10.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (9.46%) Delta Lake
9 13 (8.78%) NoSQL
10 10 (6.76%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (6.08%) Apache Hive
11 9 (6.08%) MySQL
12 8 (5.41%) DynamoDB
12 8 (5.41%) Tableau
13 6 (4.05%) Data Mining
13 6 (4.05%) Power Query
13 6 (4.05%) SQL Server
14 5 (3.38%) Couchbase
14 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (20.27%) Jenkins
2 23 (15.54%) TeamCity
3 17 (11.49%) Git
4 2 (1.35%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.35%) Gatling
4 2 (1.35%) JMeter
4 2 (1.35%) JUnit
4 2 (1.35%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.35%) Selenium
5 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 45 (30.41%) Finance
2 30 (20.27%) Social Skills
3 28 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.43%) Marketing
6 10 (6.76%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.38%) Legal
7 5 (3.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.70%) Retail
9 3 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Advertising
11 1 (0.68%) Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Billing
11 1 (0.68%) Front Office
11 1 (0.68%) Games
Job Titles
1 63 (42.57%) Data Engineer
2 56 (37.84%) Senior
3 31 (20.95%) Developer
4 25 (16.89%) Software Engineer
5 22 (14.86%) Senior Data Engineer
6 20 (13.51%) Lead
7 17 (11.49%) Scala Developer
8 16 (10.81%) Scala Engineer
8 16 (10.81%) Senior Developer
9 12 (8.11%) Senior Scala Developer
10 11 (7.43%) Azure Data Engineer
10 11 (7.43%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (7.43%) Scala Software Engineer
11 10 (6.76%) AWS Data Engineer
11 10 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (6.08%) Java Developer
13 8 (5.41%) Lead Data Engineer
13 8 (5.41%) Lead Developer
13 8 (5.41%) Senior Scala Engineer
13 8 (5.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.24%) Kafka
2 23 (15.54%) Akka
3 21 (14.19%) PySpark
4 11 (7.43%) React
5 10 (6.76%) Spark Streaming
6 8 (5.41%) boto
6 8 (5.41%) Flutter
6 8 (5.41%) Spring
7 6 (4.05%) Play Framework
8 5 (3.38%) Memcached
9 3 (2.03%) .NET
9 3 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.35%) PostGIS
10 2 (1.35%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.35%) XML
11 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.68%) MapLibre
11 1 (0.68%) NetworkX
Miscellaneous
1 32 (21.62%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (16.22%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (15.54%) Over-the-Top Content
4 10 (6.76%) Data Structures
4 10 (6.76%) e-Learning
5 9 (6.08%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (5.41%) Algorithms
6 8 (5.41%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.38%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.68%) Derivative
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 6 (4.05%) Linux
2 3 (2.03%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Android
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (50.68%) Analytics
2 66 (44.59%) Agile
3 59 (39.86%) Data Pipeline
4 52 (35.14%) Data Modelling
5 50 (33.78%) Data Engineering
6 43 (29.05%) DevOps
7 42 (28.38%) CI/CD
7 42 (28.38%) ETL
8 38 (25.68%) Data Science
9 37 (25.00%) Machine Learning
10 36 (24.32%) TDD
11 33 (22.30%) Data Analytics
11 33 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (21.62%) Open Source
13 29 (19.59%) Data Governance
14 28 (18.92%) Pair Programming
14 28 (18.92%) Scrum
15 26 (17.57%) Business Intelligence
16 25 (16.89%) AI
17 24 (16.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (54.05%) Python
2 65 (43.92%) Java
3 60 (40.54%) SQL
4 27 (18.24%) Kotlin
5 11 (7.43%) R
6 10 (6.76%) Ruby
7 8 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (5.41%) Go
8 7 (4.73%) C#
9 5 (3.38%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.38%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.35%) Bicep
10 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.68%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.68%) F#
11 1 (0.68%) Haskell
11 1 (0.68%) OCaml
11 1 (0.68%) Perl
11 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (15.54%) Degree
2 11 (7.43%) Master's Degree
2 11 (7.43%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.38%) MBA
6 2 (1.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.35%) PhD
7 1 (0.68%) CISSP
7 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) OSCP
7 1 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.27%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.14%) GDPR
3 6 (4.05%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.35%) QA
6 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (20.27%) Docker
2 10 (6.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (19.59%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.16%) Terraform
3 3 (2.03%) Control-M
4 2 (1.35%) Ansible
4 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.35%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) Argo
5 1 (0.68%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 43 (29.05%) Databricks
2 6 (4.05%) Oracle
3 5 (3.38%) BT
3 5 (3.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.38%) Palantir
4 3 (2.03%) BMC
4 3 (2.03%) Google
4 3 (2.03%) IBM
4 3 (2.03%) Talend
5 2 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.68%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.68%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.68%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.68%) mParticle
6 1 (0.68%) PayPal
6 1 (0.68%) Rackspace
6 1 (0.68%) Zuora