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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 463 423
Rank change year-on-year +9 -40 -168
Permanent jobs citing Scala 139 228 266
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.47% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.36% 1.37% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 76 124 226
10th Percentile £47,750 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £59,375 £57,563 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £110,000 £143,125
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 10,199 16,584 18,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.63% 33.94% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,688 9,767 15,198
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,219 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.28% +4.00% -3.85%

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 4 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 4 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 +24 92 £90,000 +5.88% 208
North of England -13 27 £65,000 - 21
Yorkshire -22 16 £49,000 -1.00% 13
West Midlands +36 8 £65,000 - 11
North West +27 8 £75,000 -3.23% 7
Midlands +24 8 £65,000 -7.14% 20
South East +10 6 - - 157
North East -6 5 £65,000 +4.00% 1
South West +11 3 £55,200 -33.09% 20
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 (24.46%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.60%) Apache
3 5 (3.60%) IIS
4 3 (2.16%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (46.76%) AWS
2 49 (35.25%) Azure
3 27 (19.42%) GCP
4 25 (17.99%) Power Platform
5 21 (15.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (13.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (12.23%) Amazon Kinesis
8 15 (10.79%) Serverless
9 13 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (8.63%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (7.91%) Amazon S3
12 10 (7.19%) Snowflake
13 9 (6.47%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (4.32%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (4.32%) GitHub
15 4 (2.88%) dbt
16 3 (2.16%) Amazon EMR
16 3 (2.16%) Azure Storage
16 3 (2.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.35%) Broadband
2 1 (0.72%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.46%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (17.99%) Big Data
2 25 (17.99%) Power BI
3 24 (17.27%) Hadoop
4 22 (15.83%) Data Lake
5 16 (11.51%) Metadata
6 15 (10.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (10.07%) NoSQL
8 13 (9.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (8.63%) Delta Lake
10 10 (7.19%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (6.47%) Apache Hive
11 9 (6.47%) MySQL
12 8 (5.76%) DynamoDB
12 8 (5.76%) Tableau
13 6 (4.32%) Data Mining
13 6 (4.32%) Power Query
13 6 (4.32%) SQL Server
14 5 (3.60%) Data Vault
14 5 (3.60%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (13.67%) Jenkins
2 15 (10.79%) Git
3 12 (8.63%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.44%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.44%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.44%) Gatling
4 2 (1.44%) JMeter
4 2 (1.44%) JUnit
4 2 (1.44%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.44%) Selenium
5 1 (0.72%) JIRA
General
1 46 (33.09%) Finance
2 32 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 31 (22.30%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.51%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.19%) Financial Institution
5 10 (7.19%) Marketing
6 5 (3.60%) Legal
6 5 (3.60%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.88%) Retail
8 3 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Advertising
10 1 (0.72%) Banking
10 1 (0.72%) Front Office
10 1 (0.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 63 (45.32%) Data Engineer
2 51 (36.69%) Senior
3 31 (22.30%) Developer
4 22 (15.83%) Senior Data Engineer
5 20 (14.39%) Lead
6 19 (13.67%) Software Engineer
7 15 (10.79%) Scala Developer
8 14 (10.07%) Senior Developer
9 11 (7.91%) Azure Data Engineer
9 11 (7.91%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (7.91%) Java Developer
10 10 (7.19%) AWS Data Engineer
10 10 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (7.19%) Lead Developer
11 9 (6.47%) Senior Scala Developer
12 8 (5.76%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (5.76%) Scala Engineer
13 6 (4.32%) Principal Developer
13 6 (4.32%) Principal Java Developer
13 6 (4.32%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.42%) Kafka
2 19 (13.67%) PySpark
3 12 (8.63%) Akka
4 10 (7.19%) React
4 10 (7.19%) Spark Streaming
5 9 (6.47%) Flutter
6 8 (5.76%) boto
6 8 (5.76%) Spring
7 7 (5.04%) Play Framework
8 5 (3.60%) Memcached
9 3 (2.16%) .NET
9 3 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.44%) PostGIS
10 2 (1.44%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.44%) XML
11 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.72%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.72%) MapLibre
11 1 (0.72%) NetworkX
Miscellaneous
1 31 (22.30%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.63%) Over-the-Top Content
2 12 (8.63%) Video\Live Streaming
3 11 (7.91%) Data Structures
4 10 (7.19%) e-Learning
5 9 (6.47%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (5.76%) Algorithms
6 8 (5.76%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.60%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.16%) Derivative
8 3 (2.16%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.72%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.76%) Linux
2 3 (2.16%) Unix
3 1 (0.72%) Android
3 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (45.32%) Analytics
2 59 (42.45%) Agile
3 57 (41.01%) Data Pipeline
4 53 (38.13%) Data Modelling
5 51 (36.69%) Data Engineering
6 44 (31.65%) DevOps
7 41 (29.50%) ETL
8 39 (28.06%) Data Science
8 39 (28.06%) Machine Learning
9 38 (27.34%) CI/CD
10 35 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (20.86%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (20.86%) Data Governance
12 25 (17.99%) Computer Science
13 24 (17.27%) AI
13 24 (17.27%) TDD
14 22 (15.83%) Mentoring
15 21 (15.11%) Data Analytics
16 20 (14.39%) Roadmaps
17 19 (13.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 80 (57.55%) Python
2 68 (48.92%) Java
3 61 (43.88%) SQL
4 29 (20.86%) Kotlin
5 13 (9.35%) R
6 10 (7.19%) Ruby
7 9 (6.47%) Go
8 8 (5.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (5.04%) C#
10 5 (3.60%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.16%) F#
11 3 (2.16%) Haskell
11 3 (2.16%) OCaml
11 3 (2.16%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.44%) Bicep
12 2 (1.44%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.72%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.72%) Groovy
13 1 (0.72%) Perl
13 1 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (17.99%) Degree
2 13 (9.35%) Master's Degree
3 11 (7.91%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (7.19%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.76%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.60%) MBA
7 4 (2.88%) PhD
8 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.72%) CISSP
9 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.72%) OSCP
9 1 (0.72%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (20.14%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.79%) GDPR
3 6 (4.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.16%) QA
6 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (13.67%) Docker
2 10 (7.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (15.11%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.79%) Terraform
3 3 (2.16%) Control-M
4 2 (1.44%) Ansible
4 2 (1.44%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.44%) Puppet
5 1 (0.72%) Argo
5 1 (0.72%) Grafana
5 1 (0.72%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 43 (30.94%) Databricks
2 6 (4.32%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.32%) Oracle
3 5 (3.60%) BT
3 5 (3.60%) Google
3 5 (3.60%) Palantir
4 3 (2.16%) BMC
4 3 (2.16%) IBM
4 3 (2.16%) Talend
5 1 (0.72%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.72%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.72%) Rackspace
5 1 (0.72%) Salesforce