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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 457 438
Rank change year-on-year -16 -19 -189
Permanent jobs citing Scala 153 217 320
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.46% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.43% 1.36% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 69 123 273
10th Percentile £48,200 - £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £143,500
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 10,687 15,966 23,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.04% 34.10% 37.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7,964 9,344 19,827
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,365
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,383 £46,250
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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £111,250 £103,750
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 31 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 31 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 +23 101 £95,000 +11.76% 61
North of England -32 22 £75,000 +17.65% 11
Yorkshire -28 12 £49,000 - 6
North West +19 8 £75,000 +15.38% 5
West Midlands +30 7 £64,250 - 5
Midlands +18 7 £64,250 -8.21% 10
South East +13 7 - - 28
South West +7 6 £55,200 -18.22% 10
North East -12 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 32 (20.92%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.27%) Apache
2 5 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.27%) IIS
3 3 (1.96%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 71 (46.41%) AWS
2 43 (28.10%) Azure
3 33 (21.57%) GCP
4 21 (13.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 20 (13.07%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (12.42%) Power Platform
7 16 (10.46%) Amazon Kinesis
8 15 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (9.80%) Serverless
9 12 (7.84%) Amazon S3
9 12 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (7.84%) GitHub
10 9 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (5.88%) Snowflake
11 7 (4.58%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (2.61%) dbt
13 3 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.96%) Amazon EMR
14 2 (1.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (21.57%) Broadband
2 1 (0.65%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (20.26%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (15.69%) Big Data
3 23 (15.03%) Hadoop
4 22 (14.38%) Data Lake
5 19 (12.42%) Power BI
6 16 (10.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (9.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (9.15%) Delta Lake
8 14 (9.15%) Metadata
9 13 (8.50%) NoSQL
10 10 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (5.88%) Apache Hive
12 8 (5.23%) DynamoDB
12 8 (5.23%) MySQL
12 8 (5.23%) Tableau
13 7 (4.58%) SQL Server
14 6 (3.92%) Data Mining
14 6 (3.92%) Power Query
15 5 (3.27%) Couchbase
15 5 (3.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (18.95%) Jenkins
2 23 (15.03%) TeamCity
3 19 (12.42%) Git
4 3 (1.96%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.96%) JUnit
5 2 (1.31%) Gatling
5 2 (1.31%) JMeter
5 2 (1.31%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.31%) Selenium
6 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 42 (27.45%) Finance
2 30 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 28 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.84%) Marketing
6 9 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.27%) Legal
7 5 (3.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.61%) Retail
9 3 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.31%) Billing
10 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Advertising
11 1 (0.65%) Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Front Office
11 1 (0.65%) Games
11 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 61 (39.87%) Data Engineer
2 51 (33.33%) Senior
3 32 (20.92%) Developer
4 29 (18.95%) Software Engineer
5 23 (15.03%) Scala Engineer
6 21 (13.73%) Lead
7 19 (12.42%) Senior Data Engineer
8 18 (11.76%) Scala Developer
9 15 (9.80%) Scala Software Engineer
10 14 (9.15%) Senior Developer
11 11 (7.19%) Azure Data Engineer
11 11 (7.19%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (6.54%) AWS Data Engineer
12 10 (6.54%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (6.54%) Senior Scala Developer
13 8 (5.23%) Lead Data Engineer
13 8 (5.23%) Lead Developer
13 8 (5.23%) Senior Scala Engineer
14 7 (4.58%) Java Developer
14 7 (4.58%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.99%) Kafka
2 23 (15.03%) Akka
3 22 (14.38%) PySpark
4 12 (7.84%) React
5 9 (5.88%) gRPC
5 9 (5.88%) Spark Streaming
6 8 (5.23%) boto
6 8 (5.23%) Flutter
7 6 (3.92%) Play Framework
7 6 (3.92%) Spring
8 5 (3.27%) Memcached
9 4 (2.61%) .NET
10 3 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.31%) PostGIS
12 1 (0.65%) ARM Templates
12 1 (0.65%) GraphQL
12 1 (0.65%) MapLibre
12 1 (0.65%) NetworkX
12 1 (0.65%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 40 (26.14%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (21.57%) Video\Live Streaming
3 32 (20.92%) Over-the-Top Content
4 9 (5.88%) e-Learning
4 9 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (5.23%) Algorithms
5 8 (5.23%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.58%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.27%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.27%) Linux
2 3 (1.96%) Unix
3 1 (0.65%) Android
3 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (48.37%) Analytics
2 62 (40.52%) Agile
3 55 (35.95%) Data Pipeline
4 51 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 49 (32.03%) Data Modelling
6 48 (31.37%) Data Engineering
7 45 (29.41%) Data Science
8 43 (28.10%) Machine Learning
9 42 (27.45%) DevOps
10 41 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (26.14%) ETL
12 35 (22.88%) TDD
13 34 (22.22%) Software Engineering
14 33 (21.57%) Data Analytics
15 32 (20.92%) Open Source
16 29 (18.95%) Data Governance
17 27 (17.65%) Scrum
18 25 (16.34%) Mentoring
18 25 (16.34%) Pair Programming
19 24 (15.69%) AI
Programming Languages
1 83 (54.25%) Python
2 61 (39.87%) Java
3 56 (36.60%) SQL
4 25 (16.34%) Kotlin
5 17 (11.11%) Go
6 10 (6.54%) R
6 10 (6.54%) Ruby
7 7 (4.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (3.27%) C#
9 4 (2.61%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.61%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.96%) Bicep
11 2 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.65%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.65%) Perl
12 1 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (14.38%) Degree
2 10 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (6.54%) Master's Degree
2 10 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.27%) MBA
6 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CISSP
7 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.65%) OSCP
7 1 (0.65%) PhD
7 1 (0.65%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (20.26%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.80%) GDPR
3 6 (3.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.96%) QA
6 2 (1.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 39 (25.49%) Docker
2 10 (6.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (18.30%) Kubernetes
2 20 (13.07%) Terraform
3 3 (1.96%) Control-M
4 2 (1.31%) Ansible
4 2 (1.31%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.31%) Puppet
5 1 (0.65%) Argo
5 1 (0.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.65%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 42 (27.45%) Databricks
2 9 (5.88%) Typelevel
3 5 (3.27%) BT
3 5 (3.27%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.27%) Oracle
4 4 (2.61%) Palantir
5 3 (1.96%) BMC
5 3 (1.96%) IBM
5 3 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.96%) Talend
6 2 (1.31%) GoCardless
6 2 (1.31%) mParticle
6 2 (1.31%) PayPal
6 2 (1.31%) Zuora
7 1 (0.65%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.65%) Google
7 1 (0.65%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.65%) Rackspace