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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 426 436
Rank change year-on-year -67 +10 -147
Permanent jobs citing Scala 125 316 249
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.53% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 1.62% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 71 138 214
10th Percentile £48,500 - £56,500
25th Percentile £61,875 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year - -3.40% +3.52%
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £111,746
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £76,250 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -4.69% -3.03% +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 10,435 19,518 18,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.20% 32.89% 41.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,796 11,739 15,559
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 89 £90,000 +12.50% 31
North of England -45 24 £65,000 -10.34% 7
Yorkshire -18 15 £49,000 -1.00% 2
West Midlands +64 8 £65,000 - 3
Midlands +61 8 £65,000 -7.14% 4
North East -4 6 £65,000 -10.34% 1
North West -4 5 £75,000 +3.45% 4
South East +40 1 - - 26
South West +25 1 £75,000 -9.09% 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 31 (24.80%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.80%) Apache
2 6 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.40%) Luigi
4 1 (0.80%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 75 (60.00%) AWS
2 45 (36.00%) Azure
3 29 (23.20%) GCP
4 25 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 20 (16.00%) Serverless
6 15 (12.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 15 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (10.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (9.60%) AWS Step Functions
8 12 (9.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (7.20%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.60%) GitHub
11 6 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (3.20%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (3.20%) Azure Storage
12 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.20%) OpenShift
12 4 (3.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) Broadband
1 2 (1.60%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (27.20%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (20.00%) Power BI
3 23 (18.40%) Big Data
4 16 (12.80%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (12.80%) Data Lake
4 16 (12.80%) Hadoop
5 13 (10.40%) NoSQL
6 11 (8.80%) Metadata
6 11 (8.80%) MySQL
7 10 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (7.20%) Apache Hive
8 9 (7.20%) DynamoDB
9 7 (5.60%) Power Query
10 6 (4.80%) Data Vault
10 6 (4.80%) MongoDB
11 5 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
11 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
12 4 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Git
2 10 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.40%) git-flow
4 2 (1.60%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.60%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.60%) Gatling
4 2 (1.60%) JMeter
4 2 (1.60%) JUnit
4 2 (1.60%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.60%) Selenium
5 1 (0.80%) JIRA
5 1 (0.80%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (44.80%) Finance
2 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.60%) Law
6 10 (8.00%) Banking
6 10 (8.00%) Financial Institution
6 10 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.80%) Legal
7 6 (4.80%) Marketing
8 3 (2.40%) Retail
9 2 (1.60%) Front Office
9 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (40.80%) Data Engineer
2 39 (31.20%) Senior
3 30 (24.00%) Lead
4 29 (23.20%) Developer
5 22 (17.60%) Software Engineer
6 19 (15.20%) Senior Data Engineer
7 17 (13.60%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Azure Data Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Java Developer
8 12 (9.60%) Scala Developer
9 11 (8.80%) Lead Developer
10 10 (8.00%) AWS Data Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Java Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Senior Developer
11 9 (7.20%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (7.20%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (4.80%) Lead Java Developer
12 6 (4.80%) Lead Software Engineer
12 6 (4.80%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.40%) Kafka
2 12 (9.60%) Spring
3 11 (8.80%) React
4 10 (8.00%) Spark Streaming
5 9 (7.20%) Flutter
6 8 (6.40%) boto
7 6 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (4.80%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.80%) Web Services
8 5 (4.00%) PySpark
9 4 (3.20%) REST
9 4 (3.20%) RESTful
10 3 (2.40%) .NET
10 3 (2.40%) Memcached
11 2 (1.60%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.60%) Play Framework
11 2 (1.60%) PostGIS
11 2 (1.60%) XML
12 1 (0.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 31 (24.80%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.00%) Derivative
3 10 (8.00%) e-Learning
3 10 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (7.20%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.60%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.80%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.80%) Equity Derivative
6 6 (4.80%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.80%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.80%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.80%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.00%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Unix
3 1 (0.80%) Android
3 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (36.80%) Agile
2 44 (35.20%) Data Engineering
2 44 (35.20%) Data Pipeline
2 44 (35.20%) Machine Learning
3 42 (33.60%) Data Modelling
4 40 (32.00%) CI/CD
5 36 (28.80%) Analytics
6 33 (26.40%) DevOps
7 32 (25.60%) ETL
8 31 (24.80%) Data Science
9 27 (21.60%) Software Engineering
10 26 (20.80%) AI
10 26 (20.80%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (18.40%) Data Governance
13 22 (17.60%) Mentoring
14 21 (16.80%) SDLC
15 17 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (13.60%) Microservices
15 17 (13.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 72 (57.60%) Java
2 66 (52.80%) Python
3 50 (40.00%) SQL
4 39 (31.20%) Kotlin
5 10 (8.00%) Ruby
6 9 (7.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (7.20%) Go
7 8 (6.40%) C#
7 8 (6.40%) R
8 5 (4.00%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.20%) F#
9 4 (3.20%) Haskell
9 4 (3.20%) OCaml
10 2 (1.60%) Bicep
10 2 (1.60%) Groovy
10 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.60%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.80%) Clojure
11 1 (0.80%) Elixir
11 1 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (14.40%) Degree
2 11 (8.80%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.60%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.80%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.00%) PhD
7 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.80%) CISSP
9 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.80%) OSCP
9 1 (0.80%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.80%) GDPR
2 15 (12.00%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.40%) QA
5 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.80%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (11.20%) Docker
2 10 (8.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.00%) Terraform
3 3 (2.40%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.60%) Ansible
4 2 (1.60%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.60%) Puppet
5 1 (0.80%) Argo
5 1 (0.80%) Grafana
5 1 (0.80%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 32 (25.60%) Databricks
2 6 (4.80%) Google
2 6 (4.80%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.80%) Oracle
3 5 (4.00%) Palantir
4 1 (0.80%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.80%) Cloudera
4 1 (0.80%) Informatica
4 1 (0.80%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.80%) Rackspace
4 1 (0.80%) Reuters
4 1 (0.80%) Salesforce