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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 456 499
Rank change year-on-year -72 +43 -223
Permanent jobs citing Scala 163 157 332
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.42% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 1.23% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 53 98 266
10th Percentile £42,940 - £50,625
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £105,750 £142,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% -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 13,746 12,725 27,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.74% 34.06% 32.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,679 9,352 22,545
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £87,500 £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 20 April 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 20 April 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 +1 100 £100,000 +45.45% 35
South West -36 13 £48,975 -26.08% 2
South East -49 12 £55,000 -21.43% 7
West Midlands -23 11 £65,500 -9.66% 4
Midlands -27 11 £65,500 -9.66% 5
North of England -65 10 £49,000 -24.62% 14
East of England -28 7 £100,000 +53.85% 1
Yorkshire -63 6 £49,000 -12.11% 3
North West -27 4 £90,000 +14.29% 9
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 30 (18.40%) Apache Spark
2 10 (6.13%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.07%) IIS
4 3 (1.84%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 94 (57.67%) AWS
2 71 (43.56%) GCP
3 40 (24.54%) Azure
4 19 (11.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (11.04%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (10.43%) GitHub
7 16 (9.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (7.98%) Amazon S3
8 13 (7.98%) Power Platform
9 9 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (4.91%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (4.91%) Amazon SageMaker
10 8 (4.91%) dbt
11 7 (4.29%) Snowflake
12 6 (3.68%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (3.68%) Dagster
13 5 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (2.45%) Serverless
15 3 (1.84%) AWS Step Functions
15 3 (1.84%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 75 (46.01%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.82%) Data Lake
1 16 (9.82%) Delta Lake
1 16 (9.82%) Metadata
2 15 (9.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (9.20%) NoSQL
3 14 (8.59%) Hadoop
4 13 (7.98%) Big Data
5 12 (7.36%) Power BI
6 11 (6.75%) Tableau
7 10 (6.13%) MySQL
8 9 (5.52%) BigQuery
8 9 (5.52%) SQL Server
9 8 (4.91%) MongoDB
10 6 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (3.68%) Data Mining
10 6 (3.68%) DynamoDB
11 5 (3.07%) Couchbase
11 5 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (3.07%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (17.79%) Jenkins
2 23 (14.11%) TeamCity
3 22 (13.50%) Git
4 4 (2.45%) GitLab
5 2 (1.23%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.23%) Gatling
5 2 (1.23%) JUnit
6 1 (0.61%) JMeter
6 1 (0.61%) Maven
6 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.61%) Selenium
General
1 21 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
1 21 (12.88%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.27%) Finance
3 13 (7.98%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.52%) Marketing
5 6 (3.68%) Law
6 5 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Billing
8 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.23%) Legal
8 2 (1.23%) Retail
9 1 (0.61%) Advertising
9 1 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.61%) Games
9 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (34.97%) Data Engineer
2 51 (31.29%) Scala Engineer
2 51 (31.29%) Senior
3 36 (22.09%) Software Engineer
4 27 (16.56%) Developer
4 27 (16.56%) Scala Software Engineer
5 25 (15.34%) Scala Developer
6 20 (12.27%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (7.98%) Senior Scala Engineer
8 11 (6.75%) Lead
8 11 (6.75%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.52%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.91%) Senior Scala Developer
11 7 (4.29%) Systems Engineer
12 6 (3.68%) Architect
12 6 (3.68%) Backend Developer
12 6 (3.68%) Lead Software Engineer
13 5 (3.07%) Data Science Manager
13 5 (3.07%) Development Engineer
13 5 (3.07%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (27.61%) gRPC
2 24 (14.72%) PySpark
3 23 (14.11%) Akka
3 23 (14.11%) Kafka
4 6 (3.68%) Spring
5 5 (3.07%) Memcached
5 5 (3.07%) Node.js
5 5 (3.07%) Play Framework
6 4 (2.45%) OAuth
6 4 (2.45%) OpenID
6 4 (2.45%) React
7 3 (1.84%) .NET
8 2 (1.23%) boto
8 2 (1.23%) PostGIS
8 2 (1.23%) Spark Streaming
9 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.61%) D3.js
9 1 (0.61%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.61%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 69 (42.33%) Video\Live Streaming
2 68 (41.72%) Over-the-Top Content
3 61 (37.42%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (7.36%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.68%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.68%) Social Media
5 6 (3.68%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.07%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.45%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.23%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.61%) IoT
10 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.61%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (51.53%) Data Science
2 83 (50.92%) CI/CD
3 76 (46.63%) Analytics
4 75 (46.01%) Machine Learning
5 65 (39.88%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (39.88%) Software Engineering
6 53 (32.52%) Agile
7 52 (31.90%) Microservices
8 51 (31.29%) Continuous Delivery
8 51 (31.29%) Data Pipeline
9 49 (30.06%) Coaching
10 47 (28.83%) Containerisation
11 45 (27.61%) Clean Code
11 45 (27.61%) Personalization
12 41 (25.15%) Data Engineering
12 41 (25.15%) Data Modelling
13 38 (23.31%) ETL
14 37 (22.70%) DevOps
15 31 (19.02%) Open Source
16 30 (18.40%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 114 (69.94%) Python
2 54 (33.13%) SQL
3 45 (27.61%) Go
4 38 (23.31%) Java
5 7 (4.29%) R
6 6 (3.68%) C++
7 5 (3.07%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.07%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.45%) Bicep
8 4 (2.45%) Elixir
8 4 (2.45%) Ruby
8 4 (2.45%) Rust
9 3 (1.84%) C#
9 3 (1.84%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.61%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (12.88%) Degree
2 13 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (7.98%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.68%) Azure Certification
3 6 (3.68%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.07%) MBA
4 5 (3.07%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (17.18%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.68%) Actionable Recommendations
2 6 (3.68%) GDPR
3 3 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 82 (50.31%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (20.86%) Kubernetes
2 23 (14.11%) Terraform
3 3 (1.84%) Control-M
4 1 (0.61%) Ansible
4 1 (0.61%) Argo
4 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 45 (27.61%) Typelevel
2 34 (20.86%) Databricks
3 9 (5.52%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.07%) BT
5 4 (2.45%) Oracle
5 4 (2.45%) Palantir
6 3 (1.84%) BMC
6 3 (1.84%) IBM
6 3 (1.84%) Talend
7 2 (1.23%) Braze
7 2 (1.23%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.23%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.23%) mParticle
7 2 (1.23%) PayPal
7 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.23%) Zuora
8 1 (0.61%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.61%) Google