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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 410 457
Rank change year-on-year -103 +47 -180
Permanent jobs citing Scala 135 389 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.56% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.14% 1.85% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 69 146 246
10th Percentile £57,250 £54,375 £56,600
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £82,659
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -3.22% +3.32%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £128,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

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 11,834 21,006 22,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.28% 30.50% 40.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,807 13,779 18,798
10th Percentile £33,400 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% +4.00%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Scala 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -19 105 £90,000 +12.50% 50
North of England -100 23 £72,500 +11.54% 15
Yorkshire +4 14 £65,000 +31.33% 7
North East 0 6 £65,000 - 1
Midlands +65 5 £65,000 -7.14% 19
North West -79 5 £80,000 +20.30% 7
West Midlands - 5 £65,000 - 12
South East +33 2 £100,000 +66.67% 20
East of England +1 1 £65,000 - 9
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (25.93%) Apache Spark
2 13 (9.63%) Apache
3 7 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.22%) Luigi
5 1 (0.74%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 92 (68.15%) AWS
2 66 (48.89%) Azure
3 46 (34.07%) GCP
4 24 (17.78%) Power Platform
5 23 (17.04%) Serverless
6 16 (11.85%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (9.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (8.15%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (5.93%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (5.93%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (5.93%) GitHub
11 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Storage
12 5 (3.70%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) FTP
1 2 (1.48%) HTTP
2 1 (0.74%) 802.11
2 1 (0.74%) BGP
2 1 (0.74%) Broadband
2 1 (0.74%) CDMA
2 1 (0.74%) GPRS
2 1 (0.74%) ISDN
2 1 (0.74%) LAN
2 1 (0.74%) MPLS
2 1 (0.74%) OSPF
2 1 (0.74%) PPP
2 1 (0.74%) SDH
2 1 (0.74%) SS7
2 1 (0.74%) TACACS
2 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.74%) VoIP
2 1 (0.74%) VPN
2 1 (0.74%) VRRP
2 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (22.22%) Big Data
3 24 (17.78%) Power BI
4 16 (11.85%) NoSQL
5 15 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (10.37%) Data Lake
7 13 (9.63%) Hadoop
7 13 (9.63%) Metadata
8 8 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (5.93%) MySQL
8 8 (5.93%) Power Query
9 7 (5.19%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (4.44%) Data Vault
10 6 (4.44%) Delta Lake
11 5 (3.70%) Apache Hive
11 5 (3.70%) DynamoDB
12 4 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.96%) MongoDB
12 4 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Git
1 7 (5.19%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.96%) git-flow
3 3 (2.22%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.22%) GitLab
3 3 (2.22%) JUnit
4 2 (1.48%) CircleCI
General
1 56 (41.48%) Finance
2 43 (31.85%) Social Skills
3 26 (19.26%) Law
4 22 (16.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (11.11%) Banking
7 8 (5.93%) Public Sector
8 7 (5.19%) Financial Institution
9 6 (4.44%) Legal
9 6 (4.44%) Marketing
10 5 (3.70%) Retail
11 3 (2.22%) Advertising
11 3 (2.22%) Games
12 2 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.74%) Front Office
13 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (50.37%) Data Engineer
2 49 (36.30%) Lead
3 41 (30.37%) Senior
4 22 (16.30%) Lead Data Engineer
5 21 (15.56%) Developer
6 20 (14.81%) Software Engineer
7 19 (14.07%) Senior Data Engineer
8 18 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (12.59%) Azure Data Engineer
9 17 (12.59%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (9.63%) Java Engineer
11 12 (8.89%) Java Developer
11 12 (8.89%) Java Software Engineer
12 11 (8.15%) Lead Developer
12 11 (8.15%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (7.41%) Scala Developer
14 9 (6.67%) Architect
14 9 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
15 8 (5.93%) AWS Software Engineer
15 8 (5.93%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (23.70%) Kafka
2 11 (8.15%) ARM Templates
2 11 (8.15%) React
2 11 (8.15%) Spring
3 10 (7.41%) PySpark
4 9 (6.67%) Flutter
5 8 (5.93%) Web Services
6 7 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (5.19%) Spark Streaming
6 7 (5.19%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.70%) boto
7 5 (3.70%) REST
7 5 (3.70%) RESTful
8 4 (2.96%) Play Framework
9 3 (2.22%) Akka
9 3 (2.22%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.22%) Scalaz
10 2 (1.48%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.48%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (16.30%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.89%) Derivative
4 10 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (6.67%) Management Information System
6 8 (5.93%) Equity Derivative
7 7 (5.19%) Algorithms
7 7 (5.19%) e-Learning
8 6 (4.44%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.96%) Virtual Team
10 3 (2.22%) Equities
10 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.74%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.74%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.93%) Linux
2 2 (1.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (37.78%) Analytics
2 47 (34.81%) Data Modelling
2 47 (34.81%) Data Pipeline
3 46 (34.07%) Data Engineering
4 45 (33.33%) Agile
4 45 (33.33%) Data Science
5 44 (32.59%) Artificial Intelligence
6 43 (31.85%) ETL
7 41 (30.37%) CI/CD
7 41 (30.37%) Machine Learning
8 38 (28.15%) DevOps
9 29 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (21.48%) Software Engineering
10 26 (19.26%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (18.52%) Computer Science
11 25 (18.52%) SDLC
12 24 (17.78%) Data Governance
12 24 (17.78%) Roadmaps
13 21 (15.56%) Mentoring
14 19 (14.07%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 84 (62.22%) Python
2 71 (52.59%) Java
3 59 (43.70%) SQL
4 28 (20.74%) Kotlin
5 10 (7.41%) C#
5 10 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (7.41%) Go
6 8 (5.93%) R
7 4 (2.96%) F#
7 4 (2.96%) Haskell
7 4 (2.96%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.96%) OCaml
8 3 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.48%) Groovy
9 2 (1.48%) PHP
10 1 (0.74%) C++
10 1 (0.74%) Clojure
10 1 (0.74%) Erlang
10 1 (0.74%) Perl
10 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (19.26%) Degree
2 14 (10.37%) Master's Degree
3 12 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (8.15%) Security Cleared
5 10 (7.41%) Azure Certification
6 9 (6.67%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.96%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.96%) PhD
8 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.74%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.30%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.37%) GDPR
3 6 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.22%) QA
5 2 (1.48%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) MiFID
6 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (22.96%) Docker
2 7 (5.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (28.89%) Kubernetes
2 27 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.48%) Ansible
4 2 (1.48%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.48%) Puppet
5 1 (0.74%) Grafana
5 1 (0.74%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 36 (26.67%) Databricks
2 19 (14.07%) Google
3 9 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.96%) Informatica
4 4 (2.96%) Oracle
5 3 (2.22%) Palantir
6 2 (1.48%) Apple
6 2 (1.48%) Talend
7 1 (0.74%) Avaya
7 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.74%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.74%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (0.74%) F5
7 1 (0.74%) Rackspace
7 1 (0.74%) Reuters
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce