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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 383 430
Rank change year-on-year -104 +47 -146
Permanent jobs citing Scala 131 360 262
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.59% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 1.86% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 75 138 223
10th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £56,700
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -3.40% +3.52%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £142,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £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 10,906 19,381 19,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.63% 31.97% 41.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7,758 11,537 16,279
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,734 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.63%

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 8 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 8 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 +1 98 £90,000 +12.50% 151
North of England -101 23 £65,000 -2.26% 24
Yorkshire -19 14 £57,000 +15.17% 8
Midlands +68 7 £65,000 -7.14% 9
West Midlands +49 7 £65,000 - 5
North East -4 6 £65,000 - 6
North West -68 5 £75,000 +10.29% 10
South East +29 1 - - 127
South West +29 1 £75,000 -25.00% 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 30 (22.90%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.58%) Apache
2 6 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.29%) Luigi
4 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 82 (62.60%) AWS
2 47 (35.88%) Azure
3 33 (25.19%) GCP
4 23 (17.56%) Power Platform
5 21 (16.03%) Serverless
6 15 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (10.69%) Amazon Kinesis
8 13 (9.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (8.40%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (6.87%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (6.11%) GitHub
12 6 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.82%) Snowflake
14 4 (3.05%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (3.05%) Azure Storage
14 4 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
15 3 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (2.29%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) Broadband
1 2 (1.53%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.19%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (19.85%) Big Data
3 23 (17.56%) Power BI
4 17 (12.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (12.21%) NoSQL
6 15 (11.45%) Data Lake
6 15 (11.45%) Hadoop
7 11 (8.40%) Metadata
8 9 (6.87%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (6.87%) MySQL
9 8 (6.11%) Apache Hive
9 8 (6.11%) DynamoDB
9 8 (6.11%) Power Query
10 6 (4.58%) Data Vault
10 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
11 5 (3.82%) MongoDB
12 4 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (3.05%) Delta Lake
12 4 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Git
1 9 (6.87%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.82%) Cucumber
2 5 (3.82%) JUnit
3 4 (3.05%) git-flow
4 3 (2.29%) GitLab
5 2 (1.53%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.53%) Gatling
5 2 (1.53%) JMeter
5 2 (1.53%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.76%) JIRA
6 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 63 (48.09%) Finance
2 38 (29.01%) Social Skills
3 20 (15.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (12.21%) Law
6 14 (10.69%) Banking
7 10 (7.63%) Financial Institution
8 9 (6.87%) Public Sector
9 7 (5.34%) Legal
9 7 (5.34%) Marketing
10 3 (2.29%) Retail
11 2 (1.53%) Front Office
11 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 52 (39.69%) Data Engineer
2 40 (30.53%) Senior
3 38 (29.01%) Lead
4 29 (22.14%) Developer
5 25 (19.08%) Software Engineer
6 18 (13.74%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (13.74%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) Azure Data Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) Java Engineer
8 12 (9.16%) Java Developer
8 12 (9.16%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (9.16%) Scala Developer
9 11 (8.40%) Lead Data Engineer
9 11 (8.40%) Lead Developer
10 10 (7.63%) Senior Developer
11 9 (6.87%) AWS Data Engineer
12 8 (6.11%) AWS Software Engineer
12 8 (6.11%) Lead Java Engineer
12 8 (6.11%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (25.19%) Kafka
2 13 (9.92%) Spring
3 11 (8.40%) React
4 10 (7.63%) Spark Streaming
5 9 (6.87%) Flutter
6 8 (6.11%) boto
6 8 (6.11%) Web Services
7 7 (5.34%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (5.34%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.82%) Play Framework
8 5 (3.82%) REST
8 5 (3.82%) RESTful
9 4 (3.05%) Akka
9 4 (3.05%) PySpark
10 3 (2.29%) Gherkin
10 3 (2.29%) Scalaz
11 2 (1.53%) .NET
11 2 (1.53%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.53%) Memcached
11 2 (1.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.19%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (14.50%) Cloud Native
3 13 (9.92%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (9.16%) Derivative
5 10 (7.63%) e-Learning
6 9 (6.87%) Management Information System
7 8 (6.11%) Data Structures
7 8 (6.11%) Equity Derivative
8 7 (5.34%) Algorithms
9 6 (4.58%) Virtual Team
10 3 (2.29%) Equities
11 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.76%) Over-the-Top Content
12 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.40%) Linux
2 3 (2.29%) Unix
3 1 (0.76%) Android
3 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.40%) Agile
2 43 (32.82%) Data Engineering
2 43 (32.82%) Data Modelling
3 42 (32.06%) CI/CD
3 42 (32.06%) Data Pipeline
3 42 (32.06%) Machine Learning
4 39 (29.77%) Analytics
5 36 (27.48%) ETL
6 34 (25.95%) DevOps
6 34 (25.95%) Software Engineering
7 30 (22.90%) AI
8 29 (22.14%) Data Science
9 25 (19.08%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (19.08%) Data Governance
9 25 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (19.08%) SDLC
10 21 (16.03%) Mentoring
11 20 (15.27%) Microservices
12 18 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (13.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 76 (58.02%) Java
2 68 (51.91%) Python
3 50 (38.17%) SQL
4 42 (32.06%) Kotlin
5 10 (7.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (7.63%) Ruby
6 9 (6.87%) Go
7 7 (5.34%) C#
7 7 (5.34%) R
8 5 (3.82%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.05%) F#
9 4 (3.05%) Haskell
9 4 (3.05%) OCaml
10 2 (1.53%) Groovy
10 2 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.76%) Elixir
11 1 (0.76%) Erlang
11 1 (0.76%) Perl
11 1 (0.76%) PHP
11 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.98%) Degree
2 8 (6.11%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.58%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.05%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.05%) PhD
6 2 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.76%) CISSP
7 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) OSCP
7 1 (0.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.74%) GDPR
2 15 (11.45%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.29%) QA
5 2 (1.53%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.76%) MiFID
6 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (11.45%) Docker
2 10 (7.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (17.56%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.92%) Terraform
3 3 (2.29%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.53%) Ansible
4 2 (1.53%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.53%) Puppet
5 1 (0.76%) Grafana
5 1 (0.76%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 31 (23.66%) Databricks
2 7 (5.34%) Google
2 7 (5.34%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.82%) Oracle
4 4 (3.05%) Informatica
4 4 (3.05%) Palantir
5 2 (1.53%) Talend
6 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.76%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.76%) Rackspace
6 1 (0.76%) Reuters
6 1 (0.76%) Salesforce