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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 434 421
Rank change year-on-year -61 -13 -159
Permanent jobs citing Scala 119 282 243
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 1.58% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 75 131 202
10th Percentile £48,500 - £56,500
25th Percentile £61,500 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £112,312
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £143,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £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 10,241 17,822 17,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.11% 34.06% 40.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,750 10,823 14,905
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,500 £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 £107,500 £111,250 £110,000
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 14 December 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 14 December 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 +8 82 £90,000 +10.27% 63
North of England -49 24 £65,000 -10.34% 37
Yorkshire -17 15 £49,000 -1.00% 10
West Midlands +36 8 £65,000 - 14
Midlands +33 8 £65,000 -7.14% 25
North East -12 6 £65,000 -10.34% 3
North West -9 5 £75,000 - 24
South East +24 2 - - 61
South West +11 1 £75,000 -9.09% 23
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 33 (27.73%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.20%) Apache
4 3 (2.52%) Luigi
5 1 (0.84%) IIS
5 1 (0.84%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 61 (51.26%) AWS
2 45 (37.82%) Azure
3 25 (21.01%) Power Platform
4 24 (20.17%) GCP
5 18 (15.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (15.13%) Serverless
6 17 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (13.45%) Amazon Kinesis
8 15 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (10.08%) AWS Step Functions
10 11 (9.24%) Amazon S3
10 11 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.88%) GitHub
12 6 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (5.04%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (5.04%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.36%) Azure Storage
13 4 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) Broadband
2 1 (0.84%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (21.01%) Power BI
3 20 (16.81%) Data Lake
4 19 (15.97%) Big Data
5 18 (15.13%) Hadoop
6 16 (13.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (10.92%) Metadata
8 11 (9.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (8.40%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (7.56%) Apache Hive
10 9 (7.56%) MySQL
11 8 (6.72%) NoSQL
12 7 (5.88%) Delta Lake
12 7 (5.88%) DynamoDB
13 6 (5.04%) Power Query
14 5 (4.20%) Data Vault
14 5 (4.20%) MongoDB
14 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
15 4 (3.36%) Redis
15 4 (3.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Git
2 11 (9.24%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.68%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.68%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.68%) Gatling
3 2 (1.68%) JMeter
3 2 (1.68%) JUnit
3 2 (1.68%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.68%) Selenium
4 1 (0.84%) JIRA
4 1 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (37.82%) Finance
2 30 (25.21%) Social Skills
3 24 (20.17%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.40%) Financial Institution
6 6 (5.04%) Marketing
7 5 (4.20%) Legal
8 3 (2.52%) Retail
9 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Advertising
10 1 (0.84%) Banking
10 1 (0.84%) Front Office
10 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 56 (47.06%) Data Engineer
2 39 (32.77%) Senior
3 27 (22.69%) Developer
4 22 (18.49%) Lead
5 21 (17.65%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (10.08%) Azure Data Engineer
6 12 (10.08%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (10.08%) Scala Developer
7 11 (9.24%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (9.24%) Java Developer
7 11 (9.24%) Lead Developer
7 11 (9.24%) Software Engineer
8 10 (8.40%) AWS Data Engineer
8 10 (8.40%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.72%) Lead Data Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Lead Java Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Principal Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Principal Java Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Ruby Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.17%) Kafka
2 11 (9.24%) PySpark
3 10 (8.40%) React
3 10 (8.40%) Spark Streaming
4 9 (7.56%) Flutter
5 8 (6.72%) boto
6 6 (5.04%) Spring
7 4 (3.36%) .NET
7 4 (3.36%) Memcached
8 3 (2.52%) Play Framework
9 2 (1.68%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.68%) PostGIS
9 2 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.68%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.68%) XML
10 1 (0.84%) MapLibre
10 1 (0.84%) NetworkX
10 1 (0.84%) PyTorch
10 1 (0.84%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.17%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.40%) Data Structures
2 10 (8.40%) e-Learning
3 9 (7.56%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.56%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.36%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.36%) Derivative
4 4 (3.36%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (3.36%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.84%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.56%) Linux
2 3 (2.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.84%) Android
3 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (43.70%) Data Pipeline
2 48 (40.34%) Data Modelling
3 46 (38.66%) Data Engineering
4 42 (35.29%) Analytics
5 40 (33.61%) DevOps
5 40 (33.61%) Machine Learning
6 37 (31.09%) Agile
6 37 (31.09%) ETL
7 36 (30.25%) CI/CD
8 34 (28.57%) Data Science
9 28 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (22.69%) Data Governance
10 27 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (18.49%) Mentoring
12 19 (15.97%) AI
12 19 (15.97%) Computer Science
13 15 (12.61%) Roadmaps
13 15 (12.61%) Software Engineering
14 14 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 13 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 71 (59.66%) Python
2 62 (52.10%) Java
3 53 (44.54%) SQL
4 28 (23.53%) Kotlin
5 10 (8.40%) Ruby
6 9 (7.56%) Go
6 9 (7.56%) R
7 8 (6.72%) C#
7 8 (6.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (4.20%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.36%) F#
9 4 (3.36%) Haskell
9 4 (3.36%) OCaml
10 3 (2.52%) Bicep
10 3 (2.52%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.68%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.84%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.84%) Elixir
12 1 (0.84%) Perl
12 1 (0.84%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (15.97%) Degree
2 11 (9.24%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.56%) Master's Degree
5 8 (6.72%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.20%) PhD
8 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.84%) CISSP
9 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.84%) MBA
9 1 (0.84%) OSCP
9 1 (0.84%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.49%) Data Quality
2 16 (13.45%) GDPR
3 5 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.52%) QA
5 2 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (8.40%) HDFS
2 8 (6.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.40%) Terraform
3 3 (2.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.68%) Ansible
4 2 (1.68%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.68%) Puppet
5 1 (0.84%) Argo
5 1 (0.84%) Control-M
5 1 (0.84%) Grafana
5 1 (0.84%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 38 (31.93%) Databricks
2 7 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.04%) Oracle
4 5 (4.20%) Google
4 5 (4.20%) Palantir
5 1 (0.84%) BMC
5 1 (0.84%) BT
5 1 (0.84%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.84%) IBM
5 1 (0.84%) Informatica
5 1 (0.84%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.84%) Rackspace
5 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.84%) Talend