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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 467 455
Rank change year-on-year -18 -12 -201
Permanent jobs citing Scala 146 210 318
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.46% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 1.35% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 67 120 271
10th Percentile £47,900 - £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -1.56% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% -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 10,797 15,604 24,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.83% 34.15% 36.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8,051 9,238 20,766
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +24 97 £95,000 +11.76% 28
North of England -39 19 £75,000 +17.65% 8
Yorkshire -41 11 £49,000 - 2
North West +24 8 £75,000 +15.38% 6
West Midlands +31 7 £64,250 - 6
Midlands +13 7 £64,250 -8.21% 7
South East -5 7 - - 10
South West +2 6 £55,200 -18.22% 3
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 32 (21.92%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.42%) Apache
2 5 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.42%) IIS
3 3 (2.05%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 68 (46.58%) AWS
2 41 (28.08%) Azure
3 33 (22.60%) GCP
4 20 (13.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (13.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (12.33%) Power Platform
6 15 (10.27%) Amazon Kinesis
6 15 (10.27%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (9.59%) Serverless
8 12 (8.22%) GitHub
9 11 (7.53%) Amazon S3
9 11 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (6.16%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (6.16%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (4.79%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (4.79%) Snowflake
12 5 (3.42%) dbt
13 3 (2.05%) Amazon EMR
14 2 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (23.29%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.55%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (15.75%) Big Data
3 22 (15.07%) Data Lake
3 22 (15.07%) Hadoop
4 18 (12.33%) Power BI
5 16 (10.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (10.27%) Metadata
7 14 (9.59%) Delta Lake
8 13 (8.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (8.90%) NoSQL
9 9 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (6.16%) Apache Hive
10 8 (5.48%) MySQL
10 8 (5.48%) Tableau
11 7 (4.79%) DynamoDB
11 7 (4.79%) SQL Server
12 6 (4.11%) Data Mining
12 6 (4.11%) Power Query
13 5 (3.42%) Couchbase
13 5 (3.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (19.18%) Jenkins
2 23 (15.75%) TeamCity
3 19 (13.01%) Git
4 3 (2.05%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.05%) JUnit
5 2 (1.37%) Gatling
5 2 (1.37%) JMeter
5 2 (1.37%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.37%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 39 (26.71%) Finance
2 29 (19.86%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.22%) Marketing
6 8 (5.48%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.42%) Legal
7 5 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.74%) Retail
9 3 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.37%) Billing
10 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Advertising
11 1 (0.68%) Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Front Office
11 1 (0.68%) Games
11 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.68%) Law
Job Titles
1 59 (40.41%) Data Engineer
2 50 (34.25%) Senior
3 29 (19.86%) Software Engineer
4 28 (19.18%) Developer
5 23 (15.75%) Scala Engineer
6 20 (13.70%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (12.33%) Lead
8 15 (10.27%) Scala Developer
8 15 (10.27%) Scala Software Engineer
9 13 (8.90%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.85%) Azure Data Engineer
10 10 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (6.16%) AWS Data Engineer
11 9 (6.16%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (6.16%) Senior Scala Developer
12 8 (5.48%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (5.48%) Senior Scala Engineer
13 7 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
14 6 (4.11%) Java Developer
14 6 (4.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.81%) Kafka
2 23 (15.75%) Akka
3 22 (15.07%) PySpark
4 10 (6.85%) React
5 9 (6.16%) gRPC
6 8 (5.48%) boto
6 8 (5.48%) Spark Streaming
7 6 (4.11%) Flutter
7 6 (4.11%) Play Framework
7 6 (4.11%) Spring
8 5 (3.42%) Memcached
9 4 (2.74%) .NET
10 3 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.37%) PostGIS
12 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
12 1 (0.68%) GeoPandas
12 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
12 1 (0.68%) NetworkX
12 1 (0.68%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.71%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (22.60%) Video\Live Streaming
3 32 (21.92%) Over-the-Top Content
4 9 (6.16%) Data Structures
4 9 (6.16%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (5.48%) Algorithms
5 8 (5.48%) e-Learning
6 6 (4.11%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.42%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.68%) Anti-Piracy
10 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.42%) Linux
2 3 (2.05%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Android
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (50.68%) Analytics
2 61 (41.78%) Agile
3 54 (36.99%) Data Pipeline
4 50 (34.25%) CI/CD
5 48 (32.88%) Data Engineering
5 48 (32.88%) Data Modelling
6 45 (30.82%) Data Science
7 41 (28.08%) DevOps
7 41 (28.08%) Machine Learning
8 40 (27.40%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (26.71%) ETL
10 35 (23.97%) TDD
11 33 (22.60%) Data Analytics
11 33 (22.60%) Software Engineering
12 32 (21.92%) Open Source
13 30 (20.55%) Data Governance
14 27 (18.49%) Scrum
15 25 (17.12%) Mentoring
15 25 (17.12%) Pair Programming
16 24 (16.44%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 81 (55.48%) Python
2 58 (39.73%) Java
3 54 (36.99%) SQL
4 23 (15.75%) Kotlin
5 15 (10.27%) Go
6 10 (6.85%) Ruby
7 9 (6.16%) R
8 7 (4.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.74%) C#
9 4 (2.74%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.74%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.05%) Bicep
11 2 (1.37%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.68%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.68%) C++
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (15.07%) Degree
2 10 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (6.85%) Master's Degree
2 10 (6.85%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.79%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.42%) MBA
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) CISSP
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.68%) OSCP
6 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.55%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.27%) GDPR
3 6 (4.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.05%) QA
6 2 (1.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 39 (26.71%) Docker
2 10 (6.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (19.18%) Kubernetes
2 20 (13.70%) Terraform
3 3 (2.05%) Control-M
4 2 (1.37%) Ansible
4 2 (1.37%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.37%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) Argo
5 1 (0.68%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 41 (28.08%) Databricks
2 9 (6.16%) Typelevel
3 5 (3.42%) BT
3 5 (3.42%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.42%) Oracle
4 4 (2.74%) Palantir
5 3 (2.05%) BMC
5 3 (2.05%) IBM
5 3 (2.05%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.05%) Talend
6 2 (1.37%) GoCardless
6 2 (1.37%) mParticle
6 2 (1.37%) PayPal
6 2 (1.37%) Zuora
7 1 (0.68%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.68%) Google
7 1 (0.68%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.68%) Rackspace