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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 508 405
Rank change year-on-year -58 -103 +39
Permanent jobs citing Scala 194 123 383
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.28% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.15% 1.05% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 124 65 137
10th Percentile £52,875 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,369 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -3.40%
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £128,125 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -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 16,870 11,678 21,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.31% 27.02% 31.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,308 7,714 13,108
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,689
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -52 106 £105,000 +16.67% 256
North of England -37 43 £66,250 +1.92% 36
North West -8 24 £66,250 -17.19% 15
South West - 18 £64,250 - 15
North East -57 11 £57,500 -11.54% 17
East of England -22 8 £135,500 +108.46% 9
Yorkshire -47 8 £90,000 +83.67% 4
South East -31 7 £55,000 -45.00% 16
Midlands -48 6 £81,500 +25.38% 11
East Midlands - 5 - - 1
West Midlands -42 1 £81,500 +25.38% 10
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 53 (27.32%) Apache Spark
2 41 (21.13%) Apache
3 12 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.55%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.55%) SAS
5 2 (1.03%) Luigi
6 1 (0.52%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 84 (43.30%) Azure
2 72 (37.11%) AWS
3 51 (26.29%) GCP
4 45 (23.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 37 (19.07%) Azure Databricks
6 31 (15.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 27 (13.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (11.86%) Power Platform
9 19 (9.79%) GitHub
9 19 (9.79%) Snowflake
10 18 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (5.67%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.67%) Serverless
13 10 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.61%) SaaS
15 6 (3.09%) Cloud Composer
16 5 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
17 4 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (19.07%) Big Data
2 30 (15.46%) Metadata
3 29 (14.95%) Delta Lake
4 28 (14.43%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (11.34%) Hadoop
6 21 (10.82%) Power BI
7 20 (10.31%) Data Vault
7 20 (10.31%) NoSQL
8 17 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (8.25%) Tableau
10 14 (7.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (7.22%) Relational Database
11 13 (6.70%) BigQuery
11 13 (6.70%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (6.19%) Data Lake
13 11 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (4.64%) MongoDB
14 9 (4.64%) SQL Server
15 6 (3.09%) Flink
15 6 (3.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (12.37%) Git
2 21 (10.82%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.09%) GitLab
4 5 (2.58%) Maven
5 3 (1.55%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.55%) Gatling
5 3 (1.55%) JUnit
5 3 (1.55%) Postman
5 3 (1.55%) Selenium
6 2 (1.03%) Gradle
6 2 (1.03%) Mockito
7 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 57 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 49 (25.26%) Finance
3 27 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.15%) Law
5 7 (3.61%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.58%) Legal
6 5 (2.58%) Marketing
7 4 (2.06%) Advertising
7 4 (2.06%) Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.03%) Games
9 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (32.47%) Data Engineer
2 44 (22.68%) Senior
3 36 (18.56%) Developer
4 32 (16.49%) Architect
5 28 (14.43%) Data Architect
6 27 (13.92%) Lead
7 22 (11.34%) Software Engineer
8 17 (8.76%) Senior Data Engineer
9 16 (8.25%) Scala Developer
9 16 (8.25%) Scala Engineer
10 12 (6.19%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.67%) Consultant
12 10 (5.15%) Azure Data Engineer
12 10 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (5.15%) Software Consultant
13 9 (4.64%) Lead Software Engineer
14 8 (4.12%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 8 (4.12%) Databricks Engineer
14 8 (4.12%) Principal Engineer
15 7 (3.61%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.07%) PySpark
2 28 (14.43%) Kafka
2 28 (14.43%) Terraform
3 9 (4.64%) gRPC
4 8 (4.12%) React
5 6 (3.09%) Apache Beam
5 6 (3.09%) Spring
5 6 (3.09%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.58%) Hibernate
6 5 (2.58%) JPA
6 5 (2.58%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.58%) Play Framework
6 5 (2.58%) Spring MVC
6 5 (2.58%) Swagger
6 5 (2.58%) YAML
7 4 (2.06%) CrewAI
7 4 (2.06%) LangChain
7 4 (2.06%) RESTful
8 3 (1.55%) .NET
8 3 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.10%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.64%) Over-the-Top Content
3 9 (4.64%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.61%) Robotics
6 5 (2.58%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.03%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.03%) Blog
9 2 (1.03%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.03%) IPTV
9 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.03%) Windows
2 1 (0.52%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (41.24%) Data Modelling
2 77 (39.69%) CI/CD
3 75 (38.66%) Analytics
4 74 (38.14%) Data Engineering
5 65 (33.51%) Data Pipeline
6 64 (32.99%) AI
7 62 (31.96%) Agile
8 54 (27.84%) Data Science
9 51 (26.29%) Machine Learning
10 48 (24.74%) Software Engineering
11 46 (23.71%) DevOps
11 46 (23.71%) ETL
12 45 (23.20%) Business Intelligence
13 41 (21.13%) Infrastructure as Code
14 38 (19.59%) Data Architecture
15 35 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (16.49%) Lakehouse
16 32 (16.49%) Technical Leadership
17 27 (13.92%) Roadmaps
18 26 (13.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 117 (60.31%) Python
2 91 (46.91%) SQL
3 78 (40.21%) Java
4 16 (8.25%) Bicep
5 14 (7.22%) Go
6 11 (5.67%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.15%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.64%) C++
8 9 (4.64%) Kotlin
9 8 (4.12%) R
10 7 (3.61%) C
10 7 (3.61%) Clojure
10 7 (3.61%) Erlang
10 7 (3.61%) Rust
11 4 (2.06%) C#
11 4 (2.06%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.03%) PHP
13 2 (1.03%) Ruby
14 1 (0.52%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 55 (28.35%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.07%) SC Cleared
3 28 (14.43%) Azure Certification
4 19 (9.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (8.25%) SnowPro
6 12 (6.19%) Degree
7 9 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.09%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.06%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (32.47%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.64%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.58%) QA
4 2 (1.03%) GDPR
4 2 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (21.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (18.04%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.06%) Grafana
3 3 (1.55%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.55%) Kibana
4 2 (1.03%) Ansible
4 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 57 (29.38%) Databricks
2 35 (18.04%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.64%) Typelevel
4 8 (4.12%) Splunk
5 7 (3.61%) Google
6 5 (2.58%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.55%) New Relic
7 3 (1.55%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.03%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.03%) Cisco
8 2 (1.03%) Oracle
8 2 (1.03%) Polycom
9 1 (0.52%) Informatica
9 1 (0.52%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.52%) Workday