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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 509 481
Rank change year-on-year -1 -28 -138
Permanent jobs citing Scala 191 128 415
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.32% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 1.01% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 82 70 258
10th Percentile £47,625 £52,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,063 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,375 £101,400 £108,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% -9.38%

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 15,227 12,662 29,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.27% 31.93% 30.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,990 8,493 23,300
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -12 106 £110,000 +37.50% 20
North of England -28 24 £57,500 -8.00% 12
North West +21 16 £55,500 -30.63% 10
South West -45 16 £63,500 -5.93% 9
East of England -4 13 £100,000 +53.85% 1
Midlands -17 11 £85,000 +23.64%
West Midlands -12 8 £85,000 +23.64%
South East -17 8 £55,000 -21.43% 5
Yorkshire -40 5 £90,000 +83.67% 1
North East -45 3 £57,500 -8.00% 1
East Midlands - 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 43 (22.51%) Apache Spark
2 25 (13.09%) Apache
3 15 (7.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.57%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.57%) SAS
5 2 (1.05%) Luigi
6 1 (0.52%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.52%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 103 (53.93%) AWS
2 85 (44.50%) GCP
3 51 (26.70%) Azure
4 22 (11.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (10.99%) GitHub
6 16 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (8.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (8.38%) Power Platform
7 12 (6.28%) Amazon S3
8 10 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (4.71%) Cloud Composer
10 7 (3.66%) dbt
10 7 (3.66%) Serverless
11 6 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.14%) Dagster
11 6 (3.14%) SaaS
12 5 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (2.62%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.09%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 74 (38.74%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (9.95%) Big Data
3 18 (9.42%) Delta Lake
4 17 (8.90%) Metadata
5 15 (7.85%) BigQuery
6 14 (7.33%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.33%) Power BI
7 13 (6.81%) Hadoop
8 11 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (5.24%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (4.71%) Data Lake
10 9 (4.71%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.71%) Tableau
11 8 (4.19%) SQL Server
12 7 (3.66%) Data Vault
13 6 (3.14%) MongoDB
14 5 (2.62%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (2.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (16.75%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.52%) TeamCity
3 21 (10.99%) Git
4 6 (3.14%) GitLab
5 3 (1.57%) Gatling
5 3 (1.57%) Maven
6 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.05%) JUnit
6 2 (1.05%) Postman
6 2 (1.05%) Selenium
7 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 37 (19.37%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.61%) Finance
3 16 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.76%) Law
5 6 (3.14%) Manufacturing
5 6 (3.14%) Marketing
5 6 (3.14%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.57%) Advertising
6 3 (1.57%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (1.05%) Billing
7 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.05%) Legal
8 1 (0.52%) Games
8 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (30.89%) Data Engineer
2 52 (27.23%) Scala Engineer
3 50 (26.18%) Senior
4 39 (20.42%) Software Engineer
5 37 (19.37%) Developer
6 28 (14.66%) Lead
6 28 (14.66%) Scala Software Engineer
7 23 (12.04%) Scala Developer
8 15 (7.85%) Senior Data Engineer
9 14 (7.33%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 13 (6.81%) Architect
10 13 (6.81%) Lead Software Engineer
11 12 (6.28%) Software Developer
12 10 (5.24%) Data Architect
12 10 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.24%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.66%) Consultant
13 7 (3.66%) Systems Engineer
14 6 (3.14%) Senior Manager
14 6 (3.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (23.56%) gRPC
2 22 (11.52%) Akka
2 22 (11.52%) Kafka
3 20 (10.47%) PySpark
4 8 (4.19%) React
5 6 (3.14%) Node.js
6 4 (2.09%) OAuth
6 4 (2.09%) OpenID
6 4 (2.09%) Play Framework
6 4 (2.09%) Spring
7 3 (1.57%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.57%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.57%) Playwright
7 3 (1.57%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.05%) JPA
8 2 (1.05%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.05%) RESTful
8 2 (1.05%) Swagger
8 2 (1.05%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 68 (35.60%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (35.08%) Over-the-Top Content
3 53 (27.75%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (6.28%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.71%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.19%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.14%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (3.14%) Robotics
8 6 (3.14%) Social Media
9 3 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.52%) IoT
11 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.52%) Sports Betting
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Linux
1 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (47.12%) CI/CD
2 82 (42.93%) Data Science
3 79 (41.36%) Software Engineering
4 76 (39.79%) Analytics
5 64 (33.51%) Machine Learning
6 58 (30.37%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (29.32%) Coaching
8 55 (28.80%) Agile
9 54 (28.27%) Data Pipeline
10 52 (27.23%) Containerisation
11 50 (26.18%) Data Modelling
12 49 (25.65%) Microservices
13 48 (25.13%) Continuous Delivery
13 48 (25.13%) Data Engineering
14 47 (24.61%) Clean Code
15 45 (23.56%) Personalization
16 41 (21.47%) ETL
17 35 (18.32%) DevOps
18 33 (17.28%) Open Source
18 33 (17.28%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 120 (62.83%) Python
2 61 (31.94%) SQL
3 55 (28.80%) Java
4 46 (24.08%) Go
5 12 (6.28%) C++
6 10 (5.24%) Rust
7 9 (4.71%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.14%) Bicep
8 6 (3.14%) C
8 6 (3.14%) Clojure
8 6 (3.14%) Erlang
9 5 (2.62%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.09%) Elixir
10 4 (2.09%) Ruby
11 3 (1.57%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.57%) R
12 2 (1.05%) C#
12 2 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (11.52%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.38%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.76%) Degree
4 10 (5.24%) Azure Certification
4 10 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.62%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.09%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (20.42%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.57%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.57%) QA
3 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 87 (45.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (20.42%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.95%) Terraform
3 3 (1.57%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.57%) Kibana
4 2 (1.05%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (23.56%) Typelevel
2 30 (15.71%) Databricks
3 17 (8.90%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.09%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.09%) Google
5 2 (1.05%) Braze
5 2 (1.05%) GoCardless
5 2 (1.05%) mParticle
5 2 (1.05%) PayPal
5 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.05%) Splunk
5 2 (1.05%) Zuora
6 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.52%) BT
6 1 (0.52%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.52%) OpenAI