Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 15 June 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Scala skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Scala over the 6 months to 15 June 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Scala
UK > England
6 months to
15 Jun 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 237 214 204
Rank change year-on-year -23 -10 -24
Permanent jobs citing Scala 1,298 1,272 2,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.45% 1.65% 1.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.60% 2.98% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 855 1,043 1,881
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -

Scala is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
England
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 49,964 42,706 72,109
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England 55.71% 55.34% 54.23%
Number of salaries quoted 36,462 35,877 59,900
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in England

Scala
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Scala in England.

Salary trend for Scala in England

Scala
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala in England over the 6 months to 15 June 2021.

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 15 June 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
London -10 973 £82,500 +3.13% 139
North of England -4 175 £57,500 +4.55% 34
Yorkshire -35 92 £57,500 +4.55% 16
North West 0 64 £57,500 -4.17% 15
South East -49 62 £55,000 -8.33% 15
South West -55 35 £59,858 +7.85% 1
Midlands -60 23 £48,500 -31.93% 15
North East +5 19 £55,000 +22.22% 3
West Midlands -29 18 £49,750 -9.55% 13
East of England -21 10 £65,000 -7.14% 8
East Midlands -56 5 £45,000 -40.00% 2
Scala
UK

For the 6 months to 15 June 2021, IT jobs citing Scala also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region with a requirement for Scala.

1 1,006 (77.50%) Java
2 783 (60.32%) Python
3 713 (54.93%) AWS
4 674 (51.93%) Agile Software Development
5 544 (41.91%) Software Engineering
6 484 (37.29%) JavaScript
7 462 (35.59%) Kubernetes
8 444 (34.21%) Docker
9 417 (32.13%) Finance
10 397 (30.59%) SQL
11 394 (30.35%) DevOps
12 384 (29.58%) Azure
13 368 (28.35%) GCP
14 339 (26.12%) C#
15 329 (25.35%) Apache Spark
16 309 (23.81%) TDD
17 305 (23.50%) Kotlin
18 291 (22.42%) Microservices
19 282 (21.73%) TypeScript
20 251 (19.34%) Big Data
21 240 (18.49%) AngularJS
21 240 (18.49%) React
22 237 (18.26%) Analytics
23 234 (18.03%) Kafka
24 215 (16.56%) Go
25 211 (16.26%) Terraform
25 211 (16.26%) Social Skills
26 199 (15.33%) Hadoop
27 189 (14.56%) C++
28 183 (14.10%) NoSQL

Scala
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 329 (25.35%) Apache Spark
2 167 (12.87%) Apache
3 102 (7.86%) Elasticsearch
4 62 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (2.31%) Confluence
6 16 (1.23%) Jupyter
6 16 (1.23%) Luigi
7 7 (0.54%) Apache Synapse
7 7 (0.54%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.46%) JBoss
8 6 (0.46%) Jetty
8 6 (0.46%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.39%) SAS
10 4 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.23%) DataSynapse
11 3 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.23%) Mule
11 3 (0.23%) nginx
11 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 27 (2.08%) InVision
1 27 (2.08%) Sketch
2 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Sentinel
2 1 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 713 (54.93%) AWS
2 384 (29.58%) Azure
3 368 (28.35%) GCP
4 165 (12.71%) Serverless
5 99 (7.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 99 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
6 96 (7.40%) Amazon S3
7 95 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
8 51 (3.93%) Power Platform
9 48 (3.70%) GitHub
10 39 (3.00%) SaaS
11 36 (2.77%) Amazon Kinesis
12 35 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 35 (2.70%) Cloud Functions
13 34 (2.62%) Amazon EMR
14 28 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 26 (2.00%) Snowflake
16 24 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
16 24 (1.85%) PaaS
17 20 (1.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.62%) HTTP
2 10 (0.77%) FTP
2 10 (0.77%) IPsec
2 10 (0.77%) VPN
3 8 (0.62%) Firewall
4 7 (0.54%) Broadband
4 7 (0.54%) Internet
5 2 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.077%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.077%) Network Security
6 1 (0.077%) SSH
6 1 (0.077%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (19.34%) Big Data
2 199 (15.33%) Hadoop
3 183 (14.10%) NoSQL
4 135 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
5 116 (8.94%) Amazon DynamoDB
6 111 (8.55%) Relational Database
7 91 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
8 76 (5.86%) MongoDB
9 75 (5.78%) Apache Hive
10 67 (5.16%) Data Lake
11 58 (4.47%) MySQL
12 51 (3.93%) Apache Ignite
13 50 (3.85%) Power BI
13 50 (3.85%) RDBMS
14 42 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
15 41 (3.16%) Apache Cassandra
15 41 (3.16%) BigQuery
16 39 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
17 38 (2.93%) Tableau
18 37 (2.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 173 (13.33%) Git (software)
2 138 (10.63%) Jenkins
3 56 (4.31%) JIRA
4 53 (4.08%) JUnit
5 51 (3.93%) Selenium
6 49 (3.78%) Maven
7 46 (3.54%) Cypress.io
8 28 (2.16%) JMeter
9 27 (2.08%) IntelliJ
9 27 (2.08%) PostCSS
10 26 (2.00%) Gradle
11 25 (1.93%) CircleCI
12 20 (1.54%) Cucumber
13 17 (1.31%) GitLab
14 14 (1.08%) Postman
15 12 (0.92%) Eclipse
15 12 (0.92%) Mockito
16 10 (0.77%) Mercurial
16 10 (0.77%) Spinnaker
16 10 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 417 (32.13%) Finance
2 211 (16.26%) Social Skills
3 132 (10.17%) Front Office
4 98 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (5.55%) Banking
6 62 (4.78%) Games
7 56 (4.31%) Retail
8 39 (3.00%) Marketing
9 15 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.08%) Law
10 14 (1.08%) Public Sector
11 12 (0.92%) Retail Banking
12 11 (0.85%) Electronics
13 10 (0.77%) Legal
14 7 (0.54%) Italian Language
14 7 (0.54%) Portuguese Language
14 7 (0.54%) Publishing
14 7 (0.54%) Spanish Language
15 6 (0.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 468 (36.06%) Developer
2 333 (25.65%) Software Engineer
3 236 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 153 (11.79%) Java Developer
5 112 (8.63%) Scala Developer
6 92 (7.09%) Scala Engineer
7 89 (6.86%) Senior Developer
8 82 (6.32%) React Developer
9 71 (5.47%) Senior Software Engineer
10 69 (5.32%) Python Engineer
11 64 (4.93%) Senior Data Engineer
12 63 (4.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 57 (4.39%) Python Software Engineer
14 56 (4.31%) Python Developer
15 55 (4.24%) Architect
16 51 (3.93%) Java Engineer
16 51 (3.93%) Lead Developer
17 49 (3.78%) Software Developer
18 46 (3.54%) Front Office Developer
18 46 (3.54%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (18.49%) AngularJS
1 240 (18.49%) React
2 234 (18.03%) Kafka
3 174 (13.41%) Spring
4 172 (13.25%) Node.js
5 162 (12.48%) Vue.js
6 153 (11.79%) RESTful
7 133 (10.25%) GraphQL
8 130 (10.02%) Web Services
9 126 (9.71%) Spring Boot
10 110 (8.47%) HTML
11 105 (8.09%) CSS
11 105 (8.09%) REST
12 93 (7.16%) Akka
13 92 (7.09%) .NET
14 91 (7.01%) Play Framework
15 80 (6.16%) HTML5
16 49 (3.78%) PySpark
17 46 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
18 45 (3.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 117 (9.01%) Equities
2 114 (8.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 113 (8.71%) Hedge funds
4 111 (8.55%) Derivative
5 101 (7.78%) Fixed Income
6 83 (6.39%) Algorithms
7 81 (6.24%) User Experience
8 66 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
9 60 (4.62%) Blog
10 55 (4.24%) Data Structures
11 48 (3.70%) Credit Risk
12 25 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.85%) Social Network
14 18 (1.39%) Cloud Native
14 18 (1.39%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.16%) Mobile App
15 15 (1.16%) Social Media
16 14 (1.08%) Podcast
16 14 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 124 (9.55%) Linux
2 58 (4.47%) Unix
3 40 (3.08%) Android
4 30 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.23%) Windows
6 6 (0.46%) Solaris
7 4 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 674 (51.93%) Agile Software Development
2 544 (41.91%) Software Engineering
3 394 (30.35%) DevOps
4 309 (23.81%) TDD
5 291 (22.42%) Microservices
6 237 (18.26%) Analytics
7 163 (12.56%) Data Science
8 158 (12.17%) Test Automation
9 156 (12.02%) Open Source
10 154 (11.86%) Computer Science
11 151 (11.63%) Machine Learning
12 140 (10.79%) Artificial Intelligence
13 137 (10.55%) Functional Programming
14 131 (10.09%) Data Engineering
15 125 (9.63%) Mentoring
15 125 (9.63%) OOP
16 123 (9.48%) ETL
17 120 (9.24%) Data Pipeline
17 120 (9.24%) SOLID
18 115 (8.86%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,006 (77.50%) Java
2 783 (60.32%) Python
3 484 (37.29%) JavaScript
4 397 (30.59%) SQL
5 339 (26.12%) C#
6 305 (23.50%) Kotlin
7 282 (21.73%) TypeScript
8 215 (16.56%) Go
9 189 (14.56%) C++
10 126 (9.71%) Ruby
11 109 (8.40%) Clojure
12 68 (5.24%) ES6
13 61 (4.70%) R
14 59 (4.55%) Groovy
15 51 (3.93%) Java 8
16 44 (3.39%) PHP
17 38 (2.93%) C
18 37 (2.85%) Bash Shell
19 35 (2.70%) Shell Script
20 31 (2.39%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 162 (12.48%) Degree
2 62 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (2.08%) SANS
4 20 (1.54%) Security Cleared
5 13 (1.00%) SC Cleared
6 8 (0.62%) PhD
7 5 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.39%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.39%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.15%) CFA
9 2 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.15%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (6.55%) QA
2 32 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 30 (2.31%) WCAG
4 29 (2.23%) GDPR
5 7 (0.54%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.15%) MiFID
8 1 (0.077%) SLA
System Software
1 444 (34.21%) Docker
2 19 (1.46%) HDFS
3 9 (0.69%) Apache Flume
4 7 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.077%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 462 (35.59%) Kubernetes
2 211 (16.26%) Terraform
3 53 (4.08%) Ansible
4 40 (3.08%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.93%) Grafana
6 13 (1.00%) Puppet
7 10 (0.77%) Oozie
7 10 (0.77%) Opscode Chef
8 9 (0.69%) Istio
9 8 (0.62%) Kibana
10 7 (0.54%) Hadoop YARN
11 4 (0.31%) Marathon
11 4 (0.31%) Mesos
11 4 (0.31%) Rancher
12 3 (0.23%) Ambari
12 3 (0.23%) Graphite
12 3 (0.23%) logstash
13 1 (0.077%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.077%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 94 (7.24%) Google
2 54 (4.16%) Databricks
3 47 (3.62%) Microsoft
4 45 (3.47%) Oracle
5 22 (1.69%) Cloudera
6 17 (1.31%) Hortonworks
7 11 (0.85%) Informatica
8 10 (0.77%) IBM
9 9 (0.69%) TIBCO
10 8 (0.62%) Apple
10 8 (0.62%) BT
11 7 (0.54%) Splunk
12 6 (0.46%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.46%) GigaSpaces
12 6 (0.46%) Talend
13 5 (0.39%) Adobe
13 5 (0.39%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.39%) Solace
14 4 (0.31%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.31%) Sybase