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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 518 449
Rank change year-on-year -20 -69 -19
Permanent jobs citing Scala 194 131 392
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.30% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 1.00% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 108 71 187
10th Percentile £51,375 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £59,063 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,625 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £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 16,152 13,065 24,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.16% 30.19% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 11,823 8,807 18,886
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
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 £101,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -32 102 £105,000 +23.53% 59
North of England -18 31 £57,500 -11.54% 17
North West +14 20 £57,500 -28.13% 8
South West - 19 £63,500 - 9
East of England +5 13 £100,000 +53.85%
Midlands -24 12 £85,000 +30.77% 4
South East -21 7 £55,000 -21.43% 14
West Midlands -29 7 £85,000 +30.77% 3
Yorkshire -35 6 £90,000 +44.00% 5
North East -52 5 £55,500 -14.62% 5
East Midlands - 5 - - 1
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 49 (25.26%) Apache Spark
2 29 (14.95%) Apache
3 15 (7.73%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.55%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.55%) SAS
5 2 (1.03%) Luigi
6 1 (0.52%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 102 (52.58%) AWS
2 84 (43.30%) GCP
3 60 (30.93%) Azure
4 27 (13.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (10.31%) Power Platform
6 19 (9.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 17 (8.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 16 (8.25%) GitHub
9 13 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (6.19%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (4.64%) Cloud Composer
12 9 (4.64%) Snowflake
13 8 (4.12%) Serverless
14 7 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (3.09%) Dagster
15 6 (3.09%) dbt
16 4 (2.06%) AWS Data Pipeline
16 4 (2.06%) GitHub Copilot
16 4 (2.06%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 51 (26.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.89%) Big Data
1 25 (12.89%) Metadata
2 23 (11.86%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (10.31%) Delta Lake
4 18 (9.28%) Power BI
5 15 (7.73%) BigQuery
5 15 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (7.22%) Hadoop
7 13 (6.70%) Data Vault
7 13 (6.70%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (6.70%) NoSQL
8 11 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (5.15%) Relational Database
9 10 (5.15%) SQL Server
9 10 (5.15%) Tableau
10 9 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (3.09%) MongoDB
11 6 (3.09%) MySQL
12 5 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (2.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (9.79%) Git
2 12 (6.19%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.61%) GitLab
4 3 (1.55%) Gatling
4 3 (1.55%) Maven
4 3 (1.55%) Postman
4 3 (1.55%) Selenium
5 2 (1.03%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.03%) JUnit
6 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 43 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.49%) Finance
3 19 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.22%) Law
5 7 (3.61%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.09%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.06%) Advertising
7 4 (2.06%) Marketing
8 3 (1.55%) Digital Healthcare
8 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.55%) Legal
9 2 (1.03%) Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (30.93%) Data Engineer
2 46 (23.71%) Senior
3 40 (20.62%) Developer
3 40 (20.62%) Scala Engineer
4 30 (15.46%) Lead
5 29 (14.95%) Software Engineer
6 22 (11.34%) Scala Developer
7 20 (10.31%) Architect
8 16 (8.25%) Data Architect
8 16 (8.25%) Scala Software Engineer
8 16 (8.25%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (6.19%) Software Developer
10 11 (5.67%) Consultant
10 11 (5.67%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (5.15%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 10 (5.15%) Software Consultant
12 7 (3.61%) Technical Leader
13 6 (3.09%) Senior Manager
13 6 (3.09%) Senior Technical Manager
13 6 (3.09%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (23.20%) gRPC
2 26 (13.40%) Kafka
3 22 (11.34%) PySpark
4 6 (3.09%) Node.js
5 5 (2.58%) React
6 4 (2.06%) OAuth
6 4 (2.06%) OpenID
6 4 (2.06%) Spring
6 4 (2.06%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.55%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.55%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.55%) Hibernate
7 3 (1.55%) JPA
7 3 (1.55%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.55%) Play Framework
7 3 (1.55%) Playwright
7 3 (1.55%) RESTful
7 3 (1.55%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.55%) Swagger
8 2 (1.03%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 50 (25.77%) Distributed Systems
2 45 (23.20%) Over-the-Top Content
2 45 (23.20%) Video\Live Streaming
3 20 (10.31%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.15%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.61%) Robotics
7 6 (3.09%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.09%) Social Media
8 5 (2.58%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.52%) IoT
9 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.52%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Linux
1 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (47.42%) CI/CD
2 84 (43.30%) Data Science
3 74 (38.14%) Machine Learning
3 74 (38.14%) Software Engineering
4 61 (31.44%) Analytics
5 58 (29.90%) Data Modelling
5 58 (29.90%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (29.38%) Data Engineering
7 54 (27.84%) Coaching
7 54 (27.84%) Containerisation
7 54 (27.84%) Data Pipeline
8 50 (25.77%) Microservices
9 49 (25.26%) Clean Code
9 49 (25.26%) Continuous Delivery
10 45 (23.20%) Personalization
11 40 (20.62%) ETL
12 39 (20.10%) Agile
12 39 (20.10%) AI
13 35 (18.04%) Business Intelligence
14 32 (16.49%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 126 (64.95%) Python
2 66 (34.02%) Java
3 64 (32.99%) SQL
4 47 (24.23%) Go
5 14 (7.22%) C++
6 11 (5.67%) Bicep
6 11 (5.67%) Rust
7 7 (3.61%) C
7 7 (3.61%) Clojure
7 7 (3.61%) Erlang
7 7 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.09%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.09%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.06%) Elixir
9 4 (2.06%) Ruby
10 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.55%) R
11 2 (1.03%) C#
11 2 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (17.53%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.25%) Azure Certification
4 13 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.64%) SnowPro
6 8 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.12%) Degree
7 4 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (22.68%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.55%) QA
4 2 (1.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 66 (34.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (10.31%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.28%) Terraform
3 3 (1.55%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.55%) Kibana
4 2 (1.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (23.20%) Typelevel
2 35 (18.04%) Databricks
3 25 (12.89%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.58%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.06%) Google
6 3 (1.55%) Splunk
7 2 (1.03%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.52%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.52%) OpenAI