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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 496 413
Rank change year-on-year -66 -83 +42
Permanent jobs citing Scala 187 135 384
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.31% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.12% 1.16% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 124 69 141
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +16.13% -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 16,664 11,681 20,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.59% 27.19% 30.54%
Number of salaries quoted 12,202 7,668 13,605
10th Percentile £39,753 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 15 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 15 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 -52 100 £105,000 +16.67% 305
North of England -37 42 £66,250 -8.62% 35
North West -2 23 £66,250 -17.19% 16
South West - 19 £64,250 - 16
North East -56 11 £57,500 -11.54% 12
East of England -21 8 £135,500 +108.46% 13
Yorkshire -50 8 £90,000 +38.46% 7
South East -37 6 £55,000 -45.00% 26
Midlands -48 6 £81,500 +25.38% 9
East Midlands - 5 - - 1
West Midlands -43 1 £81,500 +25.38% 8
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 52 (27.81%) Apache Spark
2 35 (18.72%) Apache
3 9 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.60%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.60%) SAS
5 2 (1.07%) Luigi
6 1 (0.53%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 81 (43.32%) Azure
2 73 (39.04%) AWS
3 48 (25.67%) GCP
4 42 (22.46%) Azure Data Factory
5 34 (18.18%) Azure Databricks
6 30 (16.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 28 (14.97%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (13.37%) Power Platform
9 21 (11.23%) GitHub
10 18 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (9.09%) Snowflake
12 16 (8.56%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (6.42%) Amazon S3
14 11 (5.88%) Serverless
15 10 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (2.67%) GitHub Copilot
17 4 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
17 4 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
17 4 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
17 4 (2.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.81%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (18.18%) Big Data
2 30 (16.04%) Delta Lake
3 29 (15.51%) Metadata
4 27 (14.44%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (12.30%) Power BI
6 22 (11.76%) Data Vault
7 20 (10.70%) Hadoop
8 19 (10.16%) NoSQL
9 17 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (9.09%) Tableau
10 14 (7.49%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (6.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (6.95%) Relational Database
12 11 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (5.35%) BigQuery
13 10 (5.35%) Data Lake
14 9 (4.81%) MongoDB
14 9 (4.81%) SQL Server
15 6 (3.21%) MySQL
16 5 (2.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (11.76%) Git
2 20 (10.70%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.74%) GitLab
4 5 (2.67%) Maven
5 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.60%) Gatling
5 3 (1.60%) JUnit
5 3 (1.60%) Postman
5 3 (1.60%) Selenium
6 2 (1.07%) Gradle
6 2 (1.07%) Mockito
7 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 55 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.67%) Finance
3 27 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.35%) Law
5 7 (3.74%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.74%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.67%) Legal
6 5 (2.67%) Marketing
7 4 (2.14%) Advertising
7 4 (2.14%) Banking
8 3 (1.60%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.07%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.07%) Games
10 1 (0.53%) Front Office
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (31.55%) Data Engineer
2 39 (20.86%) Senior
3 36 (19.25%) Developer
4 34 (18.18%) Architect
5 29 (15.51%) Data Architect
6 27 (14.44%) Lead
7 22 (11.76%) Software Engineer
8 16 (8.56%) Scala Developer
9 15 (8.02%) Scala Engineer
9 15 (8.02%) Senior Data Engineer
10 12 (6.42%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.88%) Consultant
12 10 (5.35%) Software Consultant
13 9 (4.81%) Lead Software Engineer
14 8 (4.28%) Azure Data Engineer
14 8 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (4.28%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 8 (4.28%) Databricks Engineer
15 7 (3.74%) Principal Engineer
15 7 (3.74%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (19.25%) PySpark
2 27 (14.44%) Kafka
3 25 (13.37%) Terraform
4 9 (4.81%) gRPC
5 8 (4.28%) React
6 6 (3.21%) Spring
6 6 (3.21%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.67%) Hibernate
7 5 (2.67%) JPA
7 5 (2.67%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.67%) Play Framework
7 5 (2.67%) Spring MVC
7 5 (2.67%) Swagger
8 4 (2.14%) CrewAI
8 4 (2.14%) LangChain
8 4 (2.14%) RESTful
8 4 (2.14%) YAML
9 3 (1.60%) .NET
9 3 (1.60%) Node.js
9 3 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.32%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.81%) Over-the-Top Content
3 9 (4.81%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.28%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.74%) Robotics
6 5 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.14%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.14%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.07%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.07%) Blog
9 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.53%) IoT
10 1 (0.53%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.53%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Linux
1 1 (0.53%) Unix
1 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (41.71%) CI/CD
2 77 (41.18%) Data Modelling
3 74 (39.57%) Analytics
4 72 (38.50%) Data Engineering
5 61 (32.62%) AI
6 60 (32.09%) Agile
7 57 (30.48%) Data Pipeline
8 51 (27.27%) Data Science
8 51 (27.27%) Machine Learning
9 48 (25.67%) Software Engineering
10 47 (25.13%) Business Intelligence
11 46 (24.60%) DevOps
12 42 (22.46%) ETL
13 41 (21.93%) Infrastructure as Code
14 37 (19.79%) Data Architecture
15 34 (18.18%) Lakehouse
16 33 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
17 32 (17.11%) Technical Leadership
18 27 (14.44%) Roadmaps
19 25 (13.37%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 112 (59.89%) Python
2 86 (45.99%) SQL
3 74 (39.57%) Java
4 16 (8.56%) Bicep
5 14 (7.49%) Go
6 11 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.81%) C++
7 9 (4.81%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.81%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.74%) C
8 7 (3.74%) Clojure
8 7 (3.74%) Erlang
8 7 (3.74%) R
8 7 (3.74%) Rust
9 4 (2.14%) C#
10 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.07%) PHP
11 2 (1.07%) Ruby
12 1 (0.53%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (28.88%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.25%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.44%) Azure Certification
4 19 (10.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (8.56%) SnowPro
6 11 (5.88%) Degree
7 9 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.21%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.14%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (30.48%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.67%) QA
4 2 (1.07%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (20.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (17.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.14%) Grafana
3 3 (1.60%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.60%) Kibana
4 2 (1.07%) Ansible
4 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 54 (28.88%) Databricks
2 34 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.81%) Typelevel
4 5 (2.67%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.67%) Splunk
5 4 (2.14%) Google
6 3 (1.60%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.07%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.07%) Oracle
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco
8 1 (0.53%) Informatica
8 1 (0.53%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.53%) Polycom
8 1 (0.53%) Workday