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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 504 413
Rank change year-on-year -45 -91 +32
Permanent jobs citing Scala 192 138 385
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.32% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.15% 1.17% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 123 71 151
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £128,750 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -

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 16,640 11,779 21,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.08% 27.43% 30.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,201 7,775 14,399
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 4 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 4 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 -55 102 £105,000 +16.67% 248
North of England -39 42 £66,250 +1.92% 24
North West 0 23 £66,250 -17.19% 15
South West - 20 £64,250 - 14
East of England -14 11 £100,000 +53.85% 7
North East -57 11 £57,500 -11.54% 6
Yorkshire -48 8 £90,000 +57.89% 3
Midlands -36 6 £81,500 +25.38% 6
South East -42 5 £55,000 -25.42% 21
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
West Midlands -31 1 £81,500 +25.38% 4
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 50 (26.04%) Apache Spark
2 35 (18.23%) Apache
3 9 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.56%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.56%) SAS
5 2 (1.04%) Luigi
6 1 (0.52%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 81 (42.19%) AWS
2 76 (39.58%) Azure
3 56 (29.17%) GCP
4 38 (19.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 30 (15.63%) Azure Databricks
6 29 (15.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 26 (13.54%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (11.46%) Power Platform
9 21 (10.94%) GitHub
10 17 (8.85%) Snowflake
11 16 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (6.77%) Amazon S3
14 11 (5.73%) Serverless
15 10 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (2.60%) GitHub Copilot
17 4 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
17 4 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
17 4 (2.08%) SaaS
18 3 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.67%) Big Data
2 28 (14.58%) Delta Lake
3 27 (14.06%) Metadata
4 24 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (11.46%) Data Vault
6 20 (10.42%) Hadoop
6 20 (10.42%) Power BI
7 17 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (8.33%) NoSQL
9 15 (7.81%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (7.29%) Tableau
11 11 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (5.21%) BigQuery
12 10 (5.21%) Relational Database
13 9 (4.69%) Data Lake
13 9 (4.69%) MongoDB
13 9 (4.69%) SQL Server
14 6 (3.13%) MySQL
15 4 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 19 (9.90%) Git
2 17 (8.85%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.17%) GitLab
4 5 (2.60%) Maven
5 3 (1.56%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.56%) Gatling
5 3 (1.56%) JUnit
5 3 (1.56%) Postman
5 3 (1.56%) Selenium
6 2 (1.04%) Gradle
6 2 (1.04%) Mockito
7 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 50 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 45 (23.44%) Finance
3 27 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.21%) Law
5 7 (3.65%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.65%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.60%) Legal
6 5 (2.60%) Marketing
7 4 (2.08%) Advertising
7 4 (2.08%) Banking
8 3 (1.56%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.04%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (29.69%) Data Engineer
2 38 (19.79%) Developer
3 37 (19.27%) Senior
4 34 (17.71%) Architect
5 29 (15.10%) Data Architect
5 29 (15.10%) Lead
6 26 (13.54%) Software Engineer
7 21 (10.94%) Scala Engineer
8 18 (9.38%) Scala Developer
9 13 (6.77%) Senior Data Engineer
10 12 (6.25%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.73%) Consultant
12 10 (5.21%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (5.21%) Software Consultant
13 9 (4.69%) Scala Software Engineer
14 8 (4.17%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 8 (4.17%) Databricks Engineer
15 7 (3.65%) Principal Engineer
15 7 (3.65%) Technical Leader
16 6 (3.13%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.19%) PySpark
2 25 (13.02%) Terraform
3 24 (12.50%) Kafka
4 18 (9.38%) gRPC
5 8 (4.17%) React
6 6 (3.13%) Spring
6 6 (3.13%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.60%) Hibernate
7 5 (2.60%) JPA
7 5 (2.60%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.60%) Play Framework
7 5 (2.60%) Spring MVC
7 5 (2.60%) Swagger
8 4 (2.08%) CrewAI
8 4 (2.08%) LangChain
8 4 (2.08%) Node.js
8 4 (2.08%) RESTful
9 3 (1.56%) .NET
9 3 (1.56%) Playwright
9 3 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.79%) Cloud Native
2 26 (13.54%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (9.38%) Over-the-Top Content
3 18 (9.38%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.65%) Robotics
6 5 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.04%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.04%) Blog
9 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.52%) Life Science
10 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.52%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Linux
1 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (44.79%) CI/CD
2 74 (38.54%) Analytics
3 73 (38.02%) Data Modelling
4 68 (35.42%) Data Engineering
5 61 (31.77%) AI
6 60 (31.25%) Machine Learning
7 58 (30.21%) Data Science
7 58 (30.21%) Software Engineering
8 56 (29.17%) Agile
9 53 (27.60%) Data Pipeline
10 44 (22.92%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (22.40%) DevOps
12 41 (21.35%) ETL
12 41 (21.35%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (17.71%) Containerisation
14 34 (17.71%) Data Architecture
14 34 (17.71%) Lakehouse
15 32 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (15.10%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 118 (61.46%) Python
2 81 (42.19%) SQL
3 74 (38.54%) Java
4 23 (11.98%) Go
5 16 (8.33%) Bicep
6 11 (5.73%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.69%) C++
7 9 (4.69%) Kotlin
7 9 (4.69%) Rust
8 7 (3.65%) C
8 7 (3.65%) Clojure
8 7 (3.65%) Erlang
8 7 (3.65%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.08%) C#
9 4 (2.08%) R
9 4 (2.08%) Ruby
10 3 (1.56%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.04%) Elixir
11 2 (1.04%) PHP
12 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 19 (9.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (8.33%) SnowPro
6 9 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.69%) Degree
7 6 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (28.13%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.60%) QA
4 2 (1.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 46 (23.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.08%) Grafana
3 3 (1.56%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.56%) Kibana
4 2 (1.04%) Ansible
4 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (26.04%) Databricks
2 32 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.38%) Typelevel
4 5 (2.60%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.60%) Splunk
5 4 (2.08%) Google
6 3 (1.56%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle
8 1 (0.52%) Informatica
8 1 (0.52%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.52%) Workday