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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 466 457
Rank change year-on-year -17 -9 -200
Permanent jobs citing Scala 152 195 320
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.46% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% 1.32% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 59 120 272
10th Percentile £45,985 - £52,700
25th Percentile £51,825 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -7.81% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,296
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £141,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -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 11,452 14,735 24,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.53% 34.66% 35.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,426 9,180 20,698
10th Percentile £34,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,275 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +7 98 £100,000 +17.65% 16
North of England -28 13 £75,000 +20.00% 14
West Midlands +21 11 £65,250 -10.00% 4
Midlands +5 11 £65,250 -8.42% 4
South West 0 10 £55,200 -18.22% 7
South East -25 8 £55,000 -21.43% 6
Yorkshire -41 7 £49,000 -12.11% 2
North West -3 6 £75,000 +25.00% 10
East of England - 1 - - 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 29 (19.08%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.29%) IIS
4 3 (1.97%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 73 (48.03%) AWS
2 48 (31.58%) GCP
3 34 (22.37%) Azure
4 19 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (11.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (9.21%) GitHub
8 13 (8.55%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (7.89%) Power Platform
10 10 (6.58%) Amazon S3
11 9 (5.92%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (5.92%) dbt
11 9 (5.92%) Serverless
12 8 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
12 8 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.61%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (4.61%) Snowflake
14 6 (3.95%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (3.95%) Dagster
15 3 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 57 (37.50%) Broadband
2 1 (0.66%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.47%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (13.16%) Data Lake
3 17 (11.18%) Big Data
3 17 (11.18%) Hadoop
4 16 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (10.53%) Metadata
5 14 (9.21%) Delta Lake
6 12 (7.89%) NoSQL
6 12 (7.89%) Power BI
7 10 (6.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (5.92%) MySQL
9 8 (5.26%) BigQuery
9 8 (5.26%) Tableau
10 7 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (4.61%) Apache Hive
10 7 (4.61%) DynamoDB
10 7 (4.61%) SQL Server
11 6 (3.95%) Data Mining
12 5 (3.29%) MongoDB
12 5 (3.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (18.42%) Jenkins
2 23 (15.13%) TeamCity
3 21 (13.82%) Git
4 3 (1.97%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.97%) JUnit
5 2 (1.32%) Gatling
5 2 (1.32%) JMeter
5 2 (1.32%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.32%) Selenium
6 1 (0.66%) GitLab
6 1 (0.66%) JIRA
General
1 33 (21.71%) Finance
2 24 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 19 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.58%) Marketing
6 6 (3.95%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.95%) Law
7 5 (3.29%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Legal
9 3 (1.97%) Retail
10 2 (1.32%) Billing
11 1 (0.66%) Advertising
11 1 (0.66%) Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Front Office
11 1 (0.66%) Games
11 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (36.18%) Data Engineer
2 54 (35.53%) Senior
3 38 (25.00%) Scala Engineer
4 34 (22.37%) Software Engineer
5 28 (18.42%) Developer
6 23 (15.13%) Senior Data Engineer
7 21 (13.82%) Scala Developer
7 21 (13.82%) Scala Software Engineer
8 11 (7.24%) Senior Developer
8 11 (7.24%) Senior Scala Engineer
9 9 (5.92%) Lead
9 9 (5.92%) Senior Scala Developer
10 8 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) AWS Data Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) Azure Data Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) Ruby Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) Software Developer
13 5 (3.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.76%) gRPC
2 25 (16.45%) Kafka
3 23 (15.13%) Akka
4 21 (13.82%) PySpark
5 6 (3.95%) boto
5 6 (3.95%) Play Framework
5 6 (3.95%) Spark Streaming
5 6 (3.95%) Spring
6 5 (3.29%) Memcached
7 3 (1.97%) .NET
7 3 (1.97%) React
8 2 (1.32%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.66%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.66%) LAMP
9 1 (0.66%) Node.js
9 1 (0.66%) OAuth
9 1 (0.66%) OpenID
9 1 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.66%) WireMock
9 1 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (33.55%) Video\Live Streaming
2 50 (32.89%) Over-the-Top Content
3 49 (32.24%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (7.89%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.95%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.95%) e-Learning
5 6 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.95%) Social Media
6 5 (3.29%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.29%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.97%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.66%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Android
2 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (47.37%) Analytics
2 64 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 62 (40.79%) Data Science
4 54 (35.53%) Agile
5 53 (34.87%) Data Pipeline
6 52 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (33.55%) Machine Learning
8 49 (32.24%) Software Engineering
9 44 (28.95%) Data Engineering
10 43 (28.29%) Data Modelling
11 36 (23.68%) DevOps
11 36 (23.68%) ETL
12 34 (22.37%) Continuous Delivery
13 33 (21.71%) Microservices
14 32 (21.05%) Coaching
14 32 (21.05%) Open Source
14 32 (21.05%) TDD
15 31 (20.39%) Data Governance
16 30 (19.74%) Data Analytics
17 29 (19.08%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 92 (60.53%) Python
2 51 (33.55%) Java
2 51 (33.55%) SQL
3 27 (17.76%) Go
4 17 (11.18%) Kotlin
5 10 (6.58%) Ruby
6 8 (5.26%) R
7 6 (3.95%) C++
8 4 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (2.63%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.97%) Bicep
9 3 (1.97%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.32%) C#
10 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.66%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.66%) Perl
11 1 (0.66%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (12.50%) Degree
2 11 (7.24%) Master's Degree
3 10 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.58%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.92%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.61%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.29%) MBA
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.66%) CISSP
8 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) OSCP
8 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.76%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.24%) GDPR
3 6 (3.95%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 59 (38.82%) Docker
2 7 (4.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (19.08%) Kubernetes
2 21 (13.82%) Terraform
3 3 (1.97%) Control-M
4 1 (0.66%) Argo
4 1 (0.66%) Grafana
4 1 (0.66%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 37 (24.34%) Databricks
2 27 (17.76%) Typelevel
3 5 (3.29%) BT
3 5 (3.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.63%) Oracle
4 4 (2.63%) Palantir
5 3 (1.97%) BMC
5 3 (1.97%) IBM
5 3 (1.97%) Talend
6 2 (1.32%) GoCardless
6 2 (1.32%) mParticle
6 2 (1.32%) PayPal
6 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.32%) Zuora
7 1 (0.66%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.66%) Google
7 1 (0.66%) Mapbox