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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 520 433
Rank change year-on-year -15 -87 -3
Permanent jobs citing Scala 203 135 371
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.31% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 1.08% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 122 71 163
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £63,875
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 £129,375 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

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 16,747 12,558 21,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.74% 28.73% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 12,162 8,379 15,828
10th Percentile £38,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +3.75% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 15 August 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 August 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 -49 107 £105,000 +16.67% 198
North of England -24 38 £66,250 +1.92% 20
South West - 22 £63,500 - 14
North West +11 21 £57,500 -28.13% 10
East of England -7 13 £100,000 +53.85% 4
Midlands -26 10 £85,000 +30.77% 17
North East -56 9 £56,500 -13.08% 5
Yorkshire -36 8 £90,000 +61.43% 5
South East -26 5 £55,000 -25.42% 11
West Midlands -27 5 £85,000 +30.77% 13
East Midlands - 5 - - 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 53 (26.11%) Apache Spark
2 34 (16.75%) Apache
3 13 (6.40%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.48%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.48%) SAS
5 2 (0.99%) Luigi
6 1 (0.49%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 95 (46.80%) AWS
2 70 (34.48%) Azure
3 69 (33.99%) GCP
4 34 (16.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 26 (12.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 24 (11.82%) Microsoft Purview
7 21 (10.34%) Power Platform
8 20 (9.85%) GitHub
9 15 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (7.39%) Snowflake
10 14 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (6.40%) Amazon S3
12 9 (4.43%) Serverless
13 8 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (3.94%) Cloud Composer
14 5 (2.46%) Dagster
14 5 (2.46%) dbt
14 5 (2.46%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (1.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (15.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.78%) Big Data
1 30 (14.78%) Metadata
2 27 (13.30%) Delta Lake
3 23 (11.33%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (9.85%) Data Vault
5 19 (9.36%) Hadoop
5 19 (9.36%) Power BI
6 16 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (7.39%) BigQuery
7 15 (7.39%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (6.40%) NoSQL
9 12 (5.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (5.91%) Tableau
10 11 (5.42%) Relational Database
11 9 (4.43%) Data Lake
11 9 (4.43%) SQL Server
12 8 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (3.45%) MongoDB
14 6 (2.96%) MySQL
15 4 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 17 (8.37%) Git
2 13 (6.40%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.94%) GitLab
4 4 (1.97%) Maven
5 3 (1.48%) Gatling
5 3 (1.48%) Postman
5 3 (1.48%) Selenium
6 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.99%) JUnit
7 1 (0.49%) Gradle
7 1 (0.49%) MLflow
7 1 (0.49%) Mockito
General
1 50 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 42 (20.69%) Finance
3 26 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.39%) Law
5 8 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.96%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.46%) Legal
8 5 (2.46%) Marketing
9 4 (1.97%) Advertising
10 3 (1.48%) Banking
10 3 (1.48%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.99%) Games
12 1 (0.49%) Front Office
12 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (30.05%) Data Engineer
2 45 (22.17%) Senior
3 40 (19.70%) Developer
4 31 (15.27%) Lead
5 30 (14.78%) Architect
6 29 (14.29%) Software Engineer
7 28 (13.79%) Scala Engineer
8 26 (12.81%) Data Architect
9 21 (10.34%) Scala Developer
10 17 (8.37%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (5.91%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.42%) Consultant
12 11 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
12 11 (5.42%) Scala Software Engineer
13 10 (4.93%) Software Consultant
14 8 (3.94%) Senior Scala Engineer
15 7 (3.45%) Technical Leader
16 6 (2.96%) Java Developer
16 6 (2.96%) Senior Manager
16 6 (2.96%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.29%) PySpark
2 27 (13.30%) gRPC
2 27 (13.30%) Kafka
3 8 (3.94%) React
4 6 (2.96%) Node.js
5 5 (2.46%) Spring
5 5 (2.46%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.97%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.97%) JPA
6 4 (1.97%) OAuth
6 4 (1.97%) OpenAPI
6 4 (1.97%) OpenID
6 4 (1.97%) Play Framework
6 4 (1.97%) RESTful
6 4 (1.97%) Spring MVC
6 4 (1.97%) Swagger
7 3 (1.48%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.48%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.48%) CrewAI
7 3 (1.48%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.73%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (13.30%) Over-the-Top Content
3 27 (13.30%) Video\Live Streaming
4 9 (4.43%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.45%) Robotics
7 5 (2.46%) Anti-Piracy
7 5 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.46%) Social Media
8 4 (1.97%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.49%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.49%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.49%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.49%) Linux
1 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (45.81%) CI/CD
2 76 (37.44%) Analytics
3 72 (35.47%) Data Science
4 71 (34.98%) Data Modelling
5 70 (34.48%) Machine Learning
6 69 (33.99%) Data Engineering
7 68 (33.50%) Software Engineering
8 59 (29.06%) AI
9 57 (28.08%) Data Pipeline
10 51 (25.12%) Agile
11 46 (22.66%) ETL
12 43 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (20.69%) Containerisation
14 41 (20.20%) Business Intelligence
14 41 (20.20%) DevOps
15 40 (19.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 38 (18.72%) Coaching
17 34 (16.75%) Microservices
18 33 (16.26%) Clean Code
19 32 (15.76%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 129 (63.55%) Python
2 81 (39.90%) SQL
3 76 (37.44%) Java
4 32 (15.76%) Go
5 15 (7.39%) Bicep
6 14 (6.90%) C++
7 11 (5.42%) Rust
7 11 (5.42%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.94%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.45%) C
9 7 (3.45%) Clojure
9 7 (3.45%) Erlang
9 7 (3.45%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.96%) Ruby
11 4 (1.97%) C#
11 4 (1.97%) Elixir
11 4 (1.97%) R
12 3 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (23.15%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.27%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.34%) Azure Certification
4 17 (8.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (6.90%) SnowPro
6 9 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.43%) Degree
7 5 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (25.12%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.94%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.97%) QA
4 2 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 53 (26.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (12.81%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.33%) Terraform
3 3 (1.48%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.48%) Kibana
4 2 (0.99%) Ansible
4 2 (0.99%) Grafana
5 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (22.17%) Databricks
2 30 (14.78%) Microsoft
3 27 (13.30%) Typelevel
4 5 (2.46%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.97%) Google
5 4 (1.97%) Splunk
6 2 (0.99%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.49%) Informatica
7 1 (0.49%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle
7 1 (0.49%) Workday