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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 487 494
Rank change year-on-year -24 +7 -221
Permanent jobs citing Scala 166 138 338
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.36% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 1.10% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 59 85 260
10th Percentile £45,985 - £52,375
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £120,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -6.25%

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 13,989 12,556 27,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.40% 32.67% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,808 9,192 22,430
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £35,238
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,663 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4 May 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 May 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 +12 96 £100,000 +60.00% 38
South East -35 13 £55,000 -21.43% 8
South West -38 13 £48,975 -26.08% 3
North of England -64 12 £53,250 -18.08% 22
West Midlands -5 11 £65,500 -9.66% 2
Midlands -27 11 £65,500 -9.66% 2
East of England -10 8 £100,000 +53.85% 1
Yorkshire -60 6 £49,000 -12.11% 5
North West -27 5 £82,500 +4.76% 11
North East -38 1 £57,500 -8.00% 6
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 30 (18.07%) Apache Spark
2 13 (7.83%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.01%) Apache
3 5 (3.01%) IIS
4 1 (0.60%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.60%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 96 (57.83%) AWS
2 74 (44.58%) GCP
3 44 (26.51%) Azure
4 20 (12.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (11.45%) GitHub
6 16 (9.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (8.43%) Amazon S3
7 14 (8.43%) Power Platform
8 9 (5.42%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (4.82%) Amazon SageMaker
9 8 (4.82%) dbt
10 7 (4.22%) Cloud Composer
10 7 (4.22%) Snowflake
11 6 (3.61%) Dagster
11 6 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.41%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (2.41%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 4 (2.41%) Prefect
12 4 (2.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 74 (44.58%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.84%) Metadata
2 17 (10.24%) Data Lake
3 16 (9.64%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (9.64%) Delta Lake
4 15 (9.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (8.43%) NoSQL
6 13 (7.83%) Big Data
6 13 (7.83%) Hadoop
7 12 (7.23%) Power BI
8 11 (6.63%) MySQL
8 11 (6.63%) Tableau
9 10 (6.02%) BigQuery
9 10 (6.02%) MongoDB
9 10 (6.02%) SQL Server
10 8 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (4.22%) Relational Database
12 6 (3.61%) Data Mining
13 5 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (3.01%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (2.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (16.87%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.25%) Git
2 22 (13.25%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.41%) GitLab
4 2 (1.20%) Gatling
4 2 (1.20%) Maven
5 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.60%) JUnit
General
1 22 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (12.05%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.45%) Finance
4 14 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.82%) Marketing
6 6 (3.61%) Law
7 5 (3.01%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Billing
9 2 (1.20%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.20%) Legal
9 2 (1.20%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Games
10 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (35.54%) Data Engineer
2 51 (30.72%) Scala Engineer
3 50 (30.12%) Senior
4 34 (20.48%) Software Engineer
5 28 (16.87%) Developer
6 27 (16.27%) Scala Software Engineer
7 24 (14.46%) Scala Developer
8 19 (11.45%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (7.83%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 11 (6.63%) Lead
10 11 (6.63%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.82%) Senior Developer
12 7 (4.22%) Architect
12 7 (4.22%) Senior Scala Developer
12 7 (4.22%) Systems Engineer
13 6 (3.61%) Backend Developer
13 6 (3.61%) Lead Software Engineer
14 5 (3.01%) Cloud Developer
14 5 (3.01%) Data Science Manager
14 5 (3.01%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (27.11%) gRPC
2 24 (14.46%) PySpark
3 22 (13.25%) Akka
4 20 (12.05%) Kafka
5 6 (3.61%) Node.js
6 5 (3.01%) Play Framework
6 5 (3.01%) React
7 4 (2.41%) OAuth
7 4 (2.41%) OpenID
7 4 (2.41%) Spring
8 3 (1.81%) .NET
8 3 (1.81%) Memcached
9 2 (1.20%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.20%) Playwright
9 2 (1.20%) PostGIS
10 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.60%) GeoPandas
10 1 (0.60%) MapLibre
10 1 (0.60%) NetworkX
10 1 (0.60%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 68 (40.96%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (40.36%) Over-the-Top Content
3 57 (34.34%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (6.02%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.61%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.61%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.61%) Social Media
6 5 (3.01%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.41%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.81%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.60%) IoT
10 1 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.60%) Linux
1 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (51.81%) Data Science
2 83 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 78 (46.99%) Analytics
4 74 (44.58%) Machine Learning
5 65 (39.16%) Software Engineering
6 64 (38.55%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (33.73%) Data Pipeline
8 52 (31.33%) Agile
9 51 (30.72%) Coaching
10 50 (30.12%) Microservices
11 49 (29.52%) Containerisation
11 49 (29.52%) Continuous Delivery
12 45 (27.11%) Clean Code
12 45 (27.11%) Personalization
13 44 (26.51%) ETL
14 43 (25.90%) Data Engineering
15 42 (25.30%) Data Modelling
16 40 (24.10%) DevOps
17 30 (18.07%) Open Source
18 28 (16.87%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 120 (72.29%) Python
2 60 (36.14%) SQL
3 46 (27.71%) Go
4 40 (24.10%) Java
5 7 (4.22%) R
6 6 (3.61%) C++
6 6 (3.61%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.41%) Bicep
7 4 (2.41%) C#
7 4 (2.41%) Elixir
7 4 (2.41%) Ruby
7 4 (2.41%) Rust
8 3 (1.81%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.81%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.20%) PHP
9 2 (1.20%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.60%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 20 (12.05%) Degree
2 13 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.23%) Master's Degree
4 10 (6.02%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.22%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.01%) MBA
8 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (20.48%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.61%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.81%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) QA
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 83 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (21.08%) Kubernetes
2 25 (15.06%) Terraform
3 3 (1.81%) Control-M
4 2 (1.20%) Ansible
4 2 (1.20%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.60%) Argo
Vendors
1 45 (27.11%) Typelevel
2 33 (19.88%) Databricks
3 12 (7.23%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.01%) BT
5 4 (2.41%) Oracle
5 4 (2.41%) Palantir
6 3 (1.81%) BMC
6 3 (1.81%) Google
6 3 (1.81%) IBM
6 3 (1.81%) Talend
7 2 (1.20%) Braze
7 2 (1.20%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.20%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.20%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.20%) mParticle
7 2 (1.20%) PayPal
7 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.20%) Zuora
8 1 (0.60%) OpenAI