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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 502 477
Rank change year-on-year -24 -25 -147
Permanent jobs citing Scala 188 129 410
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 1.02% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 79 71 257
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £101,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% -9.38%

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 15,152 12,655 28,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.25% 31.99% 30.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,916 8,485 23,112
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -18 106 £110,000 +39.68% 53
North of England -22 22 £57,500 -8.00% 22
South West -41 15 £83,250 +23.33% 11
North West +15 14 £55,500 -30.63% 15
East of England -5 13 £100,000 +53.85% 6
Midlands -3 11 £85,000 +23.64% 3
South East -18 9 £55,000 -21.43% 5
West Midlands -15 8 £85,000 +23.64% 2
Yorkshire -41 5 £90,000 +83.67% 5
North East -43 3 £57,500 -8.00% 2
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
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 42 (22.34%) Apache Spark
2 24 (12.77%) Apache
3 15 (7.98%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.60%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.60%) SAS
5 2 (1.06%) IIS
5 2 (1.06%) Luigi
6 1 (0.53%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 103 (54.79%) AWS
2 85 (45.21%) GCP
3 51 (27.13%) Azure
4 23 (12.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (11.17%) GitHub
6 17 (9.04%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (9.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (8.51%) Power Platform
8 12 (6.38%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.32%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (4.79%) Cloud Composer
10 9 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.72%) dbt
11 7 (3.72%) Serverless
12 6 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (3.19%) Dagster
12 6 (3.19%) SaaS
12 6 (3.19%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.13%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 74 (39.36%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (10.11%) Big Data
2 19 (10.11%) Delta Lake
3 17 (9.04%) Metadata
4 15 (7.98%) BigQuery
4 15 (7.98%) NoSQL
5 14 (7.45%) Power BI
6 13 (6.91%) Hadoop
7 11 (5.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (5.32%) Data Lake
8 10 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (5.32%) Tableau
9 9 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (4.79%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.72%) Data Vault
10 7 (3.72%) SQL Server
11 6 (3.19%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.66%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (2.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (16.49%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.70%) Git
2 22 (11.70%) TeamCity
3 6 (3.19%) GitLab
4 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.06%) Gatling
4 2 (1.06%) JUnit
4 2 (1.06%) Maven
4 2 (1.06%) Postman
4 2 (1.06%) Selenium
5 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 36 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.30%) Finance
3 17 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.85%) Law
5 7 (3.72%) Marketing
6 6 (3.19%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.19%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.60%) Advertising
8 2 (1.06%) Billing
8 2 (1.06%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.06%) Legal
8 2 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.53%) Games
9 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (31.91%) Data Engineer
2 51 (27.13%) Scala Engineer
3 49 (26.06%) Senior
4 38 (20.21%) Software Engineer
5 34 (18.09%) Developer
6 27 (14.36%) Lead
6 27 (14.36%) Scala Software Engineer
7 23 (12.23%) Scala Developer
8 15 (7.98%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (6.91%) Architect
9 13 (6.91%) Lead Software Engineer
9 13 (6.91%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 11 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.32%) Data Architect
11 10 (5.32%) Senior Developer
11 10 (5.32%) Software Developer
12 7 (3.72%) Systems Engineer
13 6 (3.19%) Backend Developer
13 6 (3.19%) Senior Manager
13 6 (3.19%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (23.94%) gRPC
2 22 (11.70%) Akka
2 22 (11.70%) Kafka
3 21 (11.17%) PySpark
4 8 (4.26%) React
5 6 (3.19%) Node.js
6 5 (2.66%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.13%) OAuth
7 4 (2.13%) OpenID
7 4 (2.13%) Spring
8 3 (1.60%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.60%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.60%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.06%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.06%) JPA
9 2 (1.06%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.06%) Playwright
9 2 (1.06%) RESTful
9 2 (1.06%) Swagger
9 2 (1.06%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 68 (36.17%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (35.64%) Over-the-Top Content
3 54 (28.72%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (6.38%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.79%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.72%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.19%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.19%) Robotics
7 6 (3.19%) Social Media
8 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.53%) IoT
10 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.53%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Linux
1 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (47.87%) CI/CD
2 84 (44.68%) Data Science
3 78 (41.49%) Software Engineering
4 77 (40.96%) Analytics
5 65 (34.57%) Machine Learning
6 59 (31.38%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (29.79%) Coaching
8 55 (29.26%) Data Pipeline
9 54 (28.72%) Agile
10 51 (27.13%) Containerisation
11 50 (26.60%) Data Modelling
12 49 (26.06%) Microservices
13 48 (25.53%) Continuous Delivery
14 47 (25.00%) Clean Code
14 47 (25.00%) Data Engineering
15 45 (23.94%) Personalization
16 42 (22.34%) ETL
17 35 (18.62%) DevOps
18 33 (17.55%) Open Source
19 31 (16.49%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 121 (64.36%) Python
2 63 (33.51%) SQL
3 53 (28.19%) Java
4 46 (24.47%) Go
5 12 (6.38%) C++
6 10 (5.32%) Rust
7 9 (4.79%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.19%) Bicep
8 6 (3.19%) C
8 6 (3.19%) Clojure
8 6 (3.19%) Erlang
9 5 (2.66%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.13%) Elixir
10 4 (2.13%) R
10 4 (2.13%) Ruby
11 3 (1.60%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.06%) C#
12 2 (1.06%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (10.11%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.45%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.38%) Degree
4 10 (5.32%) Azure Certification
4 10 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.19%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.13%) SnowPro
8 2 (1.06%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (21.28%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.60%) QA
3 2 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 86 (45.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (20.21%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.11%) Terraform
3 3 (1.60%) Kibana
4 2 (1.06%) Ansible
4 2 (1.06%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 45 (23.94%) Typelevel
2 32 (17.02%) Databricks
3 16 (8.51%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.13%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.13%) Google
5 2 (1.06%) Braze
5 2 (1.06%) BT
5 2 (1.06%) GoCardless
5 2 (1.06%) mParticle
5 2 (1.06%) PayPal
5 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.06%) Splunk
5 2 (1.06%) Zuora
6 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.53%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.53%) OpenAI