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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 529 410
Rank change year-on-year -50 -119 +38
Permanent jobs citing Scala 187 120 381
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.28% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.12% 1.04% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 126 64 138
10th Percentile £53,125 £55,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,994 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -3.22%
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £126,875 £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 16,694 11,538 20,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.05% 26.69% 31.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12,167 7,582 12,689
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -59 100 £105,000 +16.67% 260
North of England -36 44 £66,250 +1.92% 43
North West -12 25 £66,250 -17.19% 18
South West - 19 £73,750 - 20
North East -57 11 £57,500 -11.54% 19
Yorkshire -43 8 £90,000 +83.67% 6
East of England -34 7 £135,500 +108.46% 16
South East -43 6 £43,750 - 24
Midlands -47 6 £81,500 +25.38% 19
East Midlands - 5 - - 6
West Midlands -44 1 £81,500 +25.38% 13
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 (28.34%) Apache Spark
2 42 (22.46%) Apache
3 11 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.60%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.60%) SAS
5 2 (1.07%) Luigi
6 1 (0.53%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 83 (44.39%) Azure
2 62 (33.16%) AWS
3 45 (24.06%) Azure Data Factory
4 42 (22.46%) GCP
5 37 (19.79%) Azure Databricks
6 31 (16.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 27 (14.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (12.30%) Power Platform
9 19 (10.16%) GitHub
9 19 (10.16%) Snowflake
10 18 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (6.95%) Amazon S3
11 13 (6.95%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (6.42%) Serverless
13 11 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.74%) SaaS
15 6 (3.21%) Cloud Composer
15 6 (3.21%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (2.67%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (20.32%) Big Data
2 31 (16.58%) Metadata
3 29 (15.51%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (15.51%) Delta Lake
4 22 (11.76%) Hadoop
5 21 (11.23%) Power BI
6 20 (10.70%) Data Vault
7 19 (10.16%) NoSQL
8 16 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (8.56%) Tableau
9 14 (7.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (6.95%) BigQuery
10 13 (6.95%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (6.95%) Relational Database
11 12 (6.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (6.42%) Data Lake
12 8 (4.28%) MongoDB
12 8 (4.28%) SQL Server
13 7 (3.74%) Flink
14 5 (2.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (12.30%) Git
2 20 (10.70%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.74%) GitLab
4 4 (2.14%) Maven
5 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.60%) JUnit
5 3 (1.60%) Postman
5 3 (1.60%) Selenium
6 2 (1.07%) Gatling
6 2 (1.07%) Gradle
6 2 (1.07%) Mockito
7 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 57 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.67%) Finance
3 27 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.35%) Law
5 9 (4.81%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.74%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.67%) Legal
7 5 (2.67%) Marketing
8 4 (2.14%) Advertising
8 4 (2.14%) Banking
9 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.07%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (1.07%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.07%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Front Office
11 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (32.09%) Data Engineer
2 44 (23.53%) Senior
3 33 (17.65%) Architect
4 32 (17.11%) Developer
5 29 (15.51%) Data Architect
6 28 (14.97%) Lead
7 20 (10.70%) Software Engineer
8 17 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (6.95%) Scala Developer
10 12 (6.42%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.88%) Consultant
11 11 (5.88%) Scala Engineer
12 10 (5.35%) Azure Data Engineer
12 10 (5.35%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (5.35%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (5.35%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (5.35%) Software Consultant
13 8 (4.28%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 8 (4.28%) Databricks Engineer
13 8 (4.28%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.79%) PySpark
2 29 (15.51%) Kafka
3 27 (14.44%) Terraform
4 8 (4.28%) React
5 6 (3.21%) Apache Beam
5 6 (3.21%) Spring
5 6 (3.21%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.67%) Hibernate
6 5 (2.67%) JPA
6 5 (2.67%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.67%) Play Framework
6 5 (2.67%) Spring MVC
6 5 (2.67%) Swagger
6 5 (2.67%) YAML
7 4 (2.14%) CrewAI
7 4 (2.14%) LangChain
7 4 (2.14%) RESTful
8 3 (1.60%) .NET
8 3 (1.60%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.39%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (3.74%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.74%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.74%) Robotics
4 4 (2.14%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.14%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.60%) Digital Signage
5 3 (1.60%) IPTV
5 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.07%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.07%) Blog
6 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.53%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (42.78%) Data Modelling
2 74 (39.57%) Analytics
3 73 (39.04%) Data Engineering
4 67 (35.83%) CI/CD
5 65 (34.76%) AI
6 64 (34.22%) Data Pipeline
7 62 (33.16%) Agile
8 46 (24.60%) DevOps
8 46 (24.60%) ETL
9 45 (24.06%) Business Intelligence
10 44 (23.53%) Data Science
11 42 (22.46%) Machine Learning
12 40 (21.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 40 (21.39%) Software Engineering
13 39 (20.86%) Data Architecture
14 33 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (17.11%) Lakehouse
16 27 (14.44%) Mentoring
17 26 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (13.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 106 (56.68%) Python
2 90 (48.13%) SQL
3 78 (41.71%) Java
4 16 (8.56%) Bicep
5 11 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.35%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.35%) Kotlin
7 9 (4.81%) C++
8 8 (4.28%) R
9 7 (3.74%) C
9 7 (3.74%) Clojure
9 7 (3.74%) Erlang
9 7 (3.74%) Rust
10 5 (2.67%) Go
11 4 (2.14%) C#
11 4 (2.14%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.07%) PHP
13 2 (1.07%) Ruby
14 1 (0.53%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 56 (29.95%) Security Cleared
2 39 (20.86%) SC Cleared
3 28 (14.97%) Azure Certification
4 19 (10.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (8.56%) SnowPro
6 12 (6.42%) Degree
7 8 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.28%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (33.16%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.67%) QA
4 3 (1.60%) SLA
5 2 (1.07%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (17.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.14%) Grafana
3 3 (1.60%) Kibana
4 2 (1.07%) Ansible
4 2 (1.07%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 57 (30.48%) Databricks
2 35 (18.72%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.28%) Google
3 8 (4.28%) Splunk
4 5 (2.67%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.60%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.60%) Cisco
5 3 (1.60%) New Relic
5 3 (1.60%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.60%) Polycom
6 2 (1.07%) Oracle
7 1 (0.53%) Informatica
7 1 (0.53%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.53%) Workday