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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 458 457
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 -202
Permanent jobs citing Scala 154 205 325
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.46% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 1.34% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 65 119 276
10th Percentile £47,000 - £53,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £106,563
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £78,750
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.59% -1.56%

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 11,244 15,345 24,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.78% 34.66% 36.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,325 9,170 20,585
10th Percentile £33,750 £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 £102,500 £112,500 £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 18 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 18 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 +11 99 £95,000 +11.76% 54
North of England -43 17 £75,000 +17.65% 10
West Midlands +23 10 £65,000 -10.34% 6
Midlands +18 10 £65,000 -8.77% 11
Yorkshire -40 9 £49,000 -
North West +8 8 £75,000 +15.38% 9
South West +7 8 £55,200 -18.22% 14
South East 0 8 £55,000 -21.43% 29
East of England - 1 - - 7
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 32 (20.78%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.25%) Apache
3 5 (3.25%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (48.05%) AWS
2 44 (28.57%) GCP
3 40 (25.97%) Azure
4 20 (12.99%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (12.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (9.74%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (9.74%) Power Platform
7 14 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
7 14 (9.09%) GitHub
8 12 (7.79%) Serverless
9 10 (6.49%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (6.49%) dbt
10 9 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (5.19%) Amazon SageMaker
11 8 (5.19%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (4.55%) Snowflake
13 6 (3.90%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (3.90%) Dagster
14 3 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 48 (31.17%) Broadband
2 1 (0.65%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.53%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 21 (13.64%) Big Data
4 19 (12.34%) Hadoop
5 18 (11.69%) Metadata
6 16 (10.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (9.74%) Power BI
8 14 (9.09%) Delta Lake
9 12 (7.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (7.79%) NoSQL
10 9 (5.84%) MySQL
11 8 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (5.19%) Apache Hive
11 8 (5.19%) BigQuery
11 8 (5.19%) Tableau
12 7 (4.55%) DynamoDB
12 7 (4.55%) SQL Server
13 6 (3.90%) Data Mining
14 5 (3.25%) Couchbase
14 5 (3.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 23 (14.94%) TeamCity
3 21 (13.64%) Git
4 3 (1.95%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.95%) JUnit
5 2 (1.30%) Gatling
5 2 (1.30%) JMeter
5 2 (1.30%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.30%) Selenium
6 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 37 (24.03%) Finance
2 32 (20.78%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.14%) Marketing
6 7 (4.55%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.90%) Law
8 5 (3.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.60%) Legal
9 4 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.60%) Retail
10 2 (1.30%) Billing
10 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Advertising
11 1 (0.65%) Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Front Office
11 1 (0.65%) Games
11 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 60 (38.96%) Data Engineer
2 56 (36.36%) Senior
3 32 (20.78%) Software Engineer
4 31 (20.13%) Scala Engineer
5 28 (18.18%) Developer
6 24 (15.58%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (11.69%) Scala Developer
7 18 (11.69%) Scala Software Engineer
8 14 (9.09%) Lead
9 12 (7.79%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.49%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 9 (5.84%) Senior Scala Developer
12 8 (5.19%) AWS Data Engineer
12 8 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (5.19%) Azure Data Engineer
12 8 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
14 6 (3.90%) Lead Data Engineer
14 6 (3.90%) Ruby Engineer
14 6 (3.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.53%) Kafka
2 23 (14.94%) Akka
3 22 (14.29%) PySpark
4 18 (11.69%) gRPC
5 7 (4.55%) boto
5 7 (4.55%) React
5 7 (4.55%) Spark Streaming
6 6 (3.90%) Play Framework
6 6 (3.90%) Spring
7 5 (3.25%) Memcached
8 4 (2.60%) .NET
9 3 (1.95%) Flutter
10 2 (1.30%) PostGIS
11 1 (0.65%) AngularJS
11 1 (0.65%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.65%) LAMP
11 1 (0.65%) NetworkX
11 1 (0.65%) Node.js
11 1 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 42 (27.27%) Video\Live Streaming
3 41 (26.62%) Over-the-Top Content
4 12 (7.79%) Data Structures
5 8 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (4.55%) e-Learning
7 6 (3.90%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.90%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.90%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.90%) Social Media
8 5 (3.25%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.95%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.25%) Linux
2 2 (1.30%) Unix
3 1 (0.65%) Android
3 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (50.00%) Analytics
2 59 (38.31%) Agile
2 59 (38.31%) CI/CD
2 59 (38.31%) Data Pipeline
3 56 (36.36%) Data Science
4 50 (32.47%) Data Engineering
5 49 (31.82%) Data Modelling
6 48 (31.17%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (28.57%) Machine Learning
8 41 (26.62%) ETL
8 41 (26.62%) Software Engineering
9 40 (25.97%) DevOps
10 33 (21.43%) Data Governance
10 33 (21.43%) TDD
11 32 (20.78%) Open Source
12 31 (20.13%) Data Analytics
13 28 (18.18%) Scrum
14 25 (16.23%) Continuous Delivery
14 25 (16.23%) Mentoring
14 25 (16.23%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 91 (59.09%) Python
2 58 (37.66%) Java
3 56 (36.36%) SQL
4 21 (13.64%) Go
5 20 (12.99%) Kotlin
6 10 (6.49%) Ruby
7 9 (5.84%) R
8 6 (3.90%) C++
9 5 (3.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (2.60%) C#
10 4 (2.60%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.60%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.95%) Bicep
12 2 (1.30%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.65%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.65%) Perl
13 1 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (13.64%) Degree
2 11 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 10 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.49%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.84%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.19%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.25%) MBA
7 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.65%) CISSP
8 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) OSCP
8 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.48%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.44%) GDPR
3 6 (3.90%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 49 (31.82%) Docker
2 9 (5.84%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 21 (13.64%) Terraform
3 3 (1.95%) Control-M
4 1 (0.65%) Argo
4 1 (0.65%) Grafana
4 1 (0.65%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 40 (25.97%) Databricks
2 18 (11.69%) Typelevel
3 6 (3.90%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.25%) BT
4 5 (3.25%) Oracle
5 4 (2.60%) Palantir
6 3 (1.95%) BMC
6 3 (1.95%) IBM
6 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.95%) Talend
7 2 (1.30%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.30%) mParticle
7 2 (1.30%) PayPal
7 2 (1.30%) Zuora
8 1 (0.65%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.65%) Google
8 1 (0.65%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.65%) Rackspace