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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 506 485
Rank change year-on-year -5 -21 -143
Permanent jobs citing Scala 194 124 418
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.31% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.26% 0.98% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 86 68 257
10th Percentile £48,125 £51,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,063 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,250 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £101,700 £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 15,399 12,694 29,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.35% 31.84% 30.57%
Number of salaries quoted 11,133 8,536 23,354
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 £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 21 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 21 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 -3 107 £110,000 +37.50% 18
North of England -18 25 £57,500 -8.00% 12
South West -43 17 £63,500 -5.93% 9
North West +15 16 £56,500 -29.38% 10
East of England -2 13 £100,000 +53.85% 1
Midlands -10 11 £85,000 +23.64%
West Midlands -16 8 £85,000 +23.64%
South East -26 8 £55,000 -21.43% 5
Yorkshire -39 5 £90,000 +83.67% 1
North East -44 4 £56,500 -9.60% 1
East Midlands - 3 - -
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 43 (22.16%) Apache Spark
2 26 (13.40%) Apache
3 15 (7.73%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.55%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.55%) SAS
5 2 (1.03%) Luigi
6 1 (0.52%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.52%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 102 (52.58%) AWS
2 83 (42.78%) GCP
3 49 (25.26%) Azure
4 21 (10.82%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (10.82%) GitHub
5 16 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (8.25%) Power Platform
6 15 (7.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (6.19%) Amazon S3
8 10 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (5.15%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (4.64%) Cloud Composer
10 7 (3.61%) Serverless
11 6 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.09%) Dagster
11 6 (3.09%) dbt
11 6 (3.09%) SaaS
12 5 (2.58%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (2.58%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.06%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 74 (38.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.31%) Big Data
2 19 (9.79%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (9.28%) Delta Lake
4 17 (8.76%) Metadata
5 15 (7.73%) BigQuery
6 14 (7.22%) Hadoop
6 14 (7.22%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.22%) Power BI
7 12 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (4.64%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.64%) Tableau
11 8 (4.12%) Data Lake
11 8 (4.12%) SQL Server
12 7 (3.61%) Data Vault
13 6 (3.09%) MongoDB
14 5 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (2.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (16.49%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.34%) TeamCity
3 21 (10.82%) Git
4 6 (3.09%) GitLab
5 3 (1.55%) Gatling
5 3 (1.55%) Maven
6 2 (1.03%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.03%) JUnit
6 2 (1.03%) Postman
6 2 (1.03%) Selenium
7 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 38 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.43%) Finance
3 15 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.67%) Law
5 6 (3.09%) Manufacturing
5 6 (3.09%) Marketing
5 6 (3.09%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.55%) Advertising
6 3 (1.55%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (1.03%) Billing
7 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.03%) Legal
8 1 (0.52%) Games
8 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (30.41%) Data Engineer
2 53 (27.32%) Senior
3 52 (26.80%) Scala Engineer
4 39 (20.10%) Developer
5 38 (19.59%) Software Engineer
6 29 (14.95%) Lead
7 28 (14.43%) Scala Software Engineer
8 23 (11.86%) Scala Developer
9 16 (8.25%) Senior Data Engineer
10 14 (7.22%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 14 (7.22%) Software Developer
11 13 (6.70%) Architect
11 13 (6.70%) Lead Software Engineer
12 11 (5.67%) Senior Developer
13 10 (5.15%) Data Architect
13 10 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (4.64%) Consultant
15 8 (4.12%) Software Consultant
16 7 (3.61%) Senior Manager
16 7 (3.61%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (23.20%) gRPC
2 22 (11.34%) Akka
3 21 (10.82%) Kafka
4 19 (9.79%) PySpark
5 8 (4.12%) React
6 6 (3.09%) Node.js
7 4 (2.06%) OAuth
7 4 (2.06%) OpenID
7 4 (2.06%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.06%) Spring
8 3 (1.55%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.55%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.55%) Playwright
8 3 (1.55%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.03%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.03%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.03%) RESTful
9 2 (1.03%) Spring MVC
9 2 (1.03%) Swagger
9 2 (1.03%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 68 (35.05%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (34.54%) Over-the-Top Content
3 52 (26.80%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (6.19%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.64%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.12%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.09%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.09%) Robotics
7 6 (3.09%) Social Media
8 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.52%) IoT
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.52%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Linux
1 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (45.88%) CI/CD
2 81 (41.75%) Data Science
3 79 (40.72%) Software Engineering
4 77 (39.69%) Analytics
5 65 (33.51%) Machine Learning
6 56 (28.87%) Agile
6 56 (28.87%) Coaching
6 56 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (26.80%) Containerisation
7 52 (26.80%) Data Pipeline
8 51 (26.29%) Data Modelling
9 49 (25.26%) Microservices
10 48 (24.74%) Continuous Delivery
10 48 (24.74%) Data Engineering
11 47 (24.23%) Clean Code
12 45 (23.20%) Personalization
13 40 (20.62%) ETL
14 35 (18.04%) TDD
15 34 (17.53%) DevOps
16 33 (17.01%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 118 (60.82%) Python
2 59 (30.41%) SQL
3 55 (28.35%) Java
4 46 (23.71%) Go
5 12 (6.19%) C++
6 10 (5.15%) Rust
6 10 (5.15%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.09%) Bicep
7 6 (3.09%) C
7 6 (3.09%) Clojure
7 6 (3.09%) Erlang
8 5 (2.58%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.06%) Elixir
9 4 (2.06%) Ruby
10 3 (1.55%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.55%) R
11 2 (1.03%) C#
11 2 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.15%) Azure Certification
3 10 (5.15%) Degree
4 9 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.06%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (19.59%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.55%) QA
3 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 87 (44.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (20.10%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.79%) Terraform
3 3 (1.55%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.55%) Kibana
4 2 (1.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (23.20%) Typelevel
2 29 (14.95%) Databricks
3 17 (8.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.06%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.06%) Google
5 2 (1.03%) Braze
5 2 (1.03%) GoCardless
5 2 (1.03%) mParticle
5 2 (1.03%) PayPal
5 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.03%) Splunk
5 2 (1.03%) Zuora
6 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.52%) BT
6 1 (0.52%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.52%) OpenAI