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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 471 432
Rank change year-on-year +4 -39 -185
Permanent jobs citing Scala 147 216 304
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.45% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.40% 1.34% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 71 120 263
10th Percentile £47,000 - £54,600
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £109,375
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 10,536 16,126 21,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.15% 33.74% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7,894 9,474 18,529
10th Percentile £33,000 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,306
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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +28 98 £90,000 +5.88% 57
North of England -18 23 £65,000 - 11
Yorkshire -38 13 £49,000 - 6
North West +21 8 £75,000 +5.26% 5
West Midlands +42 7 £64,250 - 2
Midlands +19 7 £64,250 -8.21% 8
South East +19 6 - - 32
South West +9 6 £55,200 -18.22% 10
North East -12 2 - -
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 34 (23.13%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.40%) Apache
3 5 (3.40%) IIS
4 3 (2.04%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (44.22%) AWS
2 47 (31.97%) Azure
3 27 (18.37%) GCP
4 22 (14.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 21 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 20 (13.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (11.56%) Amazon Kinesis
8 15 (10.20%) Serverless
9 14 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (8.16%) Amazon S3
10 12 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (8.16%) GitHub
11 10 (6.80%) Snowflake
12 9 (6.12%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (2.72%) dbt
15 3 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (2.04%) Amazon EMR
16 2 (1.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.33%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (21.77%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (17.01%) Big Data
3 24 (16.33%) Hadoop
4 23 (15.65%) Data Lake
5 21 (14.29%) Power BI
6 16 (10.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (10.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (10.20%) Delta Lake
7 15 (10.20%) Metadata
8 13 (8.84%) NoSQL
9 10 (6.80%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (6.12%) Apache Hive
10 9 (6.12%) MySQL
11 8 (5.44%) DynamoDB
11 8 (5.44%) Tableau
12 6 (4.08%) Data Mining
12 6 (4.08%) Power Query
12 6 (4.08%) SQL Server
13 5 (3.40%) Couchbase
13 5 (3.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (20.41%) Jenkins
2 23 (15.65%) TeamCity
3 18 (12.24%) Git
4 2 (1.36%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.36%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.36%) Gatling
4 2 (1.36%) JMeter
4 2 (1.36%) JUnit
4 2 (1.36%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.36%) Selenium
5 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 45 (30.61%) Finance
2 30 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 28 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.16%) Marketing
6 10 (6.80%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.40%) Legal
7 5 (3.40%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.72%) Retail
9 3 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Billing
10 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Advertising
11 1 (0.68%) Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Front Office
11 1 (0.68%) Games
Job Titles
1 63 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 52 (35.37%) Senior
3 29 (19.73%) Developer
4 26 (17.69%) Software Engineer
5 21 (14.29%) Lead
5 21 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
6 17 (11.56%) Scala Engineer
7 15 (10.20%) Scala Developer
8 14 (9.52%) Senior Developer
9 12 (8.16%) Scala Software Engineer
10 11 (7.48%) Azure Data Engineer
10 11 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (6.80%) AWS Data Engineer
11 10 (6.80%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (6.80%) Senior Scala Developer
12 8 (5.44%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (5.44%) Lead Developer
12 8 (5.44%) Senior Scala Engineer
13 7 (4.76%) Java Developer
13 7 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.37%) Kafka
2 23 (15.65%) Akka
3 22 (14.97%) PySpark
4 12 (8.16%) React
5 10 (6.80%) Spark Streaming
6 8 (5.44%) boto
6 8 (5.44%) Flutter
7 6 (4.08%) Play Framework
7 6 (4.08%) Spring
8 5 (3.40%) Memcached
9 3 (2.04%) .NET
9 3 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.36%) PostGIS
10 2 (1.36%) XML
11 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.68%) MapLibre
11 1 (0.68%) NetworkX
11 1 (0.68%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 32 (21.77%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (16.33%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (15.65%) Over-the-Top Content
4 10 (6.80%) e-Learning
5 9 (6.12%) Data Structures
5 9 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (5.44%) Algorithms
6 8 (5.44%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.40%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.40%) Linux
2 3 (2.04%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Android
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (51.70%) Analytics
2 63 (42.86%) Agile
3 59 (40.14%) Data Pipeline
4 52 (35.37%) Data Modelling
5 50 (34.01%) Data Engineering
6 43 (29.25%) CI/CD
6 43 (29.25%) DevOps
7 42 (28.57%) ETL
8 38 (25.85%) Data Science
9 37 (25.17%) Machine Learning
10 34 (23.13%) TDD
11 33 (22.45%) Data Analytics
11 33 (22.45%) Open Source
11 33 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (20.41%) Data Governance
13 28 (19.05%) Scrum
14 26 (17.69%) AI
15 25 (17.01%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (17.01%) Pair Programming
15 25 (17.01%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (53.06%) Python
2 62 (42.18%) Java
3 60 (40.82%) SQL
4 25 (17.01%) Kotlin
5 11 (7.48%) R
6 10 (6.80%) Ruby
7 8 (5.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (5.44%) Go
8 5 (3.40%) C#
9 4 (2.72%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.04%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.36%) Bicep
11 2 (1.36%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.68%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (14.97%) Degree
2 10 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (6.80%) Master's Degree
3 9 (6.12%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.44%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.44%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.40%) MBA
6 2 (1.36%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.68%) CISSP
7 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) OSCP
7 1 (0.68%) PhD
7 1 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (21.09%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.20%) GDPR
3 6 (4.08%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.36%) QA
6 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (20.41%) Docker
2 10 (6.80%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.93%) Terraform
3 3 (2.04%) Control-M
4 2 (1.36%) Ansible
4 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.36%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) Argo
5 1 (0.68%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 44 (29.93%) Databricks
2 6 (4.08%) Oracle
3 5 (3.40%) BT
3 5 (3.40%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.40%) Palantir
4 3 (2.04%) BMC
4 3 (2.04%) IBM
4 3 (2.04%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.04%) Talend
5 2 (1.36%) GoCardless
5 2 (1.36%) Google
5 2 (1.36%) mParticle
5 2 (1.36%) PayPal
5 2 (1.36%) Zuora
6 1 (0.68%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.68%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.68%) Rackspace