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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 394 450
Rank change year-on-year -88 +56 -164
Permanent jobs citing Scala 135 355 257
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.58% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 1.82% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 77 138 219
10th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £56,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,188 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.40% +3.52%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £112,123
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £142,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -

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 10,623 19,518 19,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.09% 32.06% 41.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,853 11,640 16,057
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,566 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -14 100 £90,000 +12.50% 79
North of England -79 23 £65,000 - 7
Yorkshire -15 14 £57,000 +15.17% 2
Midlands +58 8 £65,000 -7.14% 7
West Midlands +49 8 £65,000 - 5
North East -10 6 £65,000 - 1
North West -38 5 £75,000 +12.78% 4
South West +29 1 £75,000 -25.00% 1
South East +22 1 - - 14
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 (23.70%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.44%) Apache
3 5 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.22%) Luigi
5 1 (0.74%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 85 (62.96%) AWS
2 49 (36.30%) Azure
3 32 (23.70%) GCP
4 24 (17.78%) Power Platform
5 22 (16.30%) Serverless
6 16 (11.85%) Amazon Kinesis
6 16 (11.85%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (10.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (8.89%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (8.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (7.41%) Amazon S3
11 8 (5.93%) GitHub
12 6 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (3.70%) Snowflake
14 4 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.96%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (2.96%) Azure Storage
14 4 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (2.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) Broadband
1 2 (1.48%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (20.00%) Big Data
3 24 (17.78%) Power BI
4 18 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (12.59%) Data Lake
5 17 (12.59%) Hadoop
5 17 (12.59%) NoSQL
6 12 (8.89%) Metadata
7 10 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (7.41%) DynamoDB
7 10 (7.41%) MySQL
8 9 (6.67%) Apache Hive
9 8 (5.93%) Power Query
10 6 (4.44%) Data Vault
10 6 (4.44%) Relational Database
11 5 (3.70%) MongoDB
11 5 (3.70%) SQL Server
12 4 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.96%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.41%) Git
1 10 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.70%) Cucumber
2 5 (3.70%) JUnit
3 4 (2.96%) git-flow
4 3 (2.22%) GitLab
5 2 (1.48%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.48%) Gatling
5 2 (1.48%) JMeter
5 2 (1.48%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.48%) Selenium
6 1 (0.74%) JIRA
6 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 63 (46.67%) Finance
2 40 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (11.85%) Law
6 14 (10.37%) Banking
7 10 (7.41%) Financial Institution
8 9 (6.67%) Public Sector
9 7 (5.19%) Legal
9 7 (5.19%) Marketing
10 4 (2.96%) Retail
11 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.48%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 53 (39.26%) Data Engineer
2 41 (30.37%) Senior
3 37 (27.41%) Lead
4 29 (21.48%) Developer
5 26 (19.26%) Software Engineer
6 19 (14.07%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (14.07%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (9.63%) Azure Data Engineer
7 13 (9.63%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (9.63%) Java Engineer
8 12 (8.89%) Java Developer
8 12 (8.89%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (8.89%) Scala Developer
9 11 (8.15%) Lead Developer
10 10 (7.41%) AWS Data Engineer
10 10 (7.41%) Lead Data Engineer
10 10 (7.41%) Senior Developer
11 8 (5.93%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (5.93%) Lead Java Engineer
11 8 (5.93%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (25.93%) Kafka
2 14 (10.37%) Spring
3 11 (8.15%) React
4 10 (7.41%) Spark Streaming
5 9 (6.67%) Flutter
6 8 (5.93%) boto
6 8 (5.93%) Web Services
7 7 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (5.19%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.70%) Play Framework
8 5 (3.70%) PySpark
8 5 (3.70%) REST
8 5 (3.70%) RESTful
9 4 (2.96%) Akka
10 3 (2.22%) .NET
10 3 (2.22%) Gherkin
10 3 (2.22%) Memcached
10 3 (2.22%) Scalaz
11 2 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (25.19%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (14.07%) Cloud Native
3 13 (9.63%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (8.89%) Derivative
5 10 (7.41%) e-Learning
6 9 (6.67%) Data Structures
6 9 (6.67%) Management Information System
7 8 (5.93%) Equity Derivative
8 7 (5.19%) Algorithms
8 7 (5.19%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.22%) Equities
10 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.15%) Linux
2 3 (2.22%) Unix
3 1 (0.74%) Android
3 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (37.78%) Agile
2 45 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 45 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 45 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 45 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 44 (32.59%) CI/CD
4 40 (29.63%) Analytics
5 37 (27.41%) DevOps
5 37 (27.41%) ETL
6 34 (25.19%) Software Engineering
7 31 (22.96%) Data Science
8 30 (22.22%) AI
9 27 (20.00%) Data Governance
10 26 (19.26%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (18.52%) SDLC
12 22 (16.30%) Mentoring
13 21 (15.56%) Microservices
14 19 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (14.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 79 (58.52%) Java
2 70 (51.85%) Python
3 53 (39.26%) SQL
4 43 (31.85%) Kotlin
5 10 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (7.41%) Ruby
6 9 (6.67%) Go
7 8 (5.93%) C#
7 8 (5.93%) R
8 5 (3.70%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.96%) F#
9 4 (2.96%) Haskell
9 4 (2.96%) OCaml
10 2 (1.48%) Bicep
10 2 (1.48%) Groovy
10 2 (1.48%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.74%) Erlang
11 1 (0.74%) Perl
11 1 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (14.07%) Degree
2 10 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.19%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.70%) PhD
6 4 (2.96%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.74%) CISSP
8 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) OSCP
8 1 (0.74%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.07%) GDPR
2 17 (12.59%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.22%) QA
5 2 (1.48%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.74%) MiFID
6 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (11.85%) Docker
2 10 (7.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (17.04%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.63%) Terraform
3 3 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.48%) Ansible
4 2 (1.48%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.48%) Puppet
5 1 (0.74%) Grafana
5 1 (0.74%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 33 (24.44%) Databricks
2 8 (5.93%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.19%) Google
4 5 (3.70%) Oracle
5 4 (2.96%) Informatica
5 4 (2.96%) Palantir
6 2 (1.48%) Talend
7 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.74%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.74%) Rackspace
7 1 (0.74%) Reuters
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce