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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 433 411
Rank change year-on-year -44 -22 -147
Permanent jobs citing Scala 127 269 246
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.53% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 1.55% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 79 128 206
10th Percentile £48,200 - £56,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £111,746
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £143,125
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 10,258 17,399 17,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.99% 34.11% 40.77%
Number of salaries quoted 7,753 10,454 14,738
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,096 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £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 £107,500 £111,950 £110,000
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 18 December 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 18 December 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 +9 83 £90,000 +5.88% 80
North of England -37 24 £65,000 -5.45% 9
Yorkshire -24 15 £49,000 -1.00%
West Midlands +44 10 £65,000 - 7
Midlands +25 10 £65,000 -7.14% 9
North East -10 6 £65,000 -3.70%
South East +25 5 - - 43
North West -5 5 £75,000 -3.23% 9
South West +22 3 £55,200 -33.09% 6
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 33 (25.98%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.94%) Apache
4 4 (3.15%) IIS
5 3 (2.36%) Luigi
6 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (50.39%) AWS
2 46 (36.22%) Azure
3 25 (19.69%) Power Platform
4 24 (18.90%) GCP
5 19 (14.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 18 (14.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (14.17%) Serverless
7 17 (13.39%) Amazon Kinesis
8 15 (11.81%) Amazon S3
8 15 (11.81%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (9.45%) AWS Step Functions
9 12 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (7.87%) Amazon SageMaker
11 9 (7.09%) Snowflake
12 8 (6.30%) GitHub
13 6 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (3.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.57%) Broadband
2 1 (0.79%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (26.77%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (19.69%) Power BI
3 22 (17.32%) Big Data
4 21 (16.54%) Data Lake
4 21 (16.54%) Hadoop
5 17 (13.39%) Metadata
6 16 (12.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (9.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (9.45%) NoSQL
8 10 (7.87%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (7.87%) Delta Lake
9 9 (7.09%) Apache Hive
9 9 (7.09%) MySQL
10 8 (6.30%) DynamoDB
11 7 (5.51%) Tableau
12 6 (4.72%) Power Query
12 6 (4.72%) SQL Server
13 5 (3.94%) Data Mining
13 5 (3.94%) Data Vault
13 5 (3.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (10.24%) Git
2 11 (8.66%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.57%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.57%) Gatling
3 2 (1.57%) JMeter
3 2 (1.57%) JUnit
3 2 (1.57%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.57%) Selenium
4 1 (0.79%) JIRA
4 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (36.22%) Finance
2 31 (24.41%) Social Skills
3 28 (22.05%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.60%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.87%) Financial Institution
6 9 (7.09%) Marketing
7 5 (3.94%) Legal
8 4 (3.15%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.36%) Retail
10 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Advertising
11 1 (0.79%) Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 61 (48.03%) Data Engineer
2 44 (34.65%) Senior
3 27 (21.26%) Developer
4 23 (18.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 21 (16.54%) Lead
6 12 (9.45%) Azure Data Engineer
6 12 (9.45%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (9.45%) Scala Developer
6 12 (9.45%) Software Engineer
7 11 (8.66%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (8.66%) Java Developer
7 11 (8.66%) Lead Developer
8 10 (7.87%) AWS Data Engineer
8 10 (7.87%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.30%) Lead Data Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) Lead Java Developer
10 6 (4.72%) Principal Developer
10 6 (4.72%) Principal Java Developer
10 6 (4.72%) Ruby Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.69%) Kafka
2 16 (12.60%) PySpark
3 10 (7.87%) React
3 10 (7.87%) Spark Streaming
4 9 (7.09%) Flutter
5 8 (6.30%) boto
6 7 (5.51%) Spring
7 6 (4.72%) Play Framework
8 5 (3.94%) Memcached
9 4 (3.15%) .NET
10 2 (1.57%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.57%) PostGIS
10 2 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.57%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.57%) XML
11 1 (0.79%) MapLibre
11 1 (0.79%) NetworkX
11 1 (0.79%) PyTorch
11 1 (0.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.05%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.66%) Data Structures
3 10 (7.87%) e-Learning
4 9 (7.09%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (6.30%) Cloud Native
6 7 (5.51%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.94%) Virtual Team
8 4 (3.15%) Derivative
8 4 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.79%) Over-the-Top Content
11 1 (0.79%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.09%) Linux
2 3 (2.36%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Android
3 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (44.88%) Data Pipeline
2 51 (40.16%) Data Modelling
3 50 (39.37%) Analytics
3 50 (39.37%) Data Engineering
4 45 (35.43%) Agile
4 45 (35.43%) DevOps
5 44 (34.65%) Machine Learning
6 42 (33.07%) ETL
7 38 (29.92%) CI/CD
7 38 (29.92%) Data Science
8 31 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (23.62%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (22.05%) Data Governance
11 23 (18.11%) Computer Science
12 22 (17.32%) AI
12 22 (17.32%) Mentoring
13 18 (14.17%) Decision-Making
13 18 (14.17%) Roadmaps
14 15 (11.81%) Software Engineering
15 14 (11.02%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 79 (62.20%) Python
2 66 (51.97%) Java
3 57 (44.88%) SQL
4 29 (22.83%) Kotlin
5 12 (9.45%) R
6 10 (7.87%) Ruby
7 9 (7.09%) Go
8 8 (6.30%) C#
8 8 (6.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.94%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.15%) F#
10 4 (3.15%) Haskell
10 4 (3.15%) OCaml
11 3 (2.36%) Bicep
11 3 (2.36%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.57%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.79%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.79%) Groovy
13 1 (0.79%) Perl
13 1 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (18.11%) Degree
2 13 (10.24%) Master's Degree
3 11 (8.66%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.87%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.30%) Azure Certification
5 8 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.94%) PhD
7 4 (3.15%) MBA
8 2 (1.57%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.79%) CISSP
9 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.79%) OSCP
9 1 (0.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.26%) Data Quality
2 16 (12.60%) GDPR
3 5 (3.94%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.36%) QA
5 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (7.87%) HDFS
2 8 (6.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (11.81%) Terraform
2 11 (8.66%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.36%) Control-M
3 3 (2.36%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.57%) Ansible
4 2 (1.57%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.57%) Puppet
5 1 (0.79%) Argo
5 1 (0.79%) Grafana
5 1 (0.79%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 42 (33.07%) Databricks
2 7 (5.51%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.72%) Oracle
4 5 (3.94%) Google
4 5 (3.94%) Palantir
5 4 (3.15%) BT
6 3 (2.36%) BMC
6 3 (2.36%) IBM
6 3 (2.36%) Talend
7 1 (0.79%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.79%) Informatica
7 1 (0.79%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.79%) Rackspace
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce