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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 424 441
Rank change year-on-year -74 +17 -145
Permanent jobs citing Scala 125 331 258
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 1.67% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 71 139 223
10th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £56,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,125 £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 £98,750 £97,500 £111,746
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £140,500
UK median annual salary £78,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -

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 10,502 19,873 19,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.67% 32.42% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,846 11,963 15,831
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 22 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 22 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 -3 90 £90,000 +8.13% 80
North of England -70 22 £70,000 +5.26% 15
Yorkshire -14 13 £65,000 +31.33% 5
Midlands +71 8 £65,000 -7.14% 6
West Midlands +63 8 £65,000 - 3
North East -1 6 £65,000 -10.34% 1
North West -25 5 £75,000 +12.78% 9
South East +33 2 - - 15
South West +31 1 £75,000 -9.09% 1
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 30 (24.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.80%) Apache
2 6 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.40%) Luigi
4 1 (0.80%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 75 (60.00%) AWS
2 44 (35.20%) Azure
3 28 (22.40%) GCP
4 24 (19.20%) Power Platform
5 21 (16.80%) Serverless
6 16 (12.80%) Amazon Kinesis
6 16 (12.80%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (11.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (9.60%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (8.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (8.00%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.60%) GitHub
12 6 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (4.00%) Snowflake
14 4 (3.20%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (3.20%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (3.20%) Azure Storage
14 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (3.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) Broadband
1 2 (1.60%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (27.20%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (19.20%) Big Data
2 24 (19.20%) Power BI
3 17 (13.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (12.80%) Data Lake
4 16 (12.80%) Hadoop
5 14 (11.20%) NoSQL
6 11 (8.80%) Metadata
7 10 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (7.20%) Apache Hive
8 9 (7.20%) DynamoDB
9 8 (6.40%) MySQL
10 7 (5.60%) Power Query
11 6 (4.80%) Data Vault
12 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
12 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
13 4 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (3.20%) MongoDB
13 4 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.00%) Git
1 10 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.40%) git-flow
3 2 (1.60%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.60%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.60%) Gatling
3 2 (1.60%) JMeter
3 2 (1.60%) JUnit
3 2 (1.60%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.60%) Selenium
4 1 (0.80%) JIRA
4 1 (0.80%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (44.80%) Finance
2 37 (29.60%) Social Skills
3 23 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.60%) Law
6 10 (8.00%) Banking
6 10 (8.00%) Financial Institution
7 8 (6.40%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.80%) Legal
8 6 (4.80%) Marketing
9 4 (3.20%) Retail
10 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.60%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 50 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 38 (30.40%) Senior
3 31 (24.80%) Lead
4 29 (23.20%) Developer
5 22 (17.60%) Software Engineer
6 18 (14.40%) Senior Data Engineer
7 17 (13.60%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Azure Data Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Java Developer
8 12 (9.60%) Scala Developer
9 11 (8.80%) Lead Developer
10 10 (8.00%) AWS Data Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Java Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Senior Developer
11 9 (7.20%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (7.20%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (4.80%) Lead Java Developer
12 6 (4.80%) Lead Software Engineer
12 6 (4.80%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.20%) Kafka
2 12 (9.60%) Spring
3 11 (8.80%) React
4 10 (8.00%) Spark Streaming
5 9 (7.20%) Flutter
6 8 (6.40%) boto
7 6 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (4.80%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.80%) Web Services
8 4 (3.20%) PySpark
8 4 (3.20%) REST
8 4 (3.20%) RESTful
9 3 (2.40%) .NET
9 3 (2.40%) Memcached
10 2 (1.60%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.60%) Play Framework
10 2 (1.60%) PostGIS
10 2 (1.60%) XML
11 1 (0.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 31 (24.80%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (12.80%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.00%) Derivative
3 10 (8.00%) e-Learning
3 10 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (7.20%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.60%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.80%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.80%) Equity Derivative
6 6 (4.80%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.80%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.80%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.80%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.80%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Unix
3 1 (0.80%) Android
3 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.60%) Agile
2 44 (35.20%) Data Pipeline
3 43 (34.40%) Data Engineering
3 43 (34.40%) Data Modelling
4 42 (33.60%) Machine Learning
5 41 (32.80%) CI/CD
6 38 (30.40%) Analytics
7 34 (27.20%) ETL
8 33 (26.40%) DevOps
9 31 (24.80%) Data Science
10 27 (21.60%) AI
10 27 (21.60%) Software Engineering
11 26 (20.80%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (19.20%) Data Governance
12 24 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (18.40%) Mentoring
14 21 (16.80%) SDLC
15 18 (14.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 17 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (13.60%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 74 (59.20%) Java
2 67 (53.60%) Python
3 50 (40.00%) SQL
4 39 (31.20%) Kotlin
5 10 (8.00%) Ruby
6 9 (7.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (7.20%) Go
7 8 (6.40%) C#
7 8 (6.40%) R
8 5 (4.00%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.20%) F#
9 4 (3.20%) Haskell
9 4 (3.20%) OCaml
10 2 (1.60%) Bicep
10 2 (1.60%) Groovy
10 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.60%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.80%) Clojure
11 1 (0.80%) Elixir
11 1 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (14.40%) Degree
2 10 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.60%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.00%) PhD
6 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.80%) CISSP
8 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) OSCP
8 1 (0.80%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.60%) GDPR
2 16 (12.80%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.40%) QA
5 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.80%) MiFID
5 1 (0.80%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (11.20%) Docker
2 10 (8.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.00%) Terraform
3 3 (2.40%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.60%) Ansible
4 2 (1.60%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.60%) Puppet
5 1 (0.80%) Argo
5 1 (0.80%) Grafana
5 1 (0.80%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 30 (24.00%) Databricks
2 7 (5.60%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.80%) Google
4 4 (3.20%) Oracle
5 3 (2.40%) Palantir
6 2 (1.60%) Informatica
7 1 (0.80%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.80%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.80%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.80%) Rackspace
7 1 (0.80%) Reuters
7 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.80%) Talend