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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 498 406
Rank change year-on-year -67 -92 +43
Permanent jobs citing Scala 190 138 390
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.32% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.14% 1.16% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 125 69 146
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £54,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -3.22%
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -

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 16,682 11,849 21,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.67% 27.31% 30.44%
Number of salaries quoted 12,208 7,813 13,837
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,300 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,344 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -50 101 £105,000 +16.67% 140
North of England -35 42 £66,250 -8.62% 16
North West -1 23 £66,250 -17.19% 7
South West - 20 £64,250 - 9
North East -57 11 £57,500 -11.54% 5
East of England -19 9 £117,750 +81.15% 3
Yorkshire -55 8 £90,000 +38.46% 4
South East -31 6 £55,000 -25.42% 18
Midlands -37 6 £81,500 +25.38% 3
East Midlands - 5 - - 1
West Midlands -44 1 £81,500 +25.38% 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 52 (27.37%) Apache Spark
2 35 (18.42%) Apache
3 9 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.58%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.58%) SAS
5 2 (1.05%) Luigi
6 1 (0.53%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 80 (42.11%) Azure
2 76 (40.00%) AWS
3 50 (26.32%) GCP
4 41 (21.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 33 (17.37%) Azure Databricks
6 30 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 28 (14.74%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (12.63%) Power Platform
9 21 (11.05%) GitHub
10 17 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (8.95%) Snowflake
11 16 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (6.84%) Amazon S3
13 11 (5.79%) Serverless
14 10 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
16 4 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (2.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.89%) Big Data
2 30 (15.79%) Delta Lake
3 29 (15.26%) Metadata
4 26 (13.68%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (11.58%) Data Vault
5 22 (11.58%) Power BI
6 20 (10.53%) Hadoop
7 18 (9.47%) NoSQL
8 17 (8.95%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (8.42%) Tableau
10 15 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (6.84%) Relational Database
12 12 (6.32%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (5.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (5.26%) BigQuery
14 10 (5.26%) Data Lake
15 9 (4.74%) MongoDB
15 9 (4.74%) SQL Server
16 6 (3.16%) MySQL
17 5 (2.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (11.05%) Git
2 19 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.21%) GitLab
4 5 (2.63%) Maven
5 3 (1.58%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.58%) Gatling
5 3 (1.58%) JUnit
5 3 (1.58%) Postman
5 3 (1.58%) Selenium
6 2 (1.05%) Gradle
6 2 (1.05%) Mockito
7 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 54 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.74%) Finance
3 27 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.26%) Law
5 7 (3.68%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.68%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.63%) Legal
6 5 (2.63%) Marketing
7 4 (2.11%) Advertising
7 4 (2.11%) Banking
8 3 (1.58%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.05%) Games
10 1 (0.53%) Front Office
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (30.53%) Data Engineer
2 39 (20.53%) Senior
3 36 (18.95%) Developer
4 34 (17.89%) Architect
5 29 (15.26%) Data Architect
6 28 (14.74%) Lead
7 24 (12.63%) Software Engineer
8 17 (8.95%) Scala Engineer
9 16 (8.42%) Scala Developer
10 15 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (6.32%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.79%) Consultant
13 10 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (5.26%) Software Consultant
14 8 (4.21%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 8 (4.21%) Databricks Engineer
15 7 (3.68%) Azure Data Engineer
15 7 (3.68%) Principal Engineer
15 7 (3.68%) Scala Software Engineer
15 7 (3.68%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.42%) PySpark
2 26 (13.68%) Kafka
3 25 (13.16%) Terraform
4 11 (5.79%) gRPC
5 8 (4.21%) React
6 6 (3.16%) Spring
6 6 (3.16%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.63%) Hibernate
7 5 (2.63%) JPA
7 5 (2.63%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.63%) Play Framework
7 5 (2.63%) Spring MVC
7 5 (2.63%) Swagger
8 4 (2.11%) CrewAI
8 4 (2.11%) LangChain
8 4 (2.11%) Node.js
8 4 (2.11%) RESTful
8 4 (2.11%) YAML
9 3 (1.58%) .NET
9 3 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.79%) Over-the-Top Content
3 11 (5.79%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.68%) Robotics
6 5 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.11%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.05%) Blog
9 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.53%) IoT
10 1 (0.53%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.53%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Linux
1 1 (0.53%) Unix
1 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (42.63%) CI/CD
2 76 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 75 (39.47%) Analytics
4 71 (37.37%) Data Engineering
5 62 (32.63%) AI
6 59 (31.05%) Agile
7 56 (29.47%) Data Pipeline
8 54 (28.42%) Data Science
8 54 (28.42%) Machine Learning
9 51 (26.84%) Software Engineering
10 46 (24.21%) Business Intelligence
11 45 (23.68%) DevOps
12 42 (22.11%) ETL
13 41 (21.58%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (18.95%) Data Architecture
15 34 (17.89%) Lakehouse
15 34 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (16.84%) Technical Leadership
17 27 (14.21%) Containerisation
17 27 (14.21%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 115 (60.53%) Python
2 85 (44.74%) SQL
3 74 (38.95%) Java
4 16 (8.42%) Bicep
4 16 (8.42%) Go
5 11 (5.79%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.74%) C++
6 9 (4.74%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.74%) Kotlin
7 8 (4.21%) Rust
8 7 (3.68%) C
8 7 (3.68%) Clojure
8 7 (3.68%) Erlang
8 7 (3.68%) R
9 4 (2.11%) C#
10 3 (1.58%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.58%) Ruby
11 2 (1.05%) PHP
12 1 (0.53%) Elixir
12 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (27.89%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.68%) Azure Certification
4 19 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (8.42%) SnowPro
6 11 (5.79%) Degree
7 9 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.16%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.11%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (29.47%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.74%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.63%) QA
4 2 (1.05%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (21.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (16.84%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.11%) Grafana
3 3 (1.58%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.58%) Kibana
4 2 (1.05%) Ansible
4 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (27.89%) Databricks
2 34 (17.89%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.79%) Typelevel
4 5 (2.63%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.63%) Splunk
5 4 (2.11%) Google
6 3 (1.58%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco
8 1 (0.53%) Informatica
8 1 (0.53%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.53%) Polycom
8 1 (0.53%) Workday