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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 487 510
Rank change year-on-year -24 +23 -234
Permanent jobs citing Scala 164 138 336
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.17% 1.10% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 57 85 259
10th Percentile £44,970 - £52,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £125,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -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 14,017 12,502 27,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.43% 32.91% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,833 9,191 22,483
10th Percentile £35,850 £36,750 £35,150
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 3 May 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 3 May 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 0 95 £100,000 +60.00% 34
South East -28 13 £55,000 -21.43% 9
South West -44 13 £48,975 -26.08% 3
West Midlands -12 11 £65,500 -9.66% 2
Midlands -26 11 £65,500 -9.66% 2
North of England -66 11 £49,000 -24.62% 18
East of England -12 8 £100,000 +53.85% 2
Yorkshire -62 6 £49,000 -12.11% 4
North West -19 4 £90,000 +14.29% 11
North East -35 1 £57,500 -8.00% 3
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 29 (17.68%) Apache Spark
2 12 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.05%) IIS
4 3 (1.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.61%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 95 (57.93%) AWS
2 73 (44.51%) GCP
3 44 (26.83%) Azure
4 20 (12.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (11.59%) GitHub
6 16 (9.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (8.54%) Power Platform
8 13 (7.93%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (4.88%) Amazon SageMaker
10 8 (4.88%) dbt
11 7 (4.27%) Snowflake
12 6 (3.66%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (3.66%) Dagster
12 6 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (2.44%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 4 (2.44%) Prefect
14 3 (1.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (45.12%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.98%) Metadata
2 17 (10.37%) Data Lake
3 16 (9.76%) Delta Lake
4 15 (9.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (9.15%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (8.54%) NoSQL
6 13 (7.93%) Hadoop
7 12 (7.32%) Big Data
7 12 (7.32%) Power BI
8 11 (6.71%) MySQL
8 11 (6.71%) Tableau
9 10 (6.10%) MongoDB
10 9 (5.49%) BigQuery
10 9 (5.49%) SQL Server
11 8 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (4.27%) Relational Database
13 6 (3.66%) Data Mining
14 5 (3.05%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (2.44%) DynamoDB
15 4 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (17.07%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.41%) Git
2 22 (13.41%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.44%) GitLab
4 2 (1.22%) Gatling
4 2 (1.22%) Maven
5 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.61%) JUnit
General
1 22 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (12.20%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.59%) Finance
4 14 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.88%) Marketing
6 6 (3.66%) Law
7 5 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.22%) Billing
9 2 (1.22%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.22%) Legal
9 2 (1.22%) Retail
10 1 (0.61%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Games
10 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (34.76%) Data Engineer
2 51 (31.10%) Scala Engineer
3 49 (29.88%) Senior
4 34 (20.73%) Software Engineer
5 28 (17.07%) Developer
6 27 (16.46%) Scala Software Engineer
7 24 (14.63%) Scala Developer
8 18 (10.98%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (7.93%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 11 (6.71%) Lead
10 11 (6.71%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.88%) Senior Developer
12 7 (4.27%) Architect
12 7 (4.27%) Senior Scala Developer
12 7 (4.27%) Systems Engineer
13 6 (3.66%) Backend Developer
13 6 (3.66%) Lead Software Engineer
14 5 (3.05%) Data Science Manager
14 5 (3.05%) Senior Manager
14 5 (3.05%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (27.44%) gRPC
2 24 (14.63%) PySpark
3 22 (13.41%) Akka
4 19 (11.59%) Kafka
5 6 (3.66%) Node.js
6 5 (3.05%) Play Framework
6 5 (3.05%) React
7 4 (2.44%) OAuth
7 4 (2.44%) OpenID
7 4 (2.44%) Spring
8 3 (1.83%) .NET
8 3 (1.83%) Memcached
9 2 (1.22%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.22%) Playwright
9 2 (1.22%) PostGIS
10 1 (0.61%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.61%) GeoPandas
10 1 (0.61%) MapLibre
10 1 (0.61%) NetworkX
10 1 (0.61%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 68 (41.46%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (40.85%) Over-the-Top Content
3 57 (34.76%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (6.10%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.66%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.66%) Social Media
6 5 (3.05%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.44%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.61%) IoT
10 1 (0.61%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) Linux
1 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (51.83%) Data Science
2 82 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 77 (46.95%) Analytics
4 73 (44.51%) Machine Learning
5 65 (39.63%) Software Engineering
6 63 (38.41%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (32.93%) Data Pipeline
8 52 (31.71%) Agile
9 51 (31.10%) Coaching
10 50 (30.49%) Microservices
11 49 (29.88%) Containerisation
11 49 (29.88%) Continuous Delivery
12 45 (27.44%) Clean Code
12 45 (27.44%) Personalization
13 43 (26.22%) Data Engineering
14 42 (25.61%) ETL
15 41 (25.00%) Data Modelling
16 39 (23.78%) DevOps
17 30 (18.29%) Open Source
18 28 (17.07%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 118 (71.95%) Python
2 59 (35.98%) SQL
3 46 (28.05%) Go
4 39 (23.78%) Java
5 7 (4.27%) R
6 6 (3.66%) C++
6 6 (3.66%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.44%) Bicep
7 4 (2.44%) C#
7 4 (2.44%) Elixir
7 4 (2.44%) Ruby
7 4 (2.44%) Rust
8 3 (1.83%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.83%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.22%) PHP
9 2 (1.22%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.61%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 20 (12.20%) Degree
2 13 (7.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.32%) Master's Degree
4 10 (6.10%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.27%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.66%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.05%) MBA
8 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (19.51%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.66%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.83%) GDPR
4 2 (1.22%) QA
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 83 (50.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (21.34%) Kubernetes
2 25 (15.24%) Terraform
3 3 (1.83%) Control-M
4 2 (1.22%) Ansible
4 2 (1.22%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.61%) Argo
Vendors
1 45 (27.44%) Typelevel
2 33 (20.12%) Databricks
3 12 (7.32%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.05%) BT
5 4 (2.44%) Oracle
5 4 (2.44%) Palantir
6 3 (1.83%) BMC
6 3 (1.83%) IBM
6 3 (1.83%) Talend
7 2 (1.22%) Braze
7 2 (1.22%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.22%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.22%) Google
7 2 (1.22%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.22%) mParticle
7 2 (1.22%) PayPal
7 2 (1.22%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.22%) Zuora
8 1 (0.61%) OpenAI