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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 510 502
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 -224
Permanent jobs citing Scala 168 131 342
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.34% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.17% 1.02% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 63 81 261
10th Percentile £47,174 - £52,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £115,000
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 14,401 12,805 27,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.84% 32.96% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,144 8,979 22,382
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,475
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £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 £111,250 £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 14 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 14 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 -2 96 £100,000 +60.00% 39
South East -18 13 £55,000 -21.43% 8
South West -34 13 £48,975 -26.08% 6
North of England -28 12 £66,250 -1.85% 18
East of England -6 11 £100,000 +53.85% 1
West Midlands -14 11 £65,500 -9.66% 1
Midlands -24 11 £65,500 -9.66% 1
Yorkshire -64 6 £90,000 +61.43% 6
North West +1 4 £75,000 -6.25% 8
North East -36 2 £57,500 -8.00% 4
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 (17.86%) Apache Spark
2 15 (8.93%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (5.36%) Apache
4 5 (2.98%) IIS
5 2 (1.19%) Luigi
6 1 (0.60%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 95 (56.55%) AWS
2 75 (44.64%) GCP
3 43 (25.60%) Azure
4 22 (13.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (11.31%) GitHub
6 18 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (7.74%) Amazon S3
7 13 (7.74%) Power Platform
8 9 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
9 8 (4.76%) Cloud Composer
9 8 (4.76%) dbt
10 7 (4.17%) Snowflake
11 6 (3.57%) Dagster
11 6 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.38%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 4 (2.38%) Prefect
13 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (44.05%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.71%) Metadata
2 16 (9.52%) Data Lake
2 16 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (9.52%) Delta Lake
3 15 (8.93%) Big Data
4 14 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (8.33%) Hadoop
4 14 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 13 (7.74%) BigQuery
6 11 (6.55%) Power BI
7 10 (5.95%) Tableau
8 8 (4.76%) MongoDB
8 8 (4.76%) MySQL
8 8 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (4.76%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.17%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.98%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (2.98%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 27 (16.07%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.10%) TeamCity
3 21 (12.50%) Git
4 4 (2.38%) GitLab
5 2 (1.19%) Gatling
5 2 (1.19%) Maven
6 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.60%) JUnit
General
1 24 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.90%) Finance
4 13 (7.74%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.17%) Marketing
6 6 (3.57%) Law
7 5 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.19%) Billing
9 2 (1.19%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.19%) Legal
9 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Games
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (35.12%) Data Engineer
2 51 (30.36%) Scala Engineer
3 50 (29.76%) Senior
4 35 (20.83%) Software Engineer
5 28 (16.67%) Developer
6 27 (16.07%) Scala Software Engineer
7 23 (13.69%) Scala Developer
8 18 (10.71%) Senior Data Engineer
9 16 (9.52%) Lead
10 13 (7.74%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 11 (6.55%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
13 7 (4.17%) Architect
13 7 (4.17%) Senior Developer
13 7 (4.17%) Senior Manager
13 7 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
14 6 (3.57%) Backend Developer
14 6 (3.57%) Senior Scala Developer
14 6 (3.57%) Software Developer
15 5 (2.98%) Data Science Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (26.79%) gRPC
2 23 (13.69%) PySpark
3 22 (13.10%) Akka
4 18 (10.71%) Kafka
5 6 (3.57%) Node.js
6 5 (2.98%) Play Framework
6 5 (2.98%) React
7 4 (2.38%) OAuth
7 4 (2.38%) OpenID
8 3 (1.79%) .NET
8 3 (1.79%) Spring
9 2 (1.19%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.19%) Apache Beam
9 2 (1.19%) Memcached
9 2 (1.19%) Playwright
9 2 (1.19%) PostGIS
10 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.60%) GeoPandas
10 1 (0.60%) MapLibre
10 1 (0.60%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 68 (40.48%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (39.88%) Over-the-Top Content
3 56 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.36%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.57%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.57%) Social Media
6 5 (2.98%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.98%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.19%) Robotics
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.60%) IoT
10 1 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.60%) Linux
1 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 84 (50.00%) Data Science
2 79 (47.02%) Analytics
3 70 (41.67%) Machine Learning
3 70 (41.67%) Software Engineering
4 61 (36.31%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (34.52%) Data Pipeline
6 54 (32.14%) Agile
7 52 (30.95%) Coaching
8 49 (29.17%) Containerisation
8 49 (29.17%) Microservices
9 48 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
10 47 (27.98%) ETL
11 45 (26.79%) Clean Code
11 45 (26.79%) Data Engineering
11 45 (26.79%) Data Modelling
11 45 (26.79%) Personalization
12 40 (23.81%) DevOps
13 29 (17.26%) Open Source
14 28 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 121 (72.02%) Python
2 60 (35.71%) SQL
3 46 (27.38%) Go
4 43 (25.60%) Java
5 8 (4.76%) C++
6 6 (3.57%) R
6 6 (3.57%) Rust
6 6 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.38%) Bicep
7 4 (2.38%) C#
7 4 (2.38%) Elixir
7 4 (2.38%) Ruby
8 3 (1.79%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.19%) C
9 2 (1.19%) Clojure
9 2 (1.19%) Erlang
9 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.19%) PHP
9 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.60%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.71%) Degree
2 13 (7.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (6.55%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.36%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.98%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.98%) MBA
7 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (22.62%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.19%) GDPR
4 2 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 82 (48.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (20.24%) Kubernetes
2 25 (14.88%) Terraform
3 3 (1.79%) Control-M
4 2 (1.19%) Ansible
4 2 (1.19%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.60%) Argo
5 1 (0.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 45 (26.79%) Typelevel
2 31 (18.45%) Databricks
3 12 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.98%) BT
5 3 (1.79%) BMC
5 3 (1.79%) Google
5 3 (1.79%) IBM
5 3 (1.79%) Talend
6 2 (1.19%) Braze
6 2 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.19%) GoCardless
6 2 (1.19%) Mapbox
6 2 (1.19%) mParticle
6 2 (1.19%) Oracle
6 2 (1.19%) Palantir
6 2 (1.19%) PayPal
6 2 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.19%) Zuora
7 1 (0.60%) OpenAI