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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 439 483
Rank change year-on-year -46 +44 -220
Permanent jobs citing Scala 159 174 331
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.44% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% 1.27% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 58 118 283
10th Percentile £45,478 - £52,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £76,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.69% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -3.13%

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 11,971 13,654 25,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.26% 34.89% 34.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,755 9,365 21,759
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £101,198
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 March 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 March 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 -4 97 £100,000 +20.15% 26
West Midlands +16 13 £70,250 -3.10% 3
Midlands -9 13 £70,250 -3.10% 5
North of England -49 13 £75,000 +20.00% 24
South West -22 12 £55,200 -18.22% 9
South East -24 8 £55,000 -21.43% 22
Yorkshire -41 7 £49,000 - 10
North West -10 6 £75,000 +15.38% 10
East of England - 6 £100,000 - 12
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 27 (16.98%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.14%) IIS
4 2 (1.26%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 77 (48.43%) AWS
2 54 (33.96%) GCP
3 29 (18.24%) Azure
4 18 (11.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (8.81%) GitHub
7 12 (7.55%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.29%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (5.66%) Power Platform
10 8 (5.03%) Amazon SageMaker
10 8 (5.03%) dbt
11 7 (4.40%) Snowflake
12 6 (3.77%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (3.77%) Dagster
12 6 (3.77%) Serverless
13 5 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.52%) AWS Step Functions
15 2 (1.26%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 66 (41.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.69%) Data Lake
2 15 (9.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (9.43%) Metadata
3 13 (8.18%) Big Data
3 13 (8.18%) Delta Lake
3 13 (8.18%) Hadoop
4 12 (7.55%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.66%) Power BI
6 8 (5.03%) BigQuery
6 8 (5.03%) MySQL
6 8 (5.03%) Tableau
7 7 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.40%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.40%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.77%) Data Mining
9 5 (3.14%) Couchbase
9 5 (3.14%) MongoDB
9 5 (3.14%) Redis
10 4 (2.52%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 28 (17.61%) Jenkins
2 23 (14.47%) TeamCity
3 21 (13.21%) Git
4 3 (1.89%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.89%) GitLab
4 3 (1.89%) JUnit
5 2 (1.26%) Gatling
5 2 (1.26%) JMeter
5 2 (1.26%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.26%) Selenium
6 1 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 26 (16.35%) Finance
2 19 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (11.95%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.81%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.66%) Marketing
5 6 (3.77%) Law
6 5 (3.14%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.89%) Retail
9 2 (1.26%) Billing
9 2 (1.26%) Legal
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Front Office
10 1 (0.63%) Games
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (32.08%) Senior
2 50 (31.45%) Data Engineer
3 46 (28.93%) Scala Engineer
4 39 (24.53%) Software Engineer
5 30 (18.87%) Developer
6 24 (15.09%) Scala Software Engineer
7 23 (14.47%) Scala Developer
8 19 (11.95%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (8.18%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 11 (6.92%) Lead
11 10 (6.29%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (6.29%) Senior Developer
12 8 (5.03%) Senior Scala Developer
13 6 (3.77%) Lead Software Engineer
13 6 (3.77%) Ruby Engineer
13 6 (3.77%) Software Developer
13 6 (3.77%) Systems Engineer
14 5 (3.14%) Senior Manager
14 5 (3.14%) Senior Software Developer
14 5 (3.14%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (22.64%) gRPC
2 23 (14.47%) Akka
3 21 (13.21%) Kafka
4 20 (12.58%) PySpark
5 6 (3.77%) Play Framework
5 6 (3.77%) Spring
6 5 (3.14%) Memcached
7 3 (1.89%) .NET
7 3 (1.89%) boto
7 3 (1.89%) Node.js
7 3 (1.89%) OAuth
7 3 (1.89%) OpenID
7 3 (1.89%) React
7 3 (1.89%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.63%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.63%) NetworkX
8 1 (0.63%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.63%) REST
8 1 (0.63%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 60 (37.74%) Video\Live Streaming
2 59 (37.11%) Over-the-Top Content
3 54 (33.96%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (7.55%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.77%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.77%) Social Media
6 5 (3.14%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.14%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.89%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.89%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Android
2 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (45.28%) CI/CD
2 71 (44.65%) Data Science
3 70 (44.03%) Analytics
4 62 (38.99%) Software Engineering
5 61 (38.36%) Machine Learning
6 58 (36.48%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (32.70%) Agile
8 46 (28.93%) Data Pipeline
9 43 (27.04%) Continuous Delivery
10 42 (26.42%) Microservices
11 40 (25.16%) Coaching
12 38 (23.90%) Containerisation
13 37 (23.27%) Clean Code
14 36 (22.64%) Data Engineering
14 36 (22.64%) Data Modelling
14 36 (22.64%) Personalization
15 32 (20.13%) DevOps
15 32 (20.13%) ETL
15 32 (20.13%) Open Source
15 32 (20.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 97 (61.01%) Python
2 46 (28.93%) SQL
3 45 (28.30%) Java
4 36 (22.64%) Go
5 17 (10.69%) Kotlin
6 14 (8.81%) Ruby
7 7 (4.40%) R
8 6 (3.77%) C++
9 4 (2.52%) Bicep
9 4 (2.52%) Elixir
9 4 (2.52%) Rust
9 4 (2.52%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.89%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.26%) C#
11 2 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.26%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.63%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (11.32%) Degree
2 11 (6.92%) Master's Degree
3 10 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.29%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.66%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.77%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.14%) MBA
7 1 (0.63%) CISSP
7 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) OSCP
7 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.72%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.40%) GDPR
3 6 (3.77%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 70 (44.03%) Docker
2 3 (1.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (19.50%) Kubernetes
2 22 (13.84%) Terraform
3 3 (1.89%) Control-M
4 1 (0.63%) Argo
Vendors
1 36 (22.64%) Typelevel
2 31 (19.50%) Databricks
3 5 (3.14%) BT
3 5 (3.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.52%) Oracle
4 4 (2.52%) Palantir
5 3 (1.89%) BMC
5 3 (1.89%) IBM
5 3 (1.89%) Talend
6 2 (1.26%) GoCardless
6 2 (1.26%) mParticle
6 2 (1.26%) PayPal
6 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.26%) Zuora
7 1 (0.63%) Google
7 1 (0.63%) Mapbox