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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 402 444
Rank change year-on-year -100 +42 -178
Permanent jobs citing Scala 123 366 281
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.57% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 1.81% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 70 137 237
10th Percentile £57,250 £56,250 £56,700
25th Percentile £66,563 £62,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

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 11,145 20,209 20,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.07% 31.59% 41.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,427 12,111 17,021
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,862 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £64,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.10% -0.77% +4.00%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -19 91 £90,000 +12.50% 53
North of England -116 22 £75,000 +12.78% 11
Yorkshire -12 12 £65,000 +31.33% 1
Midlands +56 6 £65,000 -7.14% 12
North East +2 6 £65,000 -
North West -85 6 £77,500 +13.97% 10
West Midlands - 6 £65,000 - 7
South West +51 1 £75,000 -7.69% 5
South East +36 1 - - 30
East of England - 1 £65,000 - 5
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 28 (22.76%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.50%) Apache
3 6 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.44%) Luigi
5 1 (0.81%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 76 (61.79%) AWS
2 47 (38.21%) Azure
3 30 (24.39%) GCP
4 22 (17.89%) Power Platform
5 20 (16.26%) Serverless
6 14 (11.38%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (10.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (10.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (7.32%) Amazon Kinesis
8 9 (7.32%) Amazon S3
9 8 (6.50%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (6.50%) GitHub
10 7 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.07%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (4.07%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.25%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (3.25%) Azure Storage
13 4 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.63%) FTP
2 1 (0.81%) 802.11
2 1 (0.81%) BGP
2 1 (0.81%) DMVPN
2 1 (0.81%) HSRP
2 1 (0.81%) IPsec
2 1 (0.81%) LTE
2 1 (0.81%) MPLS
2 1 (0.81%) Multicast
2 1 (0.81%) OSPF
2 1 (0.81%) PPP
2 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.81%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (0.81%) SS7
2 1 (0.81%) TACACS
2 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.81%) VPN
2 1 (0.81%) VRRP
2 1 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.02%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (21.14%) Big Data
3 22 (17.89%) Power BI
4 15 (12.20%) Data Lake
4 15 (12.20%) NoSQL
5 14 (11.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (9.76%) Hadoop
6 12 (9.76%) Metadata
7 7 (5.69%) MySQL
7 7 (5.69%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (4.88%) Data Vault
8 6 (4.88%) DynamoDB
8 6 (4.88%) Power Query
9 5 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (4.07%) Apache Hive
9 5 (4.07%) Delta Lake
10 4 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Git
2 7 (5.69%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.25%) git-flow
4 3 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.44%) GitLab
4 3 (2.44%) JUnit
5 2 (1.63%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.81%) JIRA
General
1 59 (47.97%) Finance
2 40 (32.52%) Social Skills
3 20 (16.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.01%) Law
5 14 (11.38%) Banking
6 7 (5.69%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.07%) Legal
7 5 (4.07%) Marketing
7 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.44%) Retail
9 2 (1.63%) Front Office
9 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 51 (41.46%) Data Engineer
2 37 (30.08%) Senior
3 36 (29.27%) Lead
4 26 (21.14%) Developer
5 23 (18.70%) Software Engineer
6 17 (13.82%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (13.82%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (12.20%) Azure Data Engineer
7 15 (12.20%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (10.57%) Java Engineer
9 12 (9.76%) Java Developer
9 12 (9.76%) Java Software Engineer
10 11 (8.94%) Lead Developer
11 10 (8.13%) Scala Developer
12 9 (7.32%) Lead Data Engineer
13 8 (6.50%) AWS Data Engineer
13 8 (6.50%) AWS Software Engineer
13 8 (6.50%) Lead Java Engineer
13 8 (6.50%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (6.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.58%) Kafka
2 11 (8.94%) React
2 11 (8.94%) Spring
3 9 (7.32%) Flutter
4 8 (6.50%) PySpark
4 8 (6.50%) Web Services
5 7 (5.69%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (5.69%) Spark Streaming
5 7 (5.69%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.07%) boto
6 5 (4.07%) REST
6 5 (4.07%) RESTful
7 4 (3.25%) Play Framework
8 3 (2.44%) Akka
8 3 (2.44%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.44%) Scalaz
9 2 (1.63%) .NET
9 2 (1.63%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.95%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (15.45%) Cloud Native
3 12 (9.76%) Derivative
4 10 (8.13%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (7.32%) Management Information System
6 8 (6.50%) Equity Derivative
7 7 (5.69%) Algorithms
7 7 (5.69%) e-Learning
8 6 (4.88%) Data Structures
9 4 (3.25%) Virtual Team
10 3 (2.44%) Equities
10 3 (2.44%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.13%) Linux
2 3 (2.44%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) Android
3 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (35.77%) Agile
2 43 (34.96%) Data Pipeline
3 42 (34.15%) Data Modelling
4 40 (32.52%) Data Engineering
5 39 (31.71%) CI/CD
5 39 (31.71%) ETL
6 37 (30.08%) Analytics
7 36 (29.27%) Machine Learning
8 35 (28.46%) DevOps
9 34 (27.64%) Software Engineering
10 31 (25.20%) Data Science
11 30 (24.39%) AI
12 27 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (20.33%) SDLC
14 24 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (17.07%) Data Governance
16 18 (14.63%) Mentoring
16 18 (14.63%) Microservices
17 16 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (13.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 70 (56.91%) Java
2 66 (53.66%) Python
3 52 (42.28%) SQL
4 39 (31.71%) Kotlin
5 10 (8.13%) Ruby
6 9 (7.32%) C#
6 9 (7.32%) Go
7 8 (6.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (6.50%) R
8 4 (3.25%) F#
8 4 (3.25%) Haskell
8 4 (3.25%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.25%) OCaml
9 2 (1.63%) Groovy
9 2 (1.63%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.81%) Bicep
10 1 (0.81%) Clojure
10 1 (0.81%) Elixir
10 1 (0.81%) Erlang
10 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (10.57%) Degree
2 12 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.50%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.25%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.25%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.25%) PhD
6 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.81%) CISSP
7 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) OSCP
7 1 (0.81%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.45%) Data Quality
2 13 (10.57%) GDPR
3 5 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.44%) QA
5 2 (1.63%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.81%) MiFID
6 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (13.82%) Docker
2 7 (5.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (20.33%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.20%) Terraform
3 3 (2.44%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.63%) Ansible
4 2 (1.63%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.63%) Puppet
5 1 (0.81%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 30 (24.39%) Databricks
2 7 (5.69%) Google
2 7 (5.69%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.25%) Informatica
4 3 (2.44%) Oracle
5 2 (1.63%) Palantir
5 2 (1.63%) Talend
6 1 (0.81%) Avaya
6 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.81%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.81%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (0.81%) F5
6 1 (0.81%) Rackspace
6 1 (0.81%) Reuters
6 1 (0.81%) Salesforce