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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 460 455
Rank change year-on-year -28 -5 -198
Permanent jobs citing Scala 148 201 319
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.47% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.29% 1.36% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 60 119 271
10th Percentile £46,493 - £52,500
25th Percentile £52,113 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,592
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £76,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year -1.64% -1.61% -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 11,429 14,821 24,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.63% 34.75% 36.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8,414 9,157 20,602
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £102,500
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 25 February 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 25 February 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 94 £97,500 +14.71% 20
North of England -47 15 £75,000 +20.00% 12
West Midlands +21 11 £65,250 -10.00% 5
Midlands +1 11 £65,250 -8.42% 5
Yorkshire -38 9 £49,000 - 1
South West -10 8 £55,200 -18.22% 5
South East -24 8 £55,000 -21.43% 7
North West -1 6 £75,000 +25.00% 9
East of England - 1 - -
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 (18.92%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.38%) IIS
4 3 (2.03%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 69 (46.62%) AWS
2 42 (28.38%) GCP
3 36 (24.32%) Azure
4 19 (12.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (11.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (9.46%) GitHub
8 13 (8.78%) Amazon Kinesis
8 13 (8.78%) Power Platform
9 10 (6.76%) Serverless
10 9 (6.08%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (6.08%) dbt
11 8 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
11 8 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.73%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (4.73%) Snowflake
13 6 (4.05%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (4.05%) Dagster
14 3 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 49 (33.11%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.54%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (14.19%) Data Lake
3 17 (11.49%) Big Data
3 17 (11.49%) Hadoop
3 17 (11.49%) Metadata
4 16 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (9.46%) Delta Lake
6 13 (8.78%) Power BI
7 12 (8.11%) NoSQL
8 10 (6.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (6.08%) MySQL
10 8 (5.41%) BigQuery
10 8 (5.41%) Tableau
11 7 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (4.73%) Apache Hive
11 7 (4.73%) DynamoDB
11 7 (4.73%) SQL Server
12 6 (4.05%) Data Mining
13 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
13 5 (3.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 23 (15.54%) TeamCity
3 21 (14.19%) Git
4 3 (2.03%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.03%) JUnit
5 2 (1.35%) Gatling
5 2 (1.35%) JMeter
5 2 (1.35%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.35%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 34 (22.97%) Finance
2 29 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.76%) Marketing
6 6 (4.05%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.05%) Law
7 5 (3.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.03%) Legal
9 3 (2.03%) Retail
10 2 (1.35%) Billing
10 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Advertising
11 1 (0.68%) Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Front Office
11 1 (0.68%) Games
11 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 56 (37.84%) Senior
2 54 (36.49%) Data Engineer
3 32 (21.62%) Scala Engineer
4 31 (20.95%) Software Engineer
5 29 (19.59%) Developer
6 23 (15.54%) Senior Data Engineer
7 19 (12.84%) Scala Developer
8 18 (12.16%) Scala Software Engineer
9 12 (8.11%) Lead
9 12 (8.11%) Senior Developer
10 11 (7.43%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 9 (6.08%) Senior Scala Developer
12 7 (4.73%) AWS Data Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Azure Data Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Ruby Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Software Developer
14 5 (3.38%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.89%) Kafka
2 23 (15.54%) Akka
3 21 (14.19%) PySpark
4 19 (12.84%) gRPC
5 6 (4.05%) boto
5 6 (4.05%) Play Framework
5 6 (4.05%) React
5 6 (4.05%) Spark Streaming
5 6 (4.05%) Spring
6 5 (3.38%) Memcached
7 3 (2.03%) .NET
7 3 (2.03%) Flutter
8 2 (1.35%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.68%) LAMP
9 1 (0.68%) NetworkX
9 1 (0.68%) Node.js
9 1 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.05%) Video\Live Streaming
2 42 (28.38%) Over-the-Top Content
3 41 (27.70%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (8.11%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.05%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (4.05%) e-Learning
5 6 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.05%) Social Media
6 5 (3.38%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.38%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.70%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Android
2 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (48.65%) Analytics
2 56 (37.84%) CI/CD
3 55 (37.16%) Agile
4 54 (36.49%) Data Pipeline
4 54 (36.49%) Data Science
5 45 (30.41%) Data Engineering
5 45 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (29.73%) Data Modelling
7 42 (28.38%) Machine Learning
8 41 (27.70%) Software Engineering
9 37 (25.00%) DevOps
9 37 (25.00%) ETL
10 32 (21.62%) Open Source
10 32 (21.62%) TDD
11 31 (20.95%) Data Governance
12 30 (20.27%) Data Analytics
13 27 (18.24%) Scrum
14 26 (17.57%) Continuous Delivery
15 25 (16.89%) Microservices
15 25 (16.89%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 85 (57.43%) Python
2 56 (37.84%) Java
3 52 (35.14%) SQL
4 22 (14.86%) Go
5 20 (13.51%) Kotlin
6 10 (6.76%) Ruby
7 8 (5.41%) R
8 6 (4.05%) C++
9 4 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.70%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.03%) Bicep
10 3 (2.03%) C#
10 3 (2.03%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.68%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (13.51%) Degree
2 11 (7.43%) Master's Degree
3 10 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.76%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.08%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.38%) MBA
7 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) OSCP
8 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.92%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.43%) GDPR
3 6 (4.05%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 50 (33.78%) Docker
2 7 (4.73%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 21 (14.19%) Terraform
3 3 (2.03%) Control-M
4 1 (0.68%) Argo
4 1 (0.68%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 37 (25.00%) Databricks
2 19 (12.84%) Typelevel
3 5 (3.38%) BT
3 5 (3.38%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.70%) Oracle
4 4 (2.70%) Palantir
5 3 (2.03%) BMC
5 3 (2.03%) IBM
5 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.03%) Talend
6 2 (1.35%) GoCardless
6 2 (1.35%) mParticle
6 2 (1.35%) PayPal
6 2 (1.35%) Zuora
7 1 (0.68%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.68%) Google
7 1 (0.68%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.68%) Rackspace