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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 516 415
Rank change year-on-year -41 -101 +28
Permanent jobs citing Scala 191 128 388
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.30% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 1.08% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 125 66 141
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,313 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -3.40%
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -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 16,837 11,828 21,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.56% 27.37% 30.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,285 7,816 13,580
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,125 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -55 103 £105,000 +16.67% 255
North of England -44 43 £66,250 +1.92% 48
North West +5 24 £66,250 -17.19% 19
South West - 19 £64,250 - 18
North East -63 11 £57,500 -11.54% 14
East of England -22 8 £135,500 +108.46% 17
Yorkshire -50 8 £90,000 +83.67% 15
South East -37 6 £55,000 -45.00% 34
Midlands -43 6 £81,500 +25.38% 11
East Midlands - 5 - - 3
West Midlands -48 1 £81,500 +25.38% 8
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 53 (27.75%) Apache Spark
2 37 (19.37%) Apache
3 10 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.57%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.57%) SAS
5 2 (1.05%) Luigi
6 1 (0.52%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 83 (43.46%) Azure
2 74 (38.74%) AWS
3 50 (26.18%) GCP
4 43 (22.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 35 (18.32%) Azure Databricks
6 31 (16.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 28 (14.66%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (13.09%) Power Platform
9 21 (10.99%) GitHub
10 18 (9.42%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (9.42%) Snowflake
11 16 (8.38%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (6.28%) Amazon S3
13 11 (5.76%) Serverless
14 10 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
15 5 (2.62%) SaaS
16 4 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (2.09%) Cloud Composer
16 4 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.71%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.32%) Big Data
2 30 (15.71%) Delta Lake
3 29 (15.18%) Metadata
4 27 (14.14%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (12.04%) Power BI
6 22 (11.52%) Data Vault
7 21 (10.99%) Hadoop
8 19 (9.95%) NoSQL
9 17 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (8.90%) Tableau
10 14 (7.33%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (6.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (6.81%) Relational Database
12 11 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (5.76%) BigQuery
12 11 (5.76%) Data Lake
13 9 (4.71%) MongoDB
13 9 (4.71%) SQL Server
14 6 (3.14%) MySQL
15 5 (2.62%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (11.52%) Git
2 20 (10.47%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.66%) GitLab
4 5 (2.62%) Maven
5 3 (1.57%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.57%) Gatling
5 3 (1.57%) JUnit
5 3 (1.57%) Postman
5 3 (1.57%) Selenium
6 2 (1.05%) Gradle
6 2 (1.05%) Mockito
7 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 56 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.13%) Finance
3 27 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.24%) Law
5 7 (3.66%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.66%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.62%) Legal
6 5 (2.62%) Marketing
7 4 (2.09%) Advertising
7 4 (2.09%) Banking
8 3 (1.57%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.05%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (31.94%) Data Engineer
2 41 (21.47%) Senior
3 36 (18.85%) Developer
4 34 (17.80%) Architect
5 29 (15.18%) Data Architect
6 27 (14.14%) Lead
7 22 (11.52%) Software Engineer
8 16 (8.38%) Scala Developer
8 16 (8.38%) Scala Engineer
8 16 (8.38%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (6.28%) Software Developer
10 11 (5.76%) Consultant
11 10 (5.24%) Software Consultant
12 9 (4.71%) Azure Data Engineer
12 9 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (4.71%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (4.19%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 8 (4.19%) Databricks Engineer
13 8 (4.19%) Principal Engineer
14 7 (3.66%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.37%) PySpark
2 27 (14.14%) Kafka
3 26 (13.61%) Terraform
4 9 (4.71%) gRPC
5 8 (4.19%) React
6 6 (3.14%) Spring
6 6 (3.14%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.62%) Hibernate
7 5 (2.62%) JPA
7 5 (2.62%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.62%) Play Framework
7 5 (2.62%) Spring MVC
7 5 (2.62%) Swagger
8 4 (2.09%) Apache Beam
8 4 (2.09%) CrewAI
8 4 (2.09%) LangChain
8 4 (2.09%) RESTful
8 4 (2.09%) YAML
9 3 (1.57%) Node.js
9 3 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.42%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.71%) Over-the-Top Content
3 9 (4.71%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.66%) Robotics
6 5 (2.62%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.09%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.05%) Blog
9 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.52%) IPTV
10 1 (0.52%) Life Science
10 1 (0.52%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Linux
1 1 (0.52%) Unix
1 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (41.36%) Data Modelling
2 78 (40.84%) CI/CD
3 76 (39.79%) Analytics
4 73 (38.22%) Data Engineering
5 64 (33.51%) AI
6 60 (31.41%) Agile
6 60 (31.41%) Data Pipeline
7 52 (27.23%) Data Science
7 52 (27.23%) Machine Learning
8 48 (25.13%) Software Engineering
9 47 (24.61%) Business Intelligence
10 46 (24.08%) DevOps
11 44 (23.04%) ETL
12 41 (21.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (19.37%) Data Architecture
14 34 (17.80%) Lakehouse
14 34 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (16.75%) Technical Leadership
16 27 (14.14%) Roadmaps
17 25 (13.09%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 115 (60.21%) Python
2 89 (46.60%) SQL
3 76 (39.79%) Java
4 16 (8.38%) Bicep
5 14 (7.33%) Go
6 11 (5.76%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.71%) C++
7 9 (4.71%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.71%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.66%) C
8 7 (3.66%) Clojure
8 7 (3.66%) Erlang
8 7 (3.66%) R
8 7 (3.66%) Rust
9 4 (2.09%) C#
10 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.05%) PHP
11 2 (1.05%) Ruby
11 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.52%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 54 (28.27%) Security Cleared
2 36 (18.85%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.14%) Azure Certification
4 19 (9.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (8.38%) SnowPro
6 11 (5.76%) Degree
7 9 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.14%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.09%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (30.89%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.62%) QA
4 2 (1.05%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (20.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (17.28%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.09%) Grafana
3 3 (1.57%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.57%) Kibana
4 2 (1.05%) Ansible
4 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 56 (29.32%) Databricks
2 35 (18.32%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.71%) Typelevel
4 6 (3.14%) Splunk
5 5 (2.62%) Dynatrace
5 5 (2.62%) Google
6 3 (1.57%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco
8 1 (0.52%) Informatica
8 1 (0.52%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.52%) New Relic
8 1 (0.52%) Polycom
8 1 (0.52%) Workday