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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 525 425
Rank change year-on-year -17 -100 +8
Permanent jobs citing Scala 201 130 374
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.30% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 1.01% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 118 69 168
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £63,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £111,250 £102,500
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 16,619 12,849 21,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.91% 29.50% 29.63%
Number of salaries quoted 12,123 8,581 16,126
10th Percentile £37,800 £34,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +5.79% -6.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -46 105 £105,000 +16.67% 117
North of England -21 35 £75,000 +15.38% 16
South West - 22 £63,500 - 11
North West +15 21 £57,500 -28.13% 6
East of England -13 13 £100,000 +53.85% 3
Midlands -31 12 £85,000 +30.77% 17
West Midlands -27 7 £85,000 +30.77% 15
Yorkshire -30 7 £90,000 +61.43% 7
North East -50 7 £55,500 -14.62% 3
South East -36 6 £55,000 -25.42% 10
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
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 51 (25.37%) Apache Spark
2 32 (15.92%) Apache
3 14 (6.97%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.49%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.49%) SAS
5 2 (1.00%) Luigi
6 1 (0.50%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 100 (49.75%) AWS
2 78 (38.81%) GCP
3 66 (32.84%) Azure
4 30 (14.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (10.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 22 (10.95%) Microsoft Purview
6 21 (10.45%) Power Platform
7 19 (9.45%) GitHub
8 14 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (6.47%) Snowflake
10 12 (5.97%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.98%) Cloud Composer
11 8 (3.98%) Serverless
12 7 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.49%) Dagster
13 5 (2.49%) dbt
13 5 (2.49%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (1.99%) AWS Data Pipeline
14 4 (1.99%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 41 (20.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.93%) Big Data
1 28 (13.93%) Metadata
2 25 (12.44%) Delta Lake
3 23 (11.44%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (9.45%) Power BI
5 18 (8.96%) Data Vault
6 17 (8.46%) Hadoop
7 16 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (7.46%) BigQuery
9 14 (6.97%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (6.47%) NoSQL
11 12 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (5.97%) Relational Database
11 12 (5.97%) Tableau
12 9 (4.48%) SQL Server
13 8 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (3.48%) MySQL
15 6 (2.99%) MongoDB
16 5 (2.49%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (2.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 18 (8.96%) Git
2 12 (5.97%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.48%) GitLab
4 3 (1.49%) Gatling
4 3 (1.49%) Maven
4 3 (1.49%) Postman
4 3 (1.49%) Selenium
5 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.50%) JUnit
5 1 (0.50%) MLflow
General
1 47 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 38 (18.91%) Finance
3 23 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.46%) Law
5 7 (3.48%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.49%) Marketing
6 5 (2.49%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.99%) Advertising
7 4 (1.99%) Legal
8 3 (1.49%) Banking
8 3 (1.49%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.00%) Games
10 1 (0.50%) Front Office
10 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (29.85%) Data Engineer
2 47 (23.38%) Senior
3 39 (19.40%) Developer
4 35 (17.41%) Scala Engineer
5 30 (14.93%) Lead
5 30 (14.93%) Software Engineer
6 27 (13.43%) Architect
7 23 (11.44%) Data Architect
8 21 (10.45%) Scala Developer
9 17 (8.46%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (6.47%) Scala Software Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.47%) Consultant
12 11 (5.47%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (4.98%) Senior Scala Engineer
13 10 (4.98%) Software Consultant
14 7 (3.48%) Technical Leader
15 6 (2.99%) Senior Manager
15 6 (2.99%) Senior Technical Manager
15 6 (2.99%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (17.91%) gRPC
2 27 (13.43%) PySpark
3 26 (12.94%) Kafka
4 7 (3.48%) React
5 6 (2.99%) Node.js
6 4 (1.99%) OAuth
6 4 (1.99%) OpenID
6 4 (1.99%) RESTful
6 4 (1.99%) Spring
6 4 (1.99%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.49%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.49%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.49%) Hibernate
7 3 (1.49%) JPA
7 3 (1.49%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.49%) Play Framework
7 3 (1.49%) Playwright
7 3 (1.49%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.49%) Swagger
8 2 (1.00%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 44 (21.89%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (17.91%) Over-the-Top Content
2 36 (17.91%) Video\Live Streaming
3 31 (15.42%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.48%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.98%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.48%) Robotics
7 5 (2.49%) Anti-Piracy
7 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.49%) Social Media
8 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.50%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.50%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
1 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (47.26%) CI/CD
2 79 (39.30%) Data Science
3 74 (36.82%) Machine Learning
4 73 (36.32%) Software Engineering
5 71 (35.32%) Analytics
6 66 (32.84%) Data Modelling
7 64 (31.84%) Data Engineering
8 55 (27.36%) Data Pipeline
9 52 (25.87%) AI
10 49 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (23.88%) Containerisation
12 45 (22.39%) Agile
12 45 (22.39%) Coaching
13 43 (21.39%) ETL
13 43 (21.39%) Microservices
14 41 (20.40%) Continuous Delivery
15 40 (19.90%) Clean Code
16 39 (19.40%) Business Intelligence
17 37 (18.41%) DevOps
18 36 (17.91%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 130 (64.68%) Python
2 73 (36.32%) Java
2 73 (36.32%) SQL
3 40 (19.90%) Go
4 14 (6.97%) C++
5 13 (6.47%) Bicep
6 11 (5.47%) Rust
7 10 (4.98%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.48%) C
8 7 (3.48%) Clojure
8 7 (3.48%) Erlang
8 7 (3.48%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.99%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.49%) Ruby
11 4 (1.99%) Elixir
11 4 (1.99%) R
12 3 (1.49%) C#
12 3 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (19.90%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.45%) Azure Certification
4 16 (7.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (5.97%) SnowPro
6 9 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.48%) Degree
7 5 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (23.88%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.49%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.00%) GDPR
3 2 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 59 (29.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (10.95%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.95%) Terraform
3 3 (1.49%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.49%) Kibana
4 2 (1.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 40 (19.90%) Databricks
2 36 (17.91%) Typelevel
3 27 (13.43%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.49%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.99%) Google
6 3 (1.49%) Splunk
7 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.50%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.50%) OpenAI