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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 427 441
Rank change year-on-year -65 +14 -174
Permanent jobs citing Scala 118 299 242
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.53% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.14% 1.58% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 73 138 206
10th Percentile £48,800 - £56,375
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £112,312
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £143,125
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 10,325 18,925 18,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.24% 33.64% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,754 11,409 15,304
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £48,750
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 £110,000 £110,695 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 6 December 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 6 December 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 -7 82 £90,000 +8.13% 41
North of England -48 24 £65,000 -10.34% 8
Yorkshire -15 15 £49,000 -1.00%
West Midlands +42 8 £65,000 - 4
Midlands +37 8 £65,000 -7.14% 5
North East -6 6 £65,000 -10.34%
North West -12 5 £75,000 +3.45% 8
South West +27 1 £75,000 -9.09%
South East +19 1 - - 34
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 32 (27.12%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.08%) Apache
2 6 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.54%) Luigi
4 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (55.08%) AWS
2 45 (38.14%) Azure
3 26 (22.03%) GCP
4 25 (21.19%) Power Platform
5 19 (16.10%) Serverless
6 16 (13.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (12.71%) Amazon Kinesis
7 15 (12.71%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (12.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (10.17%) AWS Step Functions
9 9 (7.63%) Amazon S3
10 8 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.93%) GitHub
12 6 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (4.24%) Azure Storage
13 5 (4.24%) Snowflake
14 4 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (3.39%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (3.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) Broadband
2 1 (0.85%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (27.97%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (21.19%) Power BI
3 19 (16.10%) Big Data
3 19 (16.10%) Data Lake
4 16 (13.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (13.56%) Hadoop
5 11 (9.32%) Metadata
6 10 (8.47%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (7.63%) Apache Hive
7 9 (7.63%) MySQL
7 9 (7.63%) NoSQL
8 8 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (5.93%) DynamoDB
10 6 (5.08%) Data Vault
10 6 (5.08%) Power Query
11 5 (4.24%) Delta Lake
11 5 (4.24%) MongoDB
12 4 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (3.39%) SQL Server
13 3 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (9.32%) Git
2 10 (8.47%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.69%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.69%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.69%) Gatling
3 2 (1.69%) JMeter
3 2 (1.69%) JUnit
3 2 (1.69%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.69%) Selenium
4 1 (0.85%) git-flow
4 1 (0.85%) JIRA
4 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (40.68%) Finance
2 32 (27.12%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.47%) Financial Institution
4 10 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.24%) Legal
6 5 (4.24%) Marketing
7 4 (3.39%) Banking
7 4 (3.39%) Law
8 3 (2.54%) Retail
9 2 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Advertising
10 1 (0.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 52 (44.07%) Data Engineer
2 37 (31.36%) Senior
3 28 (23.73%) Developer
4 25 (21.19%) Lead
5 19 (16.10%) Senior Data Engineer
6 14 (11.86%) Software Engineer
7 13 (11.02%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (10.17%) Java Developer
8 12 (10.17%) Scala Developer
9 11 (9.32%) Azure Data Engineer
9 11 (9.32%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (9.32%) Lead Developer
10 10 (8.47%) AWS Data Engineer
10 10 (8.47%) Senior Developer
11 8 (6.78%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (5.08%) Lead Java Developer
12 6 (5.08%) Principal Developer
12 6 (5.08%) Principal Java Developer
12 6 (5.08%) Ruby Engineer
12 6 (5.08%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.49%) Kafka
2 10 (8.47%) React
2 10 (8.47%) Spark Streaming
3 9 (7.63%) Flutter
4 8 (6.78%) boto
4 8 (6.78%) Spring
5 7 (5.93%) PySpark
6 4 (3.39%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.54%) .NET
7 3 (2.54%) Memcached
7 3 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.69%) Play Framework
8 2 (1.69%) PostGIS
8 2 (1.69%) RESTful
8 2 (1.69%) Web Services
8 2 (1.69%) XML
9 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.85%) NetworkX
9 1 (0.85%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.19%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (9.32%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.47%) Data Structures
3 10 (8.47%) e-Learning
3 10 (8.47%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (5.08%) Derivative
5 4 (3.39%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.39%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.54%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.69%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.85%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.63%) Linux
2 3 (2.54%) Unix
3 1 (0.85%) Android
3 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (39.83%) Data Pipeline
2 44 (37.29%) Data Modelling
3 43 (36.44%) Data Engineering
4 40 (33.90%) Machine Learning
5 37 (31.36%) Agile
5 37 (31.36%) Analytics
5 37 (31.36%) CI/CD
6 36 (30.51%) DevOps
7 33 (27.97%) Data Science
7 33 (27.97%) ETL
8 26 (22.03%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (21.19%) Data Governance
9 25 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (19.49%) Mentoring
11 21 (17.80%) AI
12 19 (16.10%) Software Engineering
13 16 (13.56%) Computer Science
13 16 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 14 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (11.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 67 (56.78%) Python
2 65 (55.08%) Java
3 51 (43.22%) SQL
4 31 (26.27%) Kotlin
5 10 (8.47%) Ruby
6 9 (7.63%) Go
7 8 (6.78%) C#
7 8 (6.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (6.78%) R
8 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.39%) F#
9 4 (3.39%) Haskell
9 4 (3.39%) OCaml
10 2 (1.69%) Bicep
10 2 (1.69%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.69%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.85%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.85%) Elixir
11 1 (0.85%) Perl
11 1 (0.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (13.56%) Degree
2 11 (9.32%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.93%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.93%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.24%) PhD
6 3 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.85%) CISSP
8 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.85%) OSCP
8 1 (0.85%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.25%) Data Quality
2 15 (12.71%) GDPR
3 5 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.54%) QA
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 10 (8.47%) Docker
1 10 (8.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.78%) Terraform
3 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.69%) Ansible
4 2 (1.69%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.69%) Puppet
5 1 (0.85%) Argo
5 1 (0.85%) Grafana
5 1 (0.85%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 35 (29.66%) Databricks
2 6 (5.08%) Google
2 6 (5.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.08%) Oracle
3 5 (4.24%) Palantir
4 1 (0.85%) Cloudera
4 1 (0.85%) Informatica
4 1 (0.85%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.85%) Rackspace
4 1 (0.85%) Salesforce