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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 471 508
Rank change year-on-year -55 +37 -233
Permanent jobs citing Scala 162 149 335
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.39% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 1.18% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 55 92 260
10th Percentile £43,955 - £50,000
25th Percentile £50,575 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £102,475 £124,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -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 13,964 12,578 26,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.55% 33.25% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,798 9,268 22,404
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -1 95 £100,000 +53.85% 32
South West -40 13 £48,975 -26.08% 2
South East -49 13 £55,000 -21.43% 19
West Midlands -12 11 £65,500 -9.66% 3
Midlands -28 11 £65,500 -9.66% 3
North of England -64 11 £49,000 -24.62% 13
East of England -18 7 £100,000 +53.85% 4
Yorkshire -65 6 £49,000 -12.11% 1
North West -29 4 £90,000 +14.29% 9
North East -43 1 £57,500 -8.00% 3
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 30 (18.52%) Apache Spark
2 11 (6.79%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.09%) IIS
4 3 (1.85%) Apache
5 1 (0.62%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 94 (58.02%) AWS
2 72 (44.44%) GCP
3 41 (25.31%) Azure
4 19 (11.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (11.11%) GitHub
6 16 (9.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (8.02%) Amazon S3
7 13 (8.02%) Power Platform
8 9 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (4.94%) Amazon SageMaker
9 8 (4.94%) dbt
10 7 (4.32%) Snowflake
11 6 (3.70%) Cloud Composer
11 6 (3.70%) Dagster
12 5 (3.09%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.47%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 4 (2.47%) Prefect
13 4 (2.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 75 (46.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.49%) Metadata
2 16 (9.88%) Data Lake
2 16 (9.88%) Delta Lake
3 15 (9.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (8.64%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (8.64%) Hadoop
4 14 (8.64%) NoSQL
5 13 (8.02%) Big Data
6 11 (6.79%) MySQL
6 11 (6.79%) Power BI
6 11 (6.79%) Tableau
7 10 (6.17%) MongoDB
8 9 (5.56%) BigQuery
9 8 (4.94%) SQL Server
10 7 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (3.70%) Data Mining
11 6 (3.70%) Relational Database
12 5 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (3.09%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (17.28%) Jenkins
2 23 (14.20%) TeamCity
3 22 (13.58%) Git
4 4 (2.47%) GitLab
5 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.62%) Gatling
5 1 (0.62%) JUnit
5 1 (0.62%) Maven
General
1 21 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (11.73%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.11%) Finance
4 13 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.94%) Marketing
6 6 (3.70%) Law
7 5 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Billing
9 2 (1.23%) Legal
9 2 (1.23%) Retail
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
10 1 (0.62%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.62%) Games
10 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (35.19%) Data Engineer
2 51 (31.48%) Scala Engineer
2 51 (31.48%) Senior
3 34 (20.99%) Software Engineer
4 28 (17.28%) Developer
5 27 (16.67%) Scala Software Engineer
6 25 (15.43%) Scala Developer
7 19 (11.73%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) Senior Scala Engineer
9 11 (6.79%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.17%) Lead
11 9 (5.56%) Senior Developer
12 8 (4.94%) Senior Scala Developer
13 7 (4.32%) Systems Engineer
14 6 (3.70%) Architect
14 6 (3.70%) Backend Developer
14 6 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
15 5 (3.09%) Data Science Manager
15 5 (3.09%) Senior Manager
15 5 (3.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (27.78%) gRPC
2 24 (14.81%) PySpark
3 23 (14.20%) Akka
4 20 (12.35%) Kafka
5 6 (3.70%) Node.js
6 5 (3.09%) Play Framework
6 5 (3.09%) React
7 4 (2.47%) OAuth
7 4 (2.47%) OpenID
7 4 (2.47%) Spring
8 3 (1.85%) .NET
8 3 (1.85%) Memcached
9 2 (1.23%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.23%) PostGIS
10 1 (0.62%) boto
10 1 (0.62%) D3.js
10 1 (0.62%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.62%) REST
10 1 (0.62%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 69 (42.59%) Video\Live Streaming
2 68 (41.98%) Over-the-Top Content
3 58 (35.80%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (6.17%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.70%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (3.70%) Social Media
6 5 (3.09%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.09%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.47%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.62%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.62%) IoT
10 1 (0.62%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (52.47%) Data Science
2 81 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 76 (46.91%) Analytics
4 72 (44.44%) Machine Learning
5 65 (40.12%) Software Engineering
6 63 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (32.72%) Data Pipeline
8 52 (32.10%) Agile
9 50 (30.86%) Coaching
9 50 (30.86%) Microservices
10 49 (30.25%) Continuous Delivery
11 48 (29.63%) Containerisation
12 45 (27.78%) Clean Code
12 45 (27.78%) Personalization
13 42 (25.93%) Data Engineering
14 40 (24.69%) Data Modelling
14 40 (24.69%) ETL
15 37 (22.84%) DevOps
16 31 (19.14%) Open Source
17 29 (17.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 116 (71.60%) Python
2 56 (34.57%) SQL
3 45 (27.78%) Go
4 37 (22.84%) Java
5 7 (4.32%) R
6 6 (3.70%) C++
6 6 (3.70%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.47%) Bicep
7 4 (2.47%) C#
7 4 (2.47%) Elixir
7 4 (2.47%) Ruby
7 4 (2.47%) Rust
8 3 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.85%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.23%) PHP
9 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.62%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 19 (11.73%) Degree
2 12 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (7.41%) Master's Degree
3 8 (4.94%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.09%) MBA
6 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.52%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.47%) GDPR
4 3 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.23%) QA
6 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 83 (51.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (21.60%) Kubernetes
2 24 (14.81%) Terraform
3 3 (1.85%) Control-M
4 2 (1.23%) Ansible
5 1 (0.62%) Argo
5 1 (0.62%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 45 (27.78%) Typelevel
2 33 (20.37%) Databricks
3 10 (6.17%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.09%) BT
5 4 (2.47%) Oracle
5 4 (2.47%) Palantir
6 3 (1.85%) BMC
6 3 (1.85%) IBM
6 3 (1.85%) Talend
7 2 (1.23%) Braze
7 2 (1.23%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.23%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.23%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.23%) mParticle
7 2 (1.23%) PayPal
7 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.23%) Zuora
8 1 (0.62%) Google
8 1 (0.62%) OpenAI