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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 446 418
Rank change year-on-year -41 -28 -153
Permanent jobs citing Scala 131 260 259
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.52% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 1.51% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 79 127 218
10th Percentile £48,200 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £58,125 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% - -
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 10,335 17,231 17,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.87% 34.17% 39.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7,792 10,323 14,526
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,524 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,050 £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 24 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 24 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 -4 83 £90,000 +5.88% 66
North of England -38 27 £65,000 -5.45% 33
Yorkshire -18 16 £49,000 -1.00% 13
West Midlands +48 10 £65,000 - 13
Midlands +29 10 £65,000 -7.14% 24
North West +5 7 £75,000 -3.23% 17
South East +19 6 - - 42
North East -7 6 £65,000 -3.70% 3
South West +16 3 £55,200 -33.09% 14
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 35 (26.72%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.58%) Apache
2 6 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.82%) IIS
4 3 (2.29%) Luigi
5 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.15%) AWS
2 48 (36.64%) Azure
3 26 (19.85%) GCP
4 25 (19.08%) Power Platform
5 20 (15.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (14.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (12.98%) Amazon Kinesis
7 17 (12.98%) Serverless
8 14 (10.69%) Amazon S3
8 14 (10.69%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (8.40%) AWS Step Functions
11 10 (7.63%) Snowflake
12 9 (6.87%) Amazon SageMaker
13 7 (5.34%) GitHub
14 5 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (3.05%) Azure Storage
15 4 (3.05%) dbt
15 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) Broadband
2 1 (0.76%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (26.72%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (19.08%) Power BI
3 24 (18.32%) Big Data
4 23 (17.56%) Hadoop
5 22 (16.79%) Data Lake
6 17 (12.98%) Metadata
7 16 (12.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (10.69%) NoSQL
9 12 (9.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (7.63%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (7.63%) Delta Lake
11 9 (6.87%) Apache Hive
11 9 (6.87%) MySQL
12 8 (6.11%) DynamoDB
12 8 (6.11%) Tableau
13 6 (4.58%) Data Mining
13 6 (4.58%) Power Query
13 6 (4.58%) SQL Server
14 5 (3.82%) Data Vault
14 5 (3.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (9.92%) Git
2 10 (7.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.53%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.53%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.53%) Gatling
3 2 (1.53%) JMeter
3 2 (1.53%) JUnit
3 2 (1.53%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.53%) Selenium
4 1 (0.76%) JIRA
4 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (35.11%) Finance
2 33 (25.19%) Social Skills
3 30 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.21%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.63%) Financial Institution
5 10 (7.63%) Marketing
6 5 (3.82%) Legal
6 5 (3.82%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.05%) Retail
8 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Front Office
10 1 (0.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 62 (47.33%) Data Engineer
2 46 (35.11%) Senior
3 29 (22.14%) Developer
4 23 (17.56%) Senior Data Engineer
5 21 (16.03%) Lead
6 13 (9.92%) Scala Developer
6 13 (9.92%) Software Engineer
7 12 (9.16%) Azure Data Engineer
7 12 (9.16%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (8.40%) Java Developer
8 11 (8.40%) Lead Developer
8 11 (8.40%) Senior Developer
9 10 (7.63%) AWS Data Engineer
9 10 (7.63%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Lead Java Developer
11 6 (4.58%) Principal Developer
11 6 (4.58%) Principal Java Developer
11 6 (4.58%) Ruby Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.61%) Kafka
2 17 (12.98%) PySpark
3 10 (7.63%) React
3 10 (7.63%) Spark Streaming
4 9 (6.87%) Flutter
5 8 (6.11%) boto
5 8 (6.11%) Spring
6 7 (5.34%) Play Framework
7 5 (3.82%) Memcached
8 4 (3.05%) .NET
9 3 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.53%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.53%) PostGIS
10 2 (1.53%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.53%) XML
11 1 (0.76%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.76%) NetworkX
11 1 (0.76%) PyTorch
11 1 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.90%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.40%) Data Structures
3 10 (7.63%) e-Learning
4 9 (6.87%) Cloud Native
4 9 (6.87%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (6.11%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.82%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.05%) Derivative
7 4 (3.05%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.76%) Over-the-Top Content
10 1 (0.76%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.87%) Linux
2 3 (2.29%) Unix
3 1 (0.76%) Android
3 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.27%) Data Pipeline
2 52 (39.69%) Analytics
2 52 (39.69%) Data Engineering
2 52 (39.69%) Data Modelling
3 48 (36.64%) Agile
4 46 (35.11%) DevOps
5 44 (33.59%) Machine Learning
6 42 (32.06%) ETL
7 39 (29.77%) CI/CD
7 39 (29.77%) Data Science
8 34 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (22.90%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (21.37%) Data Governance
11 25 (19.08%) Computer Science
12 24 (18.32%) AI
13 23 (17.56%) Mentoring
14 20 (15.27%) Roadmaps
15 19 (14.50%) Decision-Making
16 15 (11.45%) Software Engineering
16 15 (11.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 82 (62.60%) Python
2 69 (52.67%) Java
3 61 (46.56%) SQL
4 29 (22.14%) Kotlin
5 13 (9.92%) R
6 10 (7.63%) Ruby
7 9 (6.87%) Go
8 8 (6.11%) C#
8 8 (6.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.82%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.05%) F#
10 4 (3.05%) Haskell
10 4 (3.05%) OCaml
11 3 (2.29%) Bicep
11 3 (2.29%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.29%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.76%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.76%) Groovy
12 1 (0.76%) Perl
12 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (19.08%) Degree
2 14 (10.69%) Master's Degree
3 11 (8.40%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.63%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (6.11%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.82%) MBA
7 5 (3.82%) PhD
8 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.76%) CISSP
9 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.76%) OSCP
9 1 (0.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (21.37%) Data Quality
2 16 (12.21%) GDPR
3 6 (4.58%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.29%) QA
6 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (7.63%) HDFS
2 9 (6.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (11.45%) Terraform
2 11 (8.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.29%) Control-M
4 2 (1.53%) Ansible
4 2 (1.53%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.53%) Puppet
5 1 (0.76%) Argo
5 1 (0.76%) Grafana
5 1 (0.76%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 44 (33.59%) Databricks
2 7 (5.34%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.58%) Oracle
4 5 (3.82%) BT
4 5 (3.82%) Google
4 5 (3.82%) Palantir
5 3 (2.29%) BMC
5 3 (2.29%) IBM
5 3 (2.29%) Talend
6 1 (0.76%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.76%) Informatica
6 1 (0.76%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.76%) Rackspace
6 1 (0.76%) Salesforce