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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 506 431
Rank change year-on-year -38 -75 +16
Permanent jobs citing Scala 203 137 377
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.31% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 1.10% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 124 73 163
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £128,125 £114,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +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 16,771 12,419 21,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.50% 28.39% 29.69%
Number of salaries quoted 12,228 8,297 15,544
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
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 23 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 23 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 -32 109 £105,000 +16.67% 19
North of England -30 40 £57,500 -11.54% 11
South West - 22 £63,500 - 8
North West +5 21 £57,500 -28.13% 4
East of England -10 12 £100,000 +53.85% 1
North East -51 11 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Midlands -29 8 £85,000 +30.77% 3
Yorkshire -50 8 £90,000 +61.43% 3
South East -24 5 £55,000 -25.42% 11
East Midlands - 5 - - 1
West Midlands -32 3 £85,000 +30.77% 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 50 (24.63%) Apache Spark
2 35 (17.24%) Apache
3 8 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.48%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.48%) SAS
5 2 (0.99%) Luigi
6 1 (0.49%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 91 (44.83%) AWS
2 74 (36.45%) Azure
3 64 (31.53%) GCP
4 37 (18.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 28 (13.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 25 (12.32%) Microsoft Purview
7 22 (10.84%) Power Platform
8 21 (10.34%) GitHub
9 16 (7.88%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (7.88%) Snowflake
10 15 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (6.40%) Amazon S3
12 10 (4.93%) Serverless
13 9 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.46%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.97%) SaaS
16 3 (1.48%) Amazon SQS
16 3 (1.48%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.27%) Big Data
2 28 (13.79%) Delta Lake
3 26 (12.81%) Metadata
4 24 (11.82%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (10.34%) Data Vault
6 20 (9.85%) Hadoop
6 20 (9.85%) Power BI
7 17 (8.37%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (7.39%) NoSQL
9 13 (6.40%) Tableau
10 11 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (5.42%) Relational Database
11 10 (4.93%) BigQuery
11 10 (4.93%) Data Lake
12 9 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (4.43%) MongoDB
12 9 (4.43%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.96%) MySQL
14 4 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 19 (9.36%) Git
2 15 (7.39%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.43%) GitLab
4 5 (2.46%) Maven
5 3 (1.48%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.48%) Gatling
5 3 (1.48%) JUnit
5 3 (1.48%) Postman
5 3 (1.48%) Selenium
6 2 (0.99%) Gradle
6 2 (0.99%) Mockito
7 1 (0.49%) MLflow
General
1 49 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 44 (21.67%) Finance
3 26 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (4.93%) Law
5 7 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.46%) Legal
6 5 (2.46%) Marketing
7 4 (1.97%) Advertising
8 3 (1.48%) Banking
8 3 (1.48%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.99%) Games
10 1 (0.49%) Front Office
10 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (29.06%) Data Engineer
2 41 (20.20%) Developer
3 39 (19.21%) Senior
4 32 (15.76%) Architect
5 31 (15.27%) Lead
6 30 (14.78%) Software Engineer
7 28 (13.79%) Data Architect
7 28 (13.79%) Scala Engineer
8 21 (10.34%) Scala Developer
9 13 (6.40%) Senior Data Engineer
10 12 (5.91%) Scala Software Engineer
10 12 (5.91%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.42%) Consultant
11 11 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (4.93%) Software Consultant
13 7 (3.45%) Senior Scala Engineer
13 7 (3.45%) Technical Leader
14 6 (2.96%) Azure Data Engineer
14 6 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (2.96%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.27%) PySpark
2 27 (13.30%) gRPC
3 24 (11.82%) Kafka
3 24 (11.82%) Terraform
4 8 (3.94%) React
5 6 (2.96%) Node.js
5 6 (2.96%) Spring
5 6 (2.96%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.46%) Hibernate
6 5 (2.46%) JPA
6 5 (2.46%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.46%) Play Framework
6 5 (2.46%) Spring MVC
6 5 (2.46%) Swagger
7 4 (1.97%) CrewAI
7 4 (1.97%) LangChain
7 4 (1.97%) OAuth
7 4 (1.97%) OpenID
7 4 (1.97%) RESTful
8 3 (1.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.72%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (13.30%) Over-the-Top Content
3 27 (13.30%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.45%) Robotics
6 5 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.97%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.97%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.99%) Blog
9 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.49%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.49%) Linux
1 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (47.29%) CI/CD
2 74 (36.45%) Analytics
3 72 (35.47%) Data Modelling
4 71 (34.98%) Machine Learning
5 69 (33.99%) Software Engineering
6 68 (33.50%) Data Science
7 67 (33.00%) Data Engineering
8 61 (30.05%) AI
9 55 (27.09%) Agile
10 53 (26.11%) Data Pipeline
11 45 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (21.18%) Business Intelligence
12 43 (21.18%) Containerisation
13 42 (20.69%) DevOps
13 42 (20.69%) ETL
14 41 (20.20%) Infrastructure as Code
15 38 (18.72%) Coaching
16 35 (17.24%) Clean Code
17 34 (16.75%) Microservices
18 32 (15.76%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 127 (62.56%) Python
2 79 (38.92%) SQL
3 72 (35.47%) Java
4 32 (15.76%) Go
5 16 (7.88%) Bicep
6 11 (5.42%) Rust
6 11 (5.42%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.43%) C++
7 9 (4.43%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.45%) C
8 7 (3.45%) Clojure
8 7 (3.45%) Erlang
8 7 (3.45%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.96%) Ruby
10 4 (1.97%) C#
10 4 (1.97%) Elixir
10 4 (1.97%) R
11 3 (1.48%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.33%) Azure Certification
4 18 (8.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (7.39%) SnowPro
6 10 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.93%) Degree
7 5 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (26.11%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.46%) QA
4 2 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 54 (26.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.97%) Grafana
3 3 (1.48%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.48%) Kibana
4 2 (0.99%) Ansible
4 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (23.65%) Databricks
2 32 (15.76%) Microsoft
3 27 (13.30%) Typelevel
4 5 (2.46%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.46%) Splunk
5 4 (1.97%) Google
6 3 (1.48%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.99%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.99%) Oracle
8 1 (0.49%) Informatica
8 1 (0.49%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.49%) Workday