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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 510 482
Rank change year-on-year +2 -28 -151
Permanent jobs citing Scala 191 131 406
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 1.04% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 80 71 258
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,438 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,250 £70,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% -11.11% -1.56%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,375 £101,250 £107,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% -9.38%

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 15,068 12,650 28,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.28% 32.17% 30.63%
Number of salaries quoted 10,846 8,458 22,993
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -15 107 £107,500 +38.71% 25
North of England -28 19 £57,500 -8.00% 18
South West -46 17 £59,500 -11.85% 12
East of England -5 13 £100,000 +53.85% 1
North West +23 12 £55,500 -30.63% 13
Midlands -10 12 £83,250 +14.83% 4
South East -25 11 £55,000 -21.43% 7
West Midlands -15 10 £83,250 +14.83% 3
Yorkshire -42 5 £90,000 +83.67% 4
North East -39 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
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 41 (21.47%) Apache Spark
2 23 (12.04%) Apache
3 15 (7.85%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.09%) IIS
5 3 (1.57%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.57%) SAS
6 2 (1.05%) Luigi
7 1 (0.52%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 104 (54.45%) AWS
2 83 (43.46%) GCP
3 48 (25.13%) Azure
4 22 (11.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (10.47%) GitHub
6 18 (9.42%) Amazon S3
7 17 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (8.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (8.38%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.71%) Cloud Composer
9 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (4.19%) Amazon SageMaker
10 8 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.66%) dbt
11 7 (3.66%) Snowflake
12 6 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (3.14%) Dagster
12 6 (3.14%) SaaS
12 6 (3.14%) Serverless
13 5 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 74 (38.74%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.52%) Metadata
2 21 (10.99%) Big Data
2 21 (10.99%) Delta Lake
3 20 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (9.42%) NoSQL
5 15 (7.85%) BigQuery
5 15 (7.85%) Hadoop
6 14 (7.33%) Power BI
7 12 (6.28%) Tableau
8 11 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (5.24%) Data Lake
9 10 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (4.71%) Relational Database
11 8 (4.19%) SQL Server
12 6 (3.14%) Data Vault
12 6 (3.14%) MongoDB
13 5 (2.62%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (2.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (15.71%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.52%) TeamCity
3 21 (10.99%) Git
4 6 (3.14%) GitLab
5 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.05%) Gatling
5 2 (1.05%) JUnit
5 2 (1.05%) Maven
6 1 (0.52%) MLflow
6 1 (0.52%) Postman
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 36 (18.85%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.09%) Finance
3 20 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.28%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.24%) Law
6 9 (4.71%) Marketing
7 5 (2.62%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.57%) Advertising
10 2 (1.05%) Billing
10 2 (1.05%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.05%) Legal
11 1 (0.52%) Games
11 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (34.03%) Data Engineer
2 53 (27.75%) Senior
3 51 (26.70%) Scala Engineer
4 38 (19.90%) Software Engineer
5 32 (16.75%) Developer
6 27 (14.14%) Scala Software Engineer
7 26 (13.61%) Lead
8 23 (12.04%) Scala Developer
9 18 (9.42%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (6.81%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 12 (6.28%) Architect
11 12 (6.28%) Lead Software Engineer
12 11 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.71%) Data Architect
13 9 (4.71%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.71%) Software Developer
14 8 (4.19%) Senior Manager
15 7 (3.66%) Systems Engineer
16 6 (3.14%) Backend Developer
16 6 (3.14%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (23.56%) gRPC
2 26 (13.61%) PySpark
3 22 (11.52%) Akka
3 22 (11.52%) Kafka
4 8 (4.19%) React
5 7 (3.66%) Play Framework
6 6 (3.14%) Node.js
7 4 (2.09%) OAuth
7 4 (2.09%) OpenID
7 4 (2.09%) Spring
8 3 (1.57%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.57%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (1.05%) .NET
9 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.05%) Playwright
9 2 (1.05%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.05%) WireMock
10 1 (0.52%) PostGIS
10 1 (0.52%) REST
10 1 (0.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 68 (35.60%) Video\Live Streaming
2 67 (35.08%) Over-the-Top Content
3 57 (29.84%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.76%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.71%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.66%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.14%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (3.14%) Social Media
8 5 (2.62%) Robotics
9 4 (2.09%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.57%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.52%) IoT
12 1 (0.52%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Linux
1 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (46.60%) CI/CD
2 85 (44.50%) Data Science
3 83 (43.46%) Analytics
4 77 (40.31%) Software Engineering
5 67 (35.08%) Machine Learning
6 62 (32.46%) Agile
6 62 (32.46%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (31.41%) Data Pipeline
8 56 (29.32%) Coaching
9 52 (27.23%) Data Engineering
9 52 (27.23%) Data Modelling
10 50 (26.18%) Containerisation
10 50 (26.18%) Microservices
11 49 (25.65%) Continuous Delivery
12 48 (25.13%) ETL
13 47 (24.61%) Clean Code
14 45 (23.56%) Personalization
15 41 (21.47%) DevOps
16 32 (16.75%) Open Source
17 31 (16.23%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 127 (66.49%) Python
2 63 (32.98%) SQL
3 53 (27.75%) Java
4 46 (24.08%) Go
5 11 (5.76%) C++
6 9 (4.71%) Rust
6 9 (4.71%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.14%) R
8 5 (2.62%) Bicep
8 5 (2.62%) C
8 5 (2.62%) Clojure
8 5 (2.62%) Erlang
8 5 (2.62%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.09%) Elixir
9 4 (2.09%) Ruby
10 3 (1.57%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.05%) C#
11 2 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (9.42%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.85%) Degree
3 13 (6.81%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.71%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.71%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.09%) MBA
8 3 (1.57%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (23.04%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.09%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.57%) QA
System Software
1 85 (44.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (19.37%) Kubernetes
2 24 (12.57%) Terraform
3 3 (1.57%) Control-M
3 3 (1.57%) Kibana
4 2 (1.05%) Ansible
4 2 (1.05%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 45 (23.56%) Typelevel
2 32 (16.75%) Databricks
3 15 (7.85%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.09%) BT
4 4 (2.09%) Google
5 3 (1.57%) BMC
5 3 (1.57%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.57%) IBM
5 3 (1.57%) Talend
6 2 (1.05%) Braze
6 2 (1.05%) GoCardless
6 2 (1.05%) mParticle
6 2 (1.05%) PayPal
6 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.05%) Zuora
7 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.52%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.52%) Splunk