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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 516 461
Rank change year-on-year -5 -55 -65
Permanent jobs citing Scala 197 131 421
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.30% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.23% 1.00% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 100 71 221
10th Percentile £48,625 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,188 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £109,875 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -0.68% -8.75%

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 15,999 13,089 27,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.41% 30.29% 30.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11,622 8,861 21,741
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -19 104 £105,000 +31.25% 62
North of England -23 29 £57,500 -8.00% 18
South West -39 19 £63,500 -5.93% 17
North West +12 18 £57,500 -28.13% 11
East of England +2 13 £100,000 +53.85%
Midlands -21 13 £85,000 +28.30% 4
West Midlands -10 8 £85,000 +28.30% 4
South East -42 7 £55,000 -21.43% 13
Yorkshire -34 6 £90,000 +83.67% 3
North East -42 5 £55,500 - 4
East Midlands - 5 - -
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 45 (22.84%) Apache Spark
2 28 (14.21%) Apache
3 15 (7.61%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.52%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.52%) SAS
5 2 (1.02%) Luigi
6 1 (0.51%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 104 (52.79%) AWS
2 86 (43.65%) GCP
3 55 (27.92%) Azure
4 25 (12.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (10.15%) GitHub
6 19 (9.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 17 (8.63%) Power Platform
8 14 (7.11%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (6.60%) Amazon S3
9 13 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.57%) Cloud Composer
12 8 (4.06%) Serverless
12 8 (4.06%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.05%) Dagster
14 6 (3.05%) dbt
14 6 (3.05%) SaaS
15 4 (2.03%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (2.03%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 62 (31.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.17%) Big Data
1 22 (11.17%) Metadata
2 21 (10.66%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (9.64%) Delta Lake
4 17 (8.63%) BigQuery
5 15 (7.61%) Power BI
6 14 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (6.60%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (6.60%) Hadoop
8 12 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (6.09%) NoSQL
9 11 (5.58%) Data Vault
10 9 (4.57%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.57%) SQL Server
11 8 (4.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (4.06%) Tableau
12 6 (3.05%) MongoDB
13 5 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (2.54%) Data Lake
13 5 (2.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (10.66%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.15%) Git
3 10 (5.08%) TeamCity
4 7 (3.55%) GitLab
5 3 (1.52%) Gatling
5 3 (1.52%) Maven
5 3 (1.52%) Postman
5 3 (1.52%) Selenium
6 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.02%) JUnit
7 1 (0.51%) MLflow
General
1 42 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.74%) Finance
3 16 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.09%) Law
5 7 (3.55%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.05%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.54%) Marketing
8 4 (2.03%) Advertising
9 3 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (1.02%) Billing
10 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.02%) Legal
11 1 (0.51%) Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Front Office
11 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (29.44%) Data Engineer
2 49 (24.87%) Senior
3 46 (23.35%) Scala Engineer
4 40 (20.30%) Developer
5 34 (17.26%) Software Engineer
6 31 (15.74%) Lead
7 22 (11.17%) Scala Developer
7 22 (11.17%) Scala Software Engineer
8 17 (8.63%) Architect
9 16 (8.12%) Senior Data Engineer
10 14 (7.11%) Data Architect
10 14 (7.11%) Software Developer
11 13 (6.60%) Lead Software Engineer
12 12 (6.09%) Senior Scala Engineer
13 11 (5.58%) Consultant
14 10 (5.08%) Software Consultant
15 8 (4.06%) Senior Developer
16 7 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
16 7 (3.55%) Technical Leader
17 6 (3.05%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.84%) gRPC
2 24 (12.18%) Kafka
3 20 (10.15%) PySpark
4 10 (5.08%) Akka
5 8 (4.06%) React
6 6 (3.05%) Node.js
7 4 (2.03%) OAuth
7 4 (2.03%) OpenID
7 4 (2.03%) Spring
7 4 (2.03%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.52%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.52%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.52%) JPA
8 3 (1.52%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.52%) Play Framework
8 3 (1.52%) Playwright
8 3 (1.52%) RESTful
8 3 (1.52%) Spring MVC
8 3 (1.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 56 (28.43%) Video\Live Streaming
2 55 (27.92%) Over-the-Top Content
3 50 (25.38%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (8.63%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.08%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.06%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (3.55%) Robotics
8 6 (3.05%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (3.05%) Social Media
9 5 (2.54%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.51%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.51%) IoT
11 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.51%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) Linux
1 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (45.69%) CI/CD
2 82 (41.62%) Data Science
3 78 (39.59%) Software Engineering
4 70 (35.53%) Machine Learning
5 69 (35.03%) Analytics
6 56 (28.43%) Coaching
6 56 (28.43%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (27.41%) Data Modelling
8 53 (26.90%) Containerisation
9 52 (26.40%) Data Engineering
9 52 (26.40%) Data Pipeline
10 50 (25.38%) Continuous Delivery
10 50 (25.38%) Microservices
11 49 (24.87%) Clean Code
12 48 (24.37%) Agile
13 45 (22.84%) Personalization
14 39 (19.80%) ETL
15 32 (16.24%) AI
16 31 (15.74%) Business Intelligence
17 30 (15.23%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 121 (61.42%) Python
2 62 (31.47%) Java
3 61 (30.96%) SQL
4 46 (23.35%) Go
5 13 (6.60%) C++
6 11 (5.58%) Rust
7 10 (5.08%) Bicep
7 10 (5.08%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.55%) C
8 7 (3.55%) Clojure
8 7 (3.55%) Erlang
9 6 (3.05%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.54%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.03%) Elixir
11 4 (2.03%) Ruby
12 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.02%) C#
13 2 (1.02%) PHP
13 2 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (14.21%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.11%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.06%) Degree
5 8 (4.06%) SnowPro
6 4 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (21.32%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.52%) QA
3 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 75 (38.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (14.21%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.15%) Terraform
3 3 (1.52%) HAProxy
3 3 (1.52%) Kibana
4 2 (1.02%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (22.84%) Typelevel
2 31 (15.74%) Databricks
3 22 (11.17%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.54%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.03%) Google
6 3 (1.52%) Splunk
7 2 (1.02%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.02%) Braze
7 2 (1.02%) GoCardless
7 2 (1.02%) mParticle
7 2 (1.02%) PayPal
7 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.02%) Zuora
8 1 (0.51%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.51%) OpenAI