Scala Job Trends in Glasgow

Scala
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Scala skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 80 66
Rank change year-on-year -1 -14 +42
Permanent jobs citing Scala 5 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.63% 0.10% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.63% 0.32% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £61,750
25th Percentile - £89,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £91,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +40.77% +36.84%
75th Percentile - £93,250 £68,125
90th Percentile - - £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £62,500 £73,250 £70,576
% change year-on-year -14.68% +3.79% +12.92%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 307 317 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.38% 32.58% 40.15%
Number of salaries quoted 83 159 215
10th Percentile £35,850 £24,000 £35,293
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £76,700 £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Scala relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Scala job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Scala
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Scala.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Scala

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (80.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (80.00%) Law
2 4 (80.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Java Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Community of Practice
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Operational Stability
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (80.00%) SDLC
2 4 (80.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby