Scala Job Trends in London

Scala
England > London

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 295 306
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -121
Permanent jobs citing Scala 85 160 149
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.65% 0.94% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.94% 2.23% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 49 105 129
10th Percentile £56,250 - -
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £83,230 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% -14.64% +11.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £123,500 £113,400 £143,750
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,390 7,176 8,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.51% 42.21% 44.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,985 4,749 7,205
10th Percentile £46,059 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Scala job vacancy trend in London

Scala
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Scala.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Scala

Scala
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala in London over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Scala in London

Scala
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London -3 8 £95,000 +52.00% 5
South London +37 1 - -
West London - 1 - - 1
Scala
England

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 24 (28.24%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.88%) Apache
3 4 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.53%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 56 (65.88%) AWS
2 35 (41.18%) Azure
3 25 (29.41%) Power Platform
4 22 (25.88%) GCP
5 18 (21.18%) Serverless
6 14 (16.47%) Amazon Kinesis
7 13 (15.29%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (14.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (12.94%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (12.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (8.24%) Amazon S3
11 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.88%) Azure Storage
11 5 (5.88%) GitHub
12 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (4.71%) OpenShift
12 4 (4.71%) Snowflake
13 3 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (3.53%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (3.53%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Broadband
2 1 (1.18%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (36.47%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (29.41%) Power BI
3 17 (20.00%) Big Data
4 14 (16.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (15.29%) Hadoop
6 12 (14.12%) Data Lake
7 10 (11.76%) NoSQL
8 9 (10.59%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (10.59%) Apache Hive
8 9 (10.59%) Metadata
9 7 (8.24%) DynamoDB
9 7 (8.24%) Power Query
10 6 (7.06%) Data Vault
11 5 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (5.88%) MySQL
12 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
13 3 (3.53%) Couchbase
13 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (3.53%) Redis
13 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.59%) Git
3 2 (2.35%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.35%) Gatling
3 2 (2.35%) git-flow
3 2 (2.35%) JMeter
3 2 (2.35%) JUnit
3 2 (2.35%) REST Assured
3 2 (2.35%) Selenium
4 1 (1.18%) JIRA
4 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (50.59%) Finance
2 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.76%) Financial Institution
4 10 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (9.41%) Law
6 7 (8.24%) Banking
7 6 (7.06%) Legal
7 6 (7.06%) Marketing
8 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.35%) Retail
9 1 (1.18%) Advertising
9 1 (1.18%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 40 (47.06%) Data Engineer
2 23 (27.06%) Senior
3 21 (24.71%) Lead
4 14 (16.47%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (14.12%) Developer
5 12 (14.12%) Senior Data Engineer
5 12 (14.12%) Software Engineer
6 11 (12.94%) Azure Data Engineer
6 11 (12.94%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (10.59%) AWS Data Engineer
7 9 (10.59%) Lead Data Engineer
8 7 (8.24%) Java Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Java Developer
10 5 (5.88%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.71%) Architect
11 4 (4.71%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (4.71%) Principal Developer
11 4 (4.71%) Programmer
11 4 (4.71%) Senior Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.41%) Kafka
2 10 (11.76%) Spark Streaming
3 8 (9.41%) boto
4 7 (8.24%) Spring
5 5 (5.88%) Flutter
5 5 (5.88%) React
6 4 (4.71%) PySpark
6 4 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (4.71%) Web Services
7 3 (3.53%) Memcached
8 2 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.35%) REST
8 2 (2.35%) RESTful
8 2 (2.35%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.35%) XML
9 1 (1.18%) Akka
9 1 (1.18%) LAMP
9 1 (1.18%) Node.js
9 1 (1.18%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (31.76%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 10 (11.76%) e-Learning
3 9 (10.59%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (9.41%) Derivative
5 5 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 5 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.88%) Virtual Team
6 4 (4.71%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (2.35%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.18%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.41%) Linux
2 3 (3.53%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.06%) Data Modelling
2 34 (40.00%) Agile
2 34 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 34 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 33 (38.82%) Data Engineering
4 29 (34.12%) CI/CD
5 28 (32.94%) Analytics
5 28 (32.94%) DevOps
5 28 (32.94%) ETL
6 25 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (28.24%) AI
7 24 (28.24%) Data Science
8 23 (27.06%) Data Governance
9 18 (21.18%) Mentoring
10 17 (20.00%) Computer Science
11 16 (18.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (17.65%) Software Engineering
13 14 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (15.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 52 (61.18%) Java
2 51 (60.00%) Python
3 38 (44.71%) SQL
4 21 (24.71%) Kotlin
5 9 (10.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (9.41%) R
7 5 (5.88%) Go
8 4 (4.71%) F#
8 4 (4.71%) Haskell
8 4 (4.71%) OCaml
9 2 (2.35%) C#
9 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.35%) Ruby
10 1 (1.18%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (1.18%) Elixir
10 1 (1.18%) Erlang
10 1 (1.18%) Groovy
10 1 (1.18%) Perl
10 1 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (20.00%) Degree
2 7 (8.24%) Master's Degree
3 6 (7.06%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.88%) PhD
4 5 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.18%) CISSP
7 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.18%) OSCP
7 1 (1.18%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.47%) Data Quality
1 14 (16.47%) GDPR
2 6 (7.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.53%) QA
System Software
1 10 (11.76%) Docker
2 8 (9.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (18.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.88%) Terraform
3 3 (3.53%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.35%) Ansible
4 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.35%) Puppet
5 1 (1.18%) Grafana
5 1 (1.18%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 24 (28.24%) Databricks
2 6 (7.06%) Google
3 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle
4 1 (1.18%) Rackspace
4 1 (1.18%) Salesforce