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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 266 302
Rank change year-on-year -13 +36 -126
Permanent jobs citing Scala 93 186 174
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.79% 1.06% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 2.48% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 54 111 150
10th Percentile £58,625 £56,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £58,125 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% +8.57%
75th Percentile £104,063 £97,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £119,250 £110,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 4,448 7,498 9,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.59% 42.57% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,963 4,962 7,928
10th Percentile £48,550 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,125 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £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 23 October 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 23 October 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 -2 8 £96,250 +20.31% 23
South London - 1 - - 4
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 21 (22.58%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.38%) Apache
2 5 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.23%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 65 (69.89%) AWS
2 39 (41.94%) Azure
3 28 (30.11%) GCP
4 22 (23.66%) Power Platform
5 17 (18.28%) Serverless
6 12 (12.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (11.83%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (9.68%) Amazon Kinesis
8 9 (9.68%) AWS Step Functions
8 9 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (7.53%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.53%) GitHub
10 5 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (5.38%) Snowflake
11 4 (4.30%) Azure Storage
11 4 (4.30%) OpenShift
12 3 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) FTP
2 1 (1.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (30.11%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (23.66%) Power BI
3 21 (22.58%) Big Data
4 13 (13.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (12.90%) Data Lake
5 12 (12.90%) NoSQL
6 11 (11.83%) Hadoop
7 10 (10.75%) Metadata
8 7 (7.53%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (7.53%) Power Query
9 6 (6.45%) Apache Hive
9 6 (6.45%) Data Vault
9 6 (6.45%) DynamoDB
10 5 (5.38%) MySQL
10 5 (5.38%) Relational Database
11 4 (4.30%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (3.23%) BigQuery
12 3 (3.23%) Delta Lake
13 2 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 9 (9.68%) Git
2 7 (7.53%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.38%) Cucumber
3 5 (5.38%) JUnit
4 4 (4.30%) git-flow
5 3 (3.23%) GitLab
6 2 (2.15%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.15%) Gatling
6 2 (2.15%) JMeter
6 2 (2.15%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.15%) Selenium
7 1 (1.08%) JIRA
General
1 53 (56.99%) Finance
2 27 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 20 (21.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (17.20%) Law
5 14 (15.05%) Banking
6 10 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (8.60%) Financial Institution
8 6 (6.45%) Legal
8 6 (6.45%) Marketing
9 2 (2.15%) Front Office
9 2 (2.15%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.15%) Retail
10 1 (1.08%) Advertising
10 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (45.16%) Data Engineer
2 30 (32.26%) Lead
3 24 (25.81%) Senior
4 17 (18.28%) Software Engineer
5 16 (17.20%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (13.98%) Java Engineer
7 12 (12.90%) Azure Data Engineer
7 12 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (12.90%) Developer
7 12 (12.90%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (10.75%) Lead Data Engineer
8 10 (10.75%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (8.60%) AWS Software Engineer
9 8 (8.60%) Lead Java Engineer
9 8 (8.60%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (7.53%) AWS Data Engineer
11 5 (5.38%) Java Developer
11 5 (5.38%) Lead Developer
11 5 (5.38%) Senior Java Engineer
12 4 (4.30%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (30.11%) Kafka
2 8 (8.60%) Spark Streaming
2 8 (8.60%) Spring
2 8 (8.60%) Web Services
3 7 (7.53%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (6.45%) boto
4 6 (6.45%) React
5 5 (5.38%) Flutter
5 5 (5.38%) REST
6 4 (4.30%) Play Framework
6 4 (4.30%) PySpark
6 4 (4.30%) RESTful
6 4 (4.30%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.23%) Akka
7 3 (3.23%) Gherkin
7 3 (3.23%) Scalaz
8 2 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.15%) XML
9 1 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (1.08%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (30.11%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (16.13%) Cloud Native
3 12 (12.90%) Derivative
4 10 (10.75%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (9.68%) Management Information System
6 8 (8.60%) e-Learning
6 8 (8.60%) Equity Derivative
7 7 (7.53%) Algorithms
8 6 (6.45%) Data Structures
9 4 (4.30%) Virtual Team
10 3 (3.23%) Equities
11 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (1.08%) Hedge funds
11 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.68%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Unix
3 1 (1.08%) Android
3 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (41.94%) Data Modelling
2 38 (40.86%) Agile
3 33 (35.48%) Data Engineering
3 33 (35.48%) Machine Learning
4 32 (34.41%) CI/CD
4 32 (34.41%) Data Pipeline
4 32 (34.41%) ETL
5 31 (33.33%) Analytics
6 29 (31.18%) AI
7 28 (30.11%) DevOps
8 26 (27.96%) Software Engineering
9 25 (26.88%) Data Science
10 22 (23.66%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (22.58%) Data Governance
11 21 (22.58%) SDLC
12 17 (18.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (17.20%) Microservices
14 15 (16.13%) Mentoring
15 14 (15.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 55 (59.14%) Java
2 54 (58.06%) Python
3 40 (43.01%) SQL
4 26 (27.96%) Kotlin
5 9 (9.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (7.53%) R
7 5 (5.38%) Go
8 4 (4.30%) F#
8 4 (4.30%) Haskell
8 4 (4.30%) OCaml
9 2 (2.15%) C#
9 2 (2.15%) Groovy
9 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.15%) Ruby
10 1 (1.08%) Clojure
10 1 (1.08%) Elixir
10 1 (1.08%) Erlang
10 1 (1.08%) Perl
10 1 (1.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (15.05%) Degree
2 4 (4.30%) Azure Certification
2 4 (4.30%) Master's Degree
2 4 (4.30%) PhD
2 4 (4.30%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.15%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.08%) CISSP
4 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.08%) OSCP
4 1 (1.08%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.05%) Data Quality
1 14 (15.05%) GDPR
2 6 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.23%) QA
4 2 (2.15%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.08%) MiFID
5 1 (1.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (12.90%) Docker
2 6 (6.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.83%) Terraform
3 3 (3.23%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.15%) Ansible
4 2 (2.15%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.15%) Puppet
5 1 (1.08%) Grafana
5 1 (1.08%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 23 (24.73%) Databricks
2 7 (7.53%) Google
3 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.23%) Informatica
5 2 (2.15%) Talend
6 1 (1.08%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle
6 1 (1.08%) Rackspace
6 1 (1.08%) Reuters
6 1 (1.08%) Salesforce