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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 288 297
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 -137
Permanent jobs citing Scala 98 111 201
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.56% 0.86% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.03% 2.05% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 26 78 162
10th Percentile £49,250 - -
25th Percentile £75,063 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £120,000 £99,375 £110,997
90th Percentile £140,625 £112,950 £143,750
England median annual salary £78,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +7.59% -9.38% -

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 4,822 5,410 9,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.41% 41.91% 40.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,387 3,933 7,611
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,506 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £126,250 £125,000
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%

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 26 March 2026.

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 26 March 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
Central London -20 20 £111,250 +78.00% 9
West London - 16 £90,000 -
South London +44 10 £48,975 -51.03%
East London - 5 - - 2
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 18 (18.37%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 52 (53.06%) AWS
2 41 (41.84%) GCP
3 21 (21.43%) Azure
4 15 (15.31%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (15.31%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (14.29%) GitHub
6 11 (11.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (9.18%) Amazon Kinesis
7 9 (9.18%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (9.18%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.10%) dbt
8 5 (5.10%) Serverless
9 4 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.08%) Cloud Composer
9 4 (4.08%) Dagster
10 3 (3.06%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (2.04%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 52 (53.06%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.27%) Azure SQL Database
1 13 (13.27%) Data Lake
1 13 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
1 13 (13.27%) Delta Lake
2 9 (9.18%) Power BI
3 7 (7.14%) Metadata
4 6 (6.12%) BigQuery
4 6 (6.12%) DynamoDB
4 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.10%) Big Data
5 5 (5.10%) Couchbase
5 5 (5.10%) Hadoop
5 5 (5.10%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.10%) Redis
5 5 (5.10%) Tableau
6 4 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.08%) Apache Hive
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.06%) MySQL
8 2 (2.04%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 22 (22.45%) Jenkins
2 17 (17.35%) Git
2 17 (17.35%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.04%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.04%) Gatling
3 2 (2.04%) JMeter
3 2 (2.04%) JUnit
3 2 (2.04%) REST Assured
3 2 (2.04%) Selenium
4 1 (1.02%) JIRA
General
1 17 (17.35%) Finance
2 12 (12.24%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.08%) Law
4 4 (4.08%) Marketing
4 4 (4.08%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.04%) Billing
6 2 (2.04%) Legal
6 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.04%) Retail
7 1 (1.02%) Advertising
7 1 (1.02%) Front Office
7 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (32.65%) Scala Engineer
2 31 (31.63%) Data Engineer
3 25 (25.51%) Software Engineer
4 23 (23.47%) Senior
5 21 (21.43%) Developer
6 20 (20.41%) Scala Software Engineer
7 18 (18.37%) Scala Developer
8 10 (10.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) Lead
9 7 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Development Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Senior Developer
11 5 (5.10%) Senior Scala Developer
11 5 (5.10%) Software Development Engineer
12 4 (4.08%) Backend Developer
12 4 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (4.08%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
12 4 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.61%) gRPC
2 18 (18.37%) Kafka
3 17 (17.35%) Akka
3 17 (17.35%) PySpark
4 5 (5.10%) Memcached
4 5 (5.10%) Spring
5 3 (3.06%) boto
5 3 (3.06%) React
5 3 (3.06%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.02%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 48 (48.98%) Video\Live Streaming
2 47 (47.96%) Over-the-Top Content
3 43 (43.88%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (10.20%) Data Structures
5 5 (5.10%) Virtual Team
6 4 (4.08%) Anti-Piracy
6 4 (4.08%) Social Media
7 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.06%) e-Learning
7 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.06%) Linux
2 1 (1.02%) Android
2 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (55.10%) CI/CD
2 47 (47.96%) Data Science
3 44 (44.90%) Analytics
4 42 (42.86%) Machine Learning
5 40 (40.82%) Software Engineering
6 39 (39.80%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (36.73%) Continuous Delivery
8 35 (35.71%) Microservices
9 33 (33.67%) Coaching
10 32 (32.65%) Containerisation
11 30 (30.61%) Agile
11 30 (30.61%) Clean Code
11 30 (30.61%) Personalization
12 29 (29.59%) Data Modelling
13 27 (27.55%) Data Pipeline
14 24 (24.49%) TDD
15 23 (23.47%) Data Governance
15 23 (23.47%) ETL
16 22 (22.45%) Data Analytics
17 21 (21.43%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 62 (63.27%) Python
2 30 (30.61%) Go
3 27 (27.55%) SQL
4 23 (23.47%) Java
5 8 (8.16%) Kotlin
6 4 (4.08%) C++
7 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.04%) R
9 1 (1.02%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (1.02%) Bicep
9 1 (1.02%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (10.20%) Degree
2 7 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.12%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.10%) Master's Degree
4 5 (5.10%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.08%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) CISSP
6 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.02%) OSCP
6 1 (1.02%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.10%) GDPR
3 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 52 (53.06%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (22.45%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.27%) Terraform
3 1 (1.02%) Control-M
Vendors
1 30 (30.61%) Typelevel
2 21 (21.43%) Databricks
3 4 (4.08%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.04%) GoCardless
4 2 (2.04%) mParticle
4 2 (2.04%) PayPal
4 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.04%) Zuora
5 1 (1.02%) BMC
5 1 (1.02%) Google
5 1 (1.02%) IBM
5 1 (1.02%) Talend