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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 266 303
Rank change year-on-year -26 +37 -123
Permanent jobs citing Scala 97 183 166
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.80% 1.06% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.15% 2.50% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 54 109 143
10th Percentile £58,625 - £65,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -17.95% +11.43%
75th Percentile £104,063 £97,500 £119,375
90th Percentile £119,250 £110,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £87,500 £80,000 £82,818
% change year-on-year +9.38% -3.40% +3.52%

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 4,513 7,324 8,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.08% 42.33% 45.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,981 4,812 7,571
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% - +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 6 November 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 6 November 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 -12 8 £96,250 +20.31% 69
South London +32 1 - - 31
West London - 1 - - 27
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 23 (23.71%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.15%) Apache
2 5 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.09%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 69 (71.13%) AWS
2 38 (39.18%) Azure
3 28 (28.87%) GCP
4 22 (22.68%) Power Platform
5 19 (19.59%) Serverless
6 13 (13.40%) Amazon Kinesis
6 13 (13.40%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (12.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (11.34%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (8.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (7.22%) Amazon S3
10 7 (7.22%) GitHub
11 5 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.15%) Snowflake
12 4 (4.12%) Azure Storage
12 4 (4.12%) OpenShift
13 3 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (3.09%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (3.09%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (3.09%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Broadband
1 2 (2.06%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.90%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (23.71%) Big Data
3 22 (22.68%) Power BI
4 15 (15.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (14.43%) NoSQL
6 13 (13.40%) Hadoop
7 12 (12.37%) Data Lake
8 10 (10.31%) Metadata
9 9 (9.28%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (8.25%) Apache Hive
10 8 (8.25%) DynamoDB
11 7 (7.22%) Power Query
12 6 (6.19%) Data Vault
13 5 (5.15%) MySQL
13 5 (5.15%) Relational Database
14 4 (4.12%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
15 3 (3.09%) BigQuery
15 3 (3.09%) Delta Lake
15 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Git
2 8 (8.25%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
3 5 (5.15%) JUnit
4 4 (4.12%) git-flow
5 3 (3.09%) GitLab
6 2 (2.06%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.06%) Gatling
6 2 (2.06%) JMeter
6 2 (2.06%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.06%) Selenium
7 1 (1.03%) JIRA
7 1 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (56.70%) Finance
2 28 (28.87%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (16.49%) Law
5 14 (14.43%) Banking
6 12 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (10.31%) Financial Institution
8 6 (6.19%) Legal
8 6 (6.19%) Marketing
9 2 (2.06%) Front Office
9 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.06%) Retail
10 1 (1.03%) Advertising
10 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (44.33%) Data Engineer
2 30 (30.93%) Lead
3 27 (27.84%) Senior
4 19 (19.59%) Software Engineer
5 18 (18.56%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (13.40%) Developer
6 13 (13.40%) Java Engineer
7 12 (12.37%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (12.37%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (11.34%) Azure Data Engineer
8 11 (11.34%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (10.31%) Lead Data Engineer
10 9 (9.28%) AWS Data Engineer
11 8 (8.25%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (8.25%) Lead Java Engineer
11 8 (8.25%) Lead Software Engineer
12 5 (5.15%) Java Developer
12 5 (5.15%) Lead Developer
12 5 (5.15%) Senior Java Engineer
13 4 (4.12%) Principal Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (32.99%) Kafka
2 10 (10.31%) Spark Streaming
2 10 (10.31%) Spring
3 8 (8.25%) boto
3 8 (8.25%) Web Services
4 7 (7.22%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (6.19%) React
6 5 (5.15%) Flutter
6 5 (5.15%) REST
7 4 (4.12%) Akka
7 4 (4.12%) Play Framework
7 4 (4.12%) RESTful
7 4 (4.12%) Spring Boot
8 3 (3.09%) Gherkin
8 3 (3.09%) PySpark
8 3 (3.09%) Scalaz
9 2 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.06%) Memcached
9 2 (2.06%) XML
10 1 (1.03%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (32.99%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (15.46%) Cloud Native
3 12 (12.37%) Derivative
3 12 (12.37%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (10.31%) e-Learning
5 9 (9.28%) Management Information System
6 8 (8.25%) Data Structures
6 8 (8.25%) Equity Derivative
7 7 (7.22%) Algorithms
8 6 (6.19%) Virtual Team
9 3 (3.09%) Equities
10 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (1.03%) Hedge funds
10 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.03%) Over-the-Top Content
10 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) Android
3 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (42.27%) Agile
2 40 (41.24%) Data Modelling
3 35 (36.08%) CI/CD
3 35 (36.08%) Machine Learning
4 34 (35.05%) Data Engineering
5 33 (34.02%) Data Pipeline
6 32 (32.99%) Analytics
7 31 (31.96%) ETL
8 29 (29.90%) AI
8 29 (29.90%) DevOps
9 26 (26.80%) Software Engineering
10 24 (24.74%) Data Science
11 23 (23.71%) Data Governance
12 22 (22.68%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (21.65%) SDLC
14 18 (18.56%) Microservices
15 17 (17.53%) Mentoring
15 17 (17.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 16 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
17 15 (15.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 59 (60.82%) Java
2 55 (56.70%) Python
3 39 (40.21%) SQL
4 28 (28.87%) Kotlin
5 9 (9.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (7.22%) R
7 5 (5.15%) Go
8 4 (4.12%) F#
8 4 (4.12%) Haskell
8 4 (4.12%) OCaml
9 2 (2.06%) C#
9 2 (2.06%) Groovy
9 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.06%) Ruby
10 1 (1.03%) Clojure
10 1 (1.03%) Elixir
10 1 (1.03%) Erlang
10 1 (1.03%) Perl
10 1 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) Degree
2 6 (6.19%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.12%) PhD
4 3 (3.09%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.09%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) CISSP
6 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) OSCP
6 1 (1.03%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.49%) GDPR
2 13 (13.40%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.09%) QA
5 2 (2.06%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.03%) MiFID
6 1 (1.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (12.37%) Docker
2 8 (8.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (21.65%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.34%) Terraform
3 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.06%) Ansible
4 2 (2.06%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.06%) Puppet
5 1 (1.03%) Grafana
5 1 (1.03%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 24 (24.74%) Databricks
2 7 (7.22%) Google
3 5 (5.15%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.09%) Informatica
5 2 (2.06%) Talend
6 1 (1.03%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle
6 1 (1.03%) Rackspace
6 1 (1.03%) Reuters
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce