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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 270 302
Rank change year-on-year -17 +32 -120
Permanent jobs citing Scala 100 183 160
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.78% 1.05% 0.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.18% 2.50% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 55 107 139
10th Percentile £59,000 - £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 £103,125 £97,500 £120,000
90th Percentile £119,000 £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 4,591 7,324 8,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.87% 42.22% 45.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,017 4,809 7,449
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 13 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 13 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 +3 9 £96,250 +24.19% 35
South London +24 1 - - 1
West London - 1 - - 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 25 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.00%) Apache
3 4 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.00%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 71 (71.00%) AWS
2 40 (40.00%) Azure
3 27 (27.00%) GCP
4 24 (24.00%) Power Platform
5 19 (19.00%) Serverless
6 14 (14.00%) Amazon Kinesis
7 13 (13.00%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (12.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (11.00%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (9.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (7.00%) Amazon S3
11 7 (7.00%) GitHub
12 5 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.00%) Snowflake
13 4 (4.00%) Azure Storage
13 4 (4.00%) OpenShift
14 3 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (3.00%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (3.00%) AWS CloudTrail
14 3 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) Broadband
1 2 (2.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (31.00%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (24.00%) Power BI
3 23 (23.00%) Big Data
4 15 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (15.00%) NoSQL
5 14 (14.00%) Hadoop
6 12 (12.00%) Data Lake
7 10 (10.00%) Metadata
8 9 (9.00%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (9.00%) Apache Hive
8 9 (9.00%) DynamoDB
9 8 (8.00%) Power Query
10 6 (6.00%) Data Vault
10 6 (6.00%) MySQL
11 5 (5.00%) Relational Database
11 5 (5.00%) SQL Server
12 4 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (3.00%) Couchbase
13 3 (3.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (10.00%) Git
2 9 (9.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 5 (5.00%) JUnit
4 4 (4.00%) git-flow
5 3 (3.00%) GitLab
6 2 (2.00%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.00%) Gatling
6 2 (2.00%) JMeter
6 2 (2.00%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.00%) Selenium
7 1 (1.00%) JIRA
7 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (56.00%) Finance
2 29 (29.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (16.00%) Law
5 14 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (14.00%) Banking
6 10 (10.00%) Financial Institution
7 7 (7.00%) Legal
7 7 (7.00%) Marketing
8 3 (3.00%) Retail
9 2 (2.00%) Front Office
9 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (43.00%) Data Engineer
2 30 (30.00%) Lead
3 27 (27.00%) Senior
4 20 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 18 (18.00%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (13.00%) Developer
6 13 (13.00%) Java Engineer
7 12 (12.00%) Azure Data Engineer
7 12 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (12.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
9 9 (9.00%) AWS Data Engineer
10 8 (8.00%) AWS Software Engineer
10 8 (8.00%) Lead Java Engineer
10 8 (8.00%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) Java Developer
11 5 (5.00%) Lead Developer
11 5 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
12 4 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (34.00%) Kafka
2 11 (11.00%) Spring
3 10 (10.00%) Spark Streaming
4 8 (8.00%) boto
4 8 (8.00%) Web Services
5 7 (7.00%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (6.00%) React
7 5 (5.00%) Flutter
7 5 (5.00%) REST
8 4 (4.00%) Akka
8 4 (4.00%) Play Framework
8 4 (4.00%) PySpark
8 4 (4.00%) RESTful
8 4 (4.00%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.00%) Gherkin
9 3 (3.00%) Memcached
9 3 (3.00%) Scalaz
10 2 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.00%) XML
11 1 (1.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (33.00%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 12 (12.00%) Derivative
3 12 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (10.00%) e-Learning
5 9 (9.00%) Data Structures
5 9 (9.00%) Management Information System
6 8 (8.00%) Equity Derivative
7 7 (7.00%) Algorithms
7 7 (7.00%) Virtual Team
8 3 (3.00%) Equities
9 2 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.00%) Over-the-Top Content
10 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.00%) Android
3 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (43.00%) Agile
2 42 (42.00%) Data Modelling
3 38 (38.00%) Machine Learning
4 35 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 35 (35.00%) Data Engineering
5 34 (34.00%) Data Pipeline
6 32 (32.00%) Analytics
6 32 (32.00%) ETL
7 30 (30.00%) AI
7 30 (30.00%) DevOps
8 26 (26.00%) Software Engineering
9 25 (25.00%) Data Governance
9 25 (25.00%) Data Science
10 24 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (21.00%) SDLC
12 19 (19.00%) Microservices
13 18 (18.00%) Computer Science
13 18 (18.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (17.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (61.00%) Java
2 56 (56.00%) Python
3 42 (42.00%) SQL
4 29 (29.00%) Kotlin
5 10 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (8.00%) R
7 5 (5.00%) Go
8 4 (4.00%) F#
8 4 (4.00%) Haskell
8 4 (4.00%) OCaml
9 2 (2.00%) C#
9 2 (2.00%) Groovy
9 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.00%) Ruby
10 1 (1.00%) Clojure
10 1 (1.00%) Elixir
10 1 (1.00%) Erlang
10 1 (1.00%) Perl
10 1 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (19.00%) Degree
2 7 (7.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.00%) PhD
4 4 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.00%) CISSP
7 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.00%) OSCP
7 1 (1.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.00%) GDPR
2 14 (14.00%) Data Quality
3 7 (7.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.00%) QA
5 2 (2.00%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.00%) MiFID
6 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (13.00%) Docker
2 8 (8.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.00%) Ansible
4 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.00%) Puppet
5 1 (1.00%) Grafana
5 1 (1.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 25 (25.00%) Databricks
2 7 (7.00%) Google
3 6 (6.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.00%) Informatica
5 2 (2.00%) Talend
6 1 (1.00%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle
6 1 (1.00%) Rackspace
6 1 (1.00%) Reuters
6 1 (1.00%) Salesforce