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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 308 317
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 -157
Permanent jobs citing Scala 95 88 203
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.47% 0.69% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.84% 1.68% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 21 49 155
10th Percentile £52,400 - £63,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -21.88% -8.57%
75th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 £98,125
90th Percentile - £103,200 £142,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -12.50% -

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 5,154 5,235 9,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.76% 41.20% 40.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,633 3,859 7,634
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £127,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -16 22 £111,250 +78.00% 5
West London - 17 £90,000 -
South London - 12 £48,975 -
East London - 5 - - 3
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 16 (16.84%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.16%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 54 (56.84%) AWS
2 50 (52.63%) GCP
3 24 (25.26%) Azure
4 15 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (14.74%) GitHub
6 11 (11.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (9.47%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (8.42%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.26%) dbt
10 4 (4.21%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (4.21%) Dagster
11 3 (3.16%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (3.16%) SaaS
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (2.11%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 57 (60.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.74%) Delta Lake
2 13 (13.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (13.68%) Data Lake
3 10 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (8.42%) Metadata
4 8 (8.42%) Power BI
5 6 (6.32%) BigQuery
5 6 (6.32%) Tableau
6 4 (4.21%) Hadoop
6 4 (4.21%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.16%) Big Data
7 3 (3.16%) Couchbase
7 3 (3.16%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.16%) MySQL
7 3 (3.16%) Redis
8 2 (2.11%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.05%) HDInsight
9 1 (1.05%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (16.84%) TeamCity
3 15 (15.79%) Git
General
1 14 (14.74%) Finance
2 13 (13.68%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.21%) Law
5 3 (3.16%) Marketing
5 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.11%) Billing
6 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Advertising
7 1 (1.05%) Legal
7 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (37.89%) Scala Engineer
2 30 (31.58%) Data Engineer
3 25 (26.32%) Software Engineer
4 22 (23.16%) Scala Software Engineer
5 20 (21.05%) Senior
6 18 (18.95%) Developer
6 18 (18.95%) Scala Developer
7 8 (8.42%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) Senior Scala Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Architect
9 6 (6.32%) Lead
10 5 (5.26%) Backend Developer
11 4 (4.21%) Data Architect
11 4 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.21%) Senior Scala Developer
11 4 (4.21%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (37.89%) gRPC
2 19 (20.00%) PySpark
3 16 (16.84%) Akka
4 15 (15.79%) Kafka
5 3 (3.16%) Memcached
5 3 (3.16%) React
5 3 (3.16%) Spring
6 1 (1.05%) D3.js
6 1 (1.05%) PostGIS
6 1 (1.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 53 (55.79%) Video\Live Streaming
2 52 (54.74%) Over-the-Top Content
3 43 (45.26%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (8.42%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.21%) Anti-Piracy
5 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.21%) Social Media
5 4 (4.21%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.05%) IoT
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.05%) Linux
1 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (56.84%) CI/CD
1 54 (56.84%) Data Science
2 47 (49.47%) Machine Learning
2 47 (49.47%) Software Engineering
3 43 (45.26%) Analytics
4 42 (44.21%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (42.11%) Continuous Delivery
6 39 (41.05%) Coaching
6 39 (41.05%) Microservices
7 37 (38.95%) Containerisation
8 36 (37.89%) Clean Code
8 36 (37.89%) Personalization
9 28 (29.47%) Data Modelling
9 28 (29.47%) Data Pipeline
10 27 (28.42%) Agile
11 25 (26.32%) ETL
12 21 (22.11%) Data Governance
12 21 (22.11%) DevOps
13 20 (21.05%) Data Analytics
13 20 (21.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 65 (68.42%) Python
2 37 (38.95%) Go
3 30 (31.58%) SQL
4 17 (17.89%) Java
5 4 (4.21%) C++
6 3 (3.16%) Kotlin
6 3 (3.16%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.11%) R
8 1 (1.05%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.05%) Bicep
8 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 8 (8.42%) Degree
2 6 (6.32%) Azure Certification
2 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.16%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.05%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.05%) GDPR
2 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 57 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (22.11%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.63%) Terraform
3 1 (1.05%) Control-M
Vendors
1 36 (37.89%) Typelevel
2 19 (20.00%) Databricks
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.11%) Braze
4 2 (2.11%) GoCardless
4 2 (2.11%) Google
4 2 (2.11%) mParticle
4 2 (2.11%) PayPal
4 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.11%) Zuora
5 1 (1.05%) BMC
5 1 (1.05%) IBM
5 1 (1.05%) Mapbox
5 1 (1.05%) Talend