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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 287 265
Rank change year-on-year -57 -22 +46
Permanent jobs citing Scala 100 94 190
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.39% 0.80% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.83% 2.07% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 59 51 110
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £60,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £113,750 £103,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,000 £117,500 £102,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 5,468 4,543 7,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.15% 38.44% 42.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,605 3,037 5,116
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £132,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +7 6 £72,500 -23.68% 23
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 32 (32.00%) Apache Spark
2 25 (25.00%) Apache
3 7 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.00%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 53 (53.00%) Azure
2 38 (38.00%) Azure Databricks
3 37 (37.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 26 (26.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 25 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (19.00%) AWS
6 19 (19.00%) Snowflake
7 18 (18.00%) GCP
8 16 (16.00%) Power Platform
9 14 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (8.00%) SaaS
11 7 (7.00%) Cloud Composer
11 7 (7.00%) GitHub
12 5 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (4.00%) Amazon S3
13 4 (4.00%) dbt
14 3 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (3.00%) Fivetran
14 3 (3.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.00%) Delta Lake
1 26 (26.00%) Metadata
2 21 (21.00%) Big Data
3 19 (19.00%) Data Vault
4 16 (16.00%) NoSQL
4 16 (16.00%) Power BI
5 15 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (14.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (14.00%) Tableau
7 13 (13.00%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (13.00%) Hadoop
8 11 (11.00%) Relational Database
9 8 (8.00%) Data Lake
10 7 (7.00%) BigQuery
11 6 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (5.00%) Flink
12 5 (5.00%) Spark SQL
13 4 (4.00%) Looker
14 3 (3.00%) Airbyte
14 3 (3.00%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 15 (15.00%) Git
2 13 (13.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.00%) GitLab
4 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.00%) Gradle
4 2 (2.00%) JUnit
4 2 (2.00%) Maven
4 2 (2.00%) Mockito
General
1 37 (37.00%) Finance
1 37 (37.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.00%) Advertising
3 4 (4.00%) Banking
3 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.00%) Marketing
5 2 (2.00%) Law
6 1 (1.00%) Front Office
6 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.00%) Legal
6 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (38.00%) Data Engineer
2 25 (25.00%) Architect
2 25 (25.00%) Senior
3 22 (22.00%) Data Architect
4 15 (15.00%) Developer
5 14 (14.00%) Lead
6 13 (13.00%) Scala Developer
6 13 (13.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (11.00%) Azure Data Engineer
7 11 (11.00%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Technical Leader
9 6 (6.00%) Senior Manager
9 6 (6.00%) Senior Technical Manager
9 6 (6.00%) Technical Manager
10 5 (5.00%) Data Scientist
10 5 (5.00%) Quantitative Developer
11 3 (3.00%) Azure Architect
11 3 (3.00%) GCP Data Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (35.00%) PySpark
2 20 (20.00%) Terraform
3 17 (17.00%) Kafka
4 7 (7.00%) Apache Beam
5 6 (6.00%) React
6 5 (5.00%) YAML
7 4 (4.00%) CrewAI
7 4 (4.00%) LangChain
8 3 (3.00%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (3.00%) Play Framework
8 3 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.00%) Spring
8 3 (3.00%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.00%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.00%) JPA
9 2 (2.00%) OpenAPI
9 2 (2.00%) REST
9 2 (2.00%) Spring MVC
9 2 (2.00%) Spring Security
9 2 (2.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.00%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.00%) Robotics
4 2 (2.00%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.00%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.00%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.00%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.00%) NHS
5 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.00%) Linux
1 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (66.00%) Data Modelling
2 51 (51.00%) Analytics
3 43 (43.00%) Data Engineering
4 41 (41.00%) AI
5 39 (39.00%) CI/CD
6 37 (37.00%) Data Pipeline
7 36 (36.00%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (33.00%) Data Science
9 28 (28.00%) DevOps
10 27 (27.00%) Data Architecture
11 26 (26.00%) Machine Learning
12 25 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (22.00%) Agile
13 22 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (22.00%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (21.00%) Data Strategy
14 21 (21.00%) ETL
15 20 (20.00%) Lakehouse
16 19 (19.00%) Data Governance
16 19 (19.00%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 61 (61.00%) Python
2 57 (57.00%) SQL
3 23 (23.00%) Java
4 16 (16.00%) Bicep
5 8 (8.00%) R
6 7 (7.00%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.00%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.00%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.00%) C
9 3 (3.00%) C++
9 3 (3.00%) Clojure
9 3 (3.00%) Erlang
9 3 (3.00%) Go
9 3 (3.00%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.00%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.00%) Rust
10 2 (2.00%) C#
10 2 (2.00%) Ruby
11 1 (1.00%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 28 (28.00%) Azure Certification
2 23 (23.00%) SC Cleared
2 23 (23.00%) Security Cleared
3 17 (17.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (16.00%) SnowPro
5 4 (4.00%) Degree
6 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (38.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.00%) GDPR
2 2 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 17 (17.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (17.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.00%) Kibana
3 2 (2.00%) Grafana
3 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (47.00%) Databricks
2 26 (26.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.00%) Google
4 4 (4.00%) New Relic
4 4 (4.00%) Splunk
5 2 (2.00%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.00%) Oracle
6 1 (1.00%) Informatica
6 1 (1.00%) Workday