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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 295 287
Rank change year-on-year +23 -8 -130
Permanent jobs citing Scala 93 127 166
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.67% 0.82% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.18% 1.99% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 51 90 143
10th Percentile £51,250 - £58,750
25th Percentile £72,125 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £114,100 £143,750
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

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 4,265 6,385 7,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.63% 41.29% 43.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,018 4,099 6,852
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,938 £105,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 January 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 January 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 +10 13 £97,500 +56.00% 19
South London +42 9 £48,975 -51.03% 12
West London - 3 £90,000 - 11
East London - 1 - - 14
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 (26.88%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.30%) Apache
2 4 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.23%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 45 (48.39%) AWS
2 39 (41.94%) Azure
3 24 (25.81%) Power Platform
4 20 (21.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (20.43%) GCP
6 18 (19.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (17.20%) Amazon Kinesis
8 13 (13.98%) Serverless
9 12 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (10.75%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (8.60%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (7.53%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (7.53%) GitHub
13 6 (6.45%) Amazon S3
14 4 (4.30%) Snowflake
15 3 (3.23%) Azure Storage
15 3 (3.23%) dbt
16 2 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
16 2 (2.15%) Amazon SageMaker
16 2 (2.15%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.90%) Broadband
2 1 (1.08%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (34.41%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (25.81%) Power BI
3 19 (20.43%) Data Lake
4 14 (15.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (15.05%) Big Data
4 14 (15.05%) Hadoop
5 13 (13.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (10.75%) Delta Lake
6 10 (10.75%) Metadata
7 9 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (9.68%) Apache Hive
8 8 (8.60%) NoSQL
9 7 (7.53%) DynamoDB
10 6 (6.45%) Power Query
10 6 (6.45%) SQL Server
11 5 (5.38%) Couchbase
11 5 (5.38%) Data Vault
11 5 (5.38%) Redis
12 4 (4.30%) MySQL
13 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 15 (16.13%) Git
3 11 (11.83%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.15%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.15%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.15%) Gatling
4 2 (2.15%) JMeter
4 2 (2.15%) JUnit
4 2 (2.15%) REST Assured
4 2 (2.15%) Selenium
5 1 (1.08%) JIRA
General
1 39 (41.94%) Finance
2 21 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 16 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.75%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.38%) Legal
5 5 (5.38%) Marketing
6 4 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Retail
8 1 (1.08%) Advertising
8 1 (1.08%) Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Front Office
8 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (52.69%) Data Engineer
2 27 (29.03%) Senior
3 15 (16.13%) Developer
3 15 (16.13%) Lead
4 13 (13.98%) Senior Data Engineer
5 12 (12.90%) Software Engineer
6 10 (10.75%) Azure Data Engineer
6 10 (10.75%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (9.68%) AWS Data Engineer
7 9 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (8.60%) Lead Data Engineer
9 7 (7.53%) Scala Engineer
10 6 (6.45%) Scala Developer
10 6 (6.45%) Scala Software Engineer
10 6 (6.45%) Senior Developer
11 5 (5.38%) Development Engineer
11 5 (5.38%) Java Developer
11 5 (5.38%) Lead Developer
11 5 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (5.38%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (27.96%) Kafka
2 15 (16.13%) PySpark
3 11 (11.83%) Akka
4 10 (10.75%) Spark Streaming
5 8 (8.60%) boto
6 5 (5.38%) Flutter
6 5 (5.38%) Memcached
6 5 (5.38%) React
6 5 (5.38%) Spring
7 2 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.15%) XML
8 1 (1.08%) LAMP
8 1 (1.08%) Node.js
8 1 (1.08%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.88%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.83%) Data Structures
2 11 (11.83%) Over-the-Top Content
2 11 (11.83%) Video\Live Streaming
3 10 (10.75%) e-Learning
4 9 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (6.45%) Cloud Native
6 5 (5.38%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.23%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.15%) Derivative
8 2 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.45%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Unix
3 1 (1.08%) Android
3 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (52.69%) Data Modelling
2 46 (49.46%) Analytics
3 42 (45.16%) Data Pipeline
4 39 (41.94%) Agile
5 35 (37.63%) Data Engineering
6 34 (36.56%) ETL
7 33 (35.48%) DevOps
8 29 (31.18%) CI/CD
8 29 (31.18%) Data Governance
9 28 (30.11%) Data Science
10 26 (27.96%) Machine Learning
11 25 (26.88%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (22.58%) TDD
13 18 (19.35%) Data Analytics
13 18 (19.35%) Mentoring
13 18 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (18.28%) AI
14 17 (18.28%) Computer Science
15 15 (16.13%) Pair Programming
16 14 (15.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 55 (59.14%) Python
2 44 (47.31%) Java
2 44 (47.31%) SQL
3 15 (16.13%) Kotlin
4 8 (8.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (8.60%) R
5 5 (5.38%) Go
6 2 (2.15%) C#
6 2 (2.15%) F#
6 2 (2.15%) Haskell
6 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.15%) OCaml
6 2 (2.15%) Ruby
7 1 (1.08%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (1.08%) Groovy
7 1 (1.08%) Perl
7 1 (1.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (18.28%) Degree
2 8 (8.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.53%) Azure Certification
3 7 (7.53%) Master's Degree
4 6 (6.45%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.38%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.23%) PhD
7 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.08%) CISSP
8 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.08%) OSCP
8 1 (1.08%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (24.73%) Data Quality
2 13 (13.98%) GDPR
3 5 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 17 (18.28%) Docker
2 8 (8.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (20.43%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.75%) Terraform
3 2 (2.15%) Ansible
3 2 (2.15%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.15%) Puppet
4 1 (1.08%) Control-M
4 1 (1.08%) Grafana
4 1 (1.08%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 31 (33.33%) Databricks
2 5 (5.38%) Google
3 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.08%) BMC
4 1 (1.08%) IBM
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle
4 1 (1.08%) Rackspace
4 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.08%) Talend