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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 295 294
Rank change year-on-year -22 -1 -67
Permanent jobs citing Scala 102 97 229
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.47% 0.78% 0.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.91% 1.87% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 33 46 149
10th Percentile - £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £56,563 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £110,625 £132,500
England median annual salary £81,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.67% - -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 5,351 5,175 9,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.41% 41.65% 40.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,788 3,608 7,520
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £132,500
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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -14 19 £122,500 +96.00% 14
West London - 15 - - 1
South London - 4 - -
East London - 4 - - 4
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 27 (26.47%) Apache Spark
2 19 (18.63%) Apache
3 7 (6.86%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.94%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.94%) SAS
5 1 (0.98%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 54 (52.94%) AWS
2 53 (51.96%) GCP
3 23 (22.55%) Azure
4 15 (14.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 10 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (9.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (8.82%) GitHub
8 7 (6.86%) Cloud Composer
8 7 (6.86%) Power Platform
8 7 (6.86%) Snowflake
9 6 (5.88%) SaaS
10 4 (3.92%) Dagster
10 4 (3.92%) dbt
11 3 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.94%) Fivetran
12 2 (1.96%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (1.96%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 47 (46.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.69%) Delta Lake
1 16 (15.69%) Metadata
2 13 (12.75%) Big Data
3 11 (10.78%) Hadoop
4 9 (8.82%) BigQuery
4 9 (8.82%) Data Vault
4 9 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (7.84%) NoSQL
6 7 (6.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (6.86%) Power BI
6 7 (6.86%) Tableau
7 5 (4.90%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.94%) Airbyte
8 3 (2.94%) Cloud Spanner
9 2 (1.96%) Flink
10 1 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.98%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (9.80%) Git
1 10 (9.80%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.88%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.98%) GitLab
General
1 25 (24.51%) Finance
2 24 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.90%) Marketing
4 4 (3.92%) Advertising
4 4 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.92%) Law
5 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.96%) Billing
7 1 (0.98%) Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Front Office
7 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (32.35%) Data Engineer
2 30 (29.41%) Scala Engineer
3 22 (21.57%) Senior
4 20 (19.61%) Software Engineer
5 18 (17.65%) Developer
5 18 (17.65%) Scala Developer
6 17 (16.67%) Scala Software Engineer
7 15 (14.71%) Lead
8 12 (11.76%) Architect
9 11 (10.78%) Data Architect
9 11 (10.78%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (6.86%) Technical Leader
11 6 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Senior Manager
11 6 (5.88%) Senior Technical Manager
11 6 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Technical Manager
12 5 (4.90%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.90%) Engineering Manager
13 4 (3.92%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (35.29%) gRPC
2 18 (17.65%) PySpark
3 12 (11.76%) Kafka
4 6 (5.88%) Akka
4 6 (5.88%) React
5 3 (2.94%) Apache Beam
5 3 (2.94%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.94%) Play Framework
6 1 (0.98%) D3.js
6 1 (0.98%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.98%) REST
6 1 (0.98%) Spring
6 1 (0.98%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (42.16%) Video\Live Streaming
2 42 (41.18%) Over-the-Top Content
3 39 (38.24%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (11.76%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.92%) Anti-Piracy
5 4 (3.92%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.92%) Social Media
6 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.94%) Robotics
7 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.98%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.98%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.98%) IoT
8 1 (0.98%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.98%) Linux
1 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (59.80%) CI/CD
2 59 (57.84%) Data Science
3 48 (47.06%) Machine Learning
3 48 (47.06%) Software Engineering
4 42 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (40.20%) Analytics
5 41 (40.20%) Coaching
6 40 (39.22%) Data Modelling
7 38 (37.25%) Continuous Delivery
8 37 (36.27%) Clean Code
8 37 (36.27%) Containerisation
8 37 (36.27%) Microservices
9 36 (35.29%) Personalization
10 25 (24.51%) Data Engineering
11 24 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
12 19 (18.63%) ETL
13 18 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (17.65%) DevOps
14 17 (16.67%) Agile
14 17 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 69 (67.65%) Python
2 37 (36.27%) Go
3 30 (29.41%) SQL
4 20 (19.61%) Java
5 8 (7.84%) Bicep
6 7 (6.86%) C++
7 6 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.94%) C
8 3 (2.94%) Clojure
8 3 (2.94%) Erlang
8 3 (2.94%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.94%) Rust
9 2 (1.96%) R
10 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (12.75%) Azure Certification
2 8 (7.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (6.86%) SnowPro
4 6 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.96%) Degree
5 2 (1.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 48 (47.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.78%) Terraform
3 3 (2.94%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (35.29%) Typelevel
2 19 (18.63%) Databricks
3 10 (9.80%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.92%) Google
5 2 (1.96%) Braze
5 2 (1.96%) GoCardless
5 2 (1.96%) mParticle
5 2 (1.96%) PayPal
5 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.96%) Zuora
6 1 (0.98%) Mapbox