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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 281 272
Rank change year-on-year -51 -9 +17
Permanent jobs citing Scala 109 100 202
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.46% 0.81% 1.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% 1.98% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 51 48 124
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £71,875 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £135,625
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 5,559 5,058 7,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.42% 41.20% 40.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,826 3,470 5,810
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,225
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +4.10% -6.15%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -1 17 £72,500 +16.00% 8
West London - 11 - - 2
South London - 3 - -
East London - 3 - - 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 31 (28.44%) Apache Spark
2 20 (18.35%) Apache
3 6 (5.50%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.75%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.75%) SAS
5 1 (0.92%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 49 (44.95%) AWS
2 47 (43.12%) GCP
3 38 (34.86%) Azure
4 23 (21.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (20.18%) Microsoft Purview
6 16 (14.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (12.84%) Snowflake
8 13 (11.93%) Power Platform
9 11 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (6.42%) GitHub
11 6 (5.50%) Cloud Composer
12 5 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.67%) SaaS
14 3 (2.75%) Dagster
14 3 (2.75%) dbt
14 3 (2.75%) Fivetran
15 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
15 2 (1.83%) Azure Machine Learning
15 2 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
15 2 (1.83%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 32 (29.36%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.10%) Delta Lake
1 23 (21.10%) Metadata
2 18 (16.51%) Data Vault
3 17 (15.60%) Big Data
4 13 (11.93%) Power BI
5 12 (11.01%) Hadoop
6 11 (10.09%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (10.09%) Tableau
7 10 (9.17%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (8.26%) NoSQL
9 8 (7.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (7.34%) Relational Database
10 6 (5.50%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (2.75%) Airbyte
12 3 (2.75%) Cloud Spanner
12 3 (2.75%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.75%) MySQL
13 2 (1.83%) Flink
13 2 (1.83%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (7.34%) Git
2 5 (4.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.92%) GitLab
General
1 30 (27.52%) Finance
2 26 (23.85%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.59%) Law
5 4 (3.67%) Advertising
6 3 (2.75%) Banking
6 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.75%) Marketing
7 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.92%) Front Office
8 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.92%) Legal
8 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (31.19%) Data Engineer
2 24 (22.02%) Architect
3 21 (19.27%) Developer
3 21 (19.27%) Scala Developer
3 21 (19.27%) Senior
4 20 (18.35%) Data Architect
5 18 (16.51%) Scala Engineer
6 16 (14.68%) Software Engineer
7 14 (12.84%) Lead
8 11 (10.09%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (8.26%) Scala Software Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Technical Leader
11 6 (5.50%) Senior Manager
11 6 (5.50%) Senior Technical Manager
11 6 (5.50%) Technical Manager
12 5 (4.59%) Quantitative Developer
13 4 (3.67%) Azure Data Engineer
13 4 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (3.67%) Backend Developer
13 4 (3.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (26.61%) gRPC
2 26 (23.85%) PySpark
3 15 (13.76%) Kafka
4 6 (5.50%) React
5 3 (2.75%) Apache Beam
5 3 (2.75%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.75%) Play Framework
6 2 (1.83%) .NET
6 2 (1.83%) CrewAI
6 2 (1.83%) LangChain
6 2 (1.83%) LlamaIndex
6 2 (1.83%) YAML
7 1 (0.92%) D3.js
7 1 (0.92%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.92%) REST
7 1 (0.92%) RESTful
7 1 (0.92%) Spring
7 1 (0.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (30.28%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (26.61%) Over-the-Top Content
2 29 (26.61%) Video\Live Streaming
3 21 (19.27%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.67%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.75%) Anti-Piracy
5 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.75%) Robotics
5 3 (2.75%) Social Media
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.92%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.92%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.92%) IoT
7 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.92%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.92%) NHS
7 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.92%) Linux
1 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (58.72%) CI/CD
2 56 (51.38%) Data Science
3 52 (47.71%) Data Modelling
4 51 (46.79%) Machine Learning
5 44 (40.37%) Analytics
6 40 (36.70%) Software Engineering
7 39 (35.78%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (33.03%) Data Engineering
9 35 (32.11%) Coaching
10 32 (29.36%) AI
10 32 (29.36%) Microservices
11 31 (28.44%) Containerisation
11 31 (28.44%) Continuous Delivery
12 30 (27.52%) Business Intelligence
12 30 (27.52%) Clean Code
13 29 (26.61%) Personalization
14 25 (22.94%) Data Pipeline
15 24 (22.02%) DevOps
16 23 (21.10%) Infrastructure as Code
17 20 (18.35%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 76 (69.72%) Python
2 42 (38.53%) SQL
3 32 (29.36%) Go
4 22 (20.18%) Java
5 14 (12.84%) Bicep
6 6 (5.50%) C++
6 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.67%) R
8 3 (2.75%) C
8 3 (2.75%) Clojure
8 3 (2.75%) Erlang
8 3 (2.75%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.75%) Rust
9 2 (1.83%) C#
9 2 (1.83%) Ruby
10 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (18.35%) Azure Certification
2 14 (12.84%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (12.84%) SC Cleared
2 14 (12.84%) Security Cleared
3 13 (11.93%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.75%) Degree
5 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.02%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (33.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (12.84%) Terraform
2 7 (6.42%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 33 (30.28%) Databricks
2 29 (26.61%) Typelevel
3 19 (17.43%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.67%) Google
5 1 (0.92%) Informatica
5 1 (0.92%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.92%) Workday