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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 287 275
Rank change year-on-year -55 -12 +29
Permanent jobs citing Scala 103 100 197
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.41% 0.84% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.87% 2.13% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 63 50 108
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,375 £56,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £119,500 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -3.40%

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 5,517 4,704 8,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.95% 39.36% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,720 3,172 5,342
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,188 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,250 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -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 18 September 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 18 September 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 9 £72,500 -23.68% 21
South London +2 2 - - 1
West London - 2 - - 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 34 (33.01%) Apache Spark
2 22 (21.36%) Apache
3 4 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.91%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.91%) SAS
5 1 (0.97%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 53 (51.46%) Azure
2 35 (33.98%) Azure Databricks
3 34 (33.01%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (27.18%) AWS
5 27 (26.21%) Microsoft Purview
6 24 (23.30%) GCP
7 23 (22.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (17.48%) Snowflake
9 17 (16.50%) Power Platform
10 15 (14.56%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (8.74%) GitHub
12 7 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (4.85%) SaaS
14 4 (3.88%) Amazon S3
14 4 (3.88%) Cloud Composer
14 4 (3.88%) Cloud Computing
15 3 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
15 3 (2.91%) Fivetran
15 3 (2.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.83%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (26.21%) Delta Lake
2 25 (24.27%) Metadata
3 21 (20.39%) Big Data
3 21 (20.39%) Data Vault
4 17 (16.50%) Power BI
5 16 (15.53%) NoSQL
5 16 (15.53%) Tableau
6 15 (14.56%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (13.59%) Hadoop
8 13 (12.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (12.62%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (9.71%) Relational Database
10 6 (5.83%) Data Lake
10 6 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (3.88%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.88%) Spark SQL
12 3 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (2.91%) Cloud Spanner
12 3 (2.91%) Flink
12 3 (2.91%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (13.59%) Git
2 12 (11.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.91%) GitLab
4 2 (1.94%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.94%) Gradle
4 2 (1.94%) JUnit
4 2 (1.94%) Maven
4 2 (1.94%) Mockito
General
1 36 (34.95%) Finance
1 36 (34.95%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.88%) Advertising
3 4 (3.88%) Banking
3 4 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.91%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.91%) Marketing
5 2 (1.94%) Law
6 1 (0.97%) Front Office
6 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.97%) Legal
6 1 (0.97%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 37 (35.92%) Data Engineer
2 27 (26.21%) Architect
3 23 (22.33%) Data Architect
3 23 (22.33%) Senior
4 17 (16.50%) Developer
5 15 (14.56%) Scala Developer
6 14 (13.59%) Lead
7 12 (11.65%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (8.74%) Azure Data Engineer
8 9 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (8.74%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Technical Leader
10 6 (5.83%) Senior Manager
10 6 (5.83%) Senior Technical Manager
10 6 (5.83%) Technical Manager
11 5 (4.85%) Quantitative Developer
12 4 (3.88%) Databricks Architect
12 4 (3.88%) Scala Engineer
13 3 (2.91%) GCP Data Engineer
13 3 (2.91%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (33.01%) PySpark
2 18 (17.48%) Kafka
3 17 (16.50%) Terraform
4 6 (5.83%) gRPC
4 6 (5.83%) React
5 4 (3.88%) Apache Beam
5 4 (3.88%) CrewAI
5 4 (3.88%) LangChain
5 4 (3.88%) YAML
6 3 (2.91%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (2.91%) Play Framework
6 3 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.91%) Spring
6 3 (2.91%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.94%) .NET
7 2 (1.94%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.94%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.94%) JPA
7 2 (1.94%) REST
7 2 (1.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.30%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.71%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.83%) Over-the-Top Content
3 6 (5.83%) Video\Live Streaming
4 4 (3.88%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.91%) Robotics
6 2 (1.94%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.97%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.97%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.97%) IoT
7 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.97%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.97%) NHS
7 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.97%) Linux
1 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (62.14%) Data Modelling
2 49 (47.57%) Analytics
3 47 (45.63%) CI/CD
4 42 (40.78%) Data Engineering
5 39 (37.86%) AI
6 37 (35.92%) Business Intelligence
7 36 (34.95%) Data Science
8 32 (31.07%) Data Pipeline
8 32 (31.07%) Machine Learning
9 30 (29.13%) DevOps
10 27 (26.21%) Data Architecture
11 26 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (24.27%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (22.33%) Data Strategy
14 22 (21.36%) Agile
14 22 (21.36%) Lakehouse
14 22 (21.36%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (20.39%) ETL
15 21 (20.39%) Kimball Methodology
16 18 (17.48%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 64 (62.14%) Python
2 53 (51.46%) SQL
3 22 (21.36%) Java
4 16 (15.53%) Bicep
5 9 (8.74%) Go
6 7 (6.80%) R
7 6 (5.83%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.83%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.91%) C
8 3 (2.91%) C++
8 3 (2.91%) Clojure
8 3 (2.91%) Erlang
8 3 (2.91%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.91%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.91%) Rust
9 2 (1.94%) C#
9 2 (1.94%) Ruby
10 1 (0.97%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (26.21%) Azure Certification
2 22 (21.36%) SC Cleared
2 22 (21.36%) Security Cleared
3 17 (16.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (15.53%) SnowPro
5 5 (4.85%) Degree
6 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.97%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (32.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.94%) GDPR
2 2 (1.94%) QA
System Software
1 21 (20.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (14.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.91%) Kibana
3 2 (1.94%) Grafana
3 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (43.69%) Databricks
2 25 (24.27%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.83%) Typelevel
4 5 (4.85%) Google
5 2 (1.94%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.94%) Oracle
6 1 (0.97%) Informatica
6 1 (0.97%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.97%) New Relic
6 1 (0.97%) Splunk
6 1 (0.97%) Workday