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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 295 286
Rank change year-on-year -44 -9 +29
Permanent jobs citing Scala 100 95 196
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.39% 0.81% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.81% 2.07% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 61 49 109
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £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 £112,500 £101,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -3.22%

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 5,534 4,579 7,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.55% 38.81% 41.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,688 3,070 5,216
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,200 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -2.42% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £135,000
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 28 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 28 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 +3 6 £72,500 -23.68% 24
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 (34.00%) Apache Spark
2 25 (25.00%) Apache
3 6 (6.00%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.00%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.00%) SAS
5 1 (1.00%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 54 (54.00%) Azure
2 37 (37.00%) Azure Databricks
3 36 (36.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 26 (26.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 24 (24.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 21 (21.00%) AWS
7 19 (19.00%) GCP
7 19 (19.00%) Snowflake
8 16 (16.00%) Power Platform
9 14 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (7.00%) GitHub
10 7 (7.00%) SaaS
11 6 (6.00%) Cloud Composer
12 5 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (4.00%) Amazon S3
14 3 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
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 23 (23.00%) Big Data
3 19 (19.00%) Data Vault
4 17 (17.00%) NoSQL
5 16 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (16.00%) Power BI
6 15 (15.00%) Hadoop
6 15 (15.00%) Tableau
7 14 (14.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (13.00%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (11.00%) Relational Database
10 7 (7.00%) Data Lake
11 6 (6.00%) BigQuery
11 6 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (5.00%) Flink
12 5 (5.00%) Spark SQL
13 3 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (3.00%) Cloud Spanner
13 3 (3.00%) Looker
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 9 (9.00%) 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 39 (39.00%) Data Engineer
2 26 (26.00%) Senior
3 25 (25.00%) Architect
4 22 (22.00%) Data Architect
5 15 (15.00%) Developer
6 14 (14.00%) Lead
6 14 (14.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (13.00%) Scala Developer
8 10 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
8 10 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Software Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Technical Leader
10 6 (6.00%) Senior Manager
10 6 (6.00%) Senior Technical Manager
10 6 (6.00%) Technical Manager
11 5 (5.00%) Quantitative Developer
12 4 (4.00%) Data Scientist
13 3 (3.00%) Azure Architect
13 3 (3.00%) Lead Software Engineer
13 3 (3.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (35.00%) PySpark
2 19 (19.00%) Kafka
2 19 (19.00%) Terraform
3 6 (6.00%) Apache Beam
3 6 (6.00%) React
4 5 (5.00%) YAML
5 4 (4.00%) CrewAI
5 4 (4.00%) LangChain
6 3 (3.00%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (3.00%) Play Framework
6 3 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.00%) Spring
6 3 (3.00%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.00%) .NET
7 2 (2.00%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.00%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.00%) JPA
7 2 (2.00%) REST
7 2 (2.00%) Spring MVC
7 2 (2.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.00%) Virtual Team
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%) IoT
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 65 (65.00%) Data Modelling
2 50 (50.00%) Analytics
3 43 (43.00%) Data Engineering
4 40 (40.00%) AI
4 40 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 37 (37.00%) Data Pipeline
6 36 (36.00%) Business Intelligence
7 33 (33.00%) Data Science
8 29 (29.00%) DevOps
9 28 (28.00%) Data Architecture
10 26 (26.00%) Machine Learning
11 25 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (23.00%) Agile
13 22 (22.00%) ETL
13 22 (22.00%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (21.00%) Data Strategy
14 21 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
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 56 (56.00%) SQL
3 24 (24.00%) Java
4 16 (16.00%) Bicep
5 8 (8.00%) R
6 7 (7.00%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.00%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.00%) C
8 3 (3.00%) C++
8 3 (3.00%) Clojure
8 3 (3.00%) Erlang
8 3 (3.00%) Go
8 3 (3.00%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.00%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.00%) Rust
8 3 (3.00%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.00%) C#
9 2 (2.00%) Ruby
10 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 5 (5.00%) Degree
6 4 (4.00%) 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 37 (37.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.00%) GDPR
2 2 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 18 (18.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (18.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.00%) Kibana
3 2 (2.00%) Grafana
3 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (46.00%) Databricks
2 25 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.00%) Google
4 3 (3.00%) New Relic
4 3 (3.00%) Splunk
5 2 (2.00%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.00%) Oracle
6 1 (1.00%) Informatica
6 1 (1.00%) Mapbox
6 1 (1.00%) Workday