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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 300 294
Rank change year-on-year +16 -6 -139
Permanent jobs citing Scala 103 119 192
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.67% 0.79% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.28% 1.95% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 41 85 159
10th Percentile £50,000 - £63,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +3.03% -5.71%
75th Percentile £120,000 £103,750 £113,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £114,600 £143,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -1.59% -1.56% -

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 4,521 6,115 8,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.43% 40.57% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,183 3,974 7,753
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +0.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -5 17 £100,000 +60.00% 6
West London - 11 £90,000 - 2
South London +50 10 £48,975 -51.03%
East London - 3 - - 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 23 (22.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.88%) Apache
3 3 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.91%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 52 (50.49%) AWS
2 31 (30.10%) GCP
3 30 (29.13%) Azure
4 17 (16.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (15.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (14.56%) Power Platform
7 14 (13.59%) Amazon Kinesis
8 12 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (11.65%) GitHub
8 12 (11.65%) Serverless
9 9 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (8.74%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (7.77%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (3.88%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.88%) dbt
12 2 (1.94%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (1.94%) BrowserStack
12 2 (1.94%) SaaS
12 2 (1.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (1.94%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 33 (32.04%) Broadband
2 1 (0.97%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (26.21%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (16.50%) Data Lake
3 15 (14.56%) Power BI
4 14 (13.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (11.65%) Hadoop
6 11 (10.68%) Big Data
6 11 (10.68%) Delta Lake
7 10 (9.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (8.74%) Apache Hive
9 8 (7.77%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (7.77%) Metadata
10 7 (6.80%) NoSQL
11 6 (5.83%) DynamoDB
11 6 (5.83%) Power Query
11 6 (5.83%) SQL Server
12 5 (4.85%) Couchbase
12 5 (4.85%) Redis
13 4 (3.88%) MySQL
14 3 (2.91%) BigQuery
14 3 (2.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (21.36%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.50%) Git
2 17 (16.50%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.94%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.94%) Gatling
3 2 (1.94%) JMeter
3 2 (1.94%) JUnit
3 2 (1.94%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.94%) Selenium
4 1 (0.97%) JIRA
General
1 30 (29.13%) Finance
2 18 (17.48%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.77%) Financial Institution
5 7 (6.80%) Marketing
6 5 (4.85%) Legal
7 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.94%) Billing
8 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Retail
9 1 (0.97%) Advertising
9 1 (0.97%) Banking
9 1 (0.97%) Front Office
9 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (41.75%) Data Engineer
2 27 (26.21%) Senior
3 22 (21.36%) Scala Engineer
4 21 (20.39%) Software Engineer
5 19 (18.45%) Developer
6 15 (14.56%) Lead
6 15 (14.56%) Scala Software Engineer
7 13 (12.62%) Scala Developer
8 12 (11.65%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (7.77%) AWS Data Engineer
9 8 (7.77%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (7.77%) Lead Data Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Azure Data Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 6 (5.83%) Senior Developer
11 6 (5.83%) Senior Scala Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Development Engineer
12 5 (4.85%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.27%) Kafka
2 17 (16.50%) Akka
2 17 (16.50%) PySpark
3 14 (13.59%) gRPC
4 8 (7.77%) boto
4 8 (7.77%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (4.85%) Memcached
5 5 (4.85%) React
5 5 (4.85%) Spring
6 2 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.94%) Flutter
6 2 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.97%) LAMP
7 1 (0.97%) Node.js
7 1 (0.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (35.92%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (31.07%) Video\Live Streaming
3 31 (30.10%) Over-the-Top Content
4 9 (8.74%) Data Structures
4 9 (8.74%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.77%) e-Learning
6 5 (4.85%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.91%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.97%) Anti-Piracy
10 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.97%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.88%) Linux
2 2 (1.94%) Unix
3 1 (0.97%) Android
3 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (48.54%) Analytics
2 43 (41.75%) CI/CD
3 41 (39.81%) Data Modelling
4 37 (35.92%) Agile
4 37 (35.92%) Data Science
5 36 (34.95%) Data Pipeline
6 32 (31.07%) Machine Learning
7 30 (29.13%) Data Engineering
7 30 (29.13%) ETL
8 29 (28.16%) Data Governance
9 28 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (27.18%) TDD
10 27 (26.21%) DevOps
11 26 (25.24%) Software Engineering
12 25 (24.27%) Data Analytics
13 21 (20.39%) Open Source
14 20 (19.42%) Continuous Delivery
15 19 (18.45%) Mentoring
15 19 (18.45%) Microservices
15 19 (18.45%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 60 (58.25%) Python
2 36 (34.95%) Java
3 34 (33.01%) SQL
4 16 (15.53%) Go
5 11 (10.68%) Kotlin
6 7 (6.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.88%) R
8 3 (2.91%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.94%) Ruby
10 1 (0.97%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.97%) C#
10 1 (0.97%) C++
10 1 (0.97%) Perl
10 1 (0.97%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (14.56%) Degree
2 8 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.80%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.83%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.85%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.85%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.97%) CISSP
7 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.97%) OSCP
7 1 (0.97%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (21.36%) Data Quality
2 13 (12.62%) GDPR
3 5 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 36 (34.95%) Docker
2 8 (7.77%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (21.36%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.65%) Terraform
3 2 (1.94%) Ansible
3 2 (1.94%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.94%) Puppet
4 1 (0.97%) Control-M
4 1 (0.97%) Grafana
4 1 (0.97%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 28 (27.18%) Databricks
2 14 (13.59%) Typelevel
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.91%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.94%) GoCardless
4 2 (1.94%) mParticle
4 2 (1.94%) PayPal
4 2 (1.94%) Zuora
5 1 (0.97%) BMC
5 1 (0.97%) Google
5 1 (0.97%) IBM
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle
5 1 (0.97%) Rackspace
5 1 (0.97%) Talend