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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 281 296
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 -121
Permanent jobs citing Scala 102 94 225
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.48% 0.77% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.92% 1.85% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 24 43 156
10th Percentile £55,430 - £60,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £120,000 £98,750 £97,500
90th Percentile - £102,450 £128,750
England median annual salary £83,250 £70,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year +18.93% -8.20% -4.69%

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 5,299 5,092 9,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.08% 41.63% 39.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,728 3,516 7,589
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,625 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £132,500 £130,000
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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -18 19 £122,500 +96.00% 8
West London - 17 £90,000 -
South London - 12 £48,975 -
East London - 5 - - 2
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 22 (21.57%) Apache Spark
2 13 (12.75%) 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 22 (21.57%) Azure
4 15 (14.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (11.76%) GitHub
6 9 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (7.84%) Power Platform
8 7 (6.86%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (6.86%) Cloud Composer
9 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (4.90%) dbt
10 5 (4.90%) SaaS
11 4 (3.92%) Dagster
12 3 (2.94%) Fivetran
13 2 (1.96%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 2 (1.96%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 57 (55.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.71%) Delta Lake
2 12 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (11.76%) Metadata
3 10 (9.80%) Data Lake
3 10 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (8.82%) BigQuery
4 9 (8.82%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.84%) Power BI
5 8 (7.84%) Tableau
6 7 (6.86%) Big Data
7 6 (5.88%) Hadoop
8 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.94%) Airbyte
10 3 (2.94%) Cloud Spanner
10 3 (2.94%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.98%) Flink
11 1 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.98%) Parquet
11 1 (0.98%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 16 (15.69%) TeamCity
3 14 (13.73%) Git
General
1 21 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.61%) Finance
3 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.92%) Law
4 4 (3.92%) Marketing
5 3 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.96%) Advertising
6 2 (1.96%) Billing
6 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (35.29%) Data Engineer
1 36 (35.29%) Scala Engineer
2 25 (24.51%) Senior
3 23 (22.55%) Software Engineer
4 22 (21.57%) Scala Software Engineer
5 18 (17.65%) Developer
5 18 (17.65%) Scala Developer
6 9 (8.82%) Lead
6 9 (8.82%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (6.86%) Senior Scala Engineer
7 7 (6.86%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Architect
8 6 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Backend Developer
9 5 (4.90%) Technical Leader
10 4 (3.92%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Senior Scala Developer
10 4 (3.92%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (35.29%) gRPC
2 20 (19.61%) PySpark
3 16 (15.69%) Akka
4 14 (13.73%) Kafka
5 5 (4.90%) React
6 3 (2.94%) Apache Beam
6 3 (2.94%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.96%) Play Framework
8 1 (0.98%) D3.js
8 1 (0.98%) Memcached
8 1 (0.98%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.98%) REST
8 1 (0.98%) Spring
8 1 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (51.96%) Video\Live Streaming
2 52 (50.98%) Over-the-Top Content
3 41 (40.20%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.90%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.90%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.92%) Anti-Piracy
5 4 (3.92%) Social Media
6 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.96%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.98%) IoT
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.98%) Linux
1 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (57.84%) CI/CD
2 58 (56.86%) Data Science
3 50 (49.02%) Software Engineering
4 46 (45.10%) Analytics
5 43 (42.16%) Machine Learning
5 43 (42.16%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (39.22%) Coaching
7 38 (37.25%) Continuous Delivery
8 37 (36.27%) Containerisation
8 37 (36.27%) Microservices
9 36 (35.29%) Clean Code
9 36 (35.29%) Personalization
10 35 (34.31%) Data Modelling
11 32 (31.37%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (28.43%) Agile
13 25 (24.51%) ETL
14 24 (23.53%) Data Engineering
15 23 (22.55%) DevOps
16 21 (20.59%) Data Governance
17 19 (18.63%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 70 (68.63%) Python
2 37 (36.27%) Go
3 30 (29.41%) SQL
4 18 (17.65%) Java
5 5 (4.90%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.92%) C++
7 3 (2.94%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.96%) Bicep
8 2 (1.96%) R
9 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.98%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (7.84%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.90%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.94%) Degree
4 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.98%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 59 (57.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (22.55%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.78%) Terraform
3 3 (2.94%) Kibana
4 1 (0.98%) Control-M
Vendors
1 36 (35.29%) Typelevel
2 19 (18.63%) Databricks
3 4 (3.92%) Google
3 4 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.96%) Braze
4 2 (1.96%) GoCardless
4 2 (1.96%) mParticle
4 2 (1.96%) PayPal
4 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.96%) Zuora
5 1 (0.98%) BMC
5 1 (0.98%) IBM
5 1 (0.98%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.98%) Talend