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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 301 287
Rank change year-on-year -3 -14 -106
Permanent jobs citing Scala 83 145 155
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.62% 0.90% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.95% 2.11% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 52 98 130
10th Percentile £51,365 - -
25th Percentile £72,313 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £84,115 £96,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -12.61% +10.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £119,500 £112,950 £143,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -3.13% -3.03% +3.13%

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 4,251 6,876 7,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.63% 42.45% 44.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,998 4,531 6,859
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £106,250 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 10 £97,500 +56.00% 9
South London +40 3 £48,975 -51.03% 5
West London - 1 - - 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 25 (30.12%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.82%) Apache
2 4 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.61%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 48 (57.83%) AWS
2 35 (42.17%) Azure
3 24 (28.92%) Power Platform
4 18 (21.69%) GCP
5 16 (19.28%) Amazon Kinesis
5 16 (19.28%) Serverless
6 15 (18.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (16.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (15.66%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (13.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (10.84%) Amazon S3
11 8 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (7.23%) GitHub
13 5 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (6.02%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (4.82%) Azure Storage
14 4 (4.82%) OpenShift
14 4 (4.82%) Snowflake
15 3 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (3.61%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) Broadband
2 1 (1.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (37.35%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (28.92%) Power BI
3 14 (16.87%) Amazon Redshift
3 14 (16.87%) Big Data
3 14 (16.87%) Data Lake
3 14 (16.87%) Hadoop
4 10 (12.05%) Metadata
5 9 (10.84%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (10.84%) Apache Hive
5 9 (10.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (9.64%) NoSQL
7 7 (8.43%) DynamoDB
8 6 (7.23%) Delta Lake
8 6 (7.23%) Power Query
8 6 (7.23%) SQL Server
9 5 (6.02%) Couchbase
9 5 (6.02%) Data Vault
9 5 (6.02%) Redis
10 4 (4.82%) MySQL
11 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (13.25%) Git
1 11 (13.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.41%) CircleCI
2 2 (2.41%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.41%) Gatling
2 2 (2.41%) JMeter
2 2 (2.41%) JUnit
2 2 (2.41%) REST Assured
2 2 (2.41%) Selenium
3 1 (1.20%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (44.58%) Finance
2 21 (25.30%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.05%) Financial Institution
5 5 (6.02%) Legal
5 5 (6.02%) Marketing
6 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Retail
8 1 (1.20%) Advertising
8 1 (1.20%) Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Front Office
8 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (53.01%) Data Engineer
2 22 (26.51%) Senior
3 15 (18.07%) Lead
4 13 (15.66%) Senior Data Engineer
5 12 (14.46%) Developer
6 10 (12.05%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) Azure Data Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) AWS Data Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Software Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Development Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Java Developer
10 5 (6.02%) Lead Developer
10 5 (6.02%) Software Development Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (4.82%) Principal Developer
11 4 (4.82%) Principal Java Developer
11 4 (4.82%) Programmer
11 4 (4.82%) Senior Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (30.12%) Kafka
2 10 (12.05%) PySpark
2 10 (12.05%) Spark Streaming
3 8 (9.64%) boto
4 5 (6.02%) Flutter
4 5 (6.02%) Memcached
4 5 (6.02%) React
4 5 (6.02%) Spring
5 2 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.41%) XML
6 1 (1.20%) Akka
6 1 (1.20%) LAMP
6 1 (1.20%) Node.js
6 1 (1.20%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.71%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (13.25%) Data Structures
3 10 (12.05%) e-Learning
4 9 (10.84%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (7.23%) Cloud Native
6 5 (6.02%) Virtual Team
7 4 (4.82%) Derivative
8 3 (3.61%) Algorithms
9 2 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.20%) Over-the-Top Content
10 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Unix
3 1 (1.20%) Android
3 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (53.01%) Data Modelling
2 40 (48.19%) Data Pipeline
3 35 (42.17%) Data Engineering
4 34 (40.96%) DevOps
5 32 (38.55%) Analytics
5 32 (38.55%) ETL
6 31 (37.35%) Agile
7 30 (36.14%) Machine Learning
8 28 (33.73%) CI/CD
9 26 (31.33%) Data Governance
9 26 (31.33%) Data Science
10 25 (30.12%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (22.89%) Computer Science
12 18 (21.69%) AI
12 18 (21.69%) Mentoring
13 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (15.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (13.25%) Decision-Making
15 11 (13.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (65.06%) Python
2 46 (55.42%) Java
3 40 (48.19%) SQL
4 15 (18.07%) Kotlin
5 8 (9.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (9.64%) R
6 5 (6.02%) Go
7 4 (4.82%) F#
7 4 (4.82%) Haskell
7 4 (4.82%) OCaml
8 2 (2.41%) C#
8 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.41%) Ruby
9 1 (1.20%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (1.20%) Elixir
9 1 (1.20%) Erlang
9 1 (1.20%) Groovy
9 1 (1.20%) Perl
9 1 (1.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (22.89%) Degree
2 9 (10.84%) Master's Degree
3 8 (9.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (8.43%) Azure Certification
5 6 (7.23%) Security Cleared
6 5 (6.02%) PhD
6 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.20%) CISSP
8 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.20%) OSCP
8 1 (1.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.89%) Data Quality
2 13 (15.66%) GDPR
3 5 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.61%) QA
System Software
1 8 (9.64%) HDFS
2 7 (8.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.23%) Terraform
3 3 (3.61%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.41%) Ansible
4 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.41%) Puppet
5 1 (1.20%) Control-M
5 1 (1.20%) Grafana
5 1 (1.20%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 27 (32.53%) Databricks
2 5 (6.02%) Google
3 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.20%) BMC
4 1 (1.20%) IBM
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle
4 1 (1.20%) Rackspace
4 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.20%) Talend