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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 299 277
Rank change year-on-year -41 -22 +29
Permanent jobs citing Scala 99 92 188
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.38% 0.78% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.80% 2.04% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 59 51 110
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £60,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -14.67%
75th Percentile £113,750 £103,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,000 £117,500 £102,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

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 5,489 4,510 7,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.20% 38.36% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,614 3,012 5,092
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,525 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,813 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £130,000
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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +6 6 £72,500 -23.68% 23
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 32 (32.32%) Apache Spark
2 25 (25.25%) Apache
3 7 (7.07%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.03%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.03%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 52 (52.53%) Azure
2 38 (38.38%) Azure Databricks
3 37 (37.37%) Azure Data Factory
4 26 (26.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 25 (25.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (19.19%) Snowflake
7 18 (18.18%) AWS
8 17 (17.17%) GCP
9 16 (16.16%) Power Platform
10 14 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (8.08%) SaaS
12 7 (7.07%) Cloud Composer
12 7 (7.07%) GitHub
13 5 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (4.04%) Amazon S3
14 4 (4.04%) dbt
15 3 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
15 3 (3.03%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.26%) Metadata
2 25 (25.25%) Delta Lake
3 21 (21.21%) Big Data
4 19 (19.19%) Data Vault
5 16 (16.16%) NoSQL
5 16 (16.16%) Power BI
6 15 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (14.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (14.14%) Tableau
8 13 (13.13%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (13.13%) Hadoop
9 11 (11.11%) Relational Database
10 8 (8.08%) Data Lake
11 7 (7.07%) BigQuery
12 6 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (5.05%) Flink
13 5 (5.05%) Spark SQL
14 4 (4.04%) Looker
15 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (3.03%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 15 (15.15%) Git
2 13 (13.13%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.03%) GitLab
4 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.02%) Gradle
4 2 (2.02%) JUnit
4 2 (2.02%) Maven
4 2 (2.02%) Mockito
General
1 37 (37.37%) Finance
1 37 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.04%) Advertising
3 4 (4.04%) Banking
3 4 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.03%) Marketing
5 2 (2.02%) Law
6 1 (1.01%) Front Office
6 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.01%) Legal
6 1 (1.01%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (38.38%) Data Engineer
2 25 (25.25%) Senior
3 24 (24.24%) Architect
4 21 (21.21%) Data Architect
5 15 (15.15%) Developer
6 14 (14.14%) Lead
7 13 (13.13%) Scala Developer
7 13 (13.13%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
8 11 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Software Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Technical Leader
10 6 (6.06%) Senior Manager
10 6 (6.06%) Senior Technical Manager
10 6 (6.06%) Technical Manager
11 5 (5.05%) Data Scientist
11 5 (5.05%) Quantitative Developer
12 3 (3.03%) Azure Architect
12 3 (3.03%) Engineering Manager
12 3 (3.03%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (34.34%) PySpark
2 20 (20.20%) Terraform
3 17 (17.17%) Kafka
4 7 (7.07%) Apache Beam
5 6 (6.06%) React
6 5 (5.05%) YAML
7 4 (4.04%) CrewAI
7 4 (4.04%) LangChain
8 3 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (3.03%) Play Framework
8 3 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.03%) Spring
8 3 (3.03%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.02%) .NET
9 2 (2.02%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.02%) Hibernate
9 2 (2.02%) JPA
9 2 (2.02%) REST
9 2 (2.02%) Spring MVC
9 2 (2.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.03%) Robotics
2 3 (3.03%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.02%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.01%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.01%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.01%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.01%) NHS
4 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.01%) Linux
1 1 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (65.66%) Data Modelling
2 51 (51.52%) Analytics
3 43 (43.43%) Data Engineering
4 40 (40.40%) AI
5 39 (39.39%) CI/CD
6 36 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
6 36 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
7 33 (33.33%) Data Science
8 27 (27.27%) Data Architecture
8 27 (27.27%) DevOps
9 25 (25.25%) Machine Learning
10 24 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (22.22%) Agile
11 22 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (21.21%) Data Strategy
12 21 (21.21%) ETL
13 20 (20.20%) Lakehouse
14 19 (19.19%) Kimball Methodology
15 18 (18.18%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 60 (60.61%) Python
2 56 (56.57%) SQL
3 23 (23.23%) Java
4 16 (16.16%) Bicep
5 8 (8.08%) R
6 7 (7.07%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.06%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.04%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.03%) C
9 3 (3.03%) C++
9 3 (3.03%) Clojure
9 3 (3.03%) Erlang
9 3 (3.03%) Go
9 3 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.03%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.03%) Rust
10 2 (2.02%) C#
10 2 (2.02%) Ruby
11 1 (1.01%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 28 (28.28%) Azure Certification
2 23 (23.23%) SC Cleared
2 23 (23.23%) Security Cleared
3 17 (17.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (16.16%) SnowPro
5 4 (4.04%) Degree
6 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.01%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (38.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.02%) GDPR
2 2 (2.02%) QA
System Software
1 17 (17.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (17.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.03%) Kibana
3 2 (2.02%) Grafana
3 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (46.46%) Databricks
2 26 (26.26%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.08%) Google
4 4 (4.04%) New Relic
4 4 (4.04%) Splunk
5 2 (2.02%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.02%) Oracle
6 1 (1.01%) Informatica
6 1 (1.01%) Workday