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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 297 302
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -122
Permanent jobs citing Scala 105 95 226
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.49% 0.78% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.97% 1.87% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 27 44 157
10th Percentile £76,000 - £60,900
25th Percentile £82,500 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £78,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.68% -1.56% -8.57%
75th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £121,500 £104,325 £133,750
England median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £78,750
% change year-on-year +21.43% -11.11% -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 5,326 5,075 9,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.00% 41.54% 39.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,754 3,509 7,648
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £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 13 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 13 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 -14 18 £122,500 +96.00% 5
West London - 17 £90,000 -
South London - 10 - -
East London - 5 - - 1
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 24 (22.86%) Apache Spark
2 16 (15.24%) Apache
3 7 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.86%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.86%) SAS
5 1 (0.95%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 56 (53.33%) AWS
2 54 (51.43%) GCP
3 23 (21.90%) Azure
4 15 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (11.43%) GitHub
7 10 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (6.67%) Cloud Composer
9 7 (6.67%) Power Platform
10 6 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (5.71%) SaaS
11 5 (4.76%) dbt
12 4 (3.81%) Dagster
13 3 (2.86%) Fivetran
13 3 (2.86%) Snowflake
14 2 (1.90%) Amazon S3
14 2 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 2 (1.90%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 57 (54.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.29%) Delta Lake
2 12 (11.43%) Metadata
3 10 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (8.57%) Big Data
4 9 (8.57%) BigQuery
4 9 (8.57%) Data Lake
4 9 (8.57%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 7 (6.67%) Power BI
5 7 (6.67%) Tableau
6 5 (4.76%) Data Vault
6 5 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.86%) Airbyte
7 3 (2.86%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (1.90%) Flink
8 2 (1.90%) Redis
9 1 (0.95%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 16 (15.24%) TeamCity
3 13 (12.38%) Git
4 1 (0.95%) GitLab
General
1 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.76%) Marketing
4 4 (3.81%) Law
5 3 (2.86%) Advertising
6 2 (1.90%) Billing
7 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (34.29%) Scala Engineer
2 35 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 25 (23.81%) Senior
4 24 (22.86%) Software Engineer
5 22 (20.95%) Scala Software Engineer
6 18 (17.14%) Developer
6 18 (17.14%) Scala Developer
7 12 (11.43%) Lead
8 9 (8.57%) Architect
8 9 (8.57%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Data Architect
9 7 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Senior Scala Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Engineering Manager
10 5 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Technical Leader
11 4 (3.81%) Senior Scala Developer
11 4 (3.81%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (34.29%) gRPC
2 18 (17.14%) PySpark
3 16 (15.24%) Akka
4 14 (13.33%) Kafka
5 6 (5.71%) React
6 3 (2.86%) Apache Beam
6 3 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (2.86%) Play Framework
7 2 (1.90%) Spring
8 1 (0.95%) D3.js
8 1 (0.95%) Memcached
8 1 (0.95%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.95%) REST
8 1 (0.95%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (50.48%) Video\Live Streaming
2 52 (49.52%) Over-the-Top Content
3 42 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (8.57%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.81%) Anti-Piracy
6 4 (3.81%) Social Media
7 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.95%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.95%) IoT
9 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.95%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.95%) Linux
1 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (58.10%) CI/CD
2 59 (56.19%) Data Science
3 51 (48.57%) Software Engineering
4 46 (43.81%) Analytics
5 45 (42.86%) Machine Learning
6 43 (40.95%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (39.05%) Coaching
8 39 (37.14%) Continuous Delivery
9 38 (36.19%) Microservices
10 37 (35.24%) Clean Code
10 37 (35.24%) Containerisation
11 36 (34.29%) Data Modelling
11 36 (34.29%) Personalization
12 28 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (25.71%) Agile
14 23 (21.90%) ETL
15 22 (20.95%) Data Engineering
16 21 (20.00%) DevOps
16 21 (20.00%) Open Source
17 20 (19.05%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 69 (65.71%) Python
2 37 (35.24%) Go
3 30 (28.57%) SQL
4 20 (19.05%) Java
5 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.76%) C++
7 4 (3.81%) Bicep
8 3 (2.86%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.90%) R
10 1 (0.95%) C
10 1 (0.95%) Clojure
10 1 (0.95%) Erlang
10 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.95%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.95%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (8.57%) Azure Certification
2 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.86%) Degree
4 3 (2.86%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 58 (55.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (20.95%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.52%) Terraform
3 3 (2.86%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (34.29%) Typelevel
2 19 (18.10%) Databricks
3 6 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.81%) Google
5 2 (1.90%) Braze
5 2 (1.90%) GoCardless
5 2 (1.90%) mParticle
5 2 (1.90%) PayPal
5 2 (1.90%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.90%) Zuora
6 1 (0.95%) Mapbox