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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 298 306
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 -134
Permanent jobs citing Scala 101 87 217
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.48% 0.72% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.92% 1.79% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 26 45 154
10th Percentile £57,450 - £63,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £118,750 £97,500 £96,875
90th Percentile £120,000 £104,100 £141,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% -

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 5,266 4,864 9,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.26% 40.51% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,729 3,518 7,556
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,313 £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 £120,000 £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 25 May 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 25 May 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 20 £111,250 +78.00% 6
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 21 (20.79%) Apache Spark
2 11 (10.89%) Apache
3 7 (6.93%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.98%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.98%) SAS
5 1 (0.99%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 54 (53.47%) AWS
2 53 (52.48%) GCP
3 24 (23.76%) Azure
4 16 (15.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (15.84%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (13.86%) GitHub
6 11 (10.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (8.91%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (7.92%) Power Platform
9 7 (6.93%) Cloud Composer
10 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (4.95%) dbt
12 4 (3.96%) Dagster
13 3 (2.97%) SaaS
14 2 (1.98%) Amazon Kinesis
14 2 (1.98%) Amazon S3
14 2 (1.98%) Amazon SageMaker
14 2 (1.98%) Fivetran
14 2 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (1.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 57 (56.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.84%) Delta Lake
2 14 (13.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (12.87%) Data Lake
4 11 (10.89%) Metadata
5 10 (9.90%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (8.91%) BigQuery
7 8 (7.92%) NoSQL
7 8 (7.92%) Power BI
8 7 (6.93%) Big Data
8 7 (6.93%) Tableau
9 6 (5.94%) Hadoop
10 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.97%) Cloud Spanner
11 3 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.98%) Airbyte
12 2 (1.98%) Couchbase
12 2 (1.98%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
12 2 (1.98%) Redis
12 2 (1.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (19.80%) Jenkins
2 16 (15.84%) TeamCity
3 15 (14.85%) Git
General
1 19 (18.81%) Finance
1 19 (18.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.96%) Law
4 3 (2.97%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.98%) Billing
5 2 (1.98%) Marketing
5 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.99%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 37 (36.63%) Data Engineer
2 36 (35.64%) Scala Engineer
3 24 (23.76%) Senior
3 24 (23.76%) Software Engineer
4 22 (21.78%) Scala Software Engineer
5 18 (17.82%) Developer
5 18 (17.82%) Scala Developer
6 9 (8.91%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Lead
8 7 (6.93%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Senior Scala Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Architect
10 5 (4.95%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.96%) Data Architect
11 4 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.96%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (35.64%) gRPC
2 20 (19.80%) PySpark
3 16 (15.84%) Akka
4 15 (14.85%) Kafka
5 3 (2.97%) Apache Beam
5 3 (2.97%) React
6 2 (1.98%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.98%) Memcached
6 2 (1.98%) Spring
7 1 (0.99%) D3.js
7 1 (0.99%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.99%) REST
7 1 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (52.48%) Video\Live Streaming
2 52 (51.49%) Over-the-Top Content
3 42 (41.58%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.93%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.96%) Anti-Piracy
5 4 (3.96%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.96%) Social Media
6 3 (2.97%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.99%) IoT
8 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.99%) Linux
1 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (60.40%) CI/CD
2 58 (57.43%) Data Science
3 49 (48.51%) Software Engineering
4 47 (46.53%) Analytics
5 44 (43.56%) Machine Learning
6 43 (42.57%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (38.61%) Continuous Delivery
8 38 (37.62%) Coaching
8 38 (37.62%) Microservices
9 37 (36.63%) Containerisation
10 36 (35.64%) Clean Code
10 36 (35.64%) Personalization
11 35 (34.65%) Data Modelling
12 34 (33.66%) Data Pipeline
13 28 (27.72%) Agile
13 28 (27.72%) ETL
14 25 (24.75%) DevOps
15 24 (23.76%) Data Governance
16 22 (21.78%) Data Engineering
17 19 (18.81%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 71 (70.30%) Python
2 37 (36.63%) Go
3 31 (30.69%) SQL
4 20 (19.80%) Java
5 4 (3.96%) C++
6 3 (2.97%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.98%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.98%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.98%) R
8 1 (0.99%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.99%) Bicep
8 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (6.93%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.95%) Degree
3 4 (3.96%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.96%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (21.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 58 (57.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (21.78%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.88%) Terraform
3 2 (1.98%) Kibana
4 1 (0.99%) Control-M
Vendors
1 36 (35.64%) Typelevel
2 20 (19.80%) Databricks
3 4 (3.96%) Google
4 3 (2.97%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.98%) Braze
5 2 (1.98%) GoCardless
5 2 (1.98%) mParticle
5 2 (1.98%) PayPal
5 2 (1.98%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.98%) Zuora
6 1 (0.99%) BMC
6 1 (0.99%) IBM
6 1 (0.99%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.99%) Talend