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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 293 302
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 -134
Permanent jobs citing Scala 101 86 214
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.49% 0.70% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.92% 1.74% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25 48 155
10th Percentile £56,440 - £63,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -15.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £120,000 £98,125 £97,500
90th Percentile - £105,000 £140,500
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 5,255 4,951 9,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.35% 40.34% 40.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,710 3,679 7,537
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £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 £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 21 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 21 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 -27 21 £111,250 +78.00% 6
West London - 17 £90,000 -
South London - 12 £48,975 -
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 21 (20.79%) Apache Spark
2 10 (9.90%) 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 25 (24.75%) Azure
4 17 (16.83%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (13.86%) GitHub
6 11 (10.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (8.91%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (8.91%) Power Platform
8 7 (6.93%) Cloud Composer
9 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (4.95%) dbt
11 4 (3.96%) Dagster
12 3 (2.97%) SaaS
13 2 (1.98%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.98%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (1.98%) Fivetran
13 2 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 2 (1.98%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 57 (56.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.84%) Delta Lake
2 15 (14.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (12.87%) Data Lake
4 11 (10.89%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (10.89%) Metadata
5 9 (8.91%) BigQuery
5 9 (8.91%) Power BI
6 8 (7.92%) NoSQL
6 8 (7.92%) Tableau
7 6 (5.94%) Big Data
8 5 (4.95%) Hadoop
8 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.97%) Cloud Spanner
10 2 (1.98%) Airbyte
10 2 (1.98%) Couchbase
10 2 (1.98%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.98%) MySQL
10 2 (1.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (20.79%) Jenkins
2 16 (15.84%) Git
2 16 (15.84%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (17.82%) Finance
1 18 (17.82%) 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%) Software Engineer
4 23 (22.77%) Senior
5 22 (21.78%) Scala Software Engineer
6 18 (17.82%) Developer
6 18 (17.82%) Scala Developer
7 9 (8.91%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) 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 Developer
11 4 (3.96%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (35.64%) gRPC
2 21 (20.79%) PySpark
3 16 (15.84%) Akka
3 16 (15.84%) Kafka
4 3 (2.97%) Apache Beam
4 3 (2.97%) React
5 2 (1.98%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.98%) Memcached
5 2 (1.98%) Spring
6 1 (0.99%) D3.js
6 1 (0.99%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.99%) REST
6 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 46 (45.54%) 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
11 35 (34.65%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (28.71%) Agile
13 28 (27.72%) ETL
14 26 (25.74%) DevOps
15 25 (24.75%) 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 32 (31.68%) 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 8 (7.92%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.95%) Degree
2 5 (4.95%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.95%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (22.77%) Data Quality
System Software
1 59 (58.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (22.77%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.88%) Terraform
3 2 (1.98%) Kibana
4 1 (0.99%) Control-M
Vendors
1 36 (35.64%) Typelevel
2 21 (20.79%) 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