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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 300 288
Rank change year-on-year +8 -12 -133
Permanent jobs citing Scala 96 119 193
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.62% 0.80% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.13% 1.96% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 36 84 160
10th Percentile £49,250 - £63,375
25th Percentile £62,188 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £112,500 £104,063 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £114,700 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% -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 4,510 6,065 9,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.17% 40.65% 42.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,173 3,920 7,821
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -3 14 £82,500 +32.00% 14
West London - 11 £90,000 - 9
South London +44 10 £48,975 -51.03% 8
East London - 3 - - 9
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 19 (19.79%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 45 (46.88%) AWS
2 28 (29.17%) Azure
3 27 (28.13%) GCP
4 17 (17.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (13.54%) Amazon Kinesis
6 13 (13.54%) Power Platform
7 12 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (12.50%) GitHub
8 10 (10.42%) Serverless
9 9 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (7.29%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (4.17%) dbt
13 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
14 2 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
14 2 (2.08%) BrowserStack
14 2 (2.08%) SaaS
14 2 (2.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 2 (2.08%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 33 (34.38%) Broadband
2 1 (1.04%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (17.71%) Data Lake
3 14 (14.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (13.54%) Power BI
5 11 (11.46%) Delta Lake
6 10 (10.42%) Big Data
7 9 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (9.38%) Hadoop
8 8 (8.33%) Apache Hive
9 7 (7.29%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (7.29%) Metadata
10 6 (6.25%) DynamoDB
10 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
11 5 (5.21%) Couchbase
11 5 (5.21%) NoSQL
11 5 (5.21%) Redis
12 4 (4.17%) MySQL
12 4 (4.17%) Power Query
13 3 (3.13%) BigQuery
13 3 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (22.92%) Jenkins
2 17 (17.71%) Git
2 17 (17.71%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.08%) Gatling
3 2 (2.08%) JMeter
3 2 (2.08%) JUnit
3 2 (2.08%) REST Assured
3 2 (2.08%) Selenium
4 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 28 (29.17%) Finance
2 17 (17.71%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.29%) Financial Institution
5 6 (6.25%) Marketing
6 4 (4.17%) Legal
6 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.08%) Billing
7 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.04%) Advertising
8 1 (1.04%) Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Front Office
8 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (38.54%) Data Engineer
2 26 (27.08%) Senior
3 22 (22.92%) Scala Engineer
4 21 (21.88%) Software Engineer
5 18 (18.75%) Developer
6 15 (15.63%) Scala Software Engineer
7 13 (13.54%) Scala Developer
8 12 (12.50%) Lead
9 11 (11.46%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) AWS Data Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 6 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (6.25%) Senior Developer
11 6 (6.25%) Senior Scala Developer
12 5 (5.21%) Development Engineer
12 5 (5.21%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.88%) Kafka
2 17 (17.71%) Akka
2 17 (17.71%) PySpark
3 14 (14.58%) gRPC
4 7 (7.29%) boto
4 7 (7.29%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (5.21%) Memcached
5 5 (5.21%) Spring
6 4 (4.17%) React
7 1 (1.04%) Flutter
7 1 (1.04%) LAMP
7 1 (1.04%) Node.js
7 1 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (35.42%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
3 31 (32.29%) Over-the-Top Content
4 8 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (7.29%) Data Structures
5 7 (7.29%) e-Learning
6 5 (5.21%) Virtual Team
7 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.04%) Anti-Piracy
9 1 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.17%) Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Unix
3 1 (1.04%) Android
3 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (50.00%) Analytics
2 42 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 37 (38.54%) Data Modelling
4 35 (36.46%) Agile
4 35 (36.46%) Data Pipeline
5 34 (35.42%) Data Science
6 28 (29.17%) Machine Learning
7 27 (28.13%) Data Governance
7 27 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (27.08%) Data Engineering
8 26 (27.08%) DevOps
8 26 (27.08%) ETL
8 26 (27.08%) TDD
9 25 (26.04%) Software Engineering
10 23 (23.96%) Data Analytics
11 21 (21.88%) Open Source
12 20 (20.83%) Continuous Delivery
13 19 (19.79%) Microservices
13 19 (19.79%) Pair Programming
13 19 (19.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 55 (57.29%) Python
2 31 (32.29%) Java
3 30 (31.25%) SQL
4 15 (15.63%) Go
5 10 (10.42%) Kotlin
6 5 (5.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (4.17%) R
8 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.08%) Ruby
10 1 (1.04%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (1.04%) C#
10 1 (1.04%) C++
10 1 (1.04%) Perl
10 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Degree
2 7 (7.29%) Azure Certification
2 7 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.21%) Master's Degree
4 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.04%) CISSP
6 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.04%) OSCP
6 1 (1.04%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.92%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.46%) GDPR
3 4 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 36 (37.50%) Docker
2 7 (7.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (22.92%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) Control-M
3 1 (1.04%) Grafana
3 1 (1.04%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 27 (28.13%) Databricks
2 14 (14.58%) Typelevel
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.08%) GoCardless
4 2 (2.08%) mParticle
4 2 (2.08%) PayPal
4 2 (2.08%) Zuora
5 1 (1.04%) BMC
5 1 (1.04%) Google
5 1 (1.04%) IBM
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle
5 1 (1.04%) Rackspace
5 1 (1.04%) Talend