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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 295 300
Rank change year-on-year -24 +5 -110
Permanent jobs citing Scala 112 95 229
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.52% 0.78% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 1.87% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 33 45 152
10th Percentile - - £56,375
25th Percentile £77,500 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £106,500 £136,875
England median annual salary £83,250 £71,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.84% -10.94% -

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 5,365 5,067 9,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.69% 41.55% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,790 3,524 7,681
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,475 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,250 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £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 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 25 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 -17 20 £122,500 +96.00% 6
West London - 16 - -
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 27 (24.11%) Apache Spark
2 19 (16.96%) Apache
3 7 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.68%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.68%) SAS
5 1 (0.89%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 54 (48.21%) AWS
2 53 (47.32%) GCP
3 23 (20.54%) Azure
4 15 (13.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (9.82%) Microsoft Purview
6 10 (8.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (8.93%) GitHub
7 7 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
7 7 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.36%) SaaS
8 6 (5.36%) Snowflake
9 4 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.57%) Dagster
9 4 (3.57%) dbt
10 3 (2.68%) Fivetran
11 2 (1.79%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (1.79%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 57 (50.89%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.29%) Delta Lake
2 15 (13.39%) Metadata
3 13 (11.61%) Big Data
4 11 (9.82%) Hadoop
5 9 (8.04%) BigQuery
5 9 (8.04%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (8.04%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (7.14%) Data Vault
6 8 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 7 (6.25%) Power BI
7 7 (6.25%) Tableau
8 6 (5.36%) Data Lake
9 5 (4.46%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.68%) Airbyte
10 3 (2.68%) Cloud Spanner
11 2 (1.79%) Flink
12 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.89%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.29%) TeamCity
3 11 (9.82%) Git
4 1 (0.89%) GitLab
General
1 25 (22.32%) Finance
2 24 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.46%) Marketing
4 4 (3.57%) Advertising
4 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.57%) Law
5 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.79%) Billing
7 1 (0.89%) Banking
7 1 (0.89%) Front Office
7 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (32.14%) Scala Engineer
2 34 (30.36%) Data Engineer
3 29 (25.89%) Senior
4 25 (22.32%) Software Engineer
5 22 (19.64%) Scala Software Engineer
6 20 (17.86%) Developer
6 20 (17.86%) Scala Developer
7 16 (14.29%) Lead
8 12 (10.71%) Architect
9 11 (9.82%) Senior Data Engineer
10 10 (8.93%) Data Architect
11 7 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (6.25%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 7 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
11 7 (6.25%) Technical Leader
12 6 (5.36%) Senior Manager
12 6 (5.36%) Senior Technical Manager
12 6 (5.36%) Technical Manager
13 5 (4.46%) Engineering Manager
13 5 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (32.14%) gRPC
2 18 (16.07%) PySpark
3 16 (14.29%) Akka
4 12 (10.71%) Kafka
5 6 (5.36%) React
6 3 (2.68%) Apache Beam
6 3 (2.68%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (2.68%) Play Framework
7 1 (0.89%) D3.js
7 1 (0.89%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.89%) REST
7 1 (0.89%) Spring
7 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (47.32%) Video\Live Streaming
2 52 (46.43%) Over-the-Top Content
3 40 (35.71%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (9.82%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.57%) Anti-Piracy
5 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.57%) Social Media
6 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.68%) Robotics
7 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.89%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.89%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.89%) IoT
8 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.89%) Linux
1 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (54.46%) CI/CD
2 59 (52.68%) Data Science
3 53 (47.32%) Software Engineering
4 51 (45.54%) Analytics
5 47 (41.96%) Machine Learning
6 42 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (36.61%) Coaching
8 40 (35.71%) Data Modelling
9 38 (33.93%) Continuous Delivery
10 37 (33.04%) Clean Code
10 37 (33.04%) Containerisation
10 37 (33.04%) Microservices
11 36 (32.14%) Personalization
12 27 (24.11%) Agile
13 25 (22.32%) Data Engineering
13 25 (22.32%) Data Pipeline
14 23 (20.54%) Open Source
15 20 (17.86%) ETL
16 19 (16.96%) DevOps
17 18 (16.07%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 69 (61.61%) Python
2 37 (33.04%) Go
3 30 (26.79%) SQL
4 20 (17.86%) Java
5 7 (6.25%) Bicep
5 7 (6.25%) C++
6 6 (5.36%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.68%) C
7 3 (2.68%) Clojure
7 3 (2.68%) Erlang
7 3 (2.68%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.68%) Rust
8 2 (1.79%) R
9 1 (0.89%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (10.71%) Azure Certification
2 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) SnowPro
4 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.79%) Degree
4 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 58 (51.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (19.64%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.82%) Terraform
3 3 (2.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (32.14%) Typelevel
2 19 (16.96%) Databricks
3 9 (8.04%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.57%) Google
5 2 (1.79%) Braze
5 2 (1.79%) GoCardless
5 2 (1.79%) mParticle
5 2 (1.79%) PayPal
5 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.79%) Zuora
6 1 (0.89%) Mapbox