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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 306 291
Rank change year-on-year +23 -15 -138
Permanent jobs citing Scala 101 123 197
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.68% 0.80% 0.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.27% 1.97% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 44 87 164
10th Percentile £50,375 - -
25th Percentile £70,688 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +3.03% -5.71%
75th Percentile £112,500 £103,125 £113,125
90th Percentile £132,250 £114,400 £143,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 4,453 6,229 9,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.97% 40.46% 43.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,130 3,987 7,825
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -9 16 £100,000 +60.00% 12
South London +45 10 £48,975 -51.03% 8
West London - 7 £90,000 - 8
East London - 2 - - 12
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 (23.76%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.96%) Apache
3 3 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.97%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 49 (48.51%) AWS
2 32 (31.68%) Azure
3 24 (23.76%) GCP
4 18 (17.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 17 (16.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (16.83%) Power Platform
6 15 (14.85%) Amazon Kinesis
7 13 (12.87%) Serverless
8 12 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (10.89%) GitHub
10 10 (9.90%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (8.91%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (7.92%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (5.94%) Amazon S3
14 3 (2.97%) dbt
14 3 (2.97%) Snowflake
15 2 (1.98%) Amazon SageMaker
15 2 (1.98%) BrowserStack
15 2 (1.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 2 (1.98%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 25 (24.75%) Broadband
2 1 (0.99%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (27.72%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (16.83%) Data Lake
2 17 (16.83%) Power BI
3 14 (13.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (12.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (12.87%) Big Data
4 13 (12.87%) Hadoop
5 11 (10.89%) Delta Lake
6 9 (8.91%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (8.91%) Apache Hive
7 8 (7.92%) Metadata
8 7 (6.93%) DynamoDB
8 7 (6.93%) NoSQL
9 6 (5.94%) Power Query
9 6 (5.94%) SQL Server
10 5 (4.95%) Couchbase
10 5 (4.95%) Redis
11 4 (3.96%) MySQL
12 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (2.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (22.77%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.83%) TeamCity
3 16 (15.84%) Git
4 2 (1.98%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.98%) Gatling
4 2 (1.98%) JMeter
4 2 (1.98%) JUnit
4 2 (1.98%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.98%) Selenium
5 1 (0.99%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.99%) JIRA
General
1 34 (33.66%) Finance
2 18 (17.82%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.91%) Financial Institution
5 7 (6.93%) Marketing
6 5 (4.95%) Legal
7 4 (3.96%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.98%) Billing
8 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Retail
9 1 (0.99%) Advertising
9 1 (0.99%) Banking
9 1 (0.99%) Front Office
9 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (44.55%) Data Engineer
2 27 (26.73%) Senior
3 19 (18.81%) Software Engineer
4 18 (17.82%) Scala Engineer
5 17 (16.83%) Developer
6 16 (15.84%) Lead
7 13 (12.87%) Scala Software Engineer
8 11 (10.89%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (9.90%) Scala Developer
10 9 (8.91%) AWS Data Engineer
10 9 (8.91%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (8.91%) Azure Data Engineer
10 9 (8.91%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (7.92%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (6.93%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (6.93%) Senior Scala Engineer
13 6 (5.94%) Senior Developer
13 6 (5.94%) Senior Scala Developer
14 5 (4.95%) Development Engineer
14 5 (4.95%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.75%) Kafka
2 17 (16.83%) Akka
2 17 (16.83%) PySpark
3 9 (8.91%) Spark Streaming
4 8 (7.92%) boto
5 7 (6.93%) gRPC
5 7 (6.93%) React
6 5 (4.95%) Memcached
6 5 (4.95%) Spring
7 4 (3.96%) Flutter
8 2 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.99%) LAMP
9 1 (0.99%) Node.js
9 1 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (31.68%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (24.75%) Video\Live Streaming
3 24 (23.76%) Over-the-Top Content
4 9 (8.91%) e-Learning
4 9 (8.91%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.92%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.95%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.95%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.97%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.98%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.96%) Linux
2 3 (2.97%) Unix
3 1 (0.99%) Android
3 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (50.50%) Analytics
2 43 (42.57%) Data Modelling
3 39 (38.61%) Agile
4 38 (37.62%) Data Pipeline
5 37 (36.63%) CI/CD
6 31 (30.69%) Data Engineering
6 31 (30.69%) Data Science
6 31 (30.69%) ETL
7 29 (28.71%) DevOps
7 29 (28.71%) Machine Learning
8 28 (27.72%) Data Governance
8 28 (27.72%) TDD
9 25 (24.75%) Data Analytics
10 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (20.79%) Open Source
12 20 (19.80%) Software Engineering
13 19 (18.81%) Mentoring
13 19 (18.81%) Pair Programming
13 19 (18.81%) Scrum
14 18 (17.82%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 56 (55.45%) Python
2 38 (37.62%) Java
3 37 (36.63%) SQL
4 13 (12.87%) Kotlin
5 11 (10.89%) Go
6 7 (6.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (4.95%) R
8 3 (2.97%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.98%) C#
9 2 (1.98%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.98%) Ruby
10 1 (0.99%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.99%) Perl
10 1 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (14.85%) Degree
2 8 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.94%) Azure Certification
3 6 (5.94%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.95%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.95%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.99%) CISSP
6 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.99%) OSCP
6 1 (0.99%) PhD
6 1 (0.99%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (23.76%) Data Quality
2 13 (12.87%) GDPR
3 5 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.98%) QA
System Software
1 29 (28.71%) Docker
2 8 (7.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (21.78%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.88%) Terraform
3 2 (1.98%) Ansible
3 2 (1.98%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.98%) Puppet
4 1 (0.99%) Control-M
4 1 (0.99%) Grafana
4 1 (0.99%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 29 (28.71%) Databricks
2 7 (6.93%) Typelevel
3 3 (2.97%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.98%) GoCardless
4 2 (1.98%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.98%) mParticle
4 2 (1.98%) PayPal
4 2 (1.98%) Zuora
5 1 (0.99%) BMC
5 1 (0.99%) Google
5 1 (0.99%) IBM
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle
5 1 (0.99%) Rackspace
5 1 (0.99%) Talend