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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 275 310
Rank change year-on-year -22 +35 -124
Permanent jobs citing Scala 100 195 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.84% 1.01% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.13% 2.44% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 50 107 165
10th Percentile £62,375 £56,250 £61,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £63,125 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.51% +5.71%
75th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £131,500
England median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £82,818
% change year-on-year +12.50% -3.40% +3.52%

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 4,699 8,004 10,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.32% 41.50% 46.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,171 5,352 8,830
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £49,675
25th Percentile £61,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £125,000
England median annual salary £63,075 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -3.85% +1.63%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Scala 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -5 14 £95,000 +18.75% 6
South London - 1 - -
Scala
England

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (24.00%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.00%) Apache
3 6 (6.00%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.00%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 71 (71.00%) AWS
2 53 (53.00%) Azure
3 36 (36.00%) GCP
4 24 (24.00%) Power Platform
5 16 (16.00%) Serverless
6 14 (14.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (12.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (8.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (7.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (7.00%) Amazon S3
10 7 (7.00%) GitHub
11 5 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.00%) Azure Storage
11 5 (5.00%) Snowflake
12 4 (4.00%) OpenShift
13 3 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (3.00%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) FTP
2 1 (1.00%) Broadband
2 1 (1.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (24.00%) Power BI
3 23 (23.00%) Big Data
4 14 (14.00%) NoSQL
5 12 (12.00%) Metadata
6 11 (11.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (11.00%) Data Lake
6 11 (11.00%) Hadoop
7 8 (8.00%) Power Query
8 6 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (6.00%) Data Vault
8 6 (6.00%) Relational Database
9 5 (5.00%) Apache Hive
9 5 (5.00%) Delta Lake
9 5 (5.00%) DynamoDB
9 5 (5.00%) MySQL
10 4 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (3.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 7 (7.00%) Git
2 6 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.00%) git-flow
4 3 (3.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.00%) GitLab
4 3 (3.00%) JUnit
5 2 (2.00%) CircleCI
General
1 54 (54.00%) Finance
2 34 (34.00%) Social Skills
3 22 (22.00%) Law
4 21 (21.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (15.00%) Banking
6 11 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (7.00%) Financial Institution
8 6 (6.00%) Legal
8 6 (6.00%) Marketing
9 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.00%) Retail
10 2 (2.00%) Advertising
10 2 (2.00%) Games
11 1 (1.00%) Front Office
11 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (54.00%) Data Engineer
2 37 (37.00%) Lead
3 26 (26.00%) Senior
4 19 (19.00%) Software Engineer
5 18 (18.00%) Lead Data Engineer
6 16 (16.00%) Azure Data Engineer
6 16 (16.00%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (13.00%) Java Engineer
9 12 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (8.00%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (8.00%) Lead Java Engineer
11 8 (8.00%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (7.00%) Developer
12 7 (7.00%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (6.00%) AWS Data Engineer
13 6 (6.00%) Senior Software Engineer
14 5 (5.00%) Java Developer
14 5 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (29.00%) Kafka
2 9 (9.00%) PySpark
3 8 (8.00%) Spring
3 8 (8.00%) Web Services
4 7 (7.00%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (7.00%) Spark Streaming
5 6 (6.00%) ARM Templates
5 6 (6.00%) React
6 5 (5.00%) boto
6 5 (5.00%) Flutter
6 5 (5.00%) REST
7 4 (4.00%) Play Framework
7 4 (4.00%) RESTful
7 4 (4.00%) Spring Boot
8 3 (3.00%) Akka
8 3 (3.00%) Gherkin
8 3 (3.00%) Scalaz
9 2 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.00%) XML
10 1 (1.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 27 (27.00%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (16.00%) Cloud Native
3 12 (12.00%) Derivative
4 9 (9.00%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (9.00%) Management Information System
5 8 (8.00%) Equity Derivative
6 7 (7.00%) Algorithms
6 7 (7.00%) e-Learning
7 6 (6.00%) Data Structures
8 4 (4.00%) Virtual Team
9 3 (3.00%) Equities
10 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.00%) Blockchain
10 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (1.00%) Hedge funds
10 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.00%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.00%) Data Modelling
2 39 (39.00%) Data Engineering
3 38 (38.00%) Agile
3 38 (38.00%) Analytics
4 37 (37.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 37 (37.00%) Data Science
5 36 (36.00%) Data Pipeline
5 36 (36.00%) ETL
6 35 (35.00%) CI/CD
6 35 (35.00%) Machine Learning
7 33 (33.00%) DevOps
8 28 (28.00%) Software Engineering
9 24 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (23.00%) Data Governance
11 21 (21.00%) SDLC
12 20 (20.00%) Computer Science
13 19 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (17.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (16.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 65 (65.00%) Python
2 54 (54.00%) Java
3 47 (47.00%) SQL
4 22 (22.00%) Kotlin
5 10 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (8.00%) R
7 5 (5.00%) Go
8 4 (4.00%) F#
8 4 (4.00%) Haskell
8 4 (4.00%) OCaml
9 2 (2.00%) C#
9 2 (2.00%) Groovy
9 2 (2.00%) PHP
10 1 (1.00%) C++
10 1 (1.00%) Clojure
10 1 (1.00%) Elixir
10 1 (1.00%) Erlang
10 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.00%) Perl
10 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (21.00%) Degree
2 10 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 9 (9.00%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.00%) Security Cleared
6 4 (4.00%) PhD
6 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 13 (13.00%) GDPR
3 6 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.00%) QA
5 2 (2.00%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.00%) MiFID
6 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (24.00%) Docker
2 5 (5.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (33.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (18.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.00%) Ansible
4 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.00%) Puppet
5 1 (1.00%) Grafana
5 1 (1.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 30 (30.00%) Databricks
2 14 (14.00%) Google
3 6 (6.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.00%) Informatica
5 2 (2.00%) Talend
6 1 (1.00%) Apple
6 1 (1.00%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle
6 1 (1.00%) Rackspace
6 1 (1.00%) Reuters
6 1 (1.00%) Salesforce