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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 306 283
Rank change year-on-year +21 -23 -138
Permanent jobs citing Scala 97 122 180
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.67% 0.79% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.22% 1.92% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 48 88 154
10th Percentile £50,875 - £59,375
25th Percentile £70,688 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +3.03% -5.71%
75th Percentile £102,500 £102,813 £117,813
90th Percentile £125,250 £114,300 £143,750
England median annual salary £78,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -

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 4,361 6,351 8,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.06% 40.93% 43.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,076 4,075 7,324
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £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 £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -3.85% +7.89% -7.31%

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 22 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 22 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 -6 15 £97,500 +56.00% 12
South London +48 9 £48,975 -51.03% 8
West London - 5 £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 25 (25.77%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.12%) Apache
2 4 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.09%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 44 (45.36%) AWS
2 37 (38.14%) Azure
3 21 (21.65%) Power Platform
4 20 (20.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (19.59%) GCP
6 18 (18.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (16.49%) Amazon Kinesis
8 13 (13.40%) Serverless
9 12 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (10.31%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (10.31%) GitHub
11 9 (9.28%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (8.25%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (6.19%) Amazon S3
14 4 (4.12%) Snowflake
15 3 (3.09%) dbt
16 2 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
16 2 (2.06%) Amazon SageMaker
16 2 (2.06%) BrowserStack
17 1 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.56%) Broadband
2 1 (1.03%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (31.96%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (21.65%) Power BI
3 20 (20.62%) Data Lake
4 15 (15.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (14.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (14.43%) Big Data
5 14 (14.43%) Hadoop
6 12 (12.37%) Delta Lake
7 10 (10.31%) Metadata
8 9 (9.28%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (9.28%) Apache Hive
9 7 (7.22%) DynamoDB
9 7 (7.22%) NoSQL
10 6 (6.19%) Power Query
10 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
11 5 (5.15%) Couchbase
11 5 (5.15%) Redis
12 4 (4.12%) Data Vault
12 4 (4.12%) MySQL
13 3 (3.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 24 (24.74%) Jenkins
2 17 (17.53%) Git
2 17 (17.53%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.06%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.06%) Gatling
3 2 (2.06%) JMeter
3 2 (2.06%) JUnit
3 2 (2.06%) REST Assured
3 2 (2.06%) Selenium
4 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 37 (38.14%) Finance
2 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.31%) Financial Institution
5 6 (6.19%) Marketing
6 5 (5.15%) Legal
7 4 (4.12%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Retail
9 1 (1.03%) Advertising
9 1 (1.03%) Banking
9 1 (1.03%) Billing
9 1 (1.03%) Front Office
9 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (50.52%) Data Engineer
2 29 (29.90%) Senior
3 15 (15.46%) Developer
3 15 (15.46%) Lead
3 15 (15.46%) Software Engineer
4 13 (13.40%) Senior Data Engineer
5 12 (12.37%) Scala Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) Azure Data Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) AWS Data Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Scala Software Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Lead Data Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Scala Developer
9 7 (7.22%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Senior Developer
10 6 (6.19%) Senior Scala Developer
11 5 (5.15%) Development Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (26.80%) Kafka
2 17 (17.53%) Akka
2 17 (17.53%) PySpark
3 10 (10.31%) Spark Streaming
4 8 (8.25%) boto
5 6 (6.19%) React
6 5 (5.15%) Memcached
6 5 (5.15%) Spring
7 4 (4.12%) Flutter
8 2 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.06%) XML
9 1 (1.03%) LAMP
9 1 (1.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.80%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (18.56%) Video\Live Streaming
3 17 (17.53%) Over-the-Top Content
4 10 (10.31%) Data Structures
4 10 (10.31%) e-Learning
5 9 (9.28%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
7 5 (5.15%) Virtual Team
8 3 (3.09%) Algorithms
9 2 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) Android
3 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.64%) Analytics
2 48 (49.48%) Data Modelling
3 43 (44.33%) Data Pipeline
4 41 (42.27%) Agile
5 35 (36.08%) ETL
6 33 (34.02%) Data Engineering
7 32 (32.99%) CI/CD
8 31 (31.96%) DevOps
9 29 (29.90%) Data Governance
10 28 (28.87%) TDD
11 27 (27.84%) Data Science
12 25 (25.77%) Data Analytics
13 24 (24.74%) Machine Learning
14 22 (22.68%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (20.62%) Open Source
15 20 (20.62%) Scrum
16 19 (19.59%) Pair Programming
17 18 (18.56%) Acceptance Criteria
17 18 (18.56%) AI
17 18 (18.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (55.67%) Python
2 42 (43.30%) SQL
3 41 (42.27%) Java
4 13 (13.40%) Kotlin
5 8 (8.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (6.19%) R
7 4 (4.12%) Go
8 2 (2.06%) C#
8 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.06%) Ruby
8 2 (2.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.03%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (1.03%) Perl
9 1 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (15.46%) Degree
2 8 (8.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.22%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.19%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.15%) Master's Degree
5 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.03%) CISSP
7 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) OSCP
7 1 (1.03%) PhD
7 1 (1.03%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (25.77%) Data Quality
2 13 (13.40%) GDPR
3 5 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.06%) QA
System Software
1 22 (22.68%) Docker
2 8 (8.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (22.68%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.37%) Terraform
3 2 (2.06%) Ansible
3 2 (2.06%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.06%) Puppet
4 1 (1.03%) Control-M
4 1 (1.03%) Grafana
4 1 (1.03%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 31 (31.96%) Databricks
2 3 (3.09%) Google
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.03%) BMC
4 1 (1.03%) GoCardless
4 1 (1.03%) IBM
4 1 (1.03%) mParticle
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle
4 1 (1.03%) PayPal
4 1 (1.03%) Rackspace
4 1 (1.03%) Talend
4 1 (1.03%) Zuora