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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 287 275
Rank change year-on-year -66 -12 +29
Permanent jobs citing Scala 104 100 197
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.41% 0.84% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.87% 2.13% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 63 50 108
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,375 £56,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £119,500 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -3.40%

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 5,559 4,704 8,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.95% 39.36% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,744 3,172 5,342
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,188 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,250 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -3.85%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +2 9 £72,500 -23.68% 21
South London +2 2 - - 2
West London - 2 - - 6
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 35 (33.65%) Apache Spark
2 22 (21.15%) Apache
3 4 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.88%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.88%) SAS
5 1 (0.96%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 54 (51.92%) Azure
2 36 (34.62%) Azure Databricks
3 35 (33.65%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (26.92%) AWS
4 28 (26.92%) Microsoft Purview
5 24 (23.08%) GCP
6 23 (22.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (17.31%) Power Platform
7 18 (17.31%) Snowflake
8 16 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (8.65%) GitHub
10 7 (6.73%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (4.81%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (4.81%) SaaS
12 4 (3.85%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.85%) Cloud Composer
13 3 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.88%) Fivetran
13 3 (2.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.77%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (26.92%) Delta Lake
2 26 (25.00%) Metadata
3 22 (21.15%) Big Data
4 21 (20.19%) Data Vault
5 18 (17.31%) Power BI
6 17 (16.35%) NoSQL
6 17 (16.35%) Tableau
7 16 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (13.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (13.46%) Hadoop
9 13 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (10.58%) Relational Database
11 6 (5.77%) Data Lake
11 6 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (4.81%) Spark SQL
13 4 (3.85%) BigQuery
14 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (2.88%) Cloud Spanner
14 3 (2.88%) Flink
14 3 (2.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (14.42%) Git
2 13 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.88%) GitLab
4 2 (1.92%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.92%) Gradle
4 2 (1.92%) JUnit
4 2 (1.92%) Maven
4 2 (1.92%) Mockito
General
1 37 (35.58%) Finance
1 37 (35.58%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.85%) Advertising
3 4 (3.85%) Banking
3 4 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.88%) Marketing
5 2 (1.92%) Law
6 1 (0.96%) Front Office
6 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.96%) Legal
6 1 (0.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (36.54%) Data Engineer
2 27 (25.96%) Architect
3 24 (23.08%) Senior
4 23 (22.12%) Data Architect
5 17 (16.35%) Developer
6 15 (14.42%) Scala Developer
7 14 (13.46%) Lead
8 13 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (8.65%) Azure Data Engineer
9 9 (8.65%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (8.65%) Software Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Technical Leader
11 6 (5.77%) Senior Manager
11 6 (5.77%) Senior Technical Manager
11 6 (5.77%) Technical Manager
12 5 (4.81%) Quantitative Developer
13 4 (3.85%) Databricks Architect
13 4 (3.85%) Scala Engineer
14 3 (2.88%) GCP Data Engineer
14 3 (2.88%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (33.65%) PySpark
2 19 (18.27%) Kafka
3 17 (16.35%) Terraform
4 6 (5.77%) gRPC
4 6 (5.77%) React
5 5 (4.81%) YAML
6 4 (3.85%) Apache Beam
6 4 (3.85%) CrewAI
6 4 (3.85%) LangChain
7 3 (2.88%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (2.88%) Play Framework
7 3 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.88%) Spring
7 3 (2.88%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.92%) .NET
8 2 (1.92%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.92%) JPA
8 2 (1.92%) REST
8 2 (1.92%) Spring MVC
8 2 (1.92%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.77%) Over-the-Top Content
3 6 (5.77%) Video\Live Streaming
4 4 (3.85%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.88%) Robotics
6 2 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.96%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.96%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.96%) IoT
7 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.96%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.96%) NHS
7 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) Linux
1 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 49 (47.12%) Analytics
3 48 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 43 (41.35%) Data Engineering
5 39 (37.50%) AI
6 38 (36.54%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (35.58%) Data Science
8 33 (31.73%) Data Pipeline
9 32 (30.77%) Machine Learning
10 31 (29.81%) DevOps
11 28 (26.92%) Data Architecture
12 27 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (24.04%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (22.12%) Agile
14 23 (22.12%) Data Strategy
15 22 (21.15%) Lakehouse
15 22 (21.15%) Technical Leadership
16 21 (20.19%) ETL
16 21 (20.19%) Kimball Methodology
17 19 (18.27%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 65 (62.50%) Python
2 54 (51.92%) SQL
3 22 (21.15%) Java
4 16 (15.38%) Bicep
5 9 (8.65%) Go
6 8 (7.69%) R
7 7 (6.73%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.77%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.88%) C
9 3 (2.88%) C++
9 3 (2.88%) Clojure
9 3 (2.88%) Erlang
9 3 (2.88%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.88%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.88%) Rust
10 2 (1.92%) C#
10 2 (1.92%) Ruby
11 1 (0.96%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (26.92%) Azure Certification
2 23 (22.12%) SC Cleared
2 23 (22.12%) Security Cleared
3 17 (16.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (15.38%) SnowPro
5 5 (4.81%) Degree
6 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (32.69%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.92%) GDPR
2 2 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 22 (21.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.88%) Kibana
3 2 (1.92%) Grafana
3 2 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (44.23%) Databricks
2 25 (24.04%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.77%) Typelevel
4 5 (4.81%) Google
5 2 (1.92%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.92%) Oracle
6 1 (0.96%) Informatica
6 1 (0.96%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.96%) New Relic
6 1 (0.96%) Splunk
6 1 (0.96%) Workday