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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 302 287
Rank change year-on-year -6 -15 -21
Permanent jobs citing Scala 103 98 218
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.46% 0.79% 1.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 1.90% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 40 46 135
10th Percentile £70,375 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £100,938 £97,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £113,125 £135,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

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 5,342 5,150 8,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.75% 41.65% 40.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,777 3,563 6,574
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £132,500
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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -7 18 £72,500 +16.00% 8
West London - 13 - - 1
South London - 4 - -
East London - 3 - - 3
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 31 (30.10%) Apache Spark
2 19 (18.45%) Apache
3 7 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.91%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.91%) SAS
5 1 (0.97%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 53 (51.46%) AWS
2 52 (50.49%) GCP
3 30 (29.13%) Azure
4 18 (17.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (14.56%) Microsoft Purview
6 11 (10.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (10.68%) Power Platform
7 10 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (7.77%) Snowflake
9 7 (6.80%) Cloud Composer
9 7 (6.80%) GitHub
10 5 (4.85%) SaaS
11 4 (3.88%) Dagster
11 4 (3.88%) dbt
12 3 (2.91%) Fivetran
12 3 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.94%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.94%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 40 (38.83%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.45%) Metadata
2 17 (16.50%) Delta Lake
3 16 (15.53%) Big Data
4 11 (10.68%) Data Vault
4 11 (10.68%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (10.68%) Hadoop
4 11 (10.68%) Power BI
5 9 (8.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (8.74%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (8.74%) NoSQL
5 9 (8.74%) Tableau
6 8 (7.77%) BigQuery
7 6 (5.83%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.91%) Airbyte
8 3 (2.91%) Cloud Spanner
8 3 (2.91%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.94%) MySQL
9 2 (1.94%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (8.74%) Git
2 5 (4.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.97%) GitLab
General
1 28 (27.18%) Finance
2 24 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.88%) Advertising
4 4 (3.88%) Law
4 4 (3.88%) Marketing
5 3 (2.91%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.94%) Banking
7 1 (0.97%) Billing
7 1 (0.97%) Front Office
7 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (33.01%) Data Engineer
2 24 (23.30%) Scala Engineer
3 20 (19.42%) Developer
3 20 (19.42%) Scala Developer
3 20 (19.42%) Senior
4 17 (16.50%) Architect
5 16 (15.53%) Software Engineer
6 13 (12.62%) Data Architect
6 13 (12.62%) Lead
6 13 (12.62%) Scala Software Engineer
7 11 (10.68%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Technical Leader
9 6 (5.83%) Senior Manager
9 6 (5.83%) Senior Technical Manager
9 6 (5.83%) Technical Manager
10 5 (4.85%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Quantitative Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Engineering Manager
11 4 (3.88%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (34.95%) gRPC
2 20 (19.42%) PySpark
3 15 (14.56%) Kafka
4 4 (3.88%) React
5 3 (2.91%) Apache Beam
5 3 (2.91%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.91%) Play Framework
6 2 (1.94%) YAML
7 1 (0.97%) D3.js
7 1 (0.97%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.97%) REST
7 1 (0.97%) Spring
7 1 (0.97%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 38 (36.89%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (34.95%) Over-the-Top Content
2 36 (34.95%) Video\Live Streaming
3 14 (13.59%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.88%) Anti-Piracy
4 4 (3.88%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.88%) Social Media
5 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.91%) Robotics
6 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.97%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.97%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.97%) IoT
6 1 (0.97%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.97%) Linux
1 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (61.17%) CI/CD
2 61 (59.22%) Data Science
3 51 (49.51%) Machine Learning
4 45 (43.69%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (42.72%) Data Modelling
5 44 (42.72%) Software Engineering
6 40 (38.83%) Coaching
7 37 (35.92%) Clean Code
7 37 (35.92%) Containerisation
7 37 (35.92%) Continuous Delivery
7 37 (35.92%) Microservices
8 36 (34.95%) Analytics
8 36 (34.95%) Personalization
9 30 (29.13%) Data Engineering
10 26 (25.24%) Data Pipeline
11 23 (22.33%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (21.36%) AI
13 20 (19.42%) DevOps
14 19 (18.45%) ETL
15 18 (17.48%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 73 (70.87%) Python
2 37 (35.92%) Go
3 34 (33.01%) SQL
4 20 (19.42%) Java
5 9 (8.74%) Bicep
6 7 (6.80%) C++
7 4 (3.88%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.91%) C
8 3 (2.91%) Clojure
8 3 (2.91%) Erlang
8 3 (2.91%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.91%) R
8 3 (2.91%) Rust
9 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (14.56%) Azure Certification
2 10 (9.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (9.71%) SC Cleared
2 10 (9.71%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.77%) SnowPro
4 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.94%) Degree
4 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.42%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (41.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.71%) Terraform
2 7 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.91%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (34.95%) Typelevel
2 23 (22.33%) Databricks
3 14 (13.59%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.88%) Google
5 1 (0.97%) Braze
5 1 (0.97%) GoCardless
5 1 (0.97%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.97%) mParticle
5 1 (0.97%) PayPal
5 1 (0.97%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.97%) Zuora