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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 281 305
Rank change year-on-year -16 +24 -125
Permanent jobs citing Scala 90 167 153
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.69% 0.95% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.99% 2.26% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 49 107 133
10th Percentile £56,250 - £65,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -17.95% +11.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £123,500 £113,100 £143,750
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,818
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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 4,513 7,404 8,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.37% 42.15% 44.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,017 4,890 7,276
10th Percentile £46,209 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -12 8 £95,000 +43.40% 5
South London +36 1 - -
West London - 1 - -
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 (26.67%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.56%) Apache
3 4 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.33%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 62 (68.89%) AWS
2 36 (40.00%) Azure
3 24 (26.67%) GCP
3 24 (26.67%) Power Platform
4 18 (20.00%) Serverless
5 14 (15.56%) Amazon Kinesis
6 13 (14.44%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (12.22%) AWS Step Functions
7 11 (12.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (7.78%) Amazon S3
10 6 (6.67%) GitHub
11 5 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (4.44%) Azure Storage
12 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
12 4 (4.44%) Snowflake
13 3 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) Broadband
1 2 (2.22%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (34.44%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (26.67%) Power BI
3 20 (22.22%) Big Data
4 14 (15.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (14.44%) Hadoop
6 12 (13.33%) NoSQL
7 11 (12.22%) Data Lake
8 9 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (10.00%) Apache Hive
8 9 (10.00%) Metadata
9 8 (8.89%) DynamoDB
10 7 (7.78%) Power Query
11 6 (6.67%) Data Vault
11 6 (6.67%) MySQL
12 5 (5.56%) SQL Server
13 4 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
14 3 (3.33%) Couchbase
14 3 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Git
1 10 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.33%) git-flow
3 2 (2.22%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.22%) Gatling
3 2 (2.22%) JMeter
3 2 (2.22%) JUnit
3 2 (2.22%) REST Assured
3 2 (2.22%) Selenium
4 1 (1.11%) JIRA
4 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (53.33%) Finance
2 26 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (13.33%) Law
6 10 (11.11%) Banking
6 10 (11.11%) Financial Institution
7 6 (6.67%) Legal
7 6 (6.67%) Marketing
8 2 (2.22%) Front Office
8 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 24 (26.67%) Lead
2 24 (26.67%) Senior
3 16 (17.78%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (17.78%) Software Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) Developer
5 12 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (12.22%) Azure Data Engineer
6 11 (12.22%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (11.11%) Java Engineer
8 9 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
8 9 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Lead Java Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Java Developer
10 5 (5.56%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.44%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (4.44%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (31.11%) Kafka
2 10 (11.11%) Spark Streaming
3 9 (10.00%) Spring
4 8 (8.89%) boto
5 6 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (6.67%) React
5 6 (6.67%) Web Services
6 5 (5.56%) Flutter
7 4 (4.44%) PySpark
7 4 (4.44%) REST
8 3 (3.33%) Memcached
8 3 (3.33%) RESTful
8 3 (3.33%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.22%) XML
10 1 (1.11%) Akka
10 1 (1.11%) Node.js
10 1 (1.11%) NumPy
10 1 (1.11%) Pandas
10 1 (1.11%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 10 (11.11%) Derivative
3 10 (11.11%) e-Learning
4 9 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 9 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (7.78%) Management Information System
6 6 (6.67%) Algorithms
6 6 (6.67%) Equity Derivative
6 6 (6.67%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.11%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.11%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Unix
3 1 (1.11%) Android
3 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (44.44%) Agile
1 40 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 35 (38.89%) Machine Learning
3 34 (37.78%) Data Engineering
3 34 (37.78%) Data Pipeline
4 31 (34.44%) CI/CD
5 29 (32.22%) Analytics
6 28 (31.11%) ETL
7 27 (30.00%) AI
7 27 (30.00%) DevOps
8 24 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (26.67%) Data Science
9 23 (25.56%) Data Governance
10 19 (21.11%) Software Engineering
11 17 (18.89%) Computer Science
11 17 (18.89%) Mentoring
11 17 (18.89%) SDLC
11 17 (18.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (16.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 56 (62.22%) Java
2 52 (57.78%) Python
3 39 (43.33%) SQL
4 25 (27.78%) Kotlin
5 9 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (8.89%) R
7 5 (5.56%) Go
8 4 (4.44%) F#
8 4 (4.44%) Haskell
8 4 (4.44%) OCaml
9 2 (2.22%) C#
9 2 (2.22%) Groovy
9 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.22%) Ruby
10 1 (1.11%) Clojure
10 1 (1.11%) Elixir
10 1 (1.11%) Erlang
10 1 (1.11%) Perl
10 1 (1.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) Degree
2 7 (7.78%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.56%) PhD
3 5 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.11%) CISSP
6 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) OSCP
6 1 (1.11%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.67%) GDPR
2 13 (14.44%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.33%) QA
5 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.11%) MiFID
5 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (13.33%) Docker
2 8 (8.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.78%) Terraform
3 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.22%) Ansible
4 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.22%) Puppet
5 1 (1.11%) Grafana
5 1 (1.11%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 24 (26.67%) Databricks
2 6 (6.67%) Google
3 4 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.11%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle
4 1 (1.11%) Rackspace
4 1 (1.11%) Reuters
4 1 (1.11%) Salesforce