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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 288 270
Rank change year-on-year -46 -18 +39
Permanent jobs citing Scala 105 96 194
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.41% 0.81% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 2.06% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 62 48 108
10th Percentile £60,000 £64,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -12.57%
75th Percentile £114,375 £102,188 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -1.54%

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 5,577 4,654 7,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.81% 39.13% 41.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,740 3,140 5,250
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,438 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +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 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.81% -3.67% -

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 24 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 24 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 -1 8 £72,500 -23.68% 25
South London +4 2 - - 3
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 34 (32.38%) Apache Spark
2 24 (22.86%) Apache
3 6 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.86%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.86%) SAS
5 1 (0.95%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 53 (50.48%) Azure
2 36 (34.29%) Azure Databricks
3 35 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 27 (25.71%) AWS
4 27 (25.71%) Microsoft Purview
5 25 (23.81%) GCP
6 23 (21.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (17.14%) Snowflake
8 17 (16.19%) Power Platform
9 15 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (7.62%) GitHub
11 7 (6.67%) SaaS
12 6 (5.71%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (3.81%) Amazon S3
15 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
15 3 (2.86%) dbt
15 3 (2.86%) Fivetran
15 3 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.71%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (25.71%) Delta Lake
2 26 (24.76%) Metadata
3 22 (20.95%) Big Data
4 20 (19.05%) Data Vault
5 17 (16.19%) NoSQL
5 17 (16.19%) Power BI
6 16 (15.24%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (15.24%) Tableau
7 14 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (13.33%) Hadoop
8 13 (12.38%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (10.48%) Relational Database
10 6 (5.71%) BigQuery
10 6 (5.71%) Data Lake
10 6 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (4.76%) Flink
11 5 (4.76%) Spark SQL
12 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (2.86%) Cloud Spanner
12 3 (2.86%) Looker
Development Applications
1 15 (14.29%) Git
2 13 (12.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.86%) GitLab
4 2 (1.90%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.90%) Gradle
4 2 (1.90%) JUnit
4 2 (1.90%) Maven
4 2 (1.90%) Mockito
General
1 37 (35.24%) Finance
2 36 (34.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.81%) Advertising
4 4 (3.81%) Banking
4 4 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.86%) Marketing
6 2 (1.90%) Law
7 1 (0.95%) Front Office
7 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.95%) Legal
7 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (36.19%) Data Engineer
2 26 (24.76%) Architect
3 25 (23.81%) Senior
4 22 (20.95%) Data Architect
5 17 (16.19%) Developer
6 15 (14.29%) Scala Developer
7 14 (13.33%) Lead
8 13 (12.38%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (8.57%) Azure Data Engineer
9 9 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (8.57%) Software Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) Technical Leader
11 6 (5.71%) Senior Manager
11 6 (5.71%) Senior Technical Manager
11 6 (5.71%) Technical Manager
12 5 (4.76%) Quantitative Developer
13 4 (3.81%) Data Scientist
13 4 (3.81%) Databricks Architect
13 4 (3.81%) Scala Engineer
14 3 (2.86%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (33.33%) PySpark
2 19 (18.10%) Kafka
2 19 (18.10%) Terraform
3 6 (5.71%) Apache Beam
3 6 (5.71%) gRPC
3 6 (5.71%) React
4 5 (4.76%) YAML
5 4 (3.81%) CrewAI
5 4 (3.81%) LangChain
6 3 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (2.86%) Play Framework
6 3 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.86%) Spring
6 3 (2.86%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.90%) .NET
7 2 (1.90%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.90%) JPA
7 2 (1.90%) Spring MVC
7 2 (1.90%) Spring Security
7 2 (1.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.71%) Over-the-Top Content
3 6 (5.71%) Video\Live Streaming
4 4 (3.81%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.86%) Robotics
6 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.95%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.95%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.95%) IoT
7 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.95%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.95%) NHS
7 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.95%) Linux
1 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (60.95%) Data Modelling
2 49 (46.67%) Analytics
3 47 (44.76%) CI/CD
4 42 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 40 (38.10%) AI
6 39 (37.14%) Data Science
7 37 (35.24%) Business Intelligence
8 35 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
9 33 (31.43%) Machine Learning
10 30 (28.57%) DevOps
11 28 (26.67%) Data Architecture
12 27 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (21.90%) Agile
15 22 (20.95%) Data Strategy
15 22 (20.95%) Technical Leadership
16 21 (20.00%) ETL
16 21 (20.00%) Lakehouse
17 20 (19.05%) Kimball Methodology
18 19 (18.10%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 66 (62.86%) Python
2 55 (52.38%) SQL
3 24 (22.86%) Java
4 16 (15.24%) Bicep
5 9 (8.57%) Go
6 8 (7.62%) R
7 7 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.86%) C
9 3 (2.86%) C++
9 3 (2.86%) Clojure
9 3 (2.86%) Erlang
9 3 (2.86%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.86%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.86%) Rust
9 3 (2.86%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.90%) C#
10 2 (1.90%) Ruby
11 1 (0.95%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 28 (26.67%) Azure Certification
2 23 (21.90%) SC Cleared
2 23 (21.90%) Security Cleared
3 17 (16.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (15.24%) SnowPro
5 5 (4.76%) Degree
6 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.95%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (34.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.90%) GDPR
2 2 (1.90%) QA
System Software
1 24 (22.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.86%) Kibana
3 2 (1.90%) Grafana
3 2 (1.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (42.86%) Databricks
2 24 (22.86%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.67%) Google
4 6 (5.71%) Typelevel
5 3 (2.86%) New Relic
5 3 (2.86%) Splunk
6 2 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.90%) Oracle
7 1 (0.95%) Informatica
7 1 (0.95%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.95%) Workday