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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 299 274
Rank change year-on-year -22 -25 +15
Permanent jobs citing Scala 104 96 215
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.46% 0.78% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.94% 1.86% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 42 46 133
10th Percentile £63,375 £56,250 £57,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £63,125 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £123,375 £115,000 £129,000
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 5,371 5,155 8,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.74% 41.90% 40.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,783 3,560 6,381
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £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 £118,750 £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 24 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 24 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 -8 18 £72,500 +16.00% 7
West London - 13 - - 2
South London - 4 - -
East London - 3 - - 4
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 (29.81%) Apache Spark
2 19 (18.27%) Apache
3 7 (6.73%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.88%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.88%) SAS
5 1 (0.96%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 53 (50.96%) AWS
2 52 (50.00%) GCP
3 32 (30.77%) Azure
4 19 (18.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (16.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 12 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (10.58%) Power Platform
8 10 (9.62%) Snowflake
9 9 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (6.73%) Cloud Composer
11 5 (4.81%) GitHub
12 4 (3.85%) Dagster
12 4 (3.85%) dbt
12 4 (3.85%) SaaS
13 3 (2.88%) Fivetran
13 3 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
14 2 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
14 2 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
15 1 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 40 (38.46%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.19%) Metadata
2 18 (17.31%) Delta Lake
3 16 (15.38%) Big Data
4 13 (12.50%) Data Vault
5 11 (10.58%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (10.58%) Hadoop
5 11 (10.58%) Power BI
6 9 (8.65%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (8.65%) NoSQL
6 9 (8.65%) Tableau
7 8 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (6.73%) BigQuery
8 7 (6.73%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.88%) Airbyte
9 3 (2.88%) Cloud Spanner
9 3 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.92%) Flink
10 2 (1.92%) MySQL
10 2 (1.92%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (7.69%) Git
2 5 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.96%) GitLab
General
1 27 (25.96%) Finance
2 25 (24.04%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.77%) Law
5 4 (3.85%) Advertising
6 3 (2.88%) Banking
6 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.88%) Marketing
7 1 (0.96%) Front Office
7 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (32.69%) Data Engineer
2 23 (22.12%) Scala Engineer
3 20 (19.23%) Developer
3 20 (19.23%) Scala Developer
3 20 (19.23%) Senior
4 19 (18.27%) Architect
5 16 (15.38%) Software Engineer
6 15 (14.42%) Data Architect
7 13 (12.50%) Lead
8 12 (11.54%) Scala Software Engineer
9 11 (10.58%) Senior Data 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%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.81%) Quantitative Developer
12 5 (4.81%) Systems Engineer
13 3 (2.88%) GCP Data Engineer
13 3 (2.88%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (34.62%) gRPC
2 21 (20.19%) PySpark
3 16 (15.38%) Kafka
4 3 (2.88%) Apache Beam
4 3 (2.88%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (2.88%) Play Framework
4 3 (2.88%) React
5 2 (1.92%) YAML
6 1 (0.96%) D3.js
6 1 (0.96%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.96%) REST
6 1 (0.96%) RESTful
6 1 (0.96%) Spring
6 1 (0.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 39 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (34.62%) Over-the-Top Content
2 36 (34.62%) Video\Live Streaming
3 17 (16.35%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.85%) Anti-Piracy
4 4 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.85%) Social Media
5 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.88%) Robotics
6 2 (1.92%) Virtual Team
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%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) Linux
1 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 62 (59.62%) Data Science
3 53 (50.96%) Machine Learning
4 46 (44.23%) Data Modelling
5 45 (43.27%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (42.31%) Software Engineering
7 39 (37.50%) Coaching
8 38 (36.54%) Continuous Delivery
8 38 (36.54%) Microservices
9 37 (35.58%) Analytics
9 37 (35.58%) Clean Code
9 37 (35.58%) Containerisation
10 36 (34.62%) Personalization
11 31 (29.81%) Data Engineering
12 26 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (24.04%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (22.12%) AI
15 20 (19.23%) DevOps
16 18 (17.31%) ETL
17 17 (16.35%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 75 (72.12%) Python
2 37 (35.58%) Go
3 35 (33.65%) SQL
4 21 (20.19%) Java
5 11 (10.58%) Bicep
6 7 (6.73%) C++
7 3 (2.88%) C
7 3 (2.88%) Clojure
7 3 (2.88%) Erlang
7 3 (2.88%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.88%) R
7 3 (2.88%) Rust
7 3 (2.88%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.96%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 17 (16.35%) Azure Certification
2 12 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.58%) Security Cleared
4 10 (9.62%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.92%) Degree
5 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.19%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (41.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.58%) Terraform
2 7 (6.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (34.62%) Typelevel
2 25 (24.04%) Databricks
3 16 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (0.96%) Mapbox