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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 301 283
Rank change year-on-year +14 -18 -125
Permanent jobs citing Scala 97 120 194
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.61% 0.81% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.12% 1.99% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 35 85 162
10th Percentile £49,100 - £63,875
25th Percentile £67,125 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £115,000 £103,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £114,600 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £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 4,568 6,039 9,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.90% 40.83% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,209 3,964 7,802
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 February 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 February 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 14 £82,500 +32.00% 15
West London - 12 £90,000 - 11
South London +49 10 £48,975 -51.03% 7
East London - 3 - - 8
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 21 (21.65%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.12%) Apache
2 4 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 47 (48.45%) AWS
2 30 (30.93%) GCP
3 28 (28.87%) Azure
4 17 (17.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (16.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (13.40%) Amazon Kinesis
6 13 (13.40%) Power Platform
7 12 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (12.37%) GitHub
8 10 (10.31%) Serverless
9 9 (9.28%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (7.22%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (7.22%) dbt
12 4 (4.12%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (4.12%) Dagster
13 2 (2.06%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (2.06%) BrowserStack
13 2 (2.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 2 (2.06%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 36 (37.11%) Broadband
2 1 (1.03%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.71%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (17.53%) Data Lake
3 14 (14.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (13.40%) Power BI
5 11 (11.34%) Delta Lake
6 9 (9.28%) Big Data
6 9 (9.28%) Hadoop
6 9 (9.28%) Metadata
7 8 (8.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (8.25%) Apache Hive
8 7 (7.22%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (6.19%) BigQuery
9 6 (6.19%) DynamoDB
9 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
10 5 (5.15%) Couchbase
10 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
10 5 (5.15%) Redis
11 4 (4.12%) MySQL
11 4 (4.12%) Power Query
12 3 (3.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (22.68%) Jenkins
2 17 (17.53%) Git
2 17 (17.53%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.06%) Gatling
3 2 (2.06%) JMeter
3 2 (2.06%) JUnit
3 2 (2.06%) REST Assured
3 2 (2.06%) Selenium
4 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 28 (28.87%) Finance
2 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.22%) Financial Institution
5 6 (6.19%) Marketing
6 4 (4.12%) Law
6 4 (4.12%) Legal
6 4 (4.12%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.06%) Billing
7 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.03%) Advertising
8 1 (1.03%) Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Front Office
8 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 39 (40.21%) Data Engineer
2 29 (29.90%) Senior
3 22 (22.68%) Scala Engineer
4 20 (20.62%) Software Engineer
5 18 (18.56%) Developer
6 15 (15.46%) Scala Software Engineer
7 14 (14.43%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (13.40%) Scala Developer
9 12 (12.37%) Lead
10 7 (7.22%) AWS Data Engineer
10 7 (7.22%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (7.22%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (7.22%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 6 (6.19%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (6.19%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (6.19%) Senior Developer
11 6 (6.19%) Senior Scala Developer
12 5 (5.15%) Development Engineer
12 5 (5.15%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (24.74%) Kafka
2 17 (17.53%) Akka
2 17 (17.53%) PySpark
3 14 (14.43%) gRPC
4 7 (7.22%) boto
4 7 (7.22%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (5.15%) Memcached
5 5 (5.15%) Spring
6 4 (4.12%) React
7 1 (1.03%) Flutter
7 1 (1.03%) LAMP
7 1 (1.03%) Node.js
7 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (34.02%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (32.99%) Video\Live Streaming
3 31 (31.96%) Over-the-Top Content
4 10 (10.31%) Data Structures
5 7 (7.22%) e-Learning
5 7 (7.22%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (5.15%) Virtual Team
7 4 (4.12%) Anti-Piracy
7 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
7 4 (4.12%) Social Media
8 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Android
2 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (51.55%) Analytics
2 41 (42.27%) CI/CD
3 39 (40.21%) Data Modelling
4 37 (38.14%) Data Pipeline
5 36 (37.11%) Data Science
6 34 (35.05%) Agile
7 30 (30.93%) Data Governance
8 29 (29.90%) Data Engineering
9 28 (28.87%) ETL
10 27 (27.84%) Machine Learning
10 27 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (26.80%) DevOps
12 25 (25.77%) TDD
13 24 (24.74%) Software Engineering
14 23 (23.71%) Data Analytics
15 21 (21.65%) Open Source
16 20 (20.62%) Continuous Delivery
17 19 (19.59%) Microservices
17 19 (19.59%) Pair Programming
18 18 (18.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 57 (58.76%) Python
2 34 (35.05%) Java
3 32 (32.99%) SQL
4 15 (15.46%) Go
5 10 (10.31%) Kotlin
6 5 (5.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (4.12%) C++
7 4 (4.12%) R
8 3 (3.09%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.06%) Ruby
10 1 (1.03%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (1.03%) C#
10 1 (1.03%) Perl
10 1 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) Degree
2 7 (7.22%) Azure Certification
2 7 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.19%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) Master's Degree
4 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.03%) CISSP
6 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) OSCP
6 1 (1.03%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.68%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.34%) GDPR
3 4 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (37.11%) Docker
2 7 (7.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (22.68%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.37%) Terraform
3 1 (1.03%) Control-M
3 1 (1.03%) Grafana
3 1 (1.03%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 27 (27.84%) Databricks
2 14 (14.43%) Typelevel
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.06%) GoCardless
4 2 (2.06%) mParticle
4 2 (2.06%) PayPal
4 2 (2.06%) Zuora
5 1 (1.03%) BMC
5 1 (1.03%) Google
5 1 (1.03%) IBM
5 1 (1.03%) Rackspace
5 1 (1.03%) Talend