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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 283 271
Rank change year-on-year -62 -12 +27
Permanent jobs citing Scala 101 108 205
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.42% 0.90% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.82% 2.22% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59 53 125
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £75,625 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,750 £115,000 £135,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +9.38% -

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 5,535 4,865 7,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.00% 40.39% 40.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,791 3,316 5,669
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £49,500
25th Percentile £64,125 £61,250 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -6 13 £72,500 -23.68% 3
West London - 4 - - 5
South London +4 2 - - 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 30 (29.70%) Apache Spark
2 21 (20.79%) Apache
3 3 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.97%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.97%) SAS
4 1 (0.99%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 45 (44.55%) Azure
2 33 (32.67%) AWS
3 29 (28.71%) GCP
4 28 (27.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (23.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 20 (19.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (15.84%) Snowflake
8 14 (13.86%) Power Platform
9 12 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (8.91%) GitHub
11 7 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.96%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.96%) SaaS
13 3 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.97%) Cloud Composer
13 3 (2.97%) Fivetran
13 3 (2.97%) Serverless
14 2 (1.98%) Anthropic Claude
14 2 (1.98%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.86%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.75%) Delta Lake
2 22 (21.78%) Metadata
3 20 (19.80%) Data Vault
4 18 (17.82%) Big Data
5 14 (13.86%) Power BI
6 13 (12.87%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (12.87%) Hadoop
7 12 (11.88%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (11.88%) NoSQL
7 12 (11.88%) Tableau
8 9 (8.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (7.92%) Relational Database
10 6 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (4.95%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.97%) Airbyte
12 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (2.97%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.97%) Cloud Spanner
12 3 (2.97%) MySQL
13 2 (1.98%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (10.89%) Git
2 8 (7.92%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.97%) GitLab
4 2 (1.98%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.98%) Gradle
4 2 (1.98%) JUnit
4 2 (1.98%) Maven
4 2 (1.98%) Mockito
General
1 32 (31.68%) Finance
2 29 (28.71%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.96%) Advertising
4 4 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.97%) Banking
5 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.97%) Marketing
6 2 (1.98%) Law
7 1 (0.99%) Front Office
7 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Legal
7 1 (0.99%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (31.68%) Data Engineer
2 26 (25.74%) Architect
3 22 (21.78%) Data Architect
4 19 (18.81%) Developer
4 19 (18.81%) Senior
5 17 (16.83%) Scala Developer
6 14 (13.86%) Lead
7 12 (11.88%) Software Engineer
8 9 (8.91%) Scala Engineer
8 9 (8.91%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Technical Leader
10 6 (5.94%) Azure Data Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Senior Manager
10 6 (5.94%) Senior Technical Manager
10 6 (5.94%) Technical Manager
11 5 (4.95%) Quantitative Developer
11 5 (4.95%) Scala Software Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) Backend Developer
13 3 (2.97%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (28.71%) PySpark
2 16 (15.84%) Terraform
3 15 (14.85%) Kafka
4 14 (13.86%) gRPC
5 6 (5.94%) React
6 4 (3.96%) CrewAI
6 4 (3.96%) LangChain
7 3 (2.97%) Apache Beam
7 3 (2.97%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (2.97%) Play Framework
7 3 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.97%) REST
7 3 (2.97%) Spring
7 3 (2.97%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.98%) .NET
8 2 (1.98%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.98%) JPA
8 2 (1.98%) Spring MVC
8 2 (1.98%) Spring Security
8 2 (1.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.77%) Cloud Native
2 18 (17.82%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (13.86%) Over-the-Top Content
3 14 (13.86%) Video\Live Streaming
4 4 (3.96%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.97%) Robotics
6 2 (1.98%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.99%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.99%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.99%) IoT
7 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.99%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.99%) NHS
7 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.99%) Linux
1 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (56.44%) Data Modelling
2 53 (52.48%) CI/CD
3 46 (45.54%) Analytics
4 40 (39.60%) Data Science
5 38 (37.62%) Machine Learning
6 37 (36.63%) Data Engineering
7 36 (35.64%) AI
8 33 (32.67%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (26.73%) DevOps
9 27 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (24.75%) Data Pipeline
10 25 (24.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (24.75%) Software Engineering
11 22 (21.78%) Data Architecture
11 22 (21.78%) Data Strategy
12 21 (20.79%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (19.80%) Coaching
13 20 (19.80%) Kimball Methodology
14 19 (18.81%) ETL
15 18 (17.82%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 63 (62.38%) Python
2 44 (43.56%) SQL
3 21 (20.79%) Java
4 17 (16.83%) Go
5 16 (15.84%) Bicep
6 6 (5.94%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.96%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.96%) R
8 3 (2.97%) C
8 3 (2.97%) C++
8 3 (2.97%) Clojure
8 3 (2.97%) Erlang
8 3 (2.97%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.97%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.97%) Rust
9 2 (1.98%) C#
9 2 (1.98%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (22.77%) Azure Certification
2 18 (17.82%) SC Cleared
2 18 (17.82%) Security Cleared
3 16 (15.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (14.85%) SnowPro
5 5 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.95%) Degree
6 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (26.73%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.98%) GDPR
2 2 (1.98%) QA
System Software
1 24 (23.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.97%) Kibana
3 2 (1.98%) Grafana
3 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (37.62%) Databricks
2 23 (22.77%) Microsoft
3 14 (13.86%) Typelevel
4 4 (3.96%) Google
5 2 (1.98%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle
6 1 (0.99%) Informatica
6 1 (0.99%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.99%) Workday