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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 309 296
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 -121
Permanent jobs citing Scala 102 89 224
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.49% 0.74% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 1.82% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 24 43 156
10th Percentile £55,430 - £63,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 £95,625
90th Percentile - £102,450 £128,750
England median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% -

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 5,282 4,887 9,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.23% 40.80% 40.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,715 3,478 7,595
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £132,500 £130,000
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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -23 20 £111,250 +78.00% 13
West London - 17 £90,000 - 1
South London - 12 £48,975 -
East London - 5 - - 2
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 23 (22.55%) Apache Spark
2 13 (12.75%) Apache
3 7 (6.86%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.94%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.94%) SAS
5 1 (0.98%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 55 (53.92%) AWS
2 53 (51.96%) GCP
3 22 (21.57%) Azure
4 15 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (13.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (11.76%) GitHub
7 8 (7.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (7.84%) Power Platform
8 7 (6.86%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (6.86%) Cloud Composer
9 5 (4.90%) dbt
9 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (3.92%) Dagster
10 4 (3.92%) SaaS
11 3 (2.94%) Fivetran
12 2 (1.96%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (1.96%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 57 (55.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.73%) Delta Lake
2 12 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (10.78%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (10.78%) Metadata
4 10 (9.80%) Data Lake
4 10 (9.80%) NoSQL
5 9 (8.82%) BigQuery
6 8 (7.84%) Big Data
6 8 (7.84%) Power BI
6 8 (7.84%) Tableau
7 7 (6.86%) Hadoop
8 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.94%) Airbyte
10 3 (2.94%) Cloud Spanner
11 2 (1.96%) Couchbase
11 2 (1.96%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.96%) Redis
11 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 16 (15.69%) TeamCity
3 14 (13.73%) Git
General
1 22 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.61%) Finance
3 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.92%) Law
5 3 (2.94%) Marketing
5 3 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.96%) Billing
6 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 37 (36.27%) Data Engineer
2 36 (35.29%) Scala Engineer
3 26 (25.49%) Senior
4 24 (23.53%) Software Engineer
5 22 (21.57%) Scala Software Engineer
6 18 (17.65%) Developer
6 18 (17.65%) Scala Developer
7 10 (9.80%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (8.82%) Lead
9 7 (6.86%) Senior Scala Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Architect
11 5 (4.90%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.90%) Technical Leader
12 4 (3.92%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (3.92%) Senior Scala Developer
12 4 (3.92%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
12 4 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (3.92%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (35.29%) gRPC
2 19 (18.63%) PySpark
3 16 (15.69%) Akka
3 16 (15.69%) Kafka
4 4 (3.92%) React
5 3 (2.94%) Apache Beam
5 3 (2.94%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.96%) Memcached
6 2 (1.96%) Spring
7 1 (0.98%) D3.js
7 1 (0.98%) Play Framework
7 1 (0.98%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.98%) REST
7 1 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (51.96%) Video\Live Streaming
2 52 (50.98%) Over-the-Top Content
3 42 (41.18%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.88%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.92%) Anti-Piracy
5 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.92%) Social Media
6 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.94%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.98%) IoT
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.98%) Linux
1 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (57.84%) CI/CD
2 57 (55.88%) Data Science
3 50 (49.02%) Software Engineering
4 46 (45.10%) Analytics
5 44 (43.14%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (42.16%) Machine Learning
7 39 (38.24%) Coaching
7 39 (38.24%) Continuous Delivery
8 38 (37.25%) Microservices
9 37 (36.27%) Containerisation
10 36 (35.29%) Clean Code
10 36 (35.29%) Personalization
11 35 (34.31%) Data Modelling
12 33 (32.35%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (29.41%) Agile
14 26 (25.49%) ETL
15 25 (24.51%) Data Engineering
16 23 (22.55%) DevOps
17 22 (21.57%) Data Governance
18 19 (18.63%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 70 (68.63%) Python
2 37 (36.27%) Go
3 30 (29.41%) SQL
4 20 (19.61%) Java
5 4 (3.92%) C++
5 4 (3.92%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.94%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.96%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.96%) R
8 1 (0.98%) Bicep
8 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (6.86%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.90%) Degree
2 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.90%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 59 (57.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (22.55%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.80%) Terraform
3 3 (2.94%) Kibana
4 1 (0.98%) Control-M
Vendors
1 36 (35.29%) Typelevel
2 18 (17.65%) Databricks
3 4 (3.92%) Google
4 3 (2.94%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.96%) Braze
5 2 (1.96%) GoCardless
5 2 (1.96%) mParticle
5 2 (1.96%) PayPal
5 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.96%) Zuora
6 1 (0.98%) BMC
6 1 (0.98%) IBM
6 1 (0.98%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.98%) Talend