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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 312 304
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 -141
Permanent jobs citing Scala 95 92 203
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.48% 0.72% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 1.74% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 20 53 155
10th Percentile £51,353 - £63,750
25th Percentile £82,188 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -18.75% -8.57%
75th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 £98,125
90th Percentile - £107,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -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 5,119 5,294 9,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.78% 41.30% 40.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,609 3,903 7,589
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,800 £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 £101,250
90th Percentile £120,250 £130,000 £127,500
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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -11 22 £111,250 +78.00% 7
West London - 18 £90,000 -
South London +26 12 £48,975 -51.03%
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 17 (17.89%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.16%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 54 (56.84%) AWS
2 49 (51.58%) GCP
3 23 (24.21%) Azure
4 15 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (14.74%) GitHub
6 11 (11.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (9.47%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (8.42%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.26%) dbt
10 4 (4.21%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (4.21%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (4.21%) Dagster
11 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (2.11%) Serverless
12 2 (2.11%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 58 (61.05%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.74%) Delta Lake
2 13 (13.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (12.63%) Data Lake
4 10 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (8.42%) Power BI
6 7 (7.37%) Metadata
7 6 (6.32%) BigQuery
7 6 (6.32%) Tableau
8 5 (5.26%) Hadoop
9 4 (4.21%) Big Data
9 4 (4.21%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
10 3 (3.16%) Couchbase
10 3 (3.16%) DynamoDB
10 3 (3.16%) MySQL
10 3 (3.16%) Redis
11 2 (2.11%) Apache Hive
11 2 (2.11%) Data Vault
12 1 (1.05%) HDInsight
12 1 (1.05%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 17 (17.89%) TeamCity
3 15 (15.79%) Git
General
1 14 (14.74%) Finance
2 12 (12.63%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.21%) Law
5 3 (3.16%) Marketing
6 2 (2.11%) Billing
6 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.05%) Advertising
7 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.05%) Legal
7 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (37.89%) Scala Engineer
2 31 (32.63%) Data Engineer
3 25 (26.32%) Software Engineer
4 22 (23.16%) Scala Software Engineer
4 22 (23.16%) Senior
5 19 (20.00%) Developer
5 19 (20.00%) Scala Developer
6 9 (9.47%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Senior Scala Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Architect
8 5 (5.26%) Backend Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Lead
8 5 (5.26%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Senior Scala Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (37.89%) gRPC
2 19 (20.00%) PySpark
3 17 (17.89%) Akka
4 16 (16.84%) Kafka
5 3 (3.16%) Memcached
5 3 (3.16%) React
5 3 (3.16%) Spring
6 1 (1.05%) boto
6 1 (1.05%) D3.js
6 1 (1.05%) PostGIS
6 1 (1.05%) REST
6 1 (1.05%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 54 (56.84%) Video\Live Streaming
2 53 (55.79%) Over-the-Top Content
3 44 (46.32%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (8.42%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.21%) Anti-Piracy
5 4 (4.21%) Social Media
5 4 (4.21%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.05%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.05%) IoT
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 54 (56.84%) Data Science
3 47 (49.47%) Machine Learning
3 47 (49.47%) Software Engineering
4 43 (45.26%) Analytics
5 42 (44.21%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (42.11%) Continuous Delivery
7 39 (41.05%) Coaching
7 39 (41.05%) Microservices
8 37 (38.95%) Containerisation
9 36 (37.89%) Clean Code
9 36 (37.89%) Personalization
10 28 (29.47%) Data Modelling
10 28 (29.47%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (28.42%) Agile
12 24 (25.26%) ETL
13 21 (22.11%) Data Analytics
13 21 (22.11%) Data Governance
13 21 (22.11%) DevOps
13 21 (22.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 65 (68.42%) Python
2 36 (37.89%) Go
3 28 (29.47%) SQL
4 16 (16.84%) Java
5 4 (4.21%) C++
6 3 (3.16%) Kotlin
6 3 (3.16%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.11%) R
8 1 (1.05%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.05%) Bicep
8 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 8 (8.42%) Degree
2 6 (6.32%) Azure Certification
2 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.16%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.16%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.05%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 58 (61.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (23.16%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.63%) Terraform
3 1 (1.05%) Control-M
Vendors
1 36 (37.89%) Typelevel
2 20 (21.05%) Databricks
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.11%) Braze
4 2 (2.11%) GoCardless
4 2 (2.11%) mParticle
4 2 (2.11%) PayPal
4 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.11%) Zuora
5 1 (1.05%) BMC
5 1 (1.05%) Google
5 1 (1.05%) IBM
5 1 (1.05%) Mapbox
5 1 (1.05%) Talend