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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 285 282
Rank change year-on-year -48 -3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Scala 105 104 203
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.44% 0.85% 1.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 2.09% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 56 51 124
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £76,563 £73,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £121,875 £115,000 £135,625
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 5,583 4,981 7,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.36% 40.82% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,835 3,415 5,734
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £64,250 £61,250 £62,500
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 £62,617 £61,305
% change year-on-year +3.81% +2.14% -5.68%

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 17 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 17 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 15 £72,500 +16.00% 3
West London - 6 - - 1
South London - 3 - -
East London - 2 - - 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 29 (27.62%) Apache Spark
2 20 (19.05%) Apache
3 4 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.86%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.86%) SAS
5 1 (0.95%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 41 (39.05%) AWS
1 41 (39.05%) Azure
2 38 (36.19%) GCP
3 25 (23.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 23 (21.90%) Microsoft Purview
5 18 (17.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (14.29%) Snowflake
7 13 (12.38%) Power Platform
8 11 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (7.62%) GitHub
10 6 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.81%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (3.81%) SaaS
12 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.86%) Fivetran
13 2 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.90%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (1.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (21.90%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.86%) Delta Lake
2 22 (20.95%) Metadata
3 19 (18.10%) Data Vault
4 17 (16.19%) Big Data
5 13 (12.38%) Power BI
6 12 (11.43%) Hadoop
7 11 (10.48%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (10.48%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (10.48%) Tableau
8 10 (9.52%) NoSQL
9 8 (7.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (7.62%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (3.81%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.81%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.86%) Airbyte
12 3 (2.86%) Cloud Spanner
12 3 (2.86%) MySQL
13 2 (1.90%) Spark SQL
13 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Git
2 6 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.90%) GitLab
4 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.95%) Gradle
4 1 (0.95%) JUnit
4 1 (0.95%) Maven
4 1 (0.95%) Mockito
General
1 30 (28.57%) Finance
2 26 (24.76%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.81%) Advertising
5 3 (2.86%) Banking
5 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.86%) Law
5 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (0.95%) Front Office
6 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.95%) Legal
6 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (30.48%) Data Engineer
2 25 (23.81%) Architect
3 21 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 21 (20.00%) Developer
4 20 (19.05%) Scala Developer
5 19 (18.10%) Senior
6 14 (13.33%) Lead
6 14 (13.33%) Scala Engineer
6 14 (13.33%) Software Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Scala Software Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Technical Leader
9 6 (5.71%) Senior Manager
9 6 (5.71%) Senior Technical Manager
9 6 (5.71%) Technical Manager
10 5 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Quantitative Developer
11 4 (3.81%) Backend Developer
12 3 (2.86%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (25.71%) PySpark
2 22 (20.95%) gRPC
3 14 (13.33%) Kafka
4 6 (5.71%) React
5 3 (2.86%) Apache Beam
5 3 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.86%) CrewAI
5 3 (2.86%) LangChain
5 3 (2.86%) Play Framework
6 2 (1.90%) .NET
6 2 (1.90%) LlamaIndex
6 2 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.90%) REST
6 2 (1.90%) Spring
6 2 (1.90%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.90%) YAML
7 1 (0.95%) D3.js
7 1 (0.95%) RESTful
7 1 (0.95%) Spring MVC
7 1 (0.95%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.76%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (20.95%) Cloud Native
2 22 (20.95%) Over-the-Top Content
2 22 (20.95%) Video\Live Streaming
3 4 (3.81%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.86%) Robotics
5 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.95%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.95%) Anti-Piracy
6 1 (0.95%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.95%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.95%) IoT
6 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.95%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.95%) NHS
6 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.95%) Linux
1 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (56.19%) CI/CD
2 53 (50.48%) Data Modelling
3 48 (45.71%) Data Science
4 45 (42.86%) Machine Learning
5 44 (41.90%) Analytics
6 35 (33.33%) Data Engineering
7 34 (32.38%) AI
8 33 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (31.43%) Software Engineering
9 31 (29.52%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (26.67%) Coaching
11 25 (23.81%) Containerisation
11 25 (23.81%) DevOps
11 25 (23.81%) Microservices
12 24 (22.86%) Clean Code
12 24 (22.86%) Continuous Delivery
12 24 (22.86%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (20.95%) Personalization
14 21 (20.00%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 69 (65.71%) Python
2 42 (40.00%) SQL
3 25 (23.81%) Go
4 21 (20.00%) Java
5 15 (14.29%) Bicep
6 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.81%) C++
7 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.81%) R
8 3 (2.86%) C
8 3 (2.86%) Clojure
8 3 (2.86%) Erlang
8 3 (2.86%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.86%) Rust
9 2 (1.90%) C#
9 2 (1.90%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.90%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 17 (16.19%) SC Cleared
2 17 (16.19%) Security Cleared
3 15 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (13.33%) SnowPro
5 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.81%) Degree
6 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (23.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.90%) GDPR
3 1 (0.95%) QA
System Software
1 30 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (14.29%) Terraform
2 8 (7.62%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.86%) Kibana
4 1 (0.95%) Grafana
4 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (33.33%) Databricks
2 22 (20.95%) Typelevel
3 21 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.81%) Google
5 1 (0.95%) Informatica
5 1 (0.95%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.95%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle
5 1 (0.95%) Workday