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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 301 290
Rank change year-on-year +7 -11 -133
Permanent jobs citing Scala 98 116 188
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.61% 0.80% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.13% 1.95% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 31 82 157
10th Percentile £48,500 - £62,250
25th Percentile £57,450 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% -4.35%
75th Percentile £120,000 £103,500 £112,500
90th Percentile - £113,850 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% -7.81% -

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 4,603 5,959 8,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.64% 41.02% 42.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,233 3,960 7,758
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,875 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,501 £101,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £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 28 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 28 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 -8 16 £82,500 +32.00% 4
West London - 14 £90,000 -
South London +47 10 £48,975 -51.03%
East London - 5 - -
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 19 (19.39%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.06%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 49 (50.00%) AWS
2 34 (34.69%) GCP
3 23 (23.47%) Azure
4 16 (16.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (12.24%) Amazon Kinesis
6 12 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (12.24%) GitHub
7 10 (10.20%) Power Platform
8 9 (9.18%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (8.16%) Serverless
10 7 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.12%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (6.12%) dbt
12 4 (4.08%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (4.08%) Dagster
13 2 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (2.04%) BrowserStack
13 2 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 2 (2.04%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 44 (44.90%) Broadband
2 1 (1.02%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.39%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (15.31%) Data Lake
3 14 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (11.22%) Delta Lake
5 10 (10.20%) Power BI
6 8 (8.16%) Big Data
6 8 (8.16%) Hadoop
6 8 (8.16%) Metadata
7 7 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (7.14%) Apache Hive
8 6 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (6.12%) BigQuery
8 6 (6.12%) DynamoDB
8 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
9 5 (5.10%) Couchbase
9 5 (5.10%) NoSQL
9 5 (5.10%) Redis
10 4 (4.08%) MySQL
11 3 (3.06%) Power Query
11 3 (3.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (22.45%) Jenkins
2 17 (17.35%) Git
2 17 (17.35%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.04%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.04%) Gatling
3 2 (2.04%) JMeter
3 2 (2.04%) JUnit
3 2 (2.04%) REST Assured
3 2 (2.04%) Selenium
4 1 (1.02%) JIRA
General
1 24 (24.49%) Finance
2 15 (15.31%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.12%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.10%) Marketing
6 4 (4.08%) Law
6 4 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.06%) Legal
8 2 (2.04%) Billing
8 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Retail
9 1 (1.02%) Advertising
9 1 (1.02%) Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Front Office
9 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (36.73%) Data Engineer
2 27 (27.55%) Scala Engineer
2 27 (27.55%) Senior
3 22 (22.45%) Software Engineer
4 20 (20.41%) Developer
5 17 (17.35%) Scala Software Engineer
6 16 (16.33%) Scala Developer
7 13 (13.27%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (9.18%) Lead
9 7 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) AWS Data Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Senior Developer
10 6 (6.12%) Senior Scala Developer
11 5 (5.10%) Development Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Software Development Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Systems Engineer
12 4 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.45%) gRPC
1 22 (22.45%) Kafka
2 17 (17.35%) Akka
3 16 (16.33%) PySpark
4 6 (6.12%) boto
4 6 (6.12%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (5.10%) Memcached
5 5 (5.10%) Spring
6 3 (3.06%) React
7 1 (1.02%) LAMP
7 1 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (40.82%) Video\Live Streaming
2 39 (39.80%) Distributed Systems
2 39 (39.80%) Over-the-Top Content
3 10 (10.20%) Data Structures
4 6 (6.12%) e-Learning
4 6 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (5.10%) Virtual Team
6 4 (4.08%) Anti-Piracy
6 4 (4.08%) Social Media
7 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.02%) Android
2 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (47.96%) CI/CD
2 46 (46.94%) Analytics
3 41 (41.84%) Data Science
4 34 (34.69%) Data Modelling
5 33 (33.67%) Data Pipeline
5 33 (33.67%) Machine Learning
6 32 (32.65%) Agile
6 32 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (32.65%) Software Engineering
7 28 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
7 28 (28.57%) Data Governance
8 27 (27.55%) Microservices
9 25 (25.51%) Coaching
9 25 (25.51%) ETL
9 25 (25.51%) TDD
10 24 (24.49%) Containerisation
10 24 (24.49%) Data Engineering
11 23 (23.47%) DevOps
12 22 (22.45%) Data Analytics
12 22 (22.45%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 59 (60.20%) Python
2 29 (29.59%) Java
2 29 (29.59%) SQL
3 22 (22.45%) Go
4 9 (9.18%) Kotlin
5 4 (4.08%) C++
5 4 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.06%) R
6 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.04%) Ruby
8 1 (1.02%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.02%) Perl
8 1 (1.02%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (11.22%) Degree
2 7 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.12%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.12%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.10%) Master's Degree
4 5 (5.10%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.02%) CISSP
6 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) OSCP
6 1 (1.02%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.39%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.18%) GDPR
3 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (44.90%) Docker
2 6 (6.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (22.45%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.24%) Terraform
3 1 (1.02%) Control-M
3 1 (1.02%) Grafana
3 1 (1.02%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 24 (24.49%) Databricks
2 22 (22.45%) Typelevel
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.04%) GoCardless
4 2 (2.04%) mParticle
4 2 (2.04%) PayPal
4 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.04%) Zuora
5 1 (1.02%) BMC
5 1 (1.02%) Google
5 1 (1.02%) IBM
5 1 (1.02%) Talend