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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 312 283
Rank change year-on-year +37 -29 -130
Permanent jobs citing Scala 96 124 170
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.68% 0.80% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.22% 1.93% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 49 90 145
10th Percentile £51,000 - £64,250
25th Percentile £71,750 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £123,500 £114,100 £143,750
England median annual salary £81,750 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.19% - -

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 4,322 6,422 7,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.55% 41.33% 43.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,053 4,124 6,893
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +4 14 £97,500 +56.00% 17
South London +48 9 £48,975 -51.03% 11
West London - 4 £90,000 - 11
East London - 2 - - 13
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 25 (26.04%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.17%) Apache
2 4 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.13%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.79%) AWS
2 37 (38.54%) Azure
3 22 (22.92%) Power Platform
4 20 (20.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (17.71%) GCP
7 16 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
8 13 (13.54%) Serverless
9 12 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (8.33%) GitHub
12 6 (6.25%) Amazon S3
13 4 (4.17%) Snowflake
14 3 (3.13%) dbt
15 2 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
15 2 (2.08%) Azure Storage
15 2 (2.08%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.67%) Broadband
2 1 (1.04%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (32.29%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (22.92%) Power BI
3 19 (19.79%) Data Lake
4 14 (14.58%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (14.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (14.58%) Big Data
4 14 (14.58%) Hadoop
5 11 (11.46%) Delta Lake
6 9 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (9.38%) Apache Hive
6 9 (9.38%) Metadata
7 7 (7.29%) DynamoDB
7 7 (7.29%) NoSQL
8 6 (6.25%) Power Query
8 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
9 5 (5.21%) Couchbase
9 5 (5.21%) Redis
10 4 (4.17%) Data Vault
10 4 (4.17%) MySQL
11 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (23.96%) Jenkins
2 16 (16.67%) Git
2 16 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.08%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.08%) Gatling
3 2 (2.08%) JMeter
3 2 (2.08%) JUnit
3 2 (2.08%) REST Assured
3 2 (2.08%) Selenium
4 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 37 (38.54%) Finance
2 20 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.42%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.21%) Legal
5 5 (5.21%) Marketing
6 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.04%) Advertising
8 1 (1.04%) Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Front Office
8 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 29 (30.21%) Senior
3 16 (16.67%) Lead
4 15 (15.63%) Developer
4 15 (15.63%) Software Engineer
5 12 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) Scala Engineer
7 10 (10.42%) Azure Data Engineer
7 10 (10.42%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (9.38%) AWS Data Engineer
8 9 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (9.38%) Scala Software Engineer
9 8 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) Scala Developer
11 6 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (6.25%) Senior Developer
11 6 (6.25%) Senior Scala Developer
11 6 (6.25%) Senior Scala Engineer
12 5 (5.21%) Lead Developer
12 5 (5.21%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (27.08%) Kafka
2 16 (16.67%) Akka
2 16 (16.67%) PySpark
3 10 (10.42%) Spark Streaming
4 8 (8.33%) boto
5 5 (5.21%) Flutter
5 5 (5.21%) Memcached
5 5 (5.21%) React
5 5 (5.21%) Spring
6 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.08%) XML
7 1 (1.04%) LAMP
7 1 (1.04%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.08%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (16.67%) Over-the-Top Content
2 16 (16.67%) Video\Live Streaming
3 10 (10.42%) Data Structures
3 10 (10.42%) e-Learning
4 9 (9.38%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (6.25%) Cloud Native
6 5 (5.21%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.13%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.04%) Derivative
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Unix
3 1 (1.04%) Android
3 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (53.13%) Analytics
2 48 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 42 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
4 41 (42.71%) Agile
5 34 (35.42%) Data Engineering
5 34 (35.42%) ETL
6 32 (33.33%) DevOps
7 30 (31.25%) CI/CD
8 29 (30.21%) Data Governance
9 27 (28.13%) Data Science
10 26 (27.08%) TDD
11 25 (26.04%) Machine Learning
12 23 (23.96%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (23.96%) Data Analytics
13 19 (19.79%) Pair Programming
13 19 (19.79%) Scrum
14 17 (17.71%) AI
14 17 (17.71%) Mentoring
14 17 (17.71%) Open Source
14 17 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 54 (56.25%) Python
2 42 (43.75%) Java
2 42 (43.75%) SQL
3 14 (14.58%) Kotlin
4 8 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (7.29%) R
6 5 (5.21%) Go
7 2 (2.08%) C#
7 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.08%) Ruby
8 1 (1.04%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.04%) F#
8 1 (1.04%) Haskell
8 1 (1.04%) OCaml
8 1 (1.04%) Perl
8 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.29%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 6 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.08%) PhD
7 1 (1.04%) CISSP
7 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.04%) OSCP
7 1 (1.04%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 13 (13.54%) GDPR
3 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 21 (21.88%) Docker
2 8 (8.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (22.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.46%) Terraform
3 2 (2.08%) Ansible
3 2 (2.08%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.08%) Puppet
4 1 (1.04%) Control-M
4 1 (1.04%) Grafana
4 1 (1.04%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 31 (32.29%) Databricks
2 3 (3.13%) Google
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.04%) BMC
3 1 (1.04%) IBM
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle
3 1 (1.04%) Rackspace
3 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.04%) Talend