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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 309 310
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -142
Permanent jobs citing Scala 96 83 206
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.47% 0.67% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.85% 1.65% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 24 46 159
10th Percentile £55,430 - £63,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -21.88% -5.88%
75th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile - £103,875 £142,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -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 5,196 5,034 9,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.52% 40.63% 40.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,668 3,746 7,582
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £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 £120,000 £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 14 May 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 14 May 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 21 £111,250 +78.00% 7
West London - 17 £90,000 -
South London - 12 £48,975 -
East London - 5 - - 3
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 (17.71%) Apache Spark
2 8 (8.33%) Apache
3 6 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.04%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.04%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.04%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 53 (55.21%) AWS
2 52 (54.17%) GCP
3 22 (22.92%) Azure
4 14 (14.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (14.58%) GitHub
5 11 (11.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
7 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.21%) dbt
9 4 (4.17%) Dagster
10 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (3.13%) SaaS
11 2 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (2.08%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 57 (59.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.58%) Delta Lake
2 13 (13.54%) Data Lake
3 12 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (8.33%) BigQuery
4 8 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (8.33%) Metadata
5 6 (6.25%) Power BI
6 5 (5.21%) Big Data
6 5 (5.21%) Hadoop
6 5 (5.21%) Tableau
7 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.08%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (2.08%) Couchbase
8 2 (2.08%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.08%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.08%) MySQL
8 2 (2.08%) Redis
8 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 16 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 14 (14.58%) Git
General
1 15 (15.63%) Finance
1 15 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.17%) Law
4 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.08%) Billing
5 2 (2.08%) Marketing
5 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 36 (37.50%) Scala Engineer
2 32 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 24 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 22 (22.92%) Scala Software Engineer
4 22 (22.92%) Senior
5 18 (18.75%) Developer
5 18 (18.75%) Scala Developer
6 8 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Lead
7 7 (7.29%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Senior Scala Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Architect
9 5 (5.21%) Backend Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Data Architect
10 4 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Scala Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (37.50%) gRPC
2 18 (18.75%) PySpark
3 16 (16.67%) Akka
4 13 (13.54%) Kafka
5 3 (3.13%) React
6 2 (2.08%) Apache Beam
6 2 (2.08%) Memcached
6 2 (2.08%) Spring
7 1 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.04%) D3.js
7 1 (1.04%) PostGIS
7 1 (1.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 53 (55.21%) Video\Live Streaming
2 52 (54.17%) Over-the-Top Content
3 42 (43.75%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (7.29%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.17%) Anti-Piracy
5 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.17%) Social Media
6 3 (3.13%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.04%) IoT
8 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.04%) Linux
1 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 54 (56.25%) Data Science
3 48 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 45 (46.88%) Analytics
5 44 (45.83%) Machine Learning
6 41 (42.71%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (40.63%) Continuous Delivery
8 38 (39.58%) Coaching
8 38 (39.58%) Microservices
9 37 (38.54%) Containerisation
10 36 (37.50%) Clean Code
10 36 (37.50%) Personalization
11 31 (32.29%) Data Modelling
12 30 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (27.08%) Agile
13 26 (27.08%) ETL
14 22 (22.92%) DevOps
15 21 (21.88%) Data Governance
16 19 (19.79%) Data Analytics
16 19 (19.79%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 66 (68.75%) Python
2 37 (38.54%) Go
3 28 (29.17%) SQL
4 18 (18.75%) Java
5 4 (4.17%) C++
6 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.08%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.04%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.04%) Bicep
8 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.04%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (5.21%) Azure Certification
1 5 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (5.21%) Degree
2 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 56 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) Control-M
3 1 (1.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (37.50%) Typelevel
2 18 (18.75%) Databricks
3 3 (3.13%) Google
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.08%) Braze
4 2 (2.08%) GoCardless
4 2 (2.08%) mParticle
4 2 (2.08%) PayPal
4 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.08%) Zuora
5 1 (1.04%) BMC
5 1 (1.04%) IBM
5 1 (1.04%) Mapbox
5 1 (1.04%) Talend