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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 301 288
Rank change year-on-year +4 -13 -123
Permanent jobs citing Scala 102 104 204
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.55% 0.81% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.06% 1.93% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 25 68 160
10th Percentile £50,000 - £63,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £78,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% -1.56% -11.11%
75th Percentile £120,000 £98,125 £107,813
90th Percentile £144,000 £110,750 £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 4,954 5,393 9,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.94% 41.78% 40.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,481 3,965 7,580
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £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% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £127,500 £125,000
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 6 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 6 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 -21 22 £111,250 +78.00% 9
West London - 18 £90,000 -
South London +39 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 18 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.94%) Apache
4 1 (0.98%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 57 (55.88%) AWS
2 48 (47.06%) GCP
3 22 (21.57%) Azure
4 15 (14.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (13.73%) GitHub
6 11 (10.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (8.82%) Power Platform
8 8 (7.84%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (4.90%) dbt
10 4 (3.92%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (3.92%) Dagster
10 4 (3.92%) Serverless
11 3 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (1.96%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 58 (56.86%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.75%) Azure SQL Database
1 13 (12.75%) Data Warehouse
1 13 (12.75%) Delta Lake
2 12 (11.76%) Data Lake
3 9 (8.82%) Power BI
4 7 (6.86%) Metadata
5 6 (5.88%) BigQuery
5 6 (5.88%) Hadoop
5 6 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.88%) Tableau
6 5 (4.90%) Big Data
6 5 (4.90%) Couchbase
6 5 (4.90%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.90%) Redis
7 4 (3.92%) Apache Hive
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.94%) MySQL
9 2 (1.96%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 22 (21.57%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 16 (15.69%) Git
4 2 (1.96%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.96%) Gatling
4 2 (1.96%) JMeter
4 2 (1.96%) JUnit
4 2 (1.96%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 17 (16.67%) Finance
2 12 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.92%) Law
4 4 (3.92%) Marketing
4 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.96%) Billing
6 2 (1.96%) Legal
6 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Advertising
7 1 (0.98%) Front Office
7 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (35.29%) Scala Engineer
2 32 (31.37%) Data Engineer
3 27 (26.47%) Software Engineer
4 24 (23.53%) Senior
5 22 (21.57%) Developer
5 22 (21.57%) Scala Software Engineer
6 20 (19.61%) Scala Developer
7 11 (10.78%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Lead
8 7 (6.86%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Senior Scala Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Backend Developer
9 5 (4.90%) Development Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.90%) Senior Scala Developer
9 5 (4.90%) Software Development Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Architect
10 4 (3.92%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (35.29%) gRPC
2 19 (18.63%) Kafka
3 17 (16.67%) Akka
3 17 (16.67%) PySpark
4 5 (4.90%) Memcached
4 5 (4.90%) Spring
5 3 (2.94%) boto
5 3 (2.94%) React
5 3 (2.94%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (0.98%) D3.js
6 1 (0.98%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.98%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 54 (52.94%) Video\Live Streaming
2 53 (51.96%) Over-the-Top Content
3 50 (49.02%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (9.80%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.90%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.92%) Anti-Piracy
6 4 (3.92%) Social Media
7 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.94%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.98%) IoT
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 54 (52.94%) Data Science
3 49 (48.04%) Machine Learning
4 46 (45.10%) Software Engineering
5 44 (43.14%) Analytics
5 44 (43.14%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (41.18%) Continuous Delivery
7 41 (40.20%) Microservices
8 39 (38.24%) Coaching
8 39 (38.24%) Containerisation
9 36 (35.29%) Clean Code
9 36 (35.29%) Personalization
10 30 (29.41%) Agile
11 29 (28.43%) Data Modelling
12 27 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (22.55%) Data Governance
13 23 (22.55%) ETL
13 23 (22.55%) TDD
14 22 (21.57%) Data Analytics
15 21 (20.59%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 67 (65.69%) Python
2 36 (35.29%) Go
3 27 (26.47%) SQL
4 22 (21.57%) Java
5 7 (6.86%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.92%) C++
7 3 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.96%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.96%) R
9 1 (0.98%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.98%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (10.78%) Degree
2 8 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.90%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.94%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.90%) GDPR
3 2 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 59 (57.84%) Docker
2 3 (2.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (22.55%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (0.98%) Control-M
Vendors
1 36 (35.29%) Typelevel
2 21 (20.59%) Databricks
3 4 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.96%) Braze
4 2 (1.96%) GoCardless
4 2 (1.96%) mParticle
4 2 (1.96%) PayPal
4 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.96%) Zuora
5 1 (0.98%) BMC
5 1 (0.98%) Google
5 1 (0.98%) IBM
5 1 (0.98%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.98%) Talend