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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 278 314
Rank change year-on-year -14 +36 -132
Permanent jobs citing Scala 94 171 158
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.72% 0.98% 0.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.05% 2.34% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 50 107 138
10th Percentile £56,875 - £65,000
25th Percentile £73,125 £56,250 £66,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £96,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -16.88% +10.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £121,750 £111,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,818
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.40% +3.52%

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 4,593 7,296 8,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.27% 42.02% 45.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,010 4,809 7,385
10th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £128,750 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 7 £95,000 +26.67% 30
South London +29 1 - -
West London - 1 - - 1
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 24 (25.53%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.32%) Apache
3 4 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.19%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 66 (70.21%) AWS
2 37 (39.36%) Azure
3 25 (26.60%) GCP
4 23 (24.47%) Power Platform
5 19 (20.21%) Serverless
6 14 (14.89%) Amazon Kinesis
7 13 (13.83%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (12.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (11.70%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (9.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (7.45%) Amazon S3
11 7 (7.45%) GitHub
12 5 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (4.26%) Azure Storage
13 4 (4.26%) OpenShift
13 4 (4.26%) Snowflake
14 3 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (3.19%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) Broadband
1 2 (2.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (31.91%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (24.47%) Power BI
3 22 (23.40%) Big Data
4 14 (14.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (14.89%) NoSQL
5 13 (13.83%) Hadoop
6 11 (11.70%) Data Lake
7 9 (9.57%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (9.57%) Apache Hive
7 9 (9.57%) DynamoDB
7 9 (9.57%) Metadata
8 7 (7.45%) Power Query
9 6 (6.38%) Data Vault
9 6 (6.38%) MySQL
10 5 (5.32%) Relational Database
10 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
11 4 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (3.19%) Couchbase
12 3 (3.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Git
2 9 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.26%) git-flow
4 2 (2.13%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.13%) Gatling
4 2 (2.13%) JMeter
4 2 (2.13%) JUnit
4 2 (2.13%) REST Assured
4 2 (2.13%) Selenium
5 1 (1.06%) JIRA
5 1 (1.06%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (55.32%) Finance
2 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
3 19 (20.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (17.02%) Law
5 14 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (13.83%) Banking
7 10 (10.64%) Financial Institution
8 6 (6.38%) Legal
8 6 (6.38%) Marketing
9 3 (3.19%) Retail
10 2 (2.13%) Front Office
10 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (43.62%) Data Engineer
2 26 (27.66%) Lead
3 25 (26.60%) Senior
4 20 (21.28%) Software Engineer
5 18 (19.15%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (13.83%) Developer
6 13 (13.83%) Java Engineer
7 12 (12.77%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (12.77%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (11.70%) Azure Data Engineer
8 11 (11.70%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (9.57%) AWS Data Engineer
9 9 (9.57%) Lead Data Engineer
10 8 (8.51%) AWS Software Engineer
10 8 (8.51%) Lead Java Engineer
10 8 (8.51%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Java Developer
11 5 (5.32%) Lead Developer
11 5 (5.32%) Senior Java Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Principal Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (31.91%) Kafka
2 11 (11.70%) Spring
3 10 (10.64%) Spark Streaming
4 8 (8.51%) boto
4 8 (8.51%) Web Services
5 7 (7.45%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (6.38%) React
7 5 (5.32%) Flutter
7 5 (5.32%) REST
8 4 (4.26%) RESTful
8 4 (4.26%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.19%) Memcached
9 3 (3.19%) PySpark
10 2 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.13%) XML
11 1 (1.06%) CSS
11 1 (1.06%) FIX Protocol
11 1 (1.06%) HTML
11 1 (1.06%) LAMP
11 1 (1.06%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 33 (35.11%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (14.89%) Cloud Native
3 12 (12.77%) Derivative
4 10 (10.64%) e-Learning
5 9 (9.57%) Data Structures
5 9 (9.57%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (9.57%) Management Information System
6 8 (8.51%) Equity Derivative
7 7 (7.45%) Algorithms
7 7 (7.45%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.06%) Hedge funds
9 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.06%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.57%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Unix
3 1 (1.06%) Android
3 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (45.74%) Agile
2 39 (41.49%) Data Modelling
3 37 (39.36%) Machine Learning
4 34 (36.17%) CI/CD
4 34 (36.17%) Data Pipeline
5 33 (35.11%) Data Engineering
6 30 (31.91%) Analytics
7 29 (30.85%) AI
7 29 (30.85%) ETL
8 26 (27.66%) DevOps
9 25 (26.60%) Data Science
10 23 (24.47%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (24.47%) Software Engineering
11 22 (23.40%) Data Governance
12 21 (22.34%) SDLC
13 19 (20.21%) Microservices
14 17 (18.09%) Computer Science
14 17 (18.09%) Mentoring
14 17 (18.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 60 (63.83%) Java
2 53 (56.38%) Python
3 39 (41.49%) SQL
4 29 (30.85%) Kotlin
5 9 (9.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (8.51%) R
7 5 (5.32%) Go
8 4 (4.26%) F#
8 4 (4.26%) Haskell
8 4 (4.26%) OCaml
9 2 (2.13%) C#
9 2 (2.13%) Groovy
9 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.13%) Ruby
10 1 (1.06%) Clojure
10 1 (1.06%) Elixir
10 1 (1.06%) Erlang
10 1 (1.06%) Perl
10 1 (1.06%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (19.15%) Degree
2 7 (7.45%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.32%) PhD
4 4 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.26%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.19%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.06%) CISSP
7 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.06%) OSCP
7 1 (1.06%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.96%) GDPR
2 13 (13.83%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.19%) QA
5 1 (1.06%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.06%) MiFID
5 1 (1.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (13.83%) Docker
2 8 (8.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (22.34%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.57%) Terraform
3 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.13%) Ansible
4 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.13%) Puppet
5 1 (1.06%) Grafana
5 1 (1.06%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 23 (24.47%) Databricks
2 6 (6.38%) Google
3 5 (5.32%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.06%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.06%) Informatica
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle
4 1 (1.06%) Rackspace
4 1 (1.06%) Reuters
4 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.06%) Talend