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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 297 295
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 -116
Permanent jobs citing Scala 107 96 227
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.50% 0.79% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.00% 1.89% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 29 45 157
10th Percentile £60,480 - £60,900
25th Percentile £77,500 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.71% -3.13% -8.57%
75th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,750 £104,100 £127,000
England median annual salary £83,250 £70,000 £78,750
% change year-on-year +18.93% -11.11% -1.56%

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 5,348 5,075 9,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.11% 41.54% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,771 3,503 7,631
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,400 £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 £118,750 £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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -28 18 £122,500 +96.00% 4
West London - 17 £90,000 -
South London - 12 £48,975 -
East London - 5 - - 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 (22.43%) Apache Spark
2 16 (14.95%) Apache
3 7 (6.54%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.80%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.80%) SAS
5 1 (0.93%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 56 (52.34%) AWS
2 54 (50.47%) GCP
3 23 (21.50%) Azure
4 15 (14.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (11.21%) GitHub
7 10 (9.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (6.54%) Cloud Composer
9 7 (6.54%) Power Platform
10 6 (5.61%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (5.61%) SaaS
11 5 (4.67%) dbt
12 4 (3.74%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.74%) Dagster
13 3 (2.80%) Fivetran
13 3 (2.80%) Snowflake
14 2 (1.87%) Amazon SageMaker
14 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (1.87%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 57 (53.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.95%) Delta Lake
2 14 (13.08%) Metadata
3 10 (9.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (9.35%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (8.41%) Big Data
4 9 (8.41%) BigQuery
4 9 (8.41%) Data Lake
4 9 (8.41%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.54%) Hadoop
5 7 (6.54%) Power BI
5 7 (6.54%) Tableau
6 5 (4.67%) Data Vault
6 5 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.67%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.80%) Airbyte
7 3 (2.80%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (1.87%) Flink
8 2 (1.87%) Redis
9 1 (0.93%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (18.69%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.95%) TeamCity
3 13 (12.15%) Git
4 1 (0.93%) GitLab
General
1 22 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.63%) Finance
3 5 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.67%) Marketing
4 4 (3.74%) Law
5 3 (2.80%) Advertising
5 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.87%) Billing
6 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (34.58%) Data Engineer
2 36 (33.64%) Scala Engineer
3 26 (24.30%) Senior
4 24 (22.43%) Software Engineer
5 22 (20.56%) Scala Software Engineer
6 18 (16.82%) Developer
6 18 (16.82%) Scala Developer
7 12 (11.21%) Lead
8 10 (9.35%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (8.41%) Architect
10 7 (6.54%) Data Architect
10 7 (6.54%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Senior Scala Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.67%) Engineering Manager
11 5 (4.67%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Technical Leader
12 4 (3.74%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (33.64%) gRPC
2 20 (18.69%) PySpark
3 16 (14.95%) Akka
4 14 (13.08%) Kafka
5 6 (5.61%) React
6 3 (2.80%) Apache Beam
6 3 (2.80%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (2.80%) Play Framework
7 2 (1.87%) Spring
8 1 (0.93%) D3.js
8 1 (0.93%) Memcached
8 1 (0.93%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.93%) REST
8 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (49.53%) Video\Live Streaming
2 52 (48.60%) Over-the-Top Content
3 42 (39.25%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (8.41%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.67%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.74%) Anti-Piracy
6 4 (3.74%) Social Media
7 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.93%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.93%) IoT
9 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Linux
1 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (57.01%) CI/CD
2 59 (55.14%) Data Science
3 51 (47.66%) Software Engineering
4 48 (44.86%) Analytics
5 45 (42.06%) Machine Learning
6 43 (40.19%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (38.32%) Coaching
8 39 (36.45%) Continuous Delivery
9 38 (35.51%) Microservices
10 37 (34.58%) Clean Code
10 37 (34.58%) Containerisation
10 37 (34.58%) Data Modelling
11 36 (33.64%) Personalization
12 30 (28.04%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (27.10%) Agile
14 25 (23.36%) ETL
15 24 (22.43%) Data Engineering
16 23 (21.50%) DevOps
17 21 (19.63%) Open Source
18 20 (18.69%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 71 (66.36%) Python
2 37 (34.58%) Go
3 30 (28.04%) SQL
4 20 (18.69%) Java
5 6 (5.61%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.67%) C++
7 4 (3.74%) Bicep
8 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.87%) R
10 1 (0.93%) C
10 1 (0.93%) Clojure
10 1 (0.93%) Erlang
10 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (8.41%) Azure Certification
2 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.80%) Degree
4 3 (2.80%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 58 (54.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (20.56%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.21%) Terraform
3 3 (2.80%) Kibana
4 1 (0.93%) Control-M
Vendors
1 36 (33.64%) Typelevel
2 19 (17.76%) Databricks
3 6 (5.61%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.74%) Google
5 2 (1.87%) Braze
5 2 (1.87%) GoCardless
5 2 (1.87%) mParticle
5 2 (1.87%) PayPal
5 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.87%) Zuora
6 1 (0.93%) BMC
6 1 (0.93%) IBM
6 1 (0.93%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.93%) Talend