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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 293 271
Rank change year-on-year -44 -22 +17
Permanent jobs citing Scala 104 100 203
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.44% 0.82% 1.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 1.99% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 53 48 124
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile £115,000 £100,313 £97,500
90th Percentile £123,000 £115,000 £135,625
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

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 5,584 5,015 7,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.46% 41.12% 40.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,853 3,429 5,798
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% -2.42% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,939
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -6.25%

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 August 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 August 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 -11 15 £72,500 +16.00% 7
West London - 7 - - 1
South London - 3 - - 1
East London - 2 - - 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 31 (29.81%) Apache Spark
2 20 (19.23%) Apache
3 6 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.88%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.88%) SAS
5 1 (0.96%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 43 (41.35%) AWS
2 40 (38.46%) GCP
3 39 (37.50%) Azure
4 23 (22.12%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (21.15%) Microsoft Purview
6 16 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (13.46%) Snowflake
8 13 (12.50%) Power Platform
9 11 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (7.69%) GitHub
11 6 (5.77%) Cloud Composer
11 6 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.85%) SaaS
13 3 (2.88%) Amazon S3
13 3 (2.88%) Dagster
13 3 (2.88%) dbt
13 3 (2.88%) Fivetran
14 2 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
14 2 (1.92%) n8n
14 2 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (24.04%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (22.12%) Delta Lake
1 23 (22.12%) Metadata
2 18 (17.31%) Data Vault
3 17 (16.35%) Big Data
4 13 (12.50%) Power BI
5 12 (11.54%) Hadoop
6 11 (10.58%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (10.58%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (10.58%) Tableau
7 10 (9.62%) NoSQL
8 8 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (7.69%) Relational Database
9 6 (5.77%) BigQuery
10 5 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.88%) Airbyte
11 3 (2.88%) Cloud Spanner
11 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.88%) MySQL
12 2 (1.92%) Flink
12 2 (1.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Git
2 6 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.92%) GitLab
4 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.96%) Gradle
4 1 (0.96%) JUnit
4 1 (0.96%) Maven
4 1 (0.96%) Mockito
General
1 30 (28.85%) Finance
2 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.81%) Law
5 4 (3.85%) Advertising
6 3 (2.88%) Banking
6 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.88%) Marketing
7 1 (0.96%) Front Office
7 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.96%) Legal
7 1 (0.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (31.73%) Data Engineer
2 24 (23.08%) Architect
3 21 (20.19%) Senior
4 20 (19.23%) Data Architect
4 20 (19.23%) Developer
5 19 (18.27%) Scala Developer
6 14 (13.46%) Lead
6 14 (13.46%) Scala Engineer
6 14 (13.46%) Software Engineer
7 11 (10.58%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Scala Software Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Technical Leader
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Manager
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Technical Manager
9 6 (5.77%) Technical Manager
10 5 (4.81%) Quantitative Developer
11 4 (3.85%) Azure Data Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Backend Developer
12 3 (2.88%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.00%) PySpark
2 22 (21.15%) gRPC
3 16 (15.38%) Kafka
4 6 (5.77%) React
5 3 (2.88%) Apache Beam
5 3 (2.88%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.88%) CrewAI
5 3 (2.88%) LangChain
5 3 (2.88%) Play Framework
6 2 (1.92%) .NET
6 2 (1.92%) LlamaIndex
6 2 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.92%) REST
6 2 (1.92%) Spring
6 2 (1.92%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.92%) YAML
7 1 (0.96%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.96%) JPA
7 1 (0.96%) Spring MVC
7 1 (0.96%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (21.15%) Over-the-Top Content
2 22 (21.15%) Video\Live Streaming
3 21 (20.19%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.85%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.88%) Anti-Piracy
5 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.88%) Robotics
5 3 (2.88%) Social Media
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.96%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.96%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.96%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.96%) IoT
7 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.96%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.96%) NHS
7 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) Linux
1 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (55.77%) CI/CD
2 53 (50.96%) Data Modelling
3 49 (47.12%) Data Science
4 44 (42.31%) Analytics
4 44 (42.31%) Machine Learning
5 36 (34.62%) Data Engineering
6 33 (31.73%) AI
6 33 (31.73%) Software Engineering
7 32 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (28.85%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (26.92%) Coaching
10 25 (24.04%) Containerisation
10 25 (24.04%) Data Pipeline
10 25 (24.04%) DevOps
10 25 (24.04%) Microservices
11 24 (23.08%) Clean Code
11 24 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
12 23 (22.12%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (21.15%) Personalization
14 20 (19.23%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 69 (66.35%) Python
2 42 (40.38%) SQL
3 25 (24.04%) Go
4 23 (22.12%) Java
5 14 (13.46%) Bicep
6 6 (5.77%) C++
6 6 (5.77%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.85%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.85%) R
8 3 (2.88%) C
8 3 (2.88%) Clojure
8 3 (2.88%) Erlang
8 3 (2.88%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.88%) Rust
9 2 (1.92%) C#
9 2 (1.92%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (19.23%) Azure Certification
2 16 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 16 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (12.50%) SnowPro
5 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.85%) Degree
6 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 30 (28.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (13.46%) Terraform
2 8 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.88%) Kibana
4 1 (0.96%) Grafana
4 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (31.73%) Databricks
2 22 (21.15%) Typelevel
3 19 (18.27%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (0.96%) Informatica
5 1 (0.96%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.96%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle
5 1 (0.96%) Workday