Scala Job Trends in the Midlands

Scala
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Scala skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 229 328
Rank change year-on-year -10 +99 -27
Permanent jobs citing Scala 11 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.087% 0.039% 0.036%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile £62,500 £58,625 -
25th Percentile £72,438 £60,313 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £68,750 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% +32.21% -5.45%
75th Percentile - £75,313 £54,063
90th Percentile £85,675 £75,875 £54,625
England median annual salary £83,250 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.83% -9.38% -

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,813 1,291 3,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.33% 25.42% 24.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,237 959 2,725
10th Percentile £31,700 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Scala relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Scala job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Scala
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Scala.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Scala

Scala
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Scala in the Midlands

Scala
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
West Midlands -12 8 £85,000 +23.64%
East Midlands - 3 - -
Scala
England

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Senior
2 5 (45.45%) Scala Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior Scala Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) DataOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
2 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (18.18%) DataOps
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (18.18%) Observability
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) Coaching
3 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (9.09%) Community of Practice
3 1 (9.09%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) QA Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform