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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 272 224
Rank change year-on-year +71 -48 +110
Permanent jobs citing Scala 8 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.14% 0.034% 0.039%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.71% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £59,750 - £50,625
25th Percentile £61,875 £67,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +19.15% -2.08%
75th Percentile £70,625 £72,500 £67,188
90th Percentile £73,500 - £68,875
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £82,818
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.40% +3.52%

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 1,122 2,143 1,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.55% 24.25% 36.47%
Number of salaries quoted 952 1,170 1,526
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £66,188
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 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
West Midlands +60 8 £65,000 - 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
2 2 (25.00%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Scala Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Scala Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Scala Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Scala Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (12.50%) Play Framework
3 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Metadata Management
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C#
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Kotlin
4 2 (25.00%) Bicep
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft