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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 240 246
Rank change year-on-year +26 +6 +46
Permanent jobs citing Scala 7 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.087% 0.064% 0.043%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 0.24% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £47,163 - -
25th Percentile £54,738 £67,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,188 £72,500 £56,875
90th Percentile £71,250 - £58,000
England median annual salary £78,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -1.88% - -

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 1,153 1,695 2,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.31% 26.96% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 926 922 1,932
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,813
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +28 7 £64,250 - 2
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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Metadata
2 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) DB2
3 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
3 1 (14.29%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Parquet
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DataOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Metadata Management
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 2 (28.57%) DataOps
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) Application Security
5 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Bicep
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
4 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
3 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) BMC
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Talend