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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 244 209
Rank change year-on-year +29 -35 +100
Permanent jobs citing Scala 10 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.059% 0.064%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.87% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £50,305 - £51,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £70,000 - £67,750
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 1,154 1,752 1,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.78% 25.73% 34.72%
Number of salaries quoted 945 966 1,400
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,774 £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 24 December 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 24 December 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 +48 10 £65,000 - 10
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 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Metadata
2 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) DB2
4 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (10.00%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (10.00%) Parquet
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Senior
2 6 (60.00%) Data Engineer
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Scala Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Software Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Scala Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Scala Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Software Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Scala Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Ruby Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (20.00%) PySpark
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) Play Framework
3 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Analytics
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) ETL
3 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (20.00%) DataOps
5 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) C#
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) Bicep
4 3 (30.00%) Java
4 3 (30.00%) Kotlin
4 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (30.00%) GDPR
3 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) BMC
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (10.00%) Talend