Scala Job Trends in the North of England

Scala
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Scala skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 223 349
Rank change year-on-year -77 +126 -78
Permanent jobs citing Scala 9 18 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.055% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.34% 0.98% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 26
10th Percentile - £47,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £47,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +13.64% -31.25%
75th Percentile £51,000 £79,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,400 £88,125 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% -

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,610 1,842 4,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.81% 28.74% 30.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,910 1,513 4,111
10th Percentile £31,200 £31,925 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £74,987 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,797 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Scala job vacancy trend in the North of England

Scala
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Scala.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Scala

Scala
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Scala in the North of England

Scala
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
Yorkshire -59 5 £39,250 -29.60% 5
North West -32 4 £90,000 +38.46% 10
Scala
England

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
2 2 (22.22%) Big Data
2 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Games
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Junior
3 2 (22.22%) Junior Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Scala Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 6 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Data Science
3 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
3 4 (44.44%) Open Source
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) AI
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Data Security
5 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) Software Deployment
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Databricks
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
1 4 (44.44%) Palantir