Scala Job Trends in the North West

Scala
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Scala skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 194 175
Rank change year-on-year +23 -19 +35
Permanent jobs citing Scala 8 11 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.13% 0.21% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.95% 0.74% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 14
10th Percentile £63,000 £44,000 £40,000
25th Percentile - £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +29.17% -25.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,250 £70,938
90th Percentile £89,000 £93,950 £96,539
England median annual salary £81,750 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.19% - -

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 839 1,490 1,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.61% 28.65% 37.57%
Number of salaries quoted 701 847 1,178
10th Percentile £30,750 £34,600 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Scala job vacancy trend in the North West

Scala
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Scala.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Scala

Scala
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Scala in the North West

Scala
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +16 6 £80,000 +12.28% 1
Lancashire +13 1 - - 2
Merseyside - 1 £75,000 -
Scala
England

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Big Data
2 3 (37.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Ruby Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Coaching
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 2 (25.00%) Ruby
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) HDFS
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft