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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 229 256
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 -26
Permanent jobs citing Scala 4 5 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.039% 0.11% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.29% 0.26% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 16
10th Percentile - £60,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +39.13% -30.30%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -

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 1,393 1,889 2,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.58% 40.99% 29.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 811 2,368
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £34,925
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
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 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
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 13 May 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 -10 3 £75,000 -6.25% 8
Lancashire - 1 - -
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 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Big Data
2 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality