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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 229 232
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +11
Permanent jobs citing Scala 14 4 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.13% 0.085% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.87% 0.21% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 24
10th Percentile £42,500 £59,000 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £72,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.63% +33.33% -27.27%
75th Percentile £69,375 - £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 - £76,375
England median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% -6.25%

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 1,605 1,887 3,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.79% 40.08% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,274 772 2,552
10th Percentile £36,500 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.08%
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £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 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -9 13 £55,500 -30.63% 16
Lancashire - 1 - - 3
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 9 (64.29%) Apache Spark
2 7 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) AWS
2 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 10 (71.43%) GCP
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (28.57%) Serverless
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Big Data
2 3 (21.43%) Delta Lake
2 3 (21.43%) Power BI
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) Data Vault
4 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) Postman
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) MLflow
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Law
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Scala Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 2 (14.29%) JPA
2 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
2 2 (14.29%) RESTful
2 2 (14.29%) Spring
2 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
2 2 (14.29%) Swagger
3 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Structures
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (57.14%) Analytics
3 7 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 7 (50.00%) Validation
4 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (35.71%) AI
5 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
5 5 (35.71%) Workflow
6 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 3 (21.43%) Data Architecture
7 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
7 3 (21.43%) Data Transformation
7 3 (21.43%) DevOps
7 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
7 3 (21.43%) Refactoring
8 2 (14.29%) ETL
8 2 (14.29%) MVC
8 2 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft