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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 150 202
Rank change year-on-year -77 +52 +50
Permanent jobs citing Scala 5 93 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.097% 1.20% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.28% 4.48% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5 15 14
10th Percentile £65,000 £64,400 £53,000
25th Percentile - £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,000 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.89% +3.52%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £87,419
90th Percentile £84,500 £91,450 £96,539
England median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £82,818
% change year-on-year +12.50% -3.40% +3.52%

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 1,812 2,077 1,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 35.17% 26.79% 37.93%
Number of salaries quoted 696 1,294 1,371
10th Percentile £33,125 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,710 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £63,075 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -3.85% +1.63%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Scala 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Manchester -52 5 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Scala
England

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Apache
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon EMR
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Big Data
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (60.00%) MapReduce
3 3 (60.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft