Scala Job Trends in Scotland

Scala
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Scala skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 137 92
Rank change year-on-year -4 -45 +65
Permanent jobs citing Scala 1 5 122
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.026% 0.20% 2.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.21% 0.78% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £59,950
25th Percentile £112,500 £47,500 £71,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £50,000 £91,500
Median % change year-on-year +130.00% -45.36% +29.65%
75th Percentile £117,500 £52,500 £95,862
90th Percentile - - £97,429
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 478 638 1,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.59% 25.64% 43.74%
Number of salaries quoted 292 231 726
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,420 £67,991
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,613
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Scala job vacancy trend in Scotland

Scala
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Scala.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Scala

Scala
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Edinburgh - 1 £115,000 - 4
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Lakehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks