Scala Job Trends in the South East

Scala
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Scala skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 250 317
Rank change year-on-year -26 +67 +32
Permanent jobs citing Scala 8 24 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.070% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.44% 0.89% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 20
10th Percentile - - £25,750
25th Percentile £47,500 - £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £64,375
90th Percentile - £90,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,825 2,689 4,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.89% 33.19% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 1,591 3,404
10th Percentile £33,250 £35,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,375 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Scala job vacancy trend in the South East

Scala
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Scala.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Scala

Scala
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
Surrey -10 7 £55,000 -21.43% 9
Thames Valley +7 1 - - 11
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
Scala
England

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (62.50%) IIS
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) dbt
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (62.50%) Big Data
2 5 (62.50%) Data Mining
2 5 (62.50%) Hadoop
2 5 (62.50%) Tableau
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) QGIS
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Marketing
2 5 (62.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) Data Science Manager
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Scala Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Play Framework
2 1 (12.50%) GeoPandas
2 1 (12.50%) gRPC
2 1 (12.50%) MapLibre
2 1 (12.50%) NetworkX
2 1 (12.50%) PostGIS
2 1 (12.50%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (62.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (12.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Data Science
2 7 (87.50%) Analytics
2 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
3 6 (75.00%) Actionable Insight
3 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (75.00%) Decision-Making
3 6 (75.00%) Mathematics
3 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (75.00%) Visualisation
4 5 (62.50%) AI
4 5 (62.50%) Analytical Thinking
4 5 (62.50%) Data Visualisation
4 5 (62.50%) Digital Transformation Strategy
4 5 (62.50%) Econometrics
4 5 (62.50%) Economics
4 5 (62.50%) Market Research
4 5 (62.50%) Operations Research
4 5 (62.50%) Statistical Analysis
4 5 (62.50%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) Java
4 5 (62.50%) R
5 1 (12.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
1 6 (75.00%) Master's Degree
2 5 (62.50%) MBA
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) BT
1 5 (62.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Mapbox
2 1 (12.50%) Typelevel