Scala Job Trends in South London

Scala
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring Scala skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 86 -
Rank change year-on-year +41 - -
Permanent jobs citing Scala 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 0.66% 0.18% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.29% 0.59% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £42,973 - -
25th Percentile £44,544 £90,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,975 £100,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -51.03% - -
75th Percentile £54,394 £110,000 -
90th Percentile £56,558 - -
London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +8.57%

All Programming Languages
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 70 170 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 15.49% 30.52% 34.60%
Number of salaries quoted 44 39 113
10th Percentile £37,000 £32,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,375 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.14% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £62,813 £63,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £71,750 £72,000 £84,750
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.23%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Scala job vacancy trend in South London

Scala
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Scala.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Scala

Scala
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala in South London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Scala in South London

Scala
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the South London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Croydon - 2 £48,975 - 4
Bromley +23 1 - - 5
Scala
London

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (33.33%) Parquet
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Programming
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) BMC
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Talend