Scala Job Trends in the South West

Scala
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Scala skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 - 222
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Permanent jobs citing Scala 20 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.21% - 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% - 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £53,750 - £66,360
25th Percentile £60,313 - £75,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 - £94,637
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.18%
75th Percentile £103,313 - £98,474
90th Percentile £135,600 - -
England median annual salary £80,750 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.28% +12.50% -

All Programming Languages
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,534 725 1,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.87% 21.01% 25.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,120 492 1,327
10th Percentile £33,675 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,375 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £81,900
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Scala job vacancy trend in the South West

Scala
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Scala

Scala
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala in the South West over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Scala in the South West

Scala
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the South West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Gloucestershire - 15 £73,750 - 7
Bristol - 2 £55,500 -
Dorset - 2 - - 1
Cornwall - 1 - -
Scala
England

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 (45.00%) Apache Spark
2 7 (35.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) Big Data
2 5 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 5 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.00%) Redis
4 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (10.00%) Metadata
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.00%) Flink
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.00%) Games
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.00%) Law
3 2 (10.00%) Legal
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Consultant
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Software Consultant
2 5 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Principal Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Consultant
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Scala Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) Node.js
2 2 (10.00%) OAuth
2 2 (10.00%) OpenID
3 1 (5.00%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.00%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Agile
2 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (55.00%) Software Engineering
4 10 (50.00%) Analytics
4 10 (50.00%) Machine Learning
5 9 (45.00%) AI
5 9 (45.00%) Data Science
6 8 (40.00%) DevSecOps
6 8 (40.00%) TDD
6 8 (40.00%) User Stories
7 7 (35.00%) DevOps
7 7 (35.00%) Observability
7 7 (35.00%) Validation
8 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (30.00%) Data Engineering
8 6 (30.00%) ETL
9 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (25.00%) OO
9 5 (25.00%) Parallel Processing
9 5 (25.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Java
2 11 (55.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) Go
4 3 (15.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (10.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.00%) Typelevel