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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 158 249
Rank change year-on-year -29 +91 -14
Permanent jobs citing Scala 14 2 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.074% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 0.21% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 26
10th Percentile £44,020 £54,625 £50,000
25th Percentile £47,163 £55,938 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £66,250 £75,288
Median % change year-on-year -16.68% -12.00% +8.41%
75th Percentile £66,500 £77,813 £97,990
90th Percentile £71,600 £79,875 £155,665
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -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 1,034 941 2,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.74% 34.58% 35.39%
Number of salaries quoted 661 633 2,466
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,700 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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
Cornwall - 5 - -
Gloucestershire -7 4 - -
Devon - 4 £48,975 -
Bristol - 1 £75,000 - 3
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 4 (28.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (14.29%) Metadata
3 1 (7.14%) DB2
3 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
3 1 (7.14%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (7.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Scala Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Python Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Scala Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Scala Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Scala Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Ruby Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) gRPC
1 4 (28.57%) Node.js
1 4 (28.57%) OAuth
1 4 (28.57%) OpenID
2 3 (21.43%) Akka
3 2 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Over-the-Top Content
1 7 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 4 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Analytics
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Data Science
2 8 (57.14%) Machine Learning
3 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) AI
5 4 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 4 (28.57%) Coaching
5 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics
5 4 (28.57%) Data Management
5 4 (28.57%) Microservices
5 4 (28.57%) Migration
5 4 (28.57%) MLOps
5 4 (28.57%) Personalization
5 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Go
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
3 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Typelevel
2 1 (7.14%) BMC
2 1 (7.14%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Talend