Scala Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Scala
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Scala skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 493 379
Rank change year-on-year -11 -114 +173
Permanent jobs citing Scala 80 36 450
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.12% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.77% 0.44% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 53 24 94
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,000 £44,350
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,750 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +22.22% -22.41%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £119,500 £87,375 £85,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% -9.38%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,445 8,265 23,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.59% 27.83% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,456 5,235 17,062
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £66,438
90th Percentile £86,375 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Scala job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Scala
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Scala.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Scala

Scala
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Scala in the UK excluding London

Scala
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
North of England -27 22 £57,500 -8.00% 15
South West -44 17 £59,500 -11.85% 11
North West +6 14 £55,500 -30.63% 10
East of England -8 13 £100,000 +53.85% 2
Midlands -12 13 £83,250 +21.09% 1
West Midlands -10 10 £83,250 +21.09%
South East -17 10 £55,000 -21.43% 5
Yorkshire -35 5 £90,000 +83.67% 4
North East -46 3 £57,500 -8.00% 1
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
Wales - 3 £63,500 - 4
Scotland +7 2 £115,000 +64.29%
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (23.75%) Apache Spark
2 8 (10.00%) Apache
2 8 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.75%) IIS
4 2 (2.50%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 44 (55.00%) AWS
2 30 (37.50%) GCP
3 24 (30.00%) Azure
4 14 (17.50%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.75%) GitHub
5 7 (8.75%) Power Platform
6 6 (7.50%) Amazon SageMaker
6 6 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (6.25%) Serverless
8 4 (5.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.00%) Prefect
9 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.75%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.50%) dbt
10 2 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) Big Data
2 9 (11.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.75%) Hadoop
4 7 (8.75%) Power BI
5 6 (7.50%) Delta Lake
6 5 (6.25%) BigQuery
6 5 (6.25%) Metadata
6 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (6.25%) Tableau
7 4 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
7 4 (5.00%) MySQL
7 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.75%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.50%) Db2
9 2 (2.50%) IBM InfoSphere
9 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Git
2 5 (6.25%) GitLab
2 5 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.75%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.50%) Postman
4 2 (2.50%) Selenium
5 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.25%) JUnit
5 1 (1.25%) MLflow
General
1 13 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.50%) Law
4 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.75%) Marketing
5 3 (3.75%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.50%) Finance
6 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.50%) Legal
6 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Games
7 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (31.25%) Data Engineer
1 25 (31.25%) Senior
2 17 (21.25%) Developer
3 15 (18.75%) Lead
4 13 (16.25%) Software Engineer
5 12 (15.00%) Scala Engineer
6 10 (12.50%) Software Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 7 (8.75%) Consultant
8 7 (8.75%) Lead Software Engineer
8 7 (8.75%) Software Consultant
9 6 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) Scala Developer
10 5 (6.25%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Python Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Scala Software Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
12 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.00%) gRPC
1 8 (10.00%) Kafka
2 7 (8.75%) PySpark
3 4 (5.00%) Node.js
3 4 (5.00%) OAuth
3 4 (5.00%) OpenID
4 3 (3.75%) Akka
4 3 (3.75%) Play Framework
4 3 (3.75%) Spring
5 2 (2.50%) Hibernate
5 2 (2.50%) JPA
5 2 (2.50%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.50%) RESTful
5 2 (2.50%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.50%) Spring MVC
5 2 (2.50%) Swagger
6 1 (1.25%) .NET
6 1 (1.25%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (13.75%) Over-the-Top Content
2 11 (13.75%) Video\Live Streaming
3 6 (7.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.00%) Robotics
5 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Anti-Piracy
7 1 (1.25%) Social Media
7 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) Agile
1 32 (40.00%) Analytics
2 28 (35.00%) Data Pipeline
3 27 (33.75%) Data Engineering
4 24 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 24 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 23 (28.75%) Data Science
6 22 (27.50%) Machine Learning
7 21 (26.25%) ETL
8 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (18.75%) Decision-Making
9 15 (18.75%) Mentoring
10 14 (17.50%) Data Modelling
10 14 (17.50%) DevOps
11 13 (16.25%) AI
11 13 (16.25%) Coaching
12 12 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (15.00%) TDD
12 12 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (13.75%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 50 (62.50%) Python
2 31 (38.75%) Java
2 31 (38.75%) SQL
3 8 (10.00%) Go
3 8 (10.00%) Rust
4 5 (6.25%) C++
5 4 (5.00%) C
5 4 (5.00%) Clojure
5 4 (5.00%) Elixir
5 4 (5.00%) Erlang
5 4 (5.00%) Ruby
6 3 (3.75%) Kotlin
6 3 (3.75%) R
7 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.75%) Degree
3 10 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (8.75%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.75%) MBA
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (28.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 20 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.75%) Terraform
3 2 (2.50%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Databricks
2 8 (10.00%) Typelevel
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.75%) BT
5 2 (2.50%) BMC
5 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.50%) IBM
5 2 (2.50%) Splunk
5 2 (2.50%) Talend
6 1 (1.25%) Atlassian