Akka
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Akka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Akka over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 874 912
Rank change year-on-year +202 +38 +38
Permanent jobs citing Akka 30 33 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.032% 0.058%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 30 33 44
10th Percentile - £29,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £78,750 £57,500 £53,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £60,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -15.79% -32.14%
75th Percentile £111,250 £72,500 £76,563
90th Percentile - £101,900 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +46.00% -7.41% -1.82%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Akka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Akka
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Akka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Akka in the UK

Akka
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Akka.

Salary trend for Akka in the UK

Akka
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Akka over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Akka in the UK

Akka
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Akka within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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
England +172 30 £82,500 +37.50% 20
London +126 29 £82,500 +13.01% 12
UK excluding London +172 1 £73,000 +46.00% 9
East of England - 1 £73,000 - 4

Akka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (93.33%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) Boomi
2 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Big Data
1 1 (3.33%) MySQL
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (10.00%) GitLab
1 3 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 28 (93.33%) Finance
2 25 (83.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Law
3 1 (3.33%) Marketing
3 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (83.33%) Java Engineer
1 25 (83.33%) Java Software Engineer
1 25 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 12 (40.00%) Senior
3 11 (36.67%) Senior Java Engineer
3 11 (36.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 11 (36.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Communications Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Data Migration Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (93.33%) Kafka
2 25 (83.33%) AngularJS
2 25 (83.33%) Spring
2 25 (83.33%) Spring Boot
3 15 (50.00%) RxJava
3 15 (50.00%) Spring WebFlux
4 3 (10.00%) Gherkin
4 3 (10.00%) Play Framework
4 3 (10.00%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Equities
1 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.67%) Robotics
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) Software Engineering
2 25 (83.33%) Agile
2 25 (83.33%) BDD
2 25 (83.33%) Fintech
2 25 (83.33%) Microservices
2 25 (83.33%) Pair Programming
2 25 (83.33%) TDD
3 15 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 15 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 13 (43.33%) DevOps
5 11 (36.67%) High Availability
6 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 3 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
7 3 (10.00%) Functional Programming
8 2 (6.67%) Analytics
8 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (6.67%) Data Analytics
9 1 (3.33%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (83.33%) Java
2 3 (10.00%) Scala
3 1 (3.33%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (83.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Informatica
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle
1 1 (3.33%) Talend