Scala Software Engineer Job Trends

Scala Software Engineer
UK

The median Scala Software Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 778 - 677
Rank change year-on-year - - +158
Permanent jobs requiring a Scala Software Engineer 13 0 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% - 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% - 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.41%
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 98,241 44,677 79,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 90.06% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 67,184 26,547 53,755
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,793
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%

Scala Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Scala Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Scala Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Scala Software Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Scala Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Scala Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Scala Software Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 August 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
England - 13 £80,000 - 3
Work from Home - 12 - -
London - 9 - - 3
UK excluding London - 4 £80,000 -
South West - 2 - -
North West - 1 £80,000 -
South East - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £80,000 -

Scala Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 August 2026, Scala Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Scala Software Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Scala
1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 12 (92.31%) Broadband
2 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 12 (92.31%) Clean Code
2 12 (92.31%) Coaching
2 12 (92.31%) Containerisation
2 12 (92.31%) Continuous Delivery
2 12 (92.31%) Data Science
2 12 (92.31%) Docker
2 12 (92.31%) GCP
2 12 (92.31%) Go
2 12 (92.31%) gRPC
2 12 (92.31%) Machine Learning
2 12 (92.31%) Microservices
2 12 (92.31%) Personalization
2 12 (92.31%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (92.31%) Python
2 12 (92.31%) Typelevel

Scala Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 12 (92.31%) AWS
1 12 (92.31%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) Broadband
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Distributed Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Over-the-Top Content
1 12 (92.31%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 12 (92.31%) Clean Code
2 12 (92.31%) Coaching
2 12 (92.31%) Containerisation
2 12 (92.31%) Continuous Delivery
2 12 (92.31%) Data Science
2 12 (92.31%) Machine Learning
2 12 (92.31%) Microservices
2 12 (92.31%) Personalization
2 12 (92.31%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Scala
2 12 (92.31%) Go
2 12 (92.31%) Python
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Docker
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Typelevel