Scala
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Scala skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Scala over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 470 243
Rank change year-on-year +85 -227 -5
Permanent jobs citing Scala 597 503 3,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.62% 1.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.16% 1.55% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 199 361 1,041
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,875 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £118,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% +13.04%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,596 32,430 91,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 40.19% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19,728 24,108 43,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Scala in the UK

Scala
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 +12 382 £80,000 - 30
UK excluding London +186 354 £65,000 -10.34% 17
London +18 210 £80,000 -5.88% 21
Scotland +92 191 £91,500 +26.21% 1
North of England +96 121 £66,250 -4.60% 8
Work from Home -59 121 £80,000 +6.67% 24
North West +68 93 £66,500 -19.70% 3
South East +7 24 £45,000 -43.75% 2
Yorkshire +57 14 £49,493 -26.68% 1
North East +2 14 £67,500 +22.73% 4
South West -8 14 £78,569 +4.76% 1
Midlands -21 3 £51,500 -10.43% 1
East Midlands -26 3 £51,500 -6.36%
East of England -8 1 £65,000 +4.00%

Scala
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:

Application Platforms
1 237 (39.70%) Apache Spark
2 97 (16.25%) Apache
3 39 (6.53%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.51%) Confluence
5 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 367 (61.47%) AWS
2 134 (22.45%) GCP
3 104 (17.42%) Azure
4 69 (11.56%) Amazon Kinesis
5 43 (7.20%) Amazon EMR
6 36 (6.03%) Amazon SQS
7 34 (5.70%) Serverless
8 33 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
9 32 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
10 29 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (4.69%) GitHub
12 17 (2.85%) Snowflake
13 13 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (2.18%) dbt
14 12 (2.01%) Power Platform
15 10 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (1.34%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 8 (1.34%) Amazon S3
16 8 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.01%) HTTP
2 5 (0.84%) FTP
2 5 (0.84%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (39.53%) NoSQL
2 197 (33.00%) Big Data
3 104 (17.42%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (14.91%) Hadoop
5 83 (13.90%) DynamoDB
6 69 (11.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 47 (7.87%) Redis
8 33 (5.53%) Data Lake
9 32 (5.36%) Electronic Patient Records
10 29 (4.86%) Apache Hive
10 29 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (3.69%) Amazon Athena
12 21 (3.52%) MongoDB
13 17 (2.85%) Impala
14 16 (2.68%) BigQuery
15 15 (2.51%) MySQL
16 14 (2.35%) Looker
17 13 (2.18%) Relational Database
18 12 (2.01%) Apache Ignite
18 12 (2.01%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 43 (7.20%) Gatling
2 37 (6.20%) Git
3 22 (3.69%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.18%) GitLab
5 16 (2.68%) JIRA
6 8 (1.34%) Spinnaker
7 5 (0.84%) MLflow
8 4 (0.67%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.67%) Selenium
9 3 (0.50%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.50%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.50%) ScalaTest
9 3 (0.50%) Subversion
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.17%) ERwin
11 1 (0.17%) Gradle
11 1 (0.17%) Maven
11 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 235 (39.36%) Finance
2 210 (35.18%) Law
3 207 (34.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 121 (20.27%) Marketing
5 110 (18.43%) Social Skills
6 93 (15.58%) Influencing Skills
7 88 (14.74%) Legal
8 45 (7.54%) Financial Institution
9 42 (7.04%) Electronics
10 30 (5.03%) Billing
11 23 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
12 18 (3.02%) Banking
13 17 (2.85%) Front Office
14 14 (2.35%) Investment Banking
15 12 (2.01%) Public Sector
16 7 (1.17%) Advertising
16 7 (1.17%) Games
17 6 (1.01%) Retail
18 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
19 3 (0.50%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 326 (54.61%) Software Engineer
2 172 (28.81%) Senior
3 170 (28.48%) Lead
4 164 (27.47%) Scala Engineer
5 146 (24.46%) Scala Software Engineer
6 130 (21.78%) Big Data Engineer
6 130 (21.78%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 127 (21.27%) Lead Software Engineer
8 101 (16.92%) Senior Software Engineer
9 98 (16.42%) Developer
10 94 (15.75%) Java Engineer
11 90 (15.08%) Java Software Engineer
12 85 (14.24%) Lead Java Engineer
13 80 (13.40%) Java Scala Software Engineer
14 67 (11.22%) AWS Engineer
14 67 (11.22%) Data Engineer
15 64 (10.72%) Scala Developer
16 61 (10.22%) Lead Big Data Engineer
17 56 (9.38%) AWS Software Engineer
18 48 (8.04%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (15.58%) REST
2 85 (14.24%) GraphQL
3 84 (14.07%) Web Services
4 77 (12.90%) http4s
5 57 (9.55%) Scalaz
6 47 (7.87%) Kafka
7 42 (7.04%) Lambda Expressions
8 21 (3.52%) React
8 21 (3.52%) RESTful
9 20 (3.35%) Spring
10 18 (3.02%) Pandas
11 17 (2.85%) NumPy
12 16 (2.68%) JSON
13 15 (2.51%) HTML
13 15 (2.51%) Spring Boot
14 12 (2.01%) gRPC
14 12 (2.01%) Play Framework
14 12 (2.01%) Protocol Buffers
14 12 (2.01%) PySpark
14 12 (2.01%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 89 (14.91%) Distributed Systems
2 76 (12.73%) Cloud Native
2 76 (12.73%) Media Streaming
3 69 (11.56%) Self-Motivation
4 63 (10.55%) Blog
5 46 (7.71%) Algorithms
6 22 (3.69%) Public Cloud
7 19 (3.18%) Blockchain
8 17 (2.85%) Hedge funds
9 13 (2.18%) Distributed Computing
10 12 (2.01%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.01%) Derivative
10 12 (2.01%) Equities
10 12 (2.01%) Fixed Income
10 12 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.34%) Digital Signage
13 7 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
14 5 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.35%) Linux
2 8 (1.34%) Windows
3 2 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (66.67%) Agile
2 395 (66.16%) Software Engineering
3 242 (40.54%) CI/CD
4 227 (38.02%) SDLC
5 155 (25.96%) Operational Stability
6 122 (20.44%) Performance Tuning
7 120 (20.10%) Mentoring
8 118 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
9 109 (18.26%) Continuous Integration
10 107 (17.92%) Machine Learning
11 105 (17.59%) DevOps
12 98 (16.42%) Functional Programming
13 84 (14.07%) Computer Science
14 81 (13.57%) Microservices
15 79 (13.23%) Coaching
16 77 (12.90%) Analytics
17 76 (12.73%) Open Source
17 76 (12.73%) Risk Management
18 75 (12.56%) Integration Testing
19 72 (12.06%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 424 (71.02%) Java
2 230 (38.53%) SQL
3 161 (26.97%) Python
4 113 (18.93%) Kotlin
5 44 (7.37%) TypeScript
6 26 (4.36%) Go
7 20 (3.35%) JavaScript
8 16 (2.68%) Ruby
9 15 (2.51%) Clojure
10 14 (2.35%) R
11 7 (1.17%) C#
11 7 (1.17%) Groovy
11 7 (1.17%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.01%) Bash
12 6 (1.01%) C
13 4 (0.67%) C++
14 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.34%) Haskell
16 1 (0.17%) Rust
16 1 (0.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (13.57%) Degree
2 60 (10.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (2.01%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.01%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.68%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.17%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.01%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.01%) SANS
8 5 (0.84%) CISA
8 5 (0.84%) CISM
8 5 (0.84%) CISSP
8 5 (0.84%) CRISC
9 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.17%) OCP
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.19%) QA
3 14 (2.35%) SLA
4 6 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.01%) NIST
5 5 (0.84%) MiFID
6 1 (0.17%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 36 (6.03%) Virtual Machines
2 35 (5.86%) Docker
3 5 (0.84%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 89 (14.91%) Terraform
2 45 (7.54%) Kubernetes
3 42 (7.04%) Ansible
4 5 (0.84%) Progress Chef
4 5 (0.84%) Puppet
5 3 (0.50%) Grafana
5 3 (0.50%) Kibana
6 1 (0.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 83 (13.90%) Google
2 67 (11.22%) Microsoft
3 50 (8.38%) Databricks
4 9 (1.51%) Adobe
4 9 (1.51%) Mercator
5 8 (1.34%) Cloudera
6 7 (1.17%) Oracle
7 6 (1.01%) Apple
8 5 (0.84%) Bloomberg
8 5 (0.84%) Reuters
9 4 (0.67%) Dell
10 3 (0.50%) Hortonworks
10 3 (0.50%) Informatica
10 3 (0.50%) Teradata
11 2 (0.34%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.34%) StreamSets
12 1 (0.17%) Dataiku
12 1 (0.17%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.17%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.17%) Salesforce