Scala
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Scala skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Scala over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 452 261 219
Rank change year-on-year -191 -42 +8
Permanent jobs citing Scala 295 1,703 2,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 1.39% 1.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 3.02% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 219 842 1,271
10th Percentile £56,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -
75th Percentile £111,746 £102,500 £96,500
90th Percentile £142,750 £122,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £80,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.78% +39.13% -

All Programming Languages
UK

Scala is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,547 56,460 66,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.67% 45.96% 52.08%
Number of salaries quoted 16,785 35,996 45,555
10th Percentile £39,730 £38,442 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,788 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Top 15 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 7 December 2023. 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 -179 241 £82,500 +3.13% 165
Work from Home -91 157 £80,000 - 106
London -119 151 £95,000 +8.57% 106
UK excluding London -82 106 £70,576 -11.78% 78
Scotland +32 47 £70,576 +4.56% 5
North of England -32 22 £60,000 -25.00% 22
South West +46 20 £92,778 +28.79% 5
North West +16 15 £60,000 -25.00% 10
South East +56 10 £60,000 - 26
North East +26 4 £62,500 -10.71% 4
East of England +63 3 - - 9
Yorkshire +19 3 £55,000 -31.25% 8
West Midlands +103 2 £58,750 -2.08% 2
Midlands +85 2 £58,750 -2.08% 9
Northern Ireland +38 2 £130,000 +147.62% 2

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 93 (31.53%) Apache Spark
2 49 (16.61%) Apache
3 38 (12.88%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.34%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 162 (54.92%) AWS
2 79 (26.78%) GCP
3 68 (23.05%) Azure
4 27 (9.15%) Amazon S3
5 21 (7.12%) dbt
6 17 (5.76%) Power Platform
6 17 (5.76%) Serverless
7 14 (4.75%) Snowflake
8 13 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (4.07%) Amazon EMR
9 12 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (3.73%) SaaS
11 10 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
12 9 (3.05%) GitHub
12 9 (3.05%) Google Docs
12 9 (3.05%) Lucidchart
12 9 (3.05%) Miro
12 9 (3.05%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.03%) SSH
2 4 (1.36%) DSL
3 3 (1.02%) DNS
3 3 (1.02%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (31.19%) Big Data
2 73 (24.75%) Hadoop
3 44 (14.92%) NoSQL
4 36 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (11.19%) Relational Database
6 29 (9.83%) Data Lake
7 28 (9.49%) Apache Hive
8 27 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (7.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (7.46%) Amazon Athena
11 21 (7.12%) BigQuery
11 21 (7.12%) SQL Server
12 20 (6.78%) RDBMS
13 17 (5.76%) Apache Arrow
13 17 (5.76%) Apache Ignite
13 17 (5.76%) Dremio
13 17 (5.76%) Power BI
14 14 (4.75%) Impala
14 14 (4.75%) MongoDB
15 13 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 32 (10.85%) Git
2 29 (9.83%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.78%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (4.41%) JUnit
5 12 (4.07%) Cucumber
5 12 (4.07%) Spinnaker
6 6 (2.03%) ScalaTest
6 6 (2.03%) Selenium
6 6 (2.03%) WebDriver
7 5 (1.69%) Gatling
7 5 (1.69%) JIRA
7 5 (1.69%) LoadRunner
7 5 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.36%) GitLab
8 4 (1.36%) Maven
8 4 (1.36%) Postman
9 3 (1.02%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.02%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.68%) Appium
General
1 98 (33.22%) Finance
2 71 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 57 (19.32%) Banking
4 47 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (14.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (11.19%) Law
7 24 (8.14%) Marketing
8 23 (7.80%) Investment Banking
9 18 (6.10%) Front Office
10 12 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.39%) Legal
12 8 (2.71%) Financial Institution
12 8 (2.71%) Public Sector
13 7 (2.37%) Retail
14 3 (1.02%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.34%) Games
15 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (31.53%) Developer
2 88 (29.83%) Data Engineer
3 79 (26.78%) Software Engineer
4 49 (16.61%) Senior
5 39 (13.22%) Lead
6 37 (12.54%) Scala Developer
7 33 (11.19%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (11.19%) AWS Software Engineer
8 25 (8.47%) Software Developer
9 23 (7.80%) AWS Developer
10 22 (7.46%) Big Data Engineer
10 22 (7.46%) Java Developer
11 21 (7.12%) Big Data Software Engineer
12 18 (6.10%) Lead Data Engineer
13 17 (5.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 17 (5.76%) Scala Engineer
14 16 (5.42%) Scala Software Engineer
15 14 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
15 14 (4.75%) Senior Data Engineer
16 13 (4.41%) Java Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (18.64%) Kafka
2 29 (9.83%) React
3 24 (8.14%) REST
4 23 (7.80%) JSON
5 19 (6.44%) Pandas
5 19 (6.44%) Protocol Buffers
6 18 (6.10%) gRPC
6 18 (6.10%) NumPy
7 17 (5.76%) PySpark
7 17 (5.76%) SciPy
8 14 (4.75%) Akka
8 14 (4.75%) CSS
9 12 (4.07%) Apache Beam
10 11 (3.73%) HTML
10 11 (3.73%) jQuery
10 11 (3.73%) Spring
11 9 (3.05%) .NET
11 9 (3.05%) GraphQL
11 9 (3.05%) Node.js
12 7 (2.37%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.58%) Algorithms
2 27 (9.15%) Cloud Native
3 25 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (6.10%) Data Structures
5 18 (6.10%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (5.42%) Public Cloud
7 13 (4.41%) Distributed Applications
8 10 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.37%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.37%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.69%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.36%) Blockchain
11 4 (1.36%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.36%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.02%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.02%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.02%) Housing Association
12 3 (1.02%) PKI
13 2 (0.68%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.10%) Linux
2 7 (2.37%) CentOS
3 2 (0.68%) Android
3 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.68%) Unix
4 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (43.05%) Agile
2 115 (38.98%) Software Engineering
3 98 (33.22%) CI/CD
4 82 (27.80%) Analytics
5 69 (23.39%) Machine Learning
6 68 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (17.29%) DevOps
8 49 (16.61%) Data Pipeline
9 48 (16.27%) Data Engineering
10 47 (15.93%) ETL
10 47 (15.93%) Mentoring
11 46 (15.59%) SDLC
12 44 (14.92%) Fintech
13 43 (14.58%) TDD
14 40 (13.56%) Data Modelling
15 37 (12.54%) Computer Science
16 36 (12.20%) Data Science
17 35 (11.86%) Coaching
18 29 (9.83%) Data Analytics
19 28 (9.49%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 234 (79.32%) Java
2 153 (51.86%) Python
3 130 (44.07%) SQL
4 64 (21.69%) Kotlin
5 57 (19.32%) JavaScript
6 48 (16.27%) TypeScript
7 45 (15.25%) Go
8 31 (10.51%) Bash
9 27 (9.15%) Groovy
10 25 (8.47%) PowerShell
11 18 (6.10%) C++
11 18 (6.10%) Ruby
12 14 (4.75%) R
13 12 (4.07%) F#
14 11 (3.73%) C#
15 10 (3.39%) Haskell
16 9 (3.05%) Clojure
17 5 (1.69%) Rust
18 4 (1.36%) PL/SQL
19 3 (1.02%) C
Qualifications
1 32 (10.85%) Degree
2 15 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (5.08%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.69%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.02%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.08%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.05%) QA
2 9 (3.05%) SLA
3 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.02%) GMP
4 1 (0.34%) GDPR
4 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (6.78%) Docker
2 4 (1.36%) Apache Flume
3 3 (1.02%) HDFS
4 2 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 59 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.19%) Terraform
3 26 (8.81%) Ansible
4 8 (2.71%) Istio
5 4 (1.36%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.68%) Oozie
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.34%) Control-M
7 1 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.34%) Puppet
7 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 31 (10.51%) Google
2 28 (9.49%) Databricks
3 15 (5.08%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.39%) Dell
4 10 (3.39%) Oracle
5 8 (2.71%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.69%) Adobe
6 5 (1.69%) Teradata
7 4 (1.36%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.36%) Cognos
7 4 (1.36%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.36%) Sybase
8 3 (1.02%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.02%) Mercator
9 2 (0.68%) Peregrine
10 1 (0.34%) Apple
10 1 (0.34%) Facebook
10 1 (0.34%) IBM
10 1 (0.34%) Informatica
10 1 (0.34%) Splunk