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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 593 387 437
Rank change year-on-year -206 +50 -199
Permanent jobs citing Scala 142 674 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.65% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.85% 2.08% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 74 241 396
10th Percentile £51,125 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,563 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -8.75% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £108,500 £102,500 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -17.24% +11.54%

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 16,797 32,353 34,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.96% 31.36% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,741 23,717 25,237
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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 -94 133 £78,750 +3.28% 229
London +2 101 £80,000 - 192
Work from Home +5 44 £80,000 - 142
UK excluding London -151 38 £67,500 +12.50% 94
North of England -57 15 £62,500 -3.85% 14
South East +57 9 £70,000 +42.86% 51
Yorkshire +41 9 £49,000 -1.00% 3
Scotland -67 8 £70,000 -13.65% 3
Midlands +74 4 £66,250 +28.64% 13
North West -82 4 £80,000 +23.08% 9
West Midlands - 4 £66,250 - 9
North East +32 2 - - 2
South West +75 1 £67,500 +17.39% 1
East of England +39 1 £65,000 - 3

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 41 (28.87%) Apache Spark
2 10 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (6.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 87 (61.27%) AWS
2 75 (52.82%) Azure
3 47 (33.10%) GCP
4 19 (13.38%) Serverless
5 17 (11.97%) Amazon S3
6 13 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (9.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (9.15%) Power Platform
7 10 (7.04%) GitHub
7 10 (7.04%) Snowflake
8 9 (6.34%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.63%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (4.93%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.82%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (2.82%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (2.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.04%) HTTP
2 3 (2.11%) Broadband
3 1 (0.70%) 802.11
3 1 (0.70%) BGP
3 1 (0.70%) CDMA
3 1 (0.70%) FTP
3 1 (0.70%) GPRS
3 1 (0.70%) ISDN
3 1 (0.70%) LAN
3 1 (0.70%) MPLS
3 1 (0.70%) OSPF
3 1 (0.70%) PPP
3 1 (0.70%) SDH
3 1 (0.70%) SS7
3 1 (0.70%) TACACS
3 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.70%) VoIP
3 1 (0.70%) VPN
3 1 (0.70%) VRRP
3 1 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.54%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (19.01%) NoSQL
3 22 (15.49%) Big Data
4 18 (12.68%) Data Lake
5 16 (11.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (8.45%) Hadoop
6 12 (8.45%) Power BI
7 9 (6.34%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (6.34%) MySQL
7 9 (6.34%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.93%) Apache Hive
8 7 (4.93%) Metadata
8 7 (4.93%) MongoDB
8 7 (4.93%) Power Query
9 6 (4.23%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.52%) DynamoDB
10 5 (3.52%) Sqoop
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (10.56%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.45%) Git
3 5 (3.52%) CircleCI
3 5 (3.52%) GitLab
4 4 (2.82%) Cucumber
4 4 (2.82%) git-flow
4 4 (2.82%) JUnit
5 3 (2.11%) Selenium
6 2 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.41%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.41%) Gatling
6 2 (1.41%) JMeter
6 2 (1.41%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.70%) ERwin
7 1 (0.70%) RSpec
7 1 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 61 (42.96%) Finance
2 47 (33.10%) Social Skills
3 38 (26.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (25.35%) Law
5 20 (14.08%) Banking
6 12 (8.45%) Advertising
6 12 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (8.45%) Retail
7 11 (7.75%) Games
8 9 (6.34%) Legal
9 8 (5.63%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.52%) Marketing
11 1 (0.70%) Front Office
11 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (43.66%) Data Engineer
2 52 (36.62%) Lead
3 49 (34.51%) Senior
4 34 (23.94%) Software Engineer
5 28 (19.72%) Lead Data Engineer
6 24 (16.90%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (12.68%) Java Engineer
8 16 (11.27%) Java Software Engineer
8 16 (11.27%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (10.56%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (9.86%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (9.86%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (9.15%) Architect
11 13 (9.15%) Azure Data Engineer
11 13 (9.15%) Developer
12 8 (5.63%) AWS Software Engineer
12 8 (5.63%) Data Architect
12 8 (5.63%) Lead Java Engineer
12 8 (5.63%) Lead Software Engineer
13 7 (4.93%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.94%) Kafka
2 15 (10.56%) ARM Templates
2 15 (10.56%) PySpark
3 10 (7.04%) Spring
4 8 (5.63%) Web Services
5 7 (4.93%) REST
5 7 (4.93%) RESTful
6 6 (4.23%) Play Framework
7 5 (3.52%) OAuth
7 5 (3.52%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (3.52%) Spark Streaming
7 5 (3.52%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.11%) Akka
8 3 (2.11%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.11%) React
8 3 (2.11%) Scalaz
9 2 (1.41%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.41%) CSS
9 2 (1.41%) Playwright
10 1 (0.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.61%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (11.97%) Cloud Native
3 13 (9.15%) Algorithms
4 11 (7.75%) Derivative
4 11 (7.75%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (5.63%) Data Structures
5 8 (5.63%) Equity Derivative
5 8 (5.63%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.23%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.52%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (2.82%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.11%) Equities
10 2 (1.41%) Data Fabric
10 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.41%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.70%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (38.73%) Agile
2 53 (37.32%) Software Engineering
3 52 (36.62%) CI/CD
4 50 (35.21%) Analytics
5 49 (34.51%) Machine Learning
6 44 (30.99%) Artificial Intelligence
6 44 (30.99%) ETL
7 42 (29.58%) Data Engineering
8 40 (28.17%) Data Pipeline
8 40 (28.17%) Data Science
9 38 (26.76%) Computer Science
9 38 (26.76%) DevOps
10 34 (23.94%) Data Modelling
11 30 (21.13%) SDLC
12 28 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (15.49%) Microservices
14 21 (14.79%) Containerisation
14 21 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (14.08%) Data Governance
16 19 (13.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 98 (69.01%) Python
2 76 (53.52%) Java
3 58 (40.85%) SQL
4 20 (14.08%) Kotlin
5 10 (7.04%) C#
6 8 (5.63%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (4.23%) Elixir
8 6 (4.23%) F#
8 6 (4.23%) Go
9 5 (3.52%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.82%) Groovy
10 4 (2.82%) Haskell
10 4 (2.82%) PHP
10 4 (2.82%) Ruby
11 3 (2.11%) Clojure
11 3 (2.11%) OCaml
11 3 (2.11%) R
12 2 (1.41%) Erlang
12 2 (1.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 42 (29.58%) Degree
2 23 (16.20%) Master's Degree
3 20 (14.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (9.15%) Security Cleared
5 10 (7.04%) SC Cleared
6 9 (6.34%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.11%) PhD
8 2 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.38%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.34%) GDPR
3 6 (4.23%) QA
4 5 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.82%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.11%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.70%) MiFID
7 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (28.17%) Docker
2 5 (3.52%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 49 (34.51%) Kubernetes
2 38 (26.76%) Terraform
3 5 (3.52%) Oozie
4 3 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 33 (23.24%) Google
2 32 (22.54%) Databricks
3 21 (14.79%) Microsoft
4 10 (7.04%) Apple
5 7 (4.93%) Cloudera
6 6 (4.23%) Informatica
7 5 (3.52%) Oracle
8 4 (2.82%) Palantir
9 3 (2.11%) Talend
10 1 (0.70%) Avaya
10 1 (0.70%) Dell
10 1 (0.70%) DocuSign
10 1 (0.70%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (0.70%) F5
10 1 (0.70%) Jitterbit
10 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.70%) Splunk
10 1 (0.70%) Sybase
10 1 (0.70%) Zuora