Scala
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Scala skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 556 373
Rank change year-on-year -1 -183 +69
Permanent jobs citing Scala 238 142 571
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.28% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.29% 1.02% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 155 76 183
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,938 £63,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £113,125 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% - -10.34%

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 18,483 13,972 25,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.40% 27.98% 30.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13,089 9,170 17,796
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Scala relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Scala job vacancy trend in the UK

Scala
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Scala.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Scala

Scala
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Scala in the UK

Scala
Top 17 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 13 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 -28 200 £85,000 +6.25% 156
London -55 104 £105,000 +16.67% 111
UK excluding London -34 99 £68,750 +5.77% 62
Work from Home +26 88 £85,000 +6.25% 70
North of England -28 37 £75,000 +15.38% 16
South West - 22 £63,500 - 10
North West +17 21 £57,500 -28.13% 6
East of England -11 13 £100,000 +53.85% 2
Midlands -32 11 £85,000 +30.77% 12
Wales - 9 £63,500 - 4
Yorkshire -29 8 £90,000 +61.43% 5
North East -54 8 £55,500 -14.62% 5
West Midlands -26 6 £85,000 +30.77% 10
South East -16 5 £55,000 -25.42% 10
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
Scotland +8 1 £115,000 +64.29% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

Scala
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:

Application Platforms
1 55 (23.11%) Apache Spark
2 34 (14.29%) Apache
3 13 (5.46%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.26%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.26%) SAS
5 2 (0.84%) Confluence
5 2 (0.84%) Luigi
6 1 (0.42%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 102 (42.86%) AWS
2 74 (31.09%) Azure
2 74 (31.09%) GCP
3 33 (13.87%) Azure Data Factory
4 24 (10.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 24 (10.08%) Microsoft Purview
4 24 (10.08%) Power Platform
5 22 (9.24%) GitHub
6 15 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (5.88%) Snowflake
8 13 (5.46%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.78%) Serverless
10 8 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.36%) Cloud Composer
11 6 (2.52%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (2.10%) Dagster
12 5 (2.10%) dbt
13 4 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (13.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.03%) Big Data
2 29 (12.18%) Metadata
3 27 (11.34%) Delta Lake
4 25 (10.50%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (8.82%) Power BI
6 20 (8.40%) Data Vault
7 19 (7.98%) Hadoop
8 18 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (6.30%) BigQuery
9 15 (6.30%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (6.30%) NoSQL
10 14 (5.88%) Tableau
11 12 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (4.62%) Relational Database
13 10 (4.20%) SQL Server
14 8 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (3.36%) Data Lake
15 7 (2.94%) MongoDB
16 6 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
16 6 (2.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (7.14%) Git
1 17 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.36%) GitLab
3 5 (2.10%) Gatling
3 5 (2.10%) Selenium
4 4 (1.68%) Maven
5 3 (1.26%) Postman
6 2 (0.84%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.84%) JIRA
6 2 (0.84%) JUnit
7 1 (0.42%) Gradle
7 1 (0.42%) MLflow
7 1 (0.42%) Mockito
General
1 51 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 44 (18.49%) Finance
3 28 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.30%) Law
5 8 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.36%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.10%) Legal
7 5 (2.10%) Marketing
8 4 (1.68%) Advertising
9 3 (1.26%) Banking
9 3 (1.26%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.84%) Games
10 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Front Office
11 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (28.99%) Senior
2 61 (25.63%) Data Engineer
3 58 (24.37%) Developer
4 41 (17.23%) Software Engineer
5 34 (14.29%) Lead
6 31 (13.03%) Architect
7 28 (11.76%) Scala Engineer
8 26 (10.92%) Data Architect
8 26 (10.92%) Scala Developer
9 25 (10.50%) Software Developer
10 20 (8.40%) Consultant
11 19 (7.98%) Software Consultant
12 17 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (6.72%) Senior Developer
13 16 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (5.46%) C# Software Engineer
14 13 (5.46%) Senior C# Software Engineer
14 13 (5.46%) Senior Software Developer
15 11 (4.62%) Lead Software Engineer
16 10 (4.20%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.18%) PySpark
2 28 (11.76%) Kafka
3 27 (11.34%) gRPC
4 9 (3.78%) React
5 7 (2.94%) Node.js
6 5 (2.10%) Playwright
6 5 (2.10%) RESTful
6 5 (2.10%) Spring
6 5 (2.10%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.68%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.68%) JPA
7 4 (1.68%) OAuth
7 4 (1.68%) OpenAPI
7 4 (1.68%) OpenID
7 4 (1.68%) Play Framework
7 4 (1.68%) Spring MVC
7 4 (1.68%) Swagger
8 3 (1.26%) .NET
8 3 (1.26%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.13%) Cloud Native
2 35 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (11.34%) Over-the-Top Content
3 27 (11.34%) Video\Live Streaming
4 9 (3.78%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.94%) Robotics
7 5 (2.10%) Anti-Piracy
7 5 (2.10%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.10%) Social Media
8 4 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.68%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.42%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.42%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.42%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.42%) Linux
1 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (40.34%) CI/CD
2 81 (34.03%) Software Engineering
3 75 (31.51%) Analytics
4 71 (29.83%) Data Modelling
4 71 (29.83%) Data Science
4 71 (29.83%) Machine Learning
5 68 (28.57%) Data Engineering
6 65 (27.31%) Agile
7 62 (26.05%) AI
8 57 (23.95%) Data Pipeline
9 48 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (19.33%) DevOps
10 46 (19.33%) ETL
11 43 (18.07%) Containerisation
12 42 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
12 42 (17.65%) Coaching
13 39 (16.39%) Infrastructure as Code
14 37 (15.55%) Microservices
15 32 (13.45%) Clean Code
15 32 (13.45%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 133 (55.88%) Python
2 87 (36.55%) Java
3 82 (34.45%) SQL
4 32 (13.45%) Go
5 22 (9.24%) C#
6 17 (7.14%) F#
6 17 (7.14%) Haskell
7 14 (5.88%) Bicep
7 14 (5.88%) C++
8 12 (5.04%) TypeScript
9 11 (4.62%) Rust
10 9 (3.78%) JavaScript
11 8 (3.36%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.94%) C
12 7 (2.94%) Clojure
12 7 (2.94%) Erlang
13 6 (2.52%) Ruby
14 4 (1.68%) Elixir
14 4 (1.68%) R
15 3 (1.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 57 (23.95%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.81%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.40%) Azure Certification
4 16 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (5.46%) SnowPro
6 9 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.78%) Degree
7 5 (2.10%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (21.01%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.78%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.52%) QA
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 57 (23.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.66%) Terraform
3 4 (1.68%) Ansible
4 3 (1.26%) HAProxy
4 3 (1.26%) Kibana
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (19.33%) Databricks
2 29 (12.18%) Microsoft
3 27 (11.34%) Typelevel
4 5 (2.10%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.68%) Google
6 3 (1.26%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.26%) Splunk
7 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.84%) Informatica
7 2 (0.84%) Workday
7 2 (0.84%) YouTube
8 1 (0.42%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle
8 1 (0.42%) Talend