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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 366 287
Rank change year-on-year -175 -79 -60
Permanent jobs citing Scala 152 709 1,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.72% 1.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.97% 2.13% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 91 282 520
10th Percentile - £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,563 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £104,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,375 £117,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -24.14% +20.83%

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 15,622 33,278 45,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.02% 33.79% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,533 25,047 28,788
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +2.33%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +2 142 £70,000 -12.50% 276
London +6 88 £62,500 -21.88% 161
Work from Home +60 57 £62,500 -21.88% 109
UK excluding London -133 49 £70,000 +27.27% 153
North of England +72 19 £65,000 +18.18% 32
South East +94 18 £70,000 +27.27% 54
Yorkshire +80 10 £55,750 +1.36% 9
North West +16 6 £78,750 +36.96% 19
Scotland -67 6 £70,000 +14.29% 9
Midlands +79 3 £72,500 +38.10% 25
West Midlands +51 3 £72,500 +31.82% 12
North East +49 3 £62,500 +13.64% 5
South West +74 2 £66,250 -17.19% 13
East of England +55 1 £65,000 - 20

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 53 (34.87%) Apache Spark
2 11 (7.24%) Apache
2 11 (7.24%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.63%) Cloud Foundry
3 4 (2.63%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) SPSS
3 1 (0.66%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 78 (51.32%) Azure
2 75 (49.34%) AWS
3 48 (31.58%) GCP
4 19 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 15 (9.87%) Power Platform
5 15 (9.87%) Serverless
6 14 (9.21%) Amazon Kinesis
7 13 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (8.55%) Snowflake
8 12 (7.89%) Amazon EMR
9 10 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (3.29%) SaaS
14 3 (1.97%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (1.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.97%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.82%) HTTP
2 2 (1.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.66%) 802.11
3 1 (0.66%) BGP
3 1 (0.66%) DMVPN
3 1 (0.66%) HSRP
3 1 (0.66%) IPsec
3 1 (0.66%) LTE
3 1 (0.66%) MPLS
3 1 (0.66%) Multicast
3 1 (0.66%) OSPF
3 1 (0.66%) PPP
3 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.66%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (0.66%) SS7
3 1 (0.66%) TACACS
3 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.66%) VRRP
3 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (17.11%) Data Lake
3 23 (15.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 22 (14.47%) Big Data
5 20 (13.16%) NoSQL
6 18 (11.84%) Hadoop
7 17 (11.18%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (8.55%) Power BI
9 12 (7.89%) Relational Database
10 10 (6.58%) SQL Server
10 10 (6.58%) Tableau
11 7 (4.61%) Apache Hive
11 7 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (3.95%) BigQuery
12 6 (3.95%) MongoDB
13 5 (3.29%) Delta Lake
13 5 (3.29%) DynamoDB
13 5 (3.29%) Power Query
13 5 (3.29%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 24 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.58%) Git
3 7 (4.61%) Selenium
4 6 (3.95%) CircleCI
4 6 (3.95%) Cypress.io
4 6 (3.95%) Gatling
4 6 (3.95%) JMeter
4 6 (3.95%) JUnit
4 6 (3.95%) REST Assured
5 4 (2.63%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.63%) Postman
5 4 (2.63%) TestCafe
5 4 (2.63%) TestNG
6 3 (1.97%) GitLab
7 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.32%) MLflow
7 2 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.32%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 60 (39.47%) Finance
2 55 (36.18%) Social Skills
3 27 (17.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (15.13%) Retail
5 22 (14.47%) Advertising
5 22 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (14.47%) Games
6 20 (13.16%) Law
7 10 (6.58%) Banking
8 7 (4.61%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.29%) Legal
10 4 (2.63%) Marketing
11 2 (1.32%) Front Office
11 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.66%) Automotive
12 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (47.37%) Data Engineer
2 68 (44.74%) Senior
3 37 (24.34%) Lead
4 32 (21.05%) Senior Data Engineer
5 30 (19.74%) Software Engineer
6 29 (19.08%) Lead Data Engineer
7 23 (15.13%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (11.18%) Developer
9 16 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (9.87%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (8.55%) Architect
12 11 (7.24%) Azure Data Engineer
13 10 (6.58%) Scala Developer
14 9 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
15 8 (5.26%) Data Architect
16 7 (4.61%) Senior Developer
16 7 (4.61%) Senior Scala Developer
17 6 (3.95%) Gen AI Engineer
17 6 (3.95%) Gen AI Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (26.32%) Kafka
2 16 (10.53%) PySpark
3 14 (9.21%) ARM Templates
4 11 (7.24%) REST
5 9 (5.92%) React
6 5 (3.29%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.29%) OAuth
6 5 (3.29%) Spark Streaming
7 4 (2.63%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.97%) Compass CSS Framework
8 3 (1.97%) RESTful
9 2 (1.32%) Apache Beam
9 2 (1.32%) CSS
9 2 (1.32%) JSON
9 2 (1.32%) Pandas
9 2 (1.32%) Playwright
9 2 (1.32%) Spring
10 1 (0.66%) Middleware
10 1 (0.66%) Servlets
10 1 (0.66%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.08%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.24%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (6.58%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.61%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.95%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.29%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (2.63%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.97%) Data Fabric
10 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.32%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.66%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.66%) IoT
11 1 (0.66%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.66%) PKI
11 1 (0.66%) SCADA
11 1 (0.66%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (36.84%) Machine Learning
2 51 (33.55%) Analytics
2 51 (33.55%) CI/CD
2 51 (33.55%) Computer Science
2 51 (33.55%) Data Engineering
2 51 (33.55%) Software Engineering
3 46 (30.26%) ETL
4 44 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (27.63%) Data Pipeline
6 41 (26.97%) Agile
7 39 (25.66%) Data Science
8 36 (23.68%) Artificial Intelligence
9 34 (22.37%) DevOps
10 32 (21.05%) Data Modelling
11 24 (15.79%) Containerisation
12 23 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
13 22 (14.47%) Business Intelligence
13 22 (14.47%) Performance Metrics
14 21 (13.82%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (13.82%) Programmatic Advertising
Programming Languages
1 128 (84.21%) Python
2 78 (51.32%) Java
3 65 (42.76%) SQL
4 10 (6.58%) C#
4 10 (6.58%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.92%) Elixir
5 9 (5.92%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.61%) Clojure
6 7 (4.61%) Go
7 6 (3.95%) Rust
8 5 (3.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (3.29%) PHP
8 5 (3.29%) R
9 4 (2.63%) Ruby
10 3 (1.97%) F#
11 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.66%) Elm
12 1 (0.66%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 63 (41.45%) Degree
2 28 (18.42%) Master's Degree
3 21 (13.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 14 (9.21%) SC Cleared
6 10 (6.58%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.63%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.32%) MOS
8 2 (1.32%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.16%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.24%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.95%) GDPR
4 4 (2.63%) QA
5 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.32%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.66%) MiFID
System Software
1 37 (24.34%) Docker
2 5 (3.29%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.66%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (28.95%) Kubernetes
2 33 (21.71%) Terraform
3 5 (3.29%) Ansible
3 5 (3.29%) Oozie
Vendors
1 40 (26.32%) Google
2 34 (22.37%) Databricks
3 29 (19.08%) Microsoft
4 21 (13.82%) Apple
5 8 (5.26%) Cloudera
6 6 (3.95%) Oracle
7 3 (1.97%) Informatica
7 3 (1.97%) Palantir
8 2 (1.32%) Talend
8 2 (1.32%) Teradata
9 1 (0.66%) Avaya
9 1 (0.66%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.66%) Dell
9 1 (0.66%) F5
9 1 (0.66%) Mercator
9 1 (0.66%) Reuters
9 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.66%) Splunk
9 1 (0.66%) Sybase
9 1 (0.66%) Zuora