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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 293 234
Rank change year-on-year -84 -59 +32
Permanent jobs citing Scala 697 1,320 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 1.22% 1.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.10% 2.82% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 287 536 1,170
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,180 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £142,500 £122,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% +4.35%

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 33,162 46,882 81,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.13% 43.48% 53.45%
Number of salaries quoted 25,165 29,740 44,603
10th Percentile £35,250 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% +7.00%

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 16 April 2024.

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 16 April 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
UK excluding London +44 448 £55,000 -24.14% 32
Scotland +120 341 £61,250 -13.70% 3
England -237 332 £80,000 - 117
London -135 207 £80,000 -8.57% 87
Work from Home -101 203 £80,000 +10.34% 102
South East -2 34 £55,000 -8.33% 4
North of England -63 30 £55,000 -33.33% 12
South West -23 28 £80,000 +15.20% 2
North West -40 22 £55,000 -33.33% 7
Midlands -11 6 £52,500 -12.50% 5
Yorkshire +39 4 £55,000 -31.25% 3
North East -19 4 £55,000 - 2
East Midlands -32 4 £51,500 -6.36% 2
Northern Ireland +28 3 £55,000 - 1
Wales +3 3 £55,000 - 2
East of England -20 3 £65,000 +13.04% 3
West Midlands +31 2 £55,000 -8.33% 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
1 395 (56.67%) Apache Spark
2 154 (22.09%) Apache
3 49 (7.03%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) Luigi
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 402 (57.68%) AWS
2 127 (18.22%) GCP
3 89 (12.77%) Azure
4 79 (11.33%) Amazon SQS
5 67 (9.61%) Amazon EMR
6 66 (9.47%) Serverless
7 64 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
8 53 (7.60%) Amazon EC2
9 50 (7.17%) Amazon ECS
9 50 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (4.73%) Amazon S3
11 30 (4.30%) dbt
12 29 (4.16%) Snowflake
13 26 (3.73%) SaaS
14 25 (3.59%) Google Docs
15 23 (3.30%) Lucidchart
15 23 (3.30%) Miro
15 23 (3.30%) Slack
16 17 (2.44%) GitHub
17 16 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.58%) DSL
2 3 (0.43%) DNS
2 3 (0.43%) FTP
3 2 (0.29%) HTTP
3 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (54.09%) Big Data
2 295 (42.32%) NoSQL
3 187 (26.83%) Hadoop
4 63 (9.04%) Data Warehouse
5 56 (8.03%) Data Lake
6 54 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
7 50 (7.17%) Electronic Patient Records
8 43 (6.17%) Relational Database
9 42 (6.03%) Apache Hive
10 37 (5.31%) MongoDB
11 28 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
13 25 (3.59%) SQL Server
14 23 (3.30%) Redis
14 23 (3.30%) Scylla
15 22 (3.16%) Flink
15 22 (3.16%) RDBMS
16 21 (3.01%) Tableau
17 20 (2.87%) Impala
18 19 (2.73%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 42 (6.03%) Git
2 21 (3.01%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.58%) JIRA
4 9 (1.29%) CircleCI
4 9 (1.29%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (0.86%) JUnit
6 5 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.72%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.57%) Gatling
7 4 (0.57%) GitLab
7 4 (0.57%) LoadRunner
7 4 (0.57%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.43%) Maven
8 3 (0.43%) MLflow
8 3 (0.43%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.29%) Gradle
9 2 (0.29%) Postman
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
9 2 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 384 (55.09%) Finance
2 350 (50.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 321 (46.05%) Law
4 198 (28.41%) Marketing
5 162 (23.24%) Influencing Skills
6 121 (17.36%) Legal
7 98 (14.06%) Social Skills
8 81 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
9 70 (10.04%) Financial Institution
10 63 (9.04%) Banking
11 37 (5.31%) Investment Banking
12 22 (3.16%) Front Office
13 13 (1.87%) Public Sector
14 8 (1.15%) Electronics
14 8 (1.15%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.00%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.72%) Retail
17 2 (0.29%) Advertising
17 2 (0.29%) Games
17 2 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 332 (47.63%) Software Engineer
2 231 (33.14%) Scala Engineer
3 228 (32.71%) Scala Software Engineer
4 224 (32.14%) Big Data Engineer
4 224 (32.14%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 160 (22.96%) Lead
6 148 (21.23%) Java Engineer
7 147 (21.09%) Java Software Engineer
8 135 (19.37%) Developer
8 135 (19.37%) Java Scala Software Engineer
9 133 (19.08%) Lead Software Engineer
10 128 (18.36%) AWS Engineer
11 127 (18.22%) Data Engineer
12 119 (17.07%) Lead Java Engineer
13 118 (16.93%) AWS Software Engineer
14 107 (15.35%) Senior
15 106 (15.21%) Lead Big Data Engineer
16 82 (11.76%) Scala Developer
17 65 (9.33%) Senior Software Engineer
18 55 (7.89%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (12.63%) Kafka
2 28 (4.02%) Akka
2 28 (4.02%) JSON
3 24 (3.44%) GraphQL
4 23 (3.30%) Pandas
5 22 (3.16%) Apache Beam
5 22 (3.16%) NumPy
5 22 (3.16%) Spring
6 21 (3.01%) gRPC
7 19 (2.73%) Protocol Buffers
7 19 (2.73%) SciPy
8 18 (2.58%) Spring Boot
9 16 (2.30%) PySpark
9 16 (2.30%) RESTful
10 15 (2.15%) Node.js
11 14 (2.01%) React
12 11 (1.58%) Play Framework
12 11 (1.58%) REST
13 9 (1.29%) Hibernate
13 9 (1.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 118 (16.93%) Cloud Native
2 97 (13.92%) Algorithms
3 42 (6.03%) Data Structures
4 41 (5.88%) Public Cloud
5 33 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
6 31 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (4.02%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (2.73%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.44%) Hedge funds
11 15 (2.15%) Fixed Income
12 13 (1.87%) Distributed Applications
13 12 (1.72%) Derivative
13 12 (1.72%) Equities
13 12 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (1.58%) Blockchain
15 8 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.15%) Digital Signage
16 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
17 6 (0.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.58%) Linux
2 10 (1.43%) Windows
3 2 (0.29%) Unix
3 2 (0.29%) VMS
3 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.14%) Android
4 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (66.57%) Software Engineering
2 443 (63.56%) Agile
3 354 (50.79%) CI/CD
4 348 (49.93%) SDLC
5 269 (38.59%) Operational Stability
6 230 (33.00%) Performance Tuning
7 202 (28.98%) Problem-Solving
8 147 (21.09%) Machine Learning
9 126 (18.08%) Risk Management
10 116 (16.64%) Artificial Intelligence
11 114 (16.36%) Continuous Delivery
12 111 (15.93%) Mentoring
13 109 (15.64%) Decision-Making
14 96 (13.77%) Community of Practice
15 93 (13.34%) Analytics
16 92 (13.20%) Data Pipeline
17 87 (12.48%) Data Engineering
17 87 (12.48%) Data Modelling
18 78 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
19 75 (10.76%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 575 (82.50%) Java
2 409 (58.68%) SQL
3 235 (33.72%) Python
4 65 (9.33%) Kotlin
5 55 (7.89%) Go
6 35 (5.02%) JavaScript
7 32 (4.59%) TypeScript
8 29 (4.16%) Bash
9 27 (3.87%) Ruby
10 21 (3.01%) C#
11 18 (2.58%) PL/SQL
12 14 (2.01%) Clojure
12 14 (2.01%) F#
13 13 (1.87%) Haskell
13 13 (1.87%) PowerShell
14 12 (1.72%) Groovy
14 12 (1.72%) R
15 11 (1.58%) C++
16 10 (1.43%) Rust
17 8 (1.15%) C
Qualifications
1 56 (8.03%) Degree
2 30 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (1.58%) Master's Degree
4 11 (1.58%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.58%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.15%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.43%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.14%) OCP
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.31%) Data Quality
1 37 (5.31%) SLA
2 18 (2.58%) QA
3 5 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.43%) MiFID
5 1 (0.14%) GDPR
5 1 (0.14%) GMP
5 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 29 (4.16%) Docker
2 11 (1.58%) HDFS
3 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 81 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 55 (7.89%) Terraform
3 45 (6.46%) Ansible
4 4 (0.57%) Istio
5 2 (0.29%) Grafana
5 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.14%) Control-M
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
6 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 71 (10.19%) Google
2 69 (9.90%) Databricks
3 39 (5.60%) Oracle
4 28 (4.02%) Microsoft
5 24 (3.44%) Dell
6 18 (2.58%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.58%) Cognos
6 18 (2.58%) Sybase
7 12 (1.72%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.58%) Teradata
9 10 (1.43%) Adobe
9 10 (1.43%) Dataiku
10 9 (1.29%) Mercator
11 6 (0.86%) F5
12 5 (0.72%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.57%) Informatica
13 4 (0.57%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.43%) Apple
14 3 (0.43%) Red Hat
14 3 (0.43%) Reuters