Scala Job Trends in the West Midlands

Scala
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 196 180
Rank change year-on-year +30 -16 +80
Permanent jobs citing Scala 8 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.048% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.15% 0.18% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £48,210 - £51,500
25th Percentile £57,075 - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £61,563
90th Percentile £70,500 - £66,625
England median annual salary £81,750 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.19% - -

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 693 1,084 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.16% 26.22% 30.15%
Number of salaries quoted 560 549 1,029
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Scala job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Scala
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Scala.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Scala

Scala
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Scala in the West Midlands

Scala
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Birmingham +29 3 £65,000 - 1
Coventry - 2 £48,975 - 3
Staffordshire - 2 £64,500 -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Scala
England

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Metadata
2 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) DB2
3 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
3 1 (12.50%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (12.50%) Parquet
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Java Scala Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Scala Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Scala Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Software Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Scala Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Ruby Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) PySpark
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) Kotlin
4 2 (25.00%) Bicep
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) BMC
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Talend