Hybrid/Remote Scala Job Trends

Scala
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Scala skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 335 368
Rank change year-on-year +62 +33 -75
Permanent jobs citing Scala 127 64 202
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 0.48% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.66% 1.12% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 32 52 168
10th Percentile £47,623 - -
25th Percentile £62,313 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -21.88% +10.34%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,105 £95,385
90th Percentile £120,000 £102,225 £143,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.20% -4.69%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Scala falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,776 5,704 13,309
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.74% 42.75% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,491 4,529 11,428
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,425
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,400 £97,792
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Scala and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Scala job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Scala
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Scala.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Scala

Scala
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Scala over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Scala salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 28 (22.05%) Apache Spark
2 17 (13.39%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.57%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (58.27%) AWS
2 64 (50.39%) GCP
3 30 (23.62%) Azure
4 17 (13.39%) Amazon SageMaker
5 15 (11.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (11.81%) Dagster
6 14 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (10.24%) GitHub
8 12 (9.45%) Amazon S3
8 12 (9.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (7.87%) Azure Machine Learning
10 9 (7.09%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (7.09%) dbt
10 9 (7.09%) Snowflake
10 9 (7.09%) Vertex AI
11 8 (6.30%) Power Platform
12 6 (4.72%) Cloud Composer
13 2 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.57%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 75 (59.06%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.32%) Delta Lake
2 16 (12.60%) Metadata
3 15 (11.81%) BigQuery
3 15 (11.81%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (10.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (10.24%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (9.45%) Data Lake
5 12 (9.45%) Tableau
6 11 (8.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (7.09%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (7.09%) Looker
7 9 (7.09%) Pinecone
7 9 (7.09%) Weaviate
8 5 (3.94%) Power BI
9 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.36%) DB2
10 3 (2.36%) IBM InfoSphere
10 3 (2.36%) MySQL
10 3 (2.36%) Parquet
10 3 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (22.05%) Jenkins
2 23 (18.11%) TeamCity
3 15 (11.81%) Git
4 9 (7.09%) MLflow
5 4 (3.15%) GitLab
6 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.79%) JUnit
General
1 12 (9.45%) Finance
2 9 (7.09%) Public Sector
2 9 (7.09%) Social Skills
3 6 (4.72%) Law
4 3 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (37.01%) Scala Engineer
1 47 (37.01%) Senior
2 41 (32.28%) Data Engineer
3 24 (18.90%) Developer
3 24 (18.90%) Scala Developer
4 23 (18.11%) Scala Software Engineer
4 23 (18.11%) Software Engineer
5 14 (11.02%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (10.24%) Senior Scala Engineer
7 11 (8.66%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.09%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 9 (7.09%) Consultant
8 9 (7.09%) Data Consultant
8 9 (7.09%) Senior Consultant
9 7 (5.51%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.51%) Senior Scala Developer
9 7 (5.51%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Backend Developer
10 5 (3.94%) Cloud Developer
11 4 (3.15%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (35.43%) gRPC
2 23 (18.11%) Akka
3 22 (17.32%) PySpark
4 15 (11.81%) Kafka
5 9 (7.09%) Faiss
5 9 (7.09%) PyTorch
5 9 (7.09%) TensorFlow
5 9 (7.09%) vLLM
6 7 (5.51%) Node.js
7 4 (3.15%) OAuth
7 4 (3.15%) OpenID
7 4 (3.15%) React
8 3 (2.36%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.57%) .NET
10 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.79%) REST
10 1 (0.79%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 69 (54.33%) Video\Live Streaming
2 68 (53.54%) Over-the-Top Content
3 48 (37.80%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (7.09%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.72%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (4.72%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.72%) Social Media
6 4 (3.15%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (61.42%) Data Science
2 74 (58.27%) CI/CD
3 64 (50.39%) Machine Learning
4 57 (44.88%) Analytics
4 57 (44.88%) Coaching
5 54 (42.52%) Clean Code
6 53 (41.73%) Software Engineering
7 47 (37.01%) Microservices
7 47 (37.01%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (36.22%) Containerisation
8 46 (36.22%) Continuous Delivery
9 45 (35.43%) Personalization
10 40 (31.50%) Data Pipeline
11 35 (27.56%) Agile
12 33 (25.98%) Open Source
13 32 (25.20%) Data Engineering
14 27 (21.26%) Data Analytics
15 26 (20.47%) Data Modelling
15 26 (20.47%) ETL
16 25 (19.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 93 (73.23%) Python
2 54 (42.52%) Go
3 36 (28.35%) SQL
4 25 (19.69%) Java
5 9 (7.09%) Bash
6 6 (4.72%) C++
7 4 (3.15%) C#
7 4 (3.15%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.15%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.36%) PHP
9 2 (1.57%) Bicep
10 1 (0.79%) R
10 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.45%) Degree
2 4 (3.15%) Azure Certification
2 4 (3.15%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.15%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.54%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.57%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 89 (70.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (25.98%) Kubernetes
2 22 (17.32%) Terraform
3 3 (2.36%) Ansible
3 3 (2.36%) Control-M
Vendors
1 45 (35.43%) Typelevel
2 27 (21.26%) Databricks
3 9 (7.09%) Palantir
4 7 (5.51%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.36%) BMC
5 3 (2.36%) IBM
5 3 (2.36%) Talend
6 2 (1.57%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.57%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.79%) Google