Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 23 October 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 October 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Scala
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
23 Oct 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 207 151 156
Rank change year-on-year -56 +5 +81
Permanent jobs citing Scala 441 123 143
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.59% 1.91% 1.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.79% 3.00% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 275 116 131
10th Percentile £51,855 £35,625 £34,888
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £92,500 £81,563 £82,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £94,375 £96,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,830 4,106 4,516
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.08% 63.76% 58.83%
Number of salaries quoted 12,610 3,744 4,086
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Scala
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scala trend for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scala.

Scala salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Scala over the 6 months to 23 October 2021.

Scala salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 23 October 2021, Scala job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Scala.

1 342 (77.55%) Java
2 267 (60.54%) Python
3 233 (52.83%) Agile Software Development
4 223 (50.57%) AWS
5 193 (43.76%) Software Engineering
6 185 (41.95%) SQL
7 139 (31.52%) Finance
8 127 (28.80%) Kubernetes
8 127 (28.80%) React
9 126 (28.57%) Social Skills
10 124 (28.12%) Kotlin
10 124 (28.12%) Docker
10 124 (28.12%) JavaScript
11 117 (26.53%) Azure
12 115 (26.08%) Microservices
13 112 (25.40%) TypeScript
14 110 (24.94%) Serverless
15 107 (24.26%) DevOps
16 95 (21.54%) TDD
17 92 (20.86%) GCP
18 88 (19.95%) Analytics
19 85 (19.27%) Full Stack Development
20 78 (17.69%) Amazon S3
21 75 (17.01%) Clojure
22 73 (16.55%) AngularJS
22 73 (16.55%) Test Automation
23 72 (16.33%) AWS Lambda
24 70 (15.87%) Apache
24 70 (15.87%) Data Science
25 69 (15.65%) Apache Spark

Scala
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 70 (15.87%) Apache
2 69 (15.65%) Apache Spark
3 30 (6.80%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.59%) Confluence
5 6 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.45%) CICS
7 1 (0.23%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.23%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.13%) InVision
2 2 (0.45%) Figma
Business Applications
1 11 (2.49%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.45%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 223 (50.57%) AWS
2 117 (26.53%) Azure
3 110 (24.94%) Serverless
4 92 (20.86%) GCP
5 78 (17.69%) Amazon S3
6 72 (16.33%) AWS Lambda
7 60 (13.61%) Amazon EC2
8 35 (7.94%) Power Platform
9 28 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (4.76%) Datadog
11 16 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (3.40%) GitHub
12 15 (3.40%) SaaS
13 14 (3.17%) IaaS
14 13 (2.95%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (2.49%) IBM Cloud
15 11 (2.49%) PaaS
16 8 (1.81%) Snowflake
17 7 (1.59%) Cloud Functions
17 7 (1.59%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.40%) HTTP
2 11 (2.49%) SMS
3 9 (2.04%) SSH
4 1 (0.23%) Firewall
4 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.19%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 62 (14.06%) Big Data
3 56 (12.70%) NoSQL
4 53 (12.02%) Apache Ignite
5 50 (11.34%) Hadoop
6 48 (10.88%) MongoDB
7 42 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
8 41 (9.30%) Data Lake
9 30 (6.80%) Power BI
10 25 (5.67%) Amazon Aurora
11 22 (4.99%) MySQL
12 20 (4.54%) Amazon Athena
12 20 (4.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 19 (4.31%) Apache Hive
14 18 (4.08%) Redis
15 17 (3.85%) SQL Server
16 16 (3.63%) Relational Database
17 14 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 12 (2.72%) Data Vault
19 11 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 65 (14.74%) Git (software)
2 39 (8.84%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.17%) Selenium
4 13 (2.95%) Cypress.io
4 13 (2.95%) GitLab
5 10 (2.27%) Visual Studio
6 9 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (2.04%) CircleCI
6 9 (2.04%) JMeter
7 8 (1.81%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.81%) webpack
8 7 (1.59%) JIRA
8 7 (1.59%) JUnit
8 7 (1.59%) Postman
9 6 (1.36%) Maven
9 6 (1.36%) Spinnaker
10 5 (1.13%) Balsamiq
10 5 (1.13%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.13%) RSpec
10 5 (1.13%) WebDriver
General
1 139 (31.52%) Finance
2 126 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 59 (13.38%) Front Office
4 50 (11.34%) Retail
5 46 (10.43%) Public Sector
6 31 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (6.35%) Marketing
8 19 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (3.85%) Games
10 16 (3.63%) Banking
11 10 (2.27%) Advertising
11 10 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.81%) Publishing
13 4 (0.91%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.91%) Law
14 2 (0.45%) Billing
14 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Music Industry
15 1 (0.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 162 (36.73%) Developer
2 132 (29.93%) Software Engineer
3 70 (15.87%) Data Engineer
4 61 (13.83%) Python Engineer
5 59 (13.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 53 (12.02%) Python Developer
6 53 (12.02%) Python Software Engineer
7 47 (10.66%) Scala Developer
8 31 (7.03%) Java Developer
8 31 (7.03%) Senior Software Engineer
9 27 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
9 27 (6.12%) Software Developer
10 23 (5.22%) Agile Developer
11 22 (4.99%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
12 20 (4.54%) Java Engineer
13 19 (4.31%) Architect
14 18 (4.08%) Lead Developer
15 17 (3.85%) Backend Developer
16 16 (3.63%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (28.80%) React
2 73 (16.55%) AngularJS
3 64 (14.51%) Web Services
4 61 (13.83%) Kafka
5 57 (12.93%) REST
5 57 (12.93%) Vue.js
6 56 (12.70%) Node.js
7 51 (11.56%) .NET
8 41 (9.30%) HTML
9 33 (7.48%) RESTful
10 32 (7.26%) Spring
11 31 (7.03%) JSON
12 28 (6.35%) Play Framework
13 26 (5.90%) Redux
14 25 (5.67%) GraphQL
15 23 (5.22%) Spring Boot
15 23 (5.22%) XML
16 22 (4.99%) Akka.NET
17 16 (3.63%) Next.js
18 12 (2.72%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.61%) Fixed Income
2 59 (13.38%) Derivative
2 59 (13.38%) Equities
2 59 (13.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 53 (12.02%) Hedge funds
4 49 (11.11%) Algorithms
5 33 (7.48%) User Experience
6 28 (6.35%) Virtual Team
7 22 (4.99%) Data Structures
8 20 (4.54%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (3.63%) Client/Server
9 16 (3.63%) Mobile App
10 14 (3.17%) Public Cloud
11 12 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (2.27%) Clustering
12 10 (2.27%) Life Science
13 9 (2.04%) Blog
13 9 (2.04%) Cloud Native
14 7 (1.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.90%) Linux
2 20 (4.54%) Unix
3 5 (1.13%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) Windows
4 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (52.83%) Agile Software Development
2 193 (43.76%) Software Engineering
3 115 (26.08%) Microservices
4 107 (24.26%) DevOps
5 95 (21.54%) TDD
6 88 (19.95%) Analytics
7 85 (19.27%) Full Stack Development
8 73 (16.55%) Test Automation
9 70 (15.87%) Data Science
10 61 (13.83%) Business Intelligence
11 60 (13.61%) Mentoring
11 60 (13.61%) Scrum
12 59 (13.38%) Asset Management
12 59 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
13 58 (13.15%) Computer Science
13 58 (13.15%) Machine Learning
14 56 (12.70%) Continuous Integration
15 52 (11.79%) Data Engineering
16 48 (10.88%) Pair Programming
17 47 (10.66%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 342 (77.55%) Java
2 267 (60.54%) Python
3 185 (41.95%) SQL
4 124 (28.12%) JavaScript
4 124 (28.12%) Kotlin
5 112 (25.40%) TypeScript
6 75 (17.01%) Clojure
7 68 (15.42%) C#
8 45 (10.20%) Go
9 38 (8.62%) R
10 26 (5.90%) C++
11 23 (5.22%) Groovy
12 15 (3.40%) PHP
13 14 (3.17%) C
14 13 (2.95%) Haskell
15 12 (2.72%) Bash Shell
15 12 (2.72%) Rust
16 10 (2.27%) Java 8
17 9 (2.04%) MATLAB
18 8 (1.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 67 (15.19%) Degree
2 31 (7.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 29 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (4.54%) Security Cleared
5 12 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.49%) Numerate Degree
6 11 (2.49%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.68%) CFA
8 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.03%) Accessibility
2 18 (4.08%) GDPR
3 14 (3.17%) QA
4 7 (1.59%) WCAG
5 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 124 (28.12%) Docker
2 5 (1.13%) HDFS
3 3 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 127 (28.80%) Kubernetes
2 66 (14.97%) Terraform
3 33 (7.48%) Ansible
4 11 (2.49%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (1.13%) Opscode Chef
5 5 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.91%) Oozie
7 3 (0.68%) Istio
7 3 (0.68%) Knative
7 3 (0.68%) Puppet
8 2 (0.45%) Kibana
8 2 (0.45%) logstash
8 2 (0.45%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.23%) Control-M
9 1 (0.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 37 (8.39%) Google
1 37 (8.39%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.16%) Databricks
3 32 (7.26%) Mercator
4 18 (4.08%) IBM
5 17 (3.85%) Oracle
6 15 (3.40%) Apple
7 8 (1.81%) Cloudera
7 8 (1.81%) Splunk
8 7 (1.59%) ArcSight
8 7 (1.59%) Salesforce.com
9 5 (1.13%) Adobe
10 3 (0.68%) Elastic Path
10 3 (0.68%) Hortonworks
10 3 (0.68%) IFS
11 2 (0.45%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.23%) Compuware
12 1 (0.23%) Talend