Scala Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Scala
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 340 400 282
Rank change year-on-year +60 -118 -65
Permanent jobs citing Scala 57 197 491
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.58% 1.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.95% 1.43% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 48 163 210
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +10.34% -9.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £143,500 £105,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

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 5,974 13,779 21,042
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.95% 40.72% 49.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,843 11,434 15,507
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Scala
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scala trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Scala
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Scala over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Scala salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 34 (59.65%) Apache Spark
2 6 (10.53%) Apache
3 3 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) Azure
2 17 (29.82%) AWS
3 7 (12.28%) GCP
4 6 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (10.53%) Serverless
5 5 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (5.26%) dbt
7 3 (5.26%) GitHub
7 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.26%) SaaS
7 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 21 (36.84%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) Big Data
2 8 (14.04%) Data Lake
2 8 (14.04%) Hadoop
3 6 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (8.77%) NoSQL
4 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.51%) Flink
7 2 (3.51%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.51%) Power BI
7 2 (3.51%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.51%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) GitLab
1 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.51%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.51%) Gatling
2 2 (3.51%) JMeter
2 2 (3.51%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (3.51%) REST Assured
2 2 (3.51%) Selenium
3 1 (1.75%) CircleCI
General
1 32 (56.14%) Finance
2 27 (47.37%) Social Skills
3 22 (38.60%) Games
3 22 (38.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (38.60%) Retail
4 21 (36.84%) Advertising
5 7 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (10.53%) Law
7 3 (5.26%) Banking
8 2 (3.51%) Legal
9 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (64.91%) Senior
2 30 (52.63%) Software Engineer
3 23 (40.35%) Senior Software Engineer
4 14 (24.56%) Data Engineer
5 12 (21.05%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Lead
7 6 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Gen AI Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Gen AI Software Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Architect
8 4 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Data Architect
8 4 (7.02%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
9 3 (5.26%) Software Engineering Manager
9 3 (5.26%) Software Manager
10 2 (3.51%) Developer in Test
10 2 (3.51%) Java Developer in Test
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (52.63%) Kafka
2 6 (10.53%) REST
3 4 (7.02%) PySpark
4 2 (3.51%) Apache Beam
4 2 (3.51%) Playwright
4 2 (3.51%) RESTful
5 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.75%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.75%) CSS
5 1 (1.75%) D3.js
5 1 (1.75%) Dask
5 1 (1.75%) Highcharts JS
5 1 (1.75%) http4s
5 1 (1.75%) Node.js
5 1 (1.75%) React
5 1 (1.75%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (50.88%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) Data Fabric
4 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (64.91%) Software Engineering
2 32 (56.14%) Machine Learning
3 26 (45.61%) Agile
4 23 (40.35%) Computer Science
5 21 (36.84%) Performance Metrics
5 21 (36.84%) Programmatic Advertising
6 18 (31.58%) CI/CD
7 14 (24.56%) ETL
8 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (21.05%) Mentoring
10 11 (19.30%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (17.54%) DevOps
11 10 (17.54%) Use Case
12 8 (14.04%) Analytics
12 8 (14.04%) Data Engineering
12 8 (14.04%) MLOps
12 8 (14.04%) SDLC
13 7 (12.28%) Generative AI
13 7 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (96.49%) Python
2 20 (35.09%) Java
3 16 (28.07%) SQL
4 9 (15.79%) C#
4 9 (15.79%) Elixir
4 9 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.53%) Clojure
5 6 (10.53%) Go
5 6 (10.53%) Rust
6 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.77%) PHP
7 4 (7.02%) Ruby
8 3 (5.26%) F#
9 1 (1.75%) C++
9 1 (1.75%) Elm
9 1 (1.75%) Erlang
9 1 (1.75%) Haskell
9 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.75%) Lisp
9 1 (1.75%) PureScript
Qualifications
1 23 (40.35%) Degree
2 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) Accessibility
1 7 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (3.51%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.51%) QA
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.79%) Terraform
3 2 (3.51%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (43.86%) Microsoft
2 23 (40.35%) Google
3 21 (36.84%) Apple
4 11 (19.30%) Databricks
5 2 (3.51%) Cloudera
5 2 (3.51%) Informatica
5 2 (3.51%) Oracle
5 2 (3.51%) Talend
5 2 (3.51%) Teradata