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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 285 231
Rank change year-on-year -87 -54 +31
Permanent jobs citing Scala 712 1,278 2,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 1.23% 1.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.14% 2.85% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 285 511 1,126
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,180 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £104,375 £101,250
90th Percentile £114,000 £117,236 £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 33,269 44,878 84,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.74% 43.24% 53.88%
Number of salaries quoted 25,012 28,616 44,114
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +61 465 £55,000 -24.14% 34
Scotland +102 349 £61,250 -13.70% 7
England -239 337 £80,000 - 102
London -141 203 £80,000 -8.57% 75
Work from Home -108 197 £80,000 +10.34% 95
South East -22 35 £55,000 -16.03% 5
South West -37 35 £80,000 +15.20% 4
North of England -53 32 £55,000 -33.33% 10
North West -40 22 £57,500 -30.30% 8
Yorkshire +35 6 £55,000 -31.25% 2
Midlands -18 6 £52,500 -12.50% 2
North East -19 4 £55,000 -
East Midlands -20 4 £51,500 -6.36%
Wales +7 3 £55,000 - 3
East of England -34 3 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Northern Ireland +30 2 £55,000 - 1
West Midlands 0 2 £55,000 -8.33% 2

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
1 403 (56.60%) Apache Spark
2 148 (20.79%) Apache
3 44 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.40%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 413 (58.01%) AWS
2 126 (17.70%) GCP
3 94 (13.20%) Azure
4 80 (11.24%) Amazon SQS
5 68 (9.55%) Amazon EMR
6 66 (9.27%) Serverless
7 63 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (7.72%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (7.16%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (7.16%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (4.35%) Amazon S3
11 28 (3.93%) Snowflake
12 26 (3.65%) SaaS
13 25 (3.51%) Google Docs
14 24 (3.37%) dbt
15 23 (3.23%) Lucidchart
15 23 (3.23%) Miro
15 23 (3.23%) Slack
16 19 (2.67%) GitHub
17 15 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.53%) DSL
2 5 (0.70%) Network Security
3 3 (0.42%) FTP
4 2 (0.28%) HTTP
4 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (53.37%) Big Data
2 306 (42.98%) NoSQL
3 185 (25.98%) Hadoop
4 64 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (8.01%) PostgreSQL
6 56 (7.87%) Data Lake
7 52 (7.30%) Electronic Patient Records
8 42 (5.90%) Apache Hive
9 40 (5.62%) Relational Database
10 38 (5.34%) MongoDB
11 28 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (3.23%) Redis
12 23 (3.23%) Scylla
13 22 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
13 22 (3.09%) Flink
14 21 (2.95%) RDBMS
14 21 (2.95%) SQL Server
15 20 (2.81%) BigQuery
15 20 (2.81%) Impala
15 20 (2.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (6.32%) Git
2 23 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.53%) JIRA
4 9 (1.26%) CircleCI
4 9 (1.26%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (0.98%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.56%) GitLab
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (0.56%) Subversion
7 3 (0.42%) JUnit
7 3 (0.42%) MLflow
7 3 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.28%) Gradle
8 2 (0.28%) Maven
9 1 (0.14%) Ant
9 1 (0.14%) ERwin
9 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.14%) ScalaTest
9 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 388 (54.49%) Finance
2 364 (51.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 335 (47.05%) Law
4 210 (29.49%) Marketing
5 165 (23.17%) Influencing Skills
6 124 (17.42%) Legal
7 104 (14.61%) Social Skills
8 81 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (10.11%) Financial Institution
10 56 (7.87%) Banking
11 33 (4.63%) Investment Banking
12 16 (2.25%) Front Office
13 14 (1.97%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.40%) Electronics
15 8 (1.12%) Retail Banking
16 7 (0.98%) Health Technology
17 5 (0.70%) Retail
18 3 (0.42%) Games
19 2 (0.28%) Advertising
19 2 (0.28%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 341 (47.89%) Software Engineer
2 241 (33.85%) Scala Engineer
3 236 (33.15%) Scala Software Engineer
4 228 (32.02%) Big Data Engineer
4 228 (32.02%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 177 (24.86%) Lead
6 155 (21.77%) Java Engineer
7 152 (21.35%) Java Software Engineer
8 142 (19.94%) Lead Software Engineer
9 139 (19.52%) Java Scala Software Engineer
10 129 (18.12%) Developer
11 127 (17.84%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (17.28%) Lead Java Engineer
13 119 (16.71%) Data Engineer
14 116 (16.29%) Senior
15 115 (16.15%) AWS Software Engineer
16 108 (15.17%) Lead Big Data Engineer
17 85 (11.94%) Scala Developer
18 68 (9.55%) Senior Software Engineer
19 56 (7.87%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (12.78%) Kafka
2 27 (3.79%) GraphQL
2 27 (3.79%) JSON
3 26 (3.65%) Akka
4 24 (3.37%) Spring
5 22 (3.09%) Apache Beam
6 20 (2.81%) Spring Boot
7 17 (2.39%) Pandas
7 17 (2.39%) RESTful
8 16 (2.25%) NumPy
8 16 (2.25%) PySpark
8 16 (2.25%) React
9 15 (2.11%) REST
10 14 (1.97%) gRPC
11 13 (1.83%) http4s
11 13 (1.83%) Protocol Buffers
11 13 (1.83%) SciPy
12 12 (1.69%) Node.js
12 12 (1.69%) Play Framework
13 10 (1.40%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 128 (17.98%) Cloud Native
2 95 (13.34%) Algorithms
3 48 (6.74%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.90%) Data Structures
5 34 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (4.21%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (2.67%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.39%) Hedge funds
11 14 (1.97%) Distributed Applications
11 14 (1.97%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.69%) Blockchain
12 12 (1.69%) Derivative
12 12 (1.69%) Equities
12 12 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.12%) Digital Signage
15 7 (0.98%) Replication
15 7 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.40%) Linux
1 10 (1.40%) Windows
2 2 (0.28%) Unix
2 2 (0.28%) VMS
2 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (66.29%) Software Engineering
2 446 (62.64%) Agile
3 365 (51.26%) CI/CD
4 359 (50.42%) SDLC
5 276 (38.76%) Operational Stability
6 234 (32.87%) Performance Tuning
7 201 (28.23%) Problem-Solving
8 159 (22.33%) Machine Learning
9 128 (17.98%) Risk Management
10 127 (17.84%) Artificial Intelligence
11 117 (16.43%) Continuous Delivery
12 115 (16.15%) Decision-Making
13 111 (15.59%) Mentoring
14 99 (13.90%) Community of Practice
15 96 (13.48%) Data Pipeline
16 85 (11.94%) Data Modelling
17 83 (11.66%) Data Engineering
18 82 (11.52%) Analytics
19 77 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
20 74 (10.39%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 589 (82.72%) Java
2 410 (57.58%) SQL
3 231 (32.44%) Python
4 70 (9.83%) Kotlin
5 49 (6.88%) Go
6 29 (4.07%) TypeScript
7 27 (3.79%) Bash
8 26 (3.65%) JavaScript
9 21 (2.95%) C#
9 21 (2.95%) Ruby
10 18 (2.53%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.97%) C
11 14 (1.97%) Clojure
12 13 (1.83%) R
13 11 (1.54%) C++
13 11 (1.54%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.40%) F#
15 9 (1.26%) Groovy
15 9 (1.26%) Haskell
16 6 (0.84%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (8.71%) Degree
2 36 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.69%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.69%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.40%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.84%) SANS
8 5 (0.70%) CISA
8 5 (0.70%) CISM
8 5 (0.70%) CISSP
8 5 (0.70%) CRISC
9 3 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.14%) OCP
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.78%) Data Quality
1 34 (4.78%) SLA
2 22 (3.09%) QA
3 6 (0.84%) NIST
4 5 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.42%) MiFID
6 1 (0.14%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) GMP
6 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 28 (3.93%) Docker
2 11 (1.54%) HDFS
3 10 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 79 (11.10%) Kubernetes
2 65 (9.13%) Terraform
3 47 (6.60%) Ansible
4 3 (0.42%) Grafana
5 2 (0.28%) Istio
5 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
6 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 77 (10.81%) Google
2 72 (10.11%) Databricks
3 39 (5.48%) Oracle
4 29 (4.07%) Microsoft
5 24 (3.37%) Dell
6 18 (2.53%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.53%) Cognos
6 18 (2.53%) Sybase
7 13 (1.83%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.54%) Teradata
9 10 (1.40%) Dataiku
10 9 (1.26%) Adobe
10 9 (1.26%) Mercator
11 6 (0.84%) F5
12 4 (0.56%) Informatica
13 3 (0.42%) Apple
13 3 (0.42%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.42%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.42%) Reuters
14 2 (0.28%) Hortonworks