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

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 290 234
Rank change year-on-year -78 -56 +29
Permanent jobs citing Scala 729 1,210 2,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 1.21% 1.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.20% 2.81% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 286 489 1,060
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £56,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £108,125 £116,447 £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 33,182 43,062 86,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.29% 43.23% 54.07%
Number of salaries quoted 24,895 27,513 43,409
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,089 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.77% +6.00%

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 16 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 16 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 +54 473 £55,000 -24.14% 35
England -219 351 £80,000 - 80
Scotland +99 348 £61,250 -13.70% 7
London -132 211 £80,000 -8.57% 57
Work from Home -118 194 £80,000 +6.67% 54
North of England -38 44 £55,000 -31.25% 8
South East -27 34 £57,500 -14.81% 6
South West -43 34 £80,000 +15.20% 5
North West -27 31 £57,500 -30.30% 5
Yorkshire +42 10 £55,000 -31.25% 3
Midlands -31 6 £52,500 -12.50%
East Midlands -22 4 £51,500 -6.36%
Wales +7 3 £55,000 - 3
North East -23 3 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland +26 2 £55,000 - 6
West Midlands -1 2 £55,000 -8.33%
East of England -47 2 £65,000 +13.04%

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
1 402 (55.14%) Apache Spark
2 147 (20.16%) Apache
3 46 (6.31%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 426 (58.44%) AWS
2 130 (17.83%) GCP
3 97 (13.31%) Azure
4 80 (10.97%) Amazon SQS
5 66 (9.05%) Amazon EMR
6 64 (8.78%) Serverless
7 61 (8.37%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (7.54%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (7.00%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (3.98%) Amazon S3
11 26 (3.57%) Snowflake
12 25 (3.43%) Google Docs
12 25 (3.43%) SaaS
13 24 (3.29%) dbt
14 23 (3.16%) Lucidchart
14 23 (3.16%) Miro
14 23 (3.16%) Slack
15 21 (2.88%) Amazon Kinesis
16 20 (2.74%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.47%) DSL
2 5 (0.69%) Network Security
3 4 (0.55%) FTP
4 2 (0.27%) HTTP
4 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (51.44%) Big Data
2 314 (43.07%) NoSQL
3 179 (24.55%) Hadoop
4 66 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (8.23%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (7.68%) Data Lake
7 52 (7.13%) Electronic Patient Records
8 42 (5.76%) Apache Hive
9 38 (5.21%) MongoDB
10 36 (4.94%) Relational Database
11 30 (4.12%) Redis
12 26 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (3.16%) Scylla
14 22 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (3.02%) SQL Server
15 20 (2.74%) BigQuery
15 20 (2.74%) Flink
15 20 (2.74%) Impala
16 19 (2.61%) RDBMS
16 19 (2.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (6.31%) Git
2 23 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.47%) JIRA
4 9 (1.23%) CircleCI
4 9 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (1.10%) Gatling
6 7 (0.96%) Spinnaker
7 5 (0.69%) GitLab
8 4 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.55%) Subversion
9 3 (0.41%) MLflow
9 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.27%) Gradle
10 2 (0.27%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.27%) JUnit
10 2 (0.27%) Maven
10 2 (0.27%) ScalaTest
11 1 (0.14%) Ant
11 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 387 (53.09%) Finance
2 363 (49.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 335 (45.95%) Law
4 210 (28.81%) Marketing
5 165 (22.63%) Influencing Skills
6 124 (17.01%) Legal
7 109 (14.95%) Social Skills
8 79 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (9.88%) Financial Institution
10 56 (7.68%) Banking
11 33 (4.53%) Investment Banking
12 19 (2.61%) Electronics
13 17 (2.33%) Front Office
14 14 (1.92%) Public Sector
15 8 (1.10%) Retail Banking
16 7 (0.96%) Billing
16 7 (0.96%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.55%) Retail
18 3 (0.41%) Games
19 2 (0.27%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 356 (48.83%) Software Engineer
2 245 (33.61%) Scala Engineer
3 239 (32.78%) Scala Software Engineer
4 228 (31.28%) Big Data Engineer
4 228 (31.28%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 183 (25.10%) Lead
6 155 (21.26%) Java Engineer
7 152 (20.85%) Java Software Engineer
8 146 (20.03%) Lead Software Engineer
9 139 (19.07%) Java Scala Software Engineer
10 133 (18.24%) Developer
11 127 (17.42%) AWS Engineer
12 126 (17.28%) Senior
13 123 (16.87%) Lead Java Engineer
14 115 (15.78%) AWS Software Engineer
15 114 (15.64%) Data Engineer
16 108 (14.81%) Lead Big Data Engineer
17 90 (12.35%) Scala Developer
18 73 (10.01%) Senior Software Engineer
19 58 (7.96%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (12.62%) Kafka
2 38 (5.21%) GraphQL
3 26 (3.57%) http4s
3 26 (3.57%) REST
4 25 (3.43%) JSON
4 25 (3.43%) Spring
5 24 (3.29%) Akka
6 22 (3.02%) Apache Beam
7 21 (2.88%) Spring Boot
8 20 (2.74%) Lambda Expressions
9 19 (2.61%) React
10 18 (2.47%) Pandas
10 18 (2.47%) RESTful
11 17 (2.33%) NumPy
12 16 (2.19%) PySpark
12 16 (2.19%) Web Services
13 14 (1.92%) gRPC
14 13 (1.78%) Play Framework
14 13 (1.78%) Protocol Buffers
14 13 (1.78%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 126 (17.28%) Cloud Native
2 95 (13.03%) Algorithms
3 48 (6.58%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.76%) Data Structures
5 35 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (4.25%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (2.61%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.47%) Hedge funds
11 16 (2.19%) Blockchain
12 14 (1.92%) Distributed Applications
12 14 (1.92%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.65%) Blog
13 12 (1.65%) Derivative
13 12 (1.65%) Equities
13 12 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (1.65%) Media Streaming
14 9 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.10%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.37%) Linux
1 10 (1.37%) Windows
2 2 (0.27%) Unix
2 2 (0.27%) VMS
2 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (66.80%) Software Engineering
2 462 (63.37%) Agile
3 367 (50.34%) CI/CD
4 356 (48.83%) SDLC
5 276 (37.86%) Operational Stability
6 232 (31.82%) Performance Tuning
7 198 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
8 158 (21.67%) Machine Learning
9 129 (17.70%) Risk Management
10 125 (17.15%) Artificial Intelligence
11 117 (16.05%) Continuous Delivery
12 113 (15.50%) Decision-Making
12 113 (15.50%) Mentoring
13 99 (13.58%) Community of Practice
14 97 (13.31%) Data Pipeline
15 84 (11.52%) Analytics
16 82 (11.25%) Data Modelling
17 77 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
18 76 (10.43%) Coaching
18 76 (10.43%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 598 (82.03%) Java
2 404 (55.42%) SQL
3 228 (31.28%) Python
4 79 (10.84%) Kotlin
5 48 (6.58%) Go
6 35 (4.80%) TypeScript
7 26 (3.57%) Bash
8 24 (3.29%) JavaScript
9 21 (2.88%) Ruby
10 19 (2.61%) C#
11 18 (2.47%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.33%) Clojure
13 14 (1.92%) C
14 12 (1.65%) R
15 11 (1.51%) C++
15 11 (1.51%) PowerShell
16 9 (1.23%) Groovy
17 8 (1.10%) F#
17 8 (1.10%) Haskell
18 6 (0.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 70 (9.60%) Degree
2 42 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.65%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.65%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.82%) SANS
8 5 (0.69%) CISA
8 5 (0.69%) CISM
8 5 (0.69%) CISSP
8 5 (0.69%) CRISC
9 3 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.27%) 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 (4.66%) Data Quality
1 34 (4.66%) SLA
2 24 (3.29%) QA
3 6 (0.82%) NIST
4 4 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.55%) MiFID
5 1 (0.14%) GDPR
5 1 (0.14%) GMP
5 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 27 (3.70%) Docker
2 14 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.51%) HDFS
4 2 (0.27%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 79 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 70 (9.60%) Terraform
3 48 (6.58%) Ansible
4 4 (0.55%) Grafana
5 2 (0.27%) Istio
5 2 (0.27%) Kibana
5 2 (0.27%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 79 (10.84%) Google
2 71 (9.74%) Databricks
3 38 (5.21%) Oracle
4 34 (4.66%) Microsoft
5 23 (3.16%) Dell
6 18 (2.47%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.47%) Cognos
6 18 (2.47%) Sybase
7 13 (1.78%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.51%) Teradata
9 10 (1.37%) Dataiku
10 9 (1.23%) Adobe
10 9 (1.23%) Mercator
11 6 (0.82%) F5
12 4 (0.55%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.55%) Reuters
13 3 (0.41%) Apple
13 3 (0.41%) Informatica
13 3 (0.41%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.27%) MuleSoft