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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 289 232
Rank change year-on-year -85 -57 +28
Permanent jobs citing Scala 714 1,235 2,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 1.22% 1.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.15% 2.82% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 286 505 1,083
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,625 £116,250 £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 33,162 43,852 84,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.27% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24,974 27,985 43,449
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
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 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%

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 9 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 9 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 +52 466 £55,000 -24.14% 43
Scotland +109 349 £61,250 -13.70% 10
England -229 336 £80,000 - 88
London -148 203 £80,000 -5.88% 62
Work from Home -124 195 £80,000 +6.67% 92
South East -30 35 £55,000 -16.03% 6
South West -38 35 £80,000 +15.20% 4
North of England -42 34 £55,000 -32.31% 11
North West -28 22 £57,500 -30.30% 9
Yorkshire +51 9 £55,000 -31.25% 2
Midlands -41 6 £52,500 -12.50% 1
East Midlands -31 4 £51,500 -6.36%
Wales +4 3 £55,000 - 3
North East -20 3 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland +28 2 £55,000 - 7
West Midlands -4 2 £55,000 -8.33% 1
East of England -31 2 £65,000 +13.04% 1

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
1 401 (56.16%) Apache Spark
2 145 (20.31%) Apache
3 44 (6.16%) 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
1 412 (57.70%) AWS
2 125 (17.51%) GCP
3 94 (13.17%) Azure
4 80 (11.20%) Amazon SQS
5 66 (9.24%) Amazon EMR
6 64 (8.96%) Serverless
7 61 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (7.70%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (4.06%) Amazon S3
11 28 (3.92%) Snowflake
12 26 (3.64%) SaaS
13 25 (3.50%) Google Docs
14 24 (3.36%) dbt
15 23 (3.22%) Lucidchart
15 23 (3.22%) Miro
15 23 (3.22%) Slack
16 18 (2.52%) GitHub
17 15 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.52%) DSL
2 5 (0.70%) Network Security
3 4 (0.56%) FTP
4 2 (0.28%) HTTP
4 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (52.80%) Big Data
2 306 (42.86%) NoSQL
3 182 (25.49%) Hadoop
4 61 (8.54%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
6 56 (7.84%) Data Lake
7 52 (7.28%) Electronic Patient Records
8 40 (5.60%) Apache Hive
9 38 (5.32%) MongoDB
10 37 (5.18%) Relational Database
11 28 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (3.22%) Redis
12 23 (3.22%) Scylla
13 22 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
13 22 (3.08%) Flink
13 22 (3.08%) SQL Server
14 20 (2.80%) BigQuery
14 20 (2.80%) Impala
14 20 (2.80%) RDBMS
15 19 (2.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (6.30%) Git
2 22 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.52%) JIRA
4 9 (1.26%) CircleCI
4 9 (1.26%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (0.98%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (0.56%) Subversion
7 3 (0.42%) GitLab
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%) Gatling
9 1 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
General
1 388 (54.34%) Finance
2 364 (50.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 335 (46.92%) Law
4 210 (29.41%) Marketing
5 165 (23.11%) Influencing Skills
6 124 (17.37%) Legal
7 100 (14.01%) Social Skills
8 80 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (10.08%) Financial Institution
10 56 (7.84%) Banking
11 33 (4.62%) Investment Banking
12 17 (2.38%) Front Office
13 13 (1.82%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.40%) Electronics
15 8 (1.12%) Retail Banking
16 7 (0.98%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.56%) Retail
18 3 (0.42%) Games
19 2 (0.28%) Advertising
19 2 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 342 (47.90%) Software Engineer
2 242 (33.89%) Scala Engineer
3 237 (33.19%) Scala Software Engineer
4 228 (31.93%) Big Data Engineer
4 228 (31.93%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 178 (24.93%) Lead
6 155 (21.71%) Java Engineer
7 152 (21.29%) Java Software Engineer
8 142 (19.89%) Lead Software Engineer
9 139 (19.47%) Java Scala Software Engineer
10 132 (18.49%) Developer
11 127 (17.79%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (17.23%) Lead Java Engineer
13 120 (16.81%) Senior
14 115 (16.11%) AWS Software Engineer
14 115 (16.11%) Data Engineer
15 108 (15.13%) Lead Big Data Engineer
16 88 (12.32%) Scala Developer
17 70 (9.80%) Senior Software Engineer
18 57 (7.98%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (13.03%) Kafka
2 27 (3.78%) GraphQL
3 26 (3.64%) JSON
4 25 (3.50%) Akka
4 25 (3.50%) Spring
5 22 (3.08%) Apache Beam
6 21 (2.94%) Spring Boot
7 19 (2.66%) React
8 18 (2.52%) Pandas
9 17 (2.38%) NumPy
9 17 (2.38%) RESTful
10 16 (2.24%) PySpark
11 15 (2.10%) REST
12 14 (1.96%) gRPC
13 13 (1.82%) http4s
13 13 (1.82%) Protocol Buffers
13 13 (1.82%) SciPy
14 12 (1.68%) Play Framework
15 10 (1.40%) Lambda Expressions
15 10 (1.40%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 128 (17.93%) Cloud Native
2 95 (13.31%) Algorithms
3 48 (6.72%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.88%) Data Structures
5 32 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (4.06%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.66%) Product Ownership
9 18 (2.52%) Hedge funds
10 15 (2.10%) Blockchain
11 14 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
11 14 (1.96%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.68%) Derivative
12 12 (1.68%) Equities
12 12 (1.68%) 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 11 (1.54%) Linux
2 10 (1.40%) Windows
3 2 (0.28%) Unix
3 2 (0.28%) VMS
3 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (66.11%) Software Engineering
2 447 (62.61%) Agile
3 364 (50.98%) CI/CD
4 357 (50.00%) SDLC
5 276 (38.66%) Operational Stability
6 233 (32.63%) Performance Tuning
7 199 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
8 159 (22.27%) Machine Learning
9 129 (18.07%) Risk Management
10 127 (17.79%) Artificial Intelligence
11 118 (16.53%) Continuous Delivery
12 113 (15.83%) Decision-Making
13 110 (15.41%) Mentoring
14 99 (13.87%) Community of Practice
15 96 (13.45%) Data Pipeline
16 83 (11.62%) Data Modelling
17 81 (11.34%) Analytics
18 79 (11.06%) Data Engineering
19 77 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
20 74 (10.36%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 587 (82.21%) Java
2 407 (57.00%) SQL
3 229 (32.07%) Python
4 71 (9.94%) Kotlin
5 49 (6.86%) Go
6 33 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 27 (3.78%) Bash
8 25 (3.50%) JavaScript
9 21 (2.94%) Ruby
10 20 (2.80%) C#
11 18 (2.52%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.38%) Clojure
13 14 (1.96%) C
14 12 (1.68%) R
15 11 (1.54%) C++
15 11 (1.54%) PowerShell
16 10 (1.40%) F#
17 9 (1.26%) Groovy
17 9 (1.26%) Haskell
18 6 (0.84%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (8.40%) Degree
2 33 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.68%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.68%) 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 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 34 (4.76%) SLA
2 21 (2.94%) QA
3 6 (0.84%) NIST
4 4 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.56%) MiFID
5 1 (0.14%) GMP
5 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 27 (3.78%) Docker
2 11 (1.54%) HDFS
3 10 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 80 (11.20%) Kubernetes
2 65 (9.10%) Terraform
3 47 (6.58%) 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 76 (10.64%) Google
2 71 (9.94%) Databricks
3 39 (5.46%) Oracle
4 29 (4.06%) Microsoft
5 24 (3.36%) Dell
6 18 (2.52%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.52%) Cognos
6 18 (2.52%) Sybase
7 13 (1.82%) 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%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.56%) Reuters
13 3 (0.42%) Apple
13 3 (0.42%) Informatica
13 3 (0.42%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.28%) Hortonworks