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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 293 233
Rank change year-on-year -78 -60 +25
Permanent jobs citing Scala 731 1,200 2,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 1.21% 1.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.20% 2.78% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 282 488 1,039
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £108,625 £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 33,238 43,130 87,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.26% 43.34% 53.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,895 27,636 43,338
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 19 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 19 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 +66 475 £55,000 -24.14% 58
England -231 353 £80,000 - 115
Scotland +104 348 £61,250 -13.70% 7
London -148 211 £80,000 -5.88% 87
Work from Home -127 191 £80,000 +6.67% 65
North of England -33 46 £55,000 -31.25% 11
South West -25 34 £80,000 +15.20% 5
South East -35 34 £57,500 -22.03% 25
North West -24 33 £55,000 -33.33% 8
Yorkshire +46 10 £55,000 -31.25% 3
Midlands -27 6 £52,500 -12.50%
East Midlands -26 4 £51,500 -6.36%
Wales +5 3 £55,000 - 4
North East -18 3 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland +24 2 £55,000 - 5
West Midlands +1 2 £55,000 -8.33%
East of England -51 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
1 403 (55.13%) Apache Spark
2 147 (20.11%) Apache
3 46 (6.29%) 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
1 431 (58.96%) AWS
2 133 (18.19%) GCP
3 99 (13.54%) Azure
4 80 (10.94%) Amazon SQS
5 66 (9.03%) Amazon EMR
6 64 (8.76%) Serverless
7 61 (8.34%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (7.52%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (3.97%) Amazon S3
11 26 (3.56%) Snowflake
12 25 (3.42%) Google Docs
12 25 (3.42%) SaaS
13 24 (3.28%) Amazon Kinesis
14 23 (3.15%) dbt
14 23 (3.15%) Lucidchart
14 23 (3.15%) Miro
14 23 (3.15%) Slack
15 21 (2.87%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.46%) DSL
2 5 (0.68%) Network Security
3 4 (0.55%) FTP
4 2 (0.27%) HTTP
4 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (51.16%) Big Data
2 317 (43.37%) NoSQL
3 179 (24.49%) Hadoop
4 68 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
5 59 (8.07%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (7.52%) Data Lake
7 52 (7.11%) Electronic Patient Records
8 43 (5.88%) Apache Hive
9 38 (5.20%) MongoDB
10 36 (4.92%) Relational Database
11 32 (4.38%) Redis
12 26 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (3.15%) Scylla
14 22 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (3.01%) SQL Server
15 21 (2.87%) DynamoDB
16 20 (2.74%) BigQuery
16 20 (2.74%) Flink
16 20 (2.74%) Impala
17 19 (2.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (6.29%) Git
2 23 (3.15%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.46%) JIRA
4 10 (1.37%) Gatling
5 9 (1.23%) CircleCI
5 9 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.96%) Spinnaker
7 6 (0.82%) 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%) ERwin
11 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 387 (52.94%) Finance
2 363 (49.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 335 (45.83%) Law
4 209 (28.59%) Marketing
5 165 (22.57%) Influencing Skills
6 124 (16.96%) Legal
7 111 (15.18%) Social Skills
8 78 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (9.85%) Financial Institution
10 56 (7.66%) Banking
11 33 (4.51%) Investment Banking
12 22 (3.01%) Electronics
13 17 (2.33%) Front Office
14 14 (1.92%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.23%) Billing
16 8 (1.09%) Retail Banking
17 7 (0.96%) Health Technology
18 4 (0.55%) Retail
19 3 (0.41%) Games
20 2 (0.27%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 360 (49.25%) Software Engineer
2 247 (33.79%) Scala Engineer
3 240 (32.83%) Scala Software Engineer
4 228 (31.19%) Big Data Engineer
4 228 (31.19%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 185 (25.31%) Lead
6 155 (21.20%) Java Engineer
7 152 (20.79%) Java Software Engineer
8 148 (20.25%) Lead Software Engineer
9 139 (19.02%) Java Scala Software Engineer
10 131 (17.92%) Developer
11 128 (17.51%) Senior
12 127 (17.37%) AWS Engineer
13 123 (16.83%) Lead Java Engineer
14 115 (15.73%) AWS Software Engineer
15 113 (15.46%) Data Engineer
16 108 (14.77%) Lead Big Data Engineer
17 90 (12.31%) Scala Developer
18 74 (10.12%) Senior Software Engineer
19 59 (8.07%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (12.59%) Kafka
2 42 (5.75%) GraphQL
3 31 (4.24%) http4s
4 30 (4.10%) REST
5 25 (3.42%) JSON
5 25 (3.42%) Spring
6 24 (3.28%) Akka
7 23 (3.15%) Lambda Expressions
8 21 (2.87%) Apache Beam
8 21 (2.87%) Spring Boot
9 20 (2.74%) Web Services
10 19 (2.60%) React
11 18 (2.46%) Pandas
11 18 (2.46%) RESTful
12 17 (2.33%) NumPy
13 16 (2.19%) PySpark
14 15 (2.05%) Scalaz
15 14 (1.92%) gRPC
16 13 (1.78%) Play Framework
16 13 (1.78%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 126 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 95 (13.00%) Algorithms
3 48 (6.57%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.75%) Data Structures
5 37 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (4.38%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (2.60%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.46%) Hedge funds
11 16 (2.19%) Blockchain
12 15 (2.05%) Blog
12 15 (2.05%) Media Streaming
13 14 (1.92%) Distributed Applications
13 14 (1.92%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.64%) Derivative
14 12 (1.64%) Equities
14 12 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 9 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (1.09%) 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
1 491 (67.17%) Software Engineering
2 466 (63.75%) Agile
3 369 (50.48%) CI/CD
4 356 (48.70%) SDLC
5 276 (37.76%) Operational Stability
6 232 (31.74%) Performance Tuning
7 199 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
8 158 (21.61%) Machine Learning
9 129 (17.65%) Risk Management
10 124 (16.96%) Artificial Intelligence
11 117 (16.01%) Continuous Delivery
12 114 (15.60%) Mentoring
13 113 (15.46%) Decision-Making
14 99 (13.54%) Community of Practice
15 96 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
16 84 (11.49%) Analytics
17 82 (11.22%) Data Modelling
18 78 (10.67%) Coaching
19 77 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
20 76 (10.40%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 599 (81.94%) Java
2 403 (55.13%) SQL
3 228 (31.19%) Python
4 80 (10.94%) Kotlin
5 48 (6.57%) Go
6 35 (4.79%) TypeScript
7 26 (3.56%) Bash
8 24 (3.28%) JavaScript
9 21 (2.87%) Ruby
10 19 (2.60%) C#
11 18 (2.46%) PL/SQL
12 16 (2.19%) Clojure
13 14 (1.92%) C
14 12 (1.64%) R
15 11 (1.50%) C++
15 11 (1.50%) PowerShell
16 9 (1.23%) Groovy
17 7 (0.96%) F#
17 7 (0.96%) Haskell
18 6 (0.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (9.99%) Degree
2 45 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.64%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.64%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.82%) SANS
8 5 (0.68%) CISA
8 5 (0.68%) CISM
8 5 (0.68%) CISSP
8 5 (0.68%) 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 (4.65%) Data Quality
1 34 (4.65%) SLA
2 26 (3.56%) 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%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 28 (3.83%) Docker
2 16 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.50%) HDFS
4 2 (0.27%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 79 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 70 (9.58%) Terraform
3 47 (6.43%) 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 80 (10.94%) Google
2 72 (9.85%) Databricks
3 38 (5.20%) Oracle
4 36 (4.92%) Microsoft
5 23 (3.15%) Dell
6 18 (2.46%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.46%) Cognos
6 18 (2.46%) Sybase
7 13 (1.78%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.50%) 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%) Hortonworks