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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 346 234
Rank change year-on-year -21 -112 +20
Permanent jobs citing Scala 750 922 3,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.97% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.21% 2.30% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 288 465 1,028
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,750 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £101,563
90th Percentile £103,625 £115,000 £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 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £85,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +192 477 £55,000 -24.14% 35
England -150 392 £80,000 - 111
Scotland +106 322 £61,250 -13.70%
London -119 224 £80,000 -5.88% 80
Work from Home -20 186 £80,000 +6.67% 69
North of England +47 75 £55,000 -31.25% 16
North West +10 53 £60,000 -27.27% 13
South East -5 35 £57,500 -28.13% 8
South West -19 32 £70,576 +1.62% 4
Yorkshire +48 17 £55,000 -31.25% 1
Midlands -17 6 £52,500 -4.55% 2
North East - 5 £55,000 - 2
East Midlands -16 4 £51,500 -6.36% 1
Wales - 3 £55,000 - 3
Northern Ireland +20 2 £55,000 - 2
West Midlands -15 2 £55,000 -12.35% 1
East of England -18 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
1 381 (50.80%) Apache Spark
2 143 (19.07%) Apache
3 43 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 437 (58.27%) AWS
2 138 (18.40%) GCP
3 103 (13.73%) Azure
4 69 (9.20%) Amazon SQS
5 66 (8.80%) Amazon EMR
6 62 (8.27%) Serverless
7 59 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
8 53 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
9 49 (6.53%) Amazon ECS
9 49 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
10 41 (5.47%) Amazon Kinesis
11 28 (3.73%) GitHub
11 28 (3.73%) Snowflake
12 22 (2.93%) dbt
13 20 (2.67%) Amazon S3
14 16 (2.13%) Google Docs
14 16 (2.13%) SaaS
15 14 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (1.87%) Miro
15 14 (1.87%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.13%) DSL
2 5 (0.67%) Network Security
3 4 (0.53%) FTP
4 2 (0.27%) HTTP
4 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (46.67%) Big Data
2 322 (42.93%) NoSQL
3 162 (21.60%) Hadoop
4 85 (11.33%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (7.33%) Data Lake
7 52 (6.93%) Electronic Patient Records
8 40 (5.33%) DynamoDB
9 37 (4.93%) Apache Hive
10 36 (4.80%) MongoDB
11 34 (4.53%) Redis
11 34 (4.53%) Relational Database
12 32 (4.27%) Amazon Aurora
13 23 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (2.93%) BigQuery
15 21 (2.80%) SQL Server
16 19 (2.53%) Flink
17 17 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (2.27%) Impala
17 17 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (6.27%) Git
2 25 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 21 (2.80%) Gatling
4 17 (2.27%) JIRA
5 14 (1.87%) GitLab
6 9 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (1.20%) Spinnaker
7 8 (1.07%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.67%) Subversion
9 4 (0.53%) MLflow
9 4 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.27%) Gradle
11 2 (0.27%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.27%) JUnit
11 2 (0.27%) Maven
11 2 (0.27%) ScalaTest
12 1 (0.13%) ERwin
12 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 367 (48.93%) Finance
2 336 (44.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 320 (42.67%) Law
4 198 (26.40%) Marketing
5 159 (21.20%) Influencing Skills
6 120 (16.00%) Legal
7 119 (15.87%) Social Skills
8 70 (9.33%) Financial Institution
9 69 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
10 50 (6.67%) Banking
11 34 (4.53%) Electronics
12 30 (4.00%) Investment Banking
13 20 (2.67%) Billing
14 16 (2.13%) Front Office
15 14 (1.87%) Public Sector
16 7 (0.93%) Health Technology
16 7 (0.93%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.53%) Retail
18 3 (0.40%) Games
18 3 (0.40%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 364 (48.53%) Software Engineer
2 245 (32.67%) Scala Engineer
3 233 (31.07%) Scala Software Engineer
4 215 (28.67%) Big Data Engineer
4 215 (28.67%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 193 (25.73%) Lead
6 156 (20.80%) Java Engineer
7 152 (20.27%) Java Software Engineer
8 150 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
9 148 (19.73%) Senior
10 142 (18.93%) Developer
11 139 (18.53%) Java Scala Software Engineer
12 123 (16.40%) Lead Java Engineer
13 118 (15.73%) AWS Engineer
14 107 (14.27%) Data Engineer
15 106 (14.13%) AWS Software Engineer
16 104 (13.87%) Lead Big Data Engineer
17 99 (13.20%) Scala Developer
18 83 (11.07%) Senior Software Engineer
19 62 (8.27%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (10.93%) Kafka
2 56 (7.47%) GraphQL
3 54 (7.20%) REST
4 49 (6.53%) http4s
5 43 (5.73%) Web Services
6 32 (4.27%) Lambda Expressions
7 30 (4.00%) Scalaz
8 26 (3.47%) Spring
9 24 (3.20%) JSON
10 22 (2.93%) Spring Boot
11 21 (2.80%) Akka
11 21 (2.80%) React
12 18 (2.40%) Apache Beam
12 18 (2.40%) RESTful
13 17 (2.27%) Pandas
14 16 (2.13%) NumPy
15 13 (1.73%) gRPC
15 13 (1.73%) PySpark
16 12 (1.60%) Play Framework
16 12 (1.60%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 121 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 84 (11.20%) Algorithms
3 47 (6.27%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (5.87%) Public Cloud
5 43 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (4.40%) Data Structures
7 31 (4.13%) Management Information System
8 30 (4.00%) Blog
8 30 (4.00%) Media Streaming
9 20 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (2.53%) Blockchain
11 17 (2.27%) Hedge funds
12 16 (2.13%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.73%) Distributed Applications
13 13 (1.73%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.60%) Derivative
14 12 (1.60%) Equities
14 12 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (1.07%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.47%) Linux
2 10 (1.33%) Windows
3 3 (0.40%) Unix
4 2 (0.27%) VMS
4 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (65.33%) Software Engineering
2 475 (63.33%) Agile
3 363 (48.40%) CI/CD
4 342 (45.60%) SDLC
5 261 (34.80%) Operational Stability
6 222 (29.60%) Performance Tuning
7 189 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
8 153 (20.40%) Machine Learning
9 124 (16.53%) Mentoring
10 123 (16.40%) Risk Management
11 118 (15.73%) Artificial Intelligence
12 112 (14.93%) Continuous Delivery
13 107 (14.27%) Decision-Making
14 100 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
15 95 (12.67%) Community of Practice
16 92 (12.27%) Analytics
17 85 (11.33%) Coaching
18 81 (10.80%) Data Engineering
19 79 (10.53%) Data Modelling
20 78 (10.40%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 602 (80.27%) Java
2 390 (52.00%) SQL
3 214 (28.53%) Python
4 94 (12.53%) Kotlin
5 41 (5.47%) Go
6 38 (5.07%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 20 (2.67%) Ruby
9 19 (2.53%) C#
10 17 (2.27%) Bash
11 16 (2.13%) Clojure
11 16 (2.13%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.87%) C
13 12 (1.60%) R
14 11 (1.47%) PowerShell
15 9 (1.20%) C++
15 9 (1.20%) Groovy
16 6 (0.80%) F#
16 6 (0.80%) Haskell
16 6 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 87 (11.60%) Degree
2 59 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.60%) Master's Degree
4 12 (1.60%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.60%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.07%) Azure Certification
6 6 (0.80%) SANS
7 5 (0.67%) CISA
7 5 (0.67%) CISM
7 5 (0.67%) CISSP
7 5 (0.67%) CRISC
8 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.40%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.13%) OCP
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.67%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.00%) SLA
3 29 (3.87%) QA
4 6 (0.80%) NIST
5 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.53%) MiFID
7 1 (0.13%) GDPR
7 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 38 (5.07%) Docker
2 19 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 78 (10.40%) Terraform
2 72 (9.60%) Kubernetes
3 52 (6.93%) Ansible
4 4 (0.53%) Grafana
5 2 (0.27%) Istio
5 2 (0.27%) Kibana
5 2 (0.27%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 77 (10.27%) Google
2 67 (8.93%) Databricks
3 41 (5.47%) Microsoft
4 36 (4.80%) Oracle
5 17 (2.27%) Alteryx
6 16 (2.13%) Cognos
6 16 (2.13%) Sybase
7 14 (1.87%) Cloudera
7 14 (1.87%) Dell
8 11 (1.47%) Mercator
8 11 (1.47%) Teradata
9 10 (1.33%) Dataiku
10 9 (1.20%) Adobe
11 6 (0.80%) F5
12 4 (0.53%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.53%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.53%) Reuters
13 3 (0.40%) Informatica
13 3 (0.40%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.27%) Apple