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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 355 231
Rank change year-on-year -23 -124 +25
Permanent jobs citing Scala 740 882 3,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.95% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.15% 2.25% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 291 448 1,042
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 34,343 39,181 92,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.67% 42.09% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 25,459 26,275 43,476
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 £85,000 £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 9 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 9 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 +175 463 £55,000 -24.14% 29
England -155 404 £77,500 -3.13% 75
Scotland +110 299 £61,250 -13.70% 2
London -136 228 £80,000 -8.57% 50
Work from Home -9 185 £80,000 +6.67% 39
North of England +49 85 £60,000 -25.00% 12
North West +21 61 £60,000 -27.27% 11
South East 0 35 £57,500 -28.13% 5
South West -19 32 £70,576 +1.62% 3
Yorkshire +53 17 £55,000 -27.87%
North East -9 7 £55,000 - 1
Midlands -33 6 £52,500 -4.55% 2
East Midlands -33 4 £51,500 -6.36% 1
Wales - 3 £55,000 - 3
Northern Ireland +17 2 £55,000 - 2
West Midlands -12 2 £55,000 -12.35% 1
East of England -24 1 £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
1 358 (48.38%) Apache Spark
2 134 (18.11%) Apache
3 42 (5.68%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.49%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 423 (57.16%) AWS
2 140 (18.92%) GCP
3 105 (14.19%) Azure
4 64 (8.65%) Amazon SQS
5 60 (8.11%) Amazon EMR
6 56 (7.57%) Serverless
7 53 (7.16%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
9 45 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
9 45 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (6.08%) Amazon Kinesis
10 28 (3.78%) GitHub
10 28 (3.78%) Snowflake
11 22 (2.97%) dbt
12 17 (2.30%) Amazon S3
13 15 (2.03%) Google Docs
13 15 (2.03%) SaaS
14 14 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (1.76%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.76%) DSL
2 5 (0.68%) FTP
2 5 (0.68%) Network Security
3 2 (0.27%) HTTP
3 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (44.05%) Big Data
2 306 (41.35%) NoSQL
3 150 (20.27%) Hadoop
4 91 (12.30%) PostgreSQL
5 57 (7.70%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (7.16%) Data Lake
7 48 (6.49%) DynamoDB
7 48 (6.49%) Electronic Patient Records
8 38 (5.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 37 (5.00%) Redis
10 35 (4.73%) MongoDB
11 34 (4.59%) Apache Hive
12 31 (4.19%) Relational Database
13 23 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (2.97%) BigQuery
14 22 (2.97%) SQL Server
15 20 (2.70%) Flink
16 18 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (2.30%) Impala
18 15 (2.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (6.22%) Git
2 25 (3.38%) Gatling
2 25 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.43%) JIRA
4 15 (2.03%) GitLab
5 9 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (1.22%) Spinnaker
6 7 (0.95%) CircleCI
7 5 (0.68%) Subversion
8 4 (0.54%) MLflow
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.27%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.27%) ScalaTest
11 1 (0.14%) ERwin
11 1 (0.14%) JUnit
11 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.14%) Maven
11 1 (0.14%) Selenium
11 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 345 (46.62%) Finance
2 313 (42.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 300 (40.54%) Law
4 184 (24.86%) Marketing
5 148 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
6 121 (16.35%) Social Skills
7 114 (15.41%) Legal
8 66 (8.92%) Financial Institution
9 63 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
10 46 (6.22%) Banking
11 38 (5.14%) Electronics
12 27 (3.65%) Investment Banking
13 24 (3.24%) Billing
14 17 (2.30%) Front Office
15 15 (2.03%) Public Sector
16 7 (0.95%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.81%) Retail Banking
18 4 (0.54%) Retail
19 3 (0.41%) Advertising
19 3 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 359 (48.51%) Software Engineer
2 230 (31.08%) Scala Engineer
3 217 (29.32%) Scala Software Engineer
4 199 (26.89%) Big Data Engineer
4 199 (26.89%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 190 (25.68%) Lead
6 151 (20.41%) Senior
7 148 (20.00%) Java Engineer
8 146 (19.73%) Lead Software Engineer
9 144 (19.46%) Developer
9 144 (19.46%) Java Software Engineer
10 131 (17.70%) Java Scala Software Engineer
11 123 (16.62%) Lead Java Engineer
12 102 (13.78%) AWS Engineer
12 102 (13.78%) Data Engineer
13 101 (13.65%) Scala Developer
14 96 (12.97%) Lead Big Data Engineer
15 90 (12.16%) AWS Software Engineer
16 84 (11.35%) Senior Software Engineer
17 59 (7.97%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (10.81%) Kafka
2 62 (8.38%) GraphQL
2 62 (8.38%) REST
3 55 (7.43%) http4s
4 50 (6.76%) Web Services
5 37 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
6 34 (4.59%) Scalaz
7 28 (3.78%) Spring
8 24 (3.24%) JSON
8 24 (3.24%) React
9 23 (3.11%) Spring Boot
10 20 (2.70%) Akka
11 19 (2.57%) RESTful
12 18 (2.43%) Pandas
13 17 (2.30%) Apache Beam
13 17 (2.30%) NumPy
14 13 (1.76%) gRPC
14 13 (1.76%) Play Framework
15 12 (1.62%) Protocol Buffers
15 12 (1.62%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 114 (15.41%) Cloud Native
2 79 (10.68%) Algorithms
3 50 (6.76%) Self-Motivation
4 45 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
5 41 (5.54%) Public Cloud
6 36 (4.86%) Blog
6 36 (4.86%) Media Streaming
7 31 (4.19%) Data Structures
8 28 (3.78%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.70%) Blockchain
10 19 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (2.30%) Hedge funds
12 13 (1.76%) Product Ownership
13 12 (1.62%) Derivative
13 12 (1.62%) Distributed Applications
13 12 (1.62%) Equities
13 12 (1.62%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.08%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.62%) Linux
2 10 (1.35%) Windows
3 3 (0.41%) Unix
4 2 (0.27%) VMS
4 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (64.19%) Software Engineering
2 466 (62.97%) Agile
3 346 (46.76%) CI/CD
4 320 (43.24%) SDLC
5 242 (32.70%) Operational Stability
6 204 (27.57%) Performance Tuning
7 179 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (19.46%) Machine Learning
9 125 (16.89%) Mentoring
10 116 (15.68%) Risk Management
11 111 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
12 105 (14.19%) Continuous Delivery
13 99 (13.38%) Data Pipeline
13 99 (13.38%) Decision-Making
14 91 (12.30%) Analytics
15 88 (11.89%) Community of Practice
16 85 (11.49%) Coaching
17 81 (10.95%) Continuous Integration
17 81 (10.95%) Data Engineering
18 80 (10.81%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 587 (79.32%) Java
2 367 (49.59%) SQL
3 211 (28.51%) Python
4 100 (13.51%) Kotlin
5 42 (5.68%) Go
6 41 (5.54%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.38%) JavaScript
8 21 (2.84%) Ruby
9 19 (2.57%) C#
10 18 (2.43%) Clojure
11 16 (2.16%) Bash
12 13 (1.76%) C
12 13 (1.76%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.62%) R
14 11 (1.49%) PowerShell
15 10 (1.35%) Groovy
16 7 (0.95%) C++
17 6 (0.81%) PHP
17 6 (0.81%) Rust
18 5 (0.68%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 90 (12.16%) Degree
2 60 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.62%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.62%) Security Cleared
5 11 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.81%) SANS
8 5 (0.68%) CISA
8 5 (0.68%) CISM
8 5 (0.68%) CISSP
8 5 (0.68%) CRISC
8 5 (0.68%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.14%) OCP
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.19%) QA
3 27 (3.65%) SLA
4 6 (0.81%) NIST
5 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.68%) MiFID
6 1 (0.14%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 39 (5.27%) Docker
2 21 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 81 (10.95%) Terraform
2 72 (9.73%) Kubernetes
3 51 (6.89%) Ansible
4 4 (0.54%) Grafana
5 2 (0.27%) Istio
5 2 (0.27%) Kibana
5 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.27%) Puppet
5 2 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 79 (10.68%) Google
2 66 (8.92%) Databricks
3 44 (5.95%) Microsoft
4 33 (4.46%) Oracle
5 14 (1.89%) Alteryx
6 13 (1.76%) Cloudera
6 13 (1.76%) Cognos
6 13 (1.76%) Dell
6 13 (1.76%) Sybase
7 11 (1.49%) Mercator
7 11 (1.49%) Teradata
8 10 (1.35%) Dataiku
9 9 (1.22%) Adobe
10 6 (0.81%) F5
11 5 (0.68%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.68%) Reuters
12 4 (0.54%) Hortonworks
13 3 (0.41%) Informatica
13 3 (0.41%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.27%) Apple