Scala Engineer
UK

The median Scala Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 649 892 1076
Rank change year-on-year +243 +184 -244
Permanent jobs requiring a Scala Engineer 245 85 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.086% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.094% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6 78 85
10th Percentile £58,750 £68,750 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £72,188 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £95,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +15.15% +13.79%
75th Percentile £71,875 £140,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £200,000 £145,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £74,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -3.87% +40.91%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Scala Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Scala Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Scala Engineer.

Salary trend for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Scala Engineer in the UK

Scala Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +179 230 - - 1
Scotland +117 228 - -
England +20 13 £70,000 -26.32% 2
London +55 10 £65,000 -43.48% 2
North of England +41 2 - -
North West - 2 - -

Scala Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Scala Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Scala Engineer in the job title.

1 245 (100.00%) Scala
2 243 (99.18%) Software Engineering
3 239 (97.55%) Agile
4 238 (97.14%) Java
5 228 (93.06%) Finance
5 228 (93.06%) Law
5 228 (93.06%) SDLC
5 228 (93.06%) Operational Stability
5 228 (93.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 218 (88.98%) Apache Spark
7 211 (86.12%) NoSQL
8 210 (85.71%) SQL
9 209 (85.31%) Big Data
10 187 (76.33%) CI/CD
11 159 (64.90%) Performance Tuning
12 127 (51.84%) Marketing
13 124 (50.61%) AWS
14 110 (44.90%) Apache
15 108 (44.08%) Influencing Skills
16 101 (41.22%) Problem-Solving
16 101 (41.22%) Legal
16 101 (41.22%) Risk Management
16 101 (41.22%) Hadoop
17 79 (32.24%) Machine Learning
18 76 (31.02%) Community of Practice
18 76 (31.02%) Cloud Native
19 70 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
20 57 (23.27%) Technical Leadership
21 52 (21.22%) Algorithms
22 51 (20.82%) Amazon EMR

Scala Engineer Skill Set
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
1 218 (88.98%) Apache Spark
2 110 (44.90%) Apache
3 9 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 124 (50.61%) AWS
2 51 (20.82%) Amazon EC2
2 51 (20.82%) Amazon ECS
2 51 (20.82%) Amazon EKS
2 51 (20.82%) Amazon EMR
2 51 (20.82%) Amazon SQS
2 51 (20.82%) AWS Lambda
2 51 (20.82%) Serverless
3 10 (4.08%) GCP
4 9 (3.67%) Azure
5 2 (0.82%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (86.12%) NoSQL
2 209 (85.31%) Big Data
3 101 (41.22%) Hadoop
4 51 (20.82%) Electronic Patient Records
5 9 (3.67%) Apache Hive
5 9 (3.67%) Presto
6 4 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.82%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.41%) MySQL
8 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.41%) Redis
8 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Gatling
General
1 228 (93.06%) Finance
1 228 (93.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 228 (93.06%) Law
2 127 (51.84%) Marketing
3 108 (44.08%) Influencing Skills
4 101 (41.22%) Legal
5 10 (4.08%) Electronics
6 2 (0.82%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.41%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.49%) http4s
2 9 (3.67%) Lambda Expressions
3 3 (1.22%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.82%) REST
4 2 (0.82%) Scalaz
4 2 (0.82%) Web Services
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Thrift
5 1 (0.41%) gRPC
5 1 (0.41%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.41%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 76 (31.02%) Cloud Native
2 52 (21.22%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.67%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.04%) Blockchain
4 5 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.82%) Blog
5 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.82%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (99.18%) Software Engineering
2 239 (97.55%) Agile
3 228 (93.06%) Operational Stability
3 228 (93.06%) SDLC
4 187 (76.33%) CI/CD
5 159 (64.90%) Performance Tuning
6 101 (41.22%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (41.22%) Risk Management
7 79 (32.24%) Machine Learning
8 76 (31.02%) Community of Practice
9 70 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
10 57 (23.27%) Technical Leadership
11 51 (20.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (20.82%) Tech Ops
11 51 (20.82%) Visualisation
12 50 (20.41%) Decision-Making
13 19 (7.76%) Architectural Design
13 19 (7.76%) Continuous Delivery
13 19 (7.76%) Information Architecture
14 12 (4.90%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 245 (100.00%) Scala
2 238 (97.14%) Java
3 210 (85.71%) SQL
4 10 (4.08%) Kotlin
4 10 (4.08%) Python
5 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.41%) C#
6 1 (0.41%) Dart
6 1 (0.41%) F#
6 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (4.49%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.67%) QA
System Software
1 9 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (4.08%) Google
2 9 (3.67%) Databricks
2 9 (3.67%) Microsoft