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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 296 235
Rank change year-on-year -78 -61 +26
Permanent jobs citing Scala 725 1,201 2,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 1.21% 1.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.18% 2.80% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 282 487 1,043
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 33,216 42,952 86,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,477 43,381
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 18 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 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 +40 472 £55,000 -24.14% 50
Scotland +109 348 £61,250 -13.70% 6
England -223 347 £80,000 - 104
London -140 208 £80,000 -7.25% 77
Work from Home -121 191 £80,000 +6.67% 62
North of England -27 43 £55,000 -31.25% 12
South East -27 34 £57,500 -14.81% 18
South West -42 34 £80,000 +15.20% 5
North West -24 30 £55,000 -33.33% 8
Yorkshire +47 10 £55,000 -31.25% 4
Midlands -37 6 £52,500 -12.50%
East Midlands -23 4 £51,500 -6.36%
Wales +7 3 £55,000 - 4
North East -22 3 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland +21 2 £55,000 - 5
West Midlands -1 2 £55,000 -8.33%
East of England -48 2 £65,000 +13.04%

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
1 402 (55.45%) Apache Spark
2 146 (20.14%) Apache
3 45 (6.21%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 425 (58.62%) AWS
2 130 (17.93%) GCP
3 97 (13.38%) Azure
4 80 (11.03%) Amazon SQS
5 66 (9.10%) Amazon EMR
6 64 (8.83%) Serverless
7 61 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (7.03%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (4.00%) Amazon S3
11 26 (3.59%) Snowflake
12 25 (3.45%) Google Docs
12 25 (3.45%) SaaS
13 23 (3.17%) dbt
13 23 (3.17%) Lucidchart
13 23 (3.17%) Miro
13 23 (3.17%) Slack
14 21 (2.90%) Amazon Kinesis
15 20 (2.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.48%) DSL
2 5 (0.69%) Network Security
3 4 (0.55%) FTP
4 2 (0.28%) HTTP
4 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (51.59%) Big Data
2 314 (43.31%) NoSQL
3 179 (24.69%) Hadoop
4 65 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
5 59 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (7.59%) Data Lake
7 52 (7.17%) Electronic Patient Records
8 42 (5.79%) Apache Hive
9 38 (5.24%) MongoDB
10 36 (4.97%) Relational Database
11 30 (4.14%) Redis
12 26 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (3.17%) Scylla
14 22 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (3.03%) SQL Server
15 20 (2.76%) BigQuery
15 20 (2.76%) Flink
15 20 (2.76%) Impala
16 19 (2.62%) RDBMS
17 18 (2.48%) DB2
Development Applications
1 46 (6.34%) Git
2 23 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.48%) JIRA
4 9 (1.24%) CircleCI
4 9 (1.24%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (1.10%) Gatling
6 7 (0.97%) Spinnaker
7 5 (0.69%) 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 (0.28%) Gradle
10 2 (0.28%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.28%) JUnit
10 2 (0.28%) Maven
10 2 (0.28%) ScalaTest
11 1 (0.14%) Ant
11 1 (0.14%) ERwin
11 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
General
1 387 (53.38%) Finance
2 363 (50.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 335 (46.21%) Law
4 209 (28.83%) Marketing
5 165 (22.76%) Influencing Skills
6 124 (17.10%) Legal
7 108 (14.90%) Social Skills
8 78 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (9.93%) Financial Institution
10 56 (7.72%) Banking
11 33 (4.55%) Investment Banking
12 19 (2.62%) Electronics
13 17 (2.34%) Front Office
14 14 (1.93%) Public Sector
15 8 (1.10%) Retail Banking
16 7 (0.97%) Billing
16 7 (0.97%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.55%) Retail
18 3 (0.41%) Games
19 2 (0.28%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 355 (48.97%) Software Engineer
2 245 (33.79%) Scala Engineer
3 239 (32.97%) Scala Software Engineer
4 228 (31.45%) Big Data Engineer
4 228 (31.45%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 183 (25.24%) Lead
6 155 (21.38%) Java Engineer
7 152 (20.97%) Java Software Engineer
8 146 (20.14%) Lead Software Engineer
9 139 (19.17%) Java Scala Software Engineer
10 131 (18.07%) Developer
11 127 (17.52%) AWS Engineer
12 126 (17.38%) Senior
13 123 (16.97%) Lead Java Engineer
14 115 (15.86%) AWS Software Engineer
15 113 (15.59%) Data Engineer
16 108 (14.90%) Lead Big Data Engineer
17 90 (12.41%) Scala Developer
18 73 (10.07%) Senior Software Engineer
19 58 (8.00%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (12.69%) Kafka
2 38 (5.24%) GraphQL
3 26 (3.59%) http4s
3 26 (3.59%) REST
4 25 (3.45%) JSON
4 25 (3.45%) Spring
5 24 (3.31%) Akka
6 21 (2.90%) Apache Beam
6 21 (2.90%) Spring Boot
7 20 (2.76%) Lambda Expressions
8 19 (2.62%) React
9 18 (2.48%) Pandas
9 18 (2.48%) RESTful
10 17 (2.34%) NumPy
11 16 (2.21%) PySpark
11 16 (2.21%) Web Services
12 14 (1.93%) gRPC
13 13 (1.79%) Play Framework
13 13 (1.79%) Protocol Buffers
13 13 (1.79%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 126 (17.38%) Cloud Native
2 95 (13.10%) Algorithms
3 48 (6.62%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.79%) Data Structures
5 35 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (4.28%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (2.62%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.48%) Hedge funds
11 16 (2.21%) Blockchain
12 14 (1.93%) Distributed Applications
12 14 (1.93%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.66%) Blog
13 12 (1.66%) Derivative
13 12 (1.66%) Equities
13 12 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (1.66%) Media Streaming
14 9 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.10%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.38%) Linux
1 10 (1.38%) Windows
2 2 (0.28%) Unix
2 2 (0.28%) VMS
2 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (67.03%) Software Engineering
2 460 (63.45%) Agile
3 366 (50.48%) CI/CD
4 356 (49.10%) SDLC
5 276 (38.07%) Operational Stability
6 232 (32.00%) Performance Tuning
7 198 (27.31%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (21.66%) Machine Learning
9 129 (17.79%) Risk Management
10 124 (17.10%) Artificial Intelligence
11 117 (16.14%) Continuous Delivery
12 113 (15.59%) Decision-Making
13 112 (15.45%) Mentoring
14 99 (13.66%) Community of Practice
15 96 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
16 82 (11.31%) Analytics
16 82 (11.31%) Data Modelling
17 77 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 76 (10.48%) Coaching
18 76 (10.48%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 595 (82.07%) Java
2 403 (55.59%) SQL
3 227 (31.31%) Python
4 77 (10.62%) Kotlin
5 48 (6.62%) Go
6 35 (4.83%) TypeScript
7 26 (3.59%) Bash
8 24 (3.31%) JavaScript
9 21 (2.90%) Ruby
10 19 (2.62%) C#
11 18 (2.48%) PL/SQL
12 16 (2.21%) Clojure
13 14 (1.93%) C
14 12 (1.66%) R
15 11 (1.52%) C++
15 11 (1.52%) PowerShell
16 9 (1.24%) Groovy
17 7 (0.97%) F#
17 7 (0.97%) Haskell
18 6 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 70 (9.66%) Degree
2 42 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.66%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.66%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.83%) SANS
8 5 (0.69%) CISA
8 5 (0.69%) CISM
8 5 (0.69%) CISSP
8 5 (0.69%) CRISC
9 3 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.41%) 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 (4.69%) Data Quality
1 34 (4.69%) SLA
2 24 (3.31%) QA
3 6 (0.83%) 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 27 (3.72%) Docker
2 14 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.52%) HDFS
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 79 (10.90%) Kubernetes
2 68 (9.38%) Terraform
3 47 (6.48%) Ansible
4 4 (0.55%) Grafana
5 2 (0.28%) Istio
5 2 (0.28%) Kibana
5 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 78 (10.76%) Google
2 71 (9.79%) Databricks
3 38 (5.24%) Oracle
4 34 (4.69%) Microsoft
5 23 (3.17%) Dell
6 18 (2.48%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.48%) Cognos
6 18 (2.48%) Sybase
7 13 (1.79%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.52%) Teradata
9 10 (1.38%) Dataiku
10 9 (1.24%) Adobe
10 9 (1.24%) Mercator
11 6 (0.83%) 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 (0.28%) MuleSoft