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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 333 233
Rank change year-on-year -40 -100 +30
Permanent jobs citing Scala 747 919 3,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.97% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.20% 2.29% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 288 462 1,029
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,375 £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 £102,500
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 33,900 40,052 91,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.30% 42.32% 54.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,257 26,577 43,330
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 1 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 1 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 +200 475 £55,000 -24.14% 31
England -179 389 £80,000 - 93
Scotland +106 322 £61,250 -13.70%
London -122 223 £80,000 -5.88% 66
Work from Home -24 186 £80,000 +6.67% 62
North of England +46 73 £55,000 -31.25% 16
North West +18 52 £60,000 -27.27% 13
South East +1 35 £57,500 -28.13% 5
South West -17 32 £70,576 +1.62% 4
Yorkshire +50 17 £55,000 -31.25% 1
Midlands -19 6 £52,500 -4.55% 1
East Midlands -19 4 £51,500 -6.36% 1
North East - 4 £55,000 - 2
Wales - 3 £55,000 - 3
Northern Ireland +21 2 £55,000 - 2
East of England -14 2 £65,000 +13.04% 1
West Midlands -19 2 £55,000 -12.35%

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 (51.00%) Apache Spark
2 143 (19.14%) Apache
3 43 (5.76%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 436 (58.37%) AWS
2 138 (18.47%) GCP
3 103 (13.79%) Azure
4 69 (9.24%) Amazon SQS
5 66 (8.84%) Amazon EMR
6 62 (8.30%) Serverless
7 59 (7.90%) AWS Lambda
8 53 (7.10%) Amazon EC2
9 49 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
9 49 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (5.35%) Amazon Kinesis
11 28 (3.75%) GitHub
11 28 (3.75%) Snowflake
12 22 (2.95%) dbt
13 20 (2.68%) Amazon S3
14 16 (2.14%) Google Docs
14 16 (2.14%) SaaS
15 14 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (1.87%) Lucidchart
15 14 (1.87%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.14%) DSL
2 5 (0.67%) Network Security
3 4 (0.54%) FTP
4 2 (0.27%) HTTP
4 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (46.85%) Big Data
2 321 (42.97%) NoSQL
3 162 (21.69%) Hadoop
4 84 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (8.03%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (7.36%) Data Lake
7 52 (6.96%) Electronic Patient Records
8 38 (5.09%) DynamoDB
9 37 (4.95%) Apache Hive
10 36 (4.82%) MongoDB
11 34 (4.55%) Relational Database
12 33 (4.42%) Redis
13 30 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
14 23 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
15 22 (2.95%) BigQuery
16 21 (2.81%) SQL Server
17 19 (2.54%) Flink
18 17 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
18 17 (2.28%) Impala
18 17 (2.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (6.29%) Git
2 25 (3.35%) Jenkins
3 20 (2.68%) Gatling
4 17 (2.28%) 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 (0.54%) MLflow
9 4 (0.54%) 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
1 366 (49.00%) Finance
2 336 (44.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 319 (42.70%) Law
4 198 (26.51%) Marketing
5 159 (21.29%) Influencing Skills
6 119 (15.93%) Legal
7 118 (15.80%) Social Skills
8 69 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
8 69 (9.24%) Financial Institution
9 50 (6.69%) Banking
10 33 (4.42%) Electronics
11 30 (4.02%) Investment Banking
12 19 (2.54%) Billing
13 16 (2.14%) Front Office
14 14 (1.87%) Public Sector
15 7 (0.94%) Health Technology
15 7 (0.94%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.54%) Retail
17 3 (0.40%) Games
17 3 (0.40%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 362 (48.46%) Software Engineer
2 245 (32.80%) Scala Engineer
3 233 (31.19%) Scala Software Engineer
4 215 (28.78%) Big Data Engineer
4 215 (28.78%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 193 (25.84%) Lead
6 156 (20.88%) Java Engineer
7 152 (20.35%) Java Software Engineer
8 150 (20.08%) Lead Software Engineer
9 146 (19.54%) Senior
10 141 (18.88%) Developer
11 139 (18.61%) Java Scala Software Engineer
12 123 (16.47%) Lead Java Engineer
13 118 (15.80%) AWS Engineer
14 107 (14.32%) Data Engineer
15 106 (14.19%) AWS Software Engineer
16 104 (13.92%) Lead Big Data Engineer
17 98 (13.12%) Scala Developer
18 82 (10.98%) Senior Software Engineer
19 62 (8.30%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (10.98%) Kafka
2 55 (7.36%) GraphQL
3 53 (7.10%) REST
4 48 (6.43%) http4s
5 42 (5.62%) Web Services
6 31 (4.15%) Lambda Expressions
7 29 (3.88%) Scalaz
8 26 (3.48%) Spring
9 24 (3.21%) JSON
10 22 (2.95%) Spring Boot
11 21 (2.81%) Akka
11 21 (2.81%) React
12 18 (2.41%) Apache Beam
12 18 (2.41%) RESTful
13 17 (2.28%) Pandas
14 16 (2.14%) NumPy
15 13 (1.74%) gRPC
15 13 (1.74%) PySpark
16 12 (1.61%) Play Framework
16 12 (1.61%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 121 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 84 (11.24%) Algorithms
3 47 (6.29%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (5.89%) Public Cloud
5 42 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (4.42%) Data Structures
7 31 (4.15%) Management Information System
8 29 (3.88%) Blog
8 29 (3.88%) Media Streaming
9 20 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (2.54%) Blockchain
11 17 (2.28%) Hedge funds
12 16 (2.14%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.74%) Distributed Applications
13 13 (1.74%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.61%) Derivative
14 12 (1.61%) Equities
14 12 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.47%) Linux
2 10 (1.34%) Windows
3 3 (0.40%) Unix
4 2 (0.27%) VMS
4 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (65.33%) Software Engineering
2 473 (63.32%) Agile
3 363 (48.59%) CI/CD
4 341 (45.65%) SDLC
5 261 (34.94%) Operational Stability
6 222 (29.72%) Performance Tuning
7 189 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
8 153 (20.48%) Machine Learning
9 124 (16.60%) Mentoring
10 123 (16.47%) Risk Management
11 118 (15.80%) Artificial Intelligence
12 112 (14.99%) Continuous Delivery
13 107 (14.32%) Decision-Making
14 100 (13.39%) Data Pipeline
15 95 (12.72%) Community of Practice
16 91 (12.18%) Analytics
17 85 (11.38%) Coaching
18 80 (10.71%) Data Engineering
19 79 (10.58%) Data Modelling
20 76 (10.17%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 600 (80.32%) Java
2 390 (52.21%) SQL
3 214 (28.65%) Python
4 94 (12.58%) Kotlin
5 40 (5.35%) Go
6 38 (5.09%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.35%) JavaScript
8 20 (2.68%) Ruby
9 19 (2.54%) C#
10 17 (2.28%) Bash
11 16 (2.14%) Clojure
11 16 (2.14%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.87%) C
13 12 (1.61%) 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%) PHP
Qualifications
1 86 (11.51%) Degree
2 58 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.61%) Master's Degree
4 12 (1.61%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.61%) 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 (0.54%) 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 (4.69%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.02%) SLA
3 29 (3.88%) QA
4 6 (0.80%) NIST
5 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.54%) MiFID
7 1 (0.13%) GDPR
7 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 38 (5.09%) Docker
2 19 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 78 (10.44%) Terraform
2 71 (9.50%) Kubernetes
3 52 (6.96%) Ansible
4 4 (0.54%) 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 (10.31%) Google
2 67 (8.97%) Databricks
3 41 (5.49%) Microsoft
4 36 (4.82%) Oracle
5 17 (2.28%) Alteryx
6 16 (2.14%) Cognos
6 16 (2.14%) Sybase
7 14 (1.87%) Cloudera
7 14 (1.87%) Dell
8 11 (1.47%) Mercator
8 11 (1.47%) Teradata
9 10 (1.34%) Dataiku
10 9 (1.20%) Adobe
11 6 (0.80%) F5
12 4 (0.54%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.54%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.54%) Reuters
13 3 (0.40%) Informatica
13 3 (0.40%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.27%) Apple