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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 299 234
Rank change year-on-year -66 -65 +31
Permanent jobs citing Scala 734 1,199 2,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 1.21% 1.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.21% 2.78% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 281 488 1,042
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £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 33,218 43,078 87,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,863 27,599 43,697
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,375 £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 20 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 20 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 +57 475 £55,000 -24.14% 55
England -216 357 £80,000 - 110
Scotland +102 347 £61,250 -13.70% 8
London -142 214 £80,000 -5.88% 83
Work from Home -111 189 £80,000 +6.67% 83
North of England -39 48 £55,000 -31.25% 13
North West -25 35 £55,000 -33.33% 9
South East -19 34 £57,500 -22.03% 20
South West -39 33 £75,288 +8.41% 5
Yorkshire +46 10 £55,000 -31.25% 4
Midlands -35 6 £52,500 -12.50%
East Midlands -33 4 £51,500 -6.36%
Wales +9 3 £55,000 - 4
North East -17 3 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland +31 2 £55,000 - 5
West Midlands 0 2 £55,000 -8.33%
East of England -46 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
1 403 (54.90%) Apache Spark
2 147 (20.03%) Apache
3 45 (6.13%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 435 (59.26%) AWS
2 134 (18.26%) GCP
3 99 (13.49%) Azure
4 79 (10.76%) Amazon SQS
5 67 (9.13%) Amazon EMR
6 64 (8.72%) Serverless
7 61 (8.31%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (7.49%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (6.95%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
10 28 (3.81%) Amazon S3
11 27 (3.68%) Amazon Kinesis
11 27 (3.68%) Snowflake
12 24 (3.27%) Google Docs
12 24 (3.27%) SaaS
13 23 (3.13%) dbt
14 22 (3.00%) GitHub
14 22 (3.00%) Lucidchart
14 22 (3.00%) Miro
14 22 (3.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.45%) DSL
2 5 (0.68%) Network Security
3 4 (0.54%) FTP
4 2 (0.27%) HTTP
4 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (51.09%) Big Data
2 318 (43.32%) NoSQL
3 178 (24.25%) Hadoop
4 70 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (8.17%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (7.63%) Data Lake
7 53 (7.22%) Electronic Patient Records
8 41 (5.59%) Apache Hive
9 38 (5.18%) MongoDB
10 36 (4.90%) Relational Database
11 32 (4.36%) Redis
12 25 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (3.27%) DynamoDB
14 23 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
15 22 (3.00%) Scylla
15 22 (3.00%) SQL Server
16 21 (2.86%) BigQuery
17 20 (2.72%) Flink
17 20 (2.72%) Impala
18 19 (2.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (6.27%) Git
2 24 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.32%) JIRA
4 11 (1.50%) Gatling
5 9 (1.23%) CircleCI
5 9 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (1.09%) GitLab
6 8 (1.09%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.54%) Subversion
8 3 (0.41%) MLflow
8 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.27%) Gradle
9 2 (0.27%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.27%) JUnit
9 2 (0.27%) Maven
9 2 (0.27%) ScalaTest
10 1 (0.14%) Ant
10 1 (0.14%) ERwin
10 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
General
1 386 (52.59%) Finance
2 362 (49.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 335 (45.64%) Law
4 209 (28.47%) Marketing
5 165 (22.48%) Influencing Skills
6 124 (16.89%) Legal
7 113 (15.40%) Social Skills
8 76 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (9.81%) Financial Institution
10 55 (7.49%) Banking
11 33 (4.50%) Investment Banking
12 23 (3.13%) Electronics
13 17 (2.32%) Front Office
14 14 (1.91%) Public Sector
15 10 (1.36%) Billing
16 8 (1.09%) Retail Banking
17 7 (0.95%) Health Technology
18 4 (0.54%) Retail
19 3 (0.41%) Games
20 2 (0.27%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 363 (49.46%) Software Engineer
2 248 (33.79%) Scala Engineer
3 240 (32.70%) Scala Software Engineer
4 228 (31.06%) Big Data Engineer
4 228 (31.06%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 186 (25.34%) Lead
6 155 (21.12%) Java Engineer
7 152 (20.71%) Java Software Engineer
8 149 (20.30%) Lead Software Engineer
9 139 (18.94%) Java Scala Software Engineer
10 132 (17.98%) Senior
11 130 (17.71%) Developer
12 127 (17.30%) AWS Engineer
13 123 (16.76%) Lead Java Engineer
14 115 (15.67%) AWS Software Engineer
15 114 (15.53%) Data Engineer
16 108 (14.71%) Lead Big Data Engineer
17 89 (12.13%) Scala Developer
18 77 (10.49%) Senior Software Engineer
19 60 (8.17%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (12.53%) Kafka
2 45 (6.13%) GraphQL
3 34 (4.63%) REST
4 33 (4.50%) http4s
5 25 (3.41%) JSON
5 25 (3.41%) Spring
6 24 (3.27%) Web Services
7 23 (3.13%) Akka
7 23 (3.13%) Lambda Expressions
8 21 (2.86%) Spring Boot
9 20 (2.72%) Apache Beam
9 20 (2.72%) React
10 18 (2.45%) Pandas
10 18 (2.45%) RESTful
11 17 (2.32%) NumPy
11 17 (2.32%) Scalaz
12 16 (2.18%) PySpark
13 14 (1.91%) gRPC
14 13 (1.77%) Protocol Buffers
14 13 (1.77%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 126 (17.17%) Cloud Native
2 94 (12.81%) Algorithms
3 48 (6.54%) Public Cloud
4 41 (5.59%) Data Structures
5 40 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (4.36%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (2.45%) Hedge funds
9 18 (2.45%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.32%) Blog
10 17 (2.32%) Media Streaming
11 16 (2.18%) Blockchain
12 14 (1.91%) Distributed Applications
12 14 (1.91%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.63%) Derivative
13 12 (1.63%) Equities
13 12 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.09%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.36%) Linux
1 10 (1.36%) Windows
2 2 (0.27%) Unix
2 2 (0.27%) VMS
2 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (67.30%) Software Engineering
2 468 (63.76%) Agile
3 371 (50.54%) CI/CD
4 356 (48.50%) SDLC
5 276 (37.60%) Operational Stability
6 232 (31.61%) Performance Tuning
7 198 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
8 159 (21.66%) Machine Learning
9 129 (17.57%) Risk Management
10 124 (16.89%) Artificial Intelligence
11 117 (15.94%) Continuous Delivery
12 116 (15.80%) Mentoring
13 114 (15.53%) Decision-Making
14 99 (13.49%) Community of Practice
14 99 (13.49%) Data Pipeline
15 86 (11.72%) Analytics
16 82 (11.17%) Data Modelling
17 80 (10.90%) Coaching
18 77 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
19 76 (10.35%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 602 (82.02%) Java
2 403 (54.90%) SQL
3 228 (31.06%) Python
4 83 (11.31%) Kotlin
5 47 (6.40%) Go
6 36 (4.90%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.41%) Bash
8 24 (3.27%) JavaScript
9 21 (2.86%) Ruby
10 19 (2.59%) C#
11 18 (2.45%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.32%) Clojure
13 14 (1.91%) C
14 12 (1.63%) R
15 11 (1.50%) C++
15 11 (1.50%) PowerShell
16 9 (1.23%) Groovy
17 7 (0.95%) F#
17 7 (0.95%) Haskell
18 6 (0.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 75 (10.22%) Degree
2 47 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.63%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.63%) Security Cleared
5 11 (1.50%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.82%) SANS
8 5 (0.68%) CISA
8 5 (0.68%) CISM
8 5 (0.68%) CISSP
8 5 (0.68%) CRISC
9 3 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.27%) 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 35 (4.77%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.63%) SLA
3 26 (3.54%) QA
4 6 (0.82%) NIST
5 4 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.54%) MiFID
6 1 (0.14%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 31 (4.22%) Docker
2 16 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.50%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 79 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 71 (9.67%) Terraform
3 48 (6.54%) Ansible
4 4 (0.54%) Grafana
5 2 (0.27%) Istio
5 2 (0.27%) Kibana
5 2 (0.27%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 78 (10.63%) Google
2 72 (9.81%) Databricks
3 38 (5.18%) Oracle
4 36 (4.90%) Microsoft
5 22 (3.00%) Dell
6 18 (2.45%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.45%) Cognos
6 18 (2.45%) Sybase
7 14 (1.91%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.50%) Teradata
9 10 (1.36%) Dataiku
10 9 (1.23%) Adobe
10 9 (1.23%) Mercator
11 6 (0.82%) F5
12 4 (0.54%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.54%) Reuters
13 3 (0.41%) Hortonworks
13 3 (0.41%) Informatica
13 3 (0.41%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.27%) MuleSoft