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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 297 230
Rank change year-on-year -66 -67 +32
Permanent jobs citing Scala 736 1,177 2,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 1.19% 1.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.21% 2.76% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 281 476 1,029
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,188 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £116,743 £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 33,326 42,611 88,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.02% 43.26% 54.15%
Number of salaries quoted 24,946 27,225 43,437
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 23 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 23 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 +67 475 £55,000 -24.14% 35
England -202 359 £80,000 - 86
Scotland +107 345 £61,250 -13.70% 4
London -134 215 £80,000 -5.88% 64
Work from Home -132 187 £80,000 +6.67% 71
North of England -31 50 £55,000 -31.25% 10
North West -20 36 £55,000 -33.33% 8
South East -16 34 £57,500 -28.13% 8
South West -31 33 £75,288 +8.41% 4
Yorkshire +47 11 £55,000 -31.25% 2
Midlands -36 6 £52,500 -12.50%
East Midlands -21 4 £51,500 -6.36%
Wales +9 3 £55,000 - 4
North East -22 3 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland +27 2 £55,000 - 5
West Midlands -4 2 £55,000 -8.33%
East of England -44 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 (54.62%) Apache Spark
2 149 (20.24%) Apache
3 46 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.36%) 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
1 437 (59.38%) AWS
2 137 (18.61%) GCP
3 102 (13.86%) Azure
4 77 (10.46%) Amazon SQS
5 67 (9.10%) Amazon EMR
6 64 (8.70%) Serverless
7 61 (8.29%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (7.47%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (6.93%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (6.93%) Amazon EKS
10 28 (3.80%) Amazon Kinesis
11 27 (3.67%) Snowflake
12 26 (3.53%) Amazon S3
13 23 (3.13%) dbt
13 23 (3.13%) GitHub
14 22 (2.99%) Google Docs
14 22 (2.99%) SaaS
15 20 (2.72%) Lucidchart
15 20 (2.72%) Miro
15 20 (2.72%) 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
1 373 (50.68%) Big Data
2 320 (43.48%) NoSQL
3 176 (23.91%) Hadoop
4 70 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (8.29%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (7.61%) Data Lake
7 53 (7.20%) Electronic Patient Records
8 41 (5.57%) Apache Hive
9 38 (5.16%) MongoDB
10 35 (4.76%) Relational Database
11 31 (4.21%) Redis
12 25 (3.40%) DynamoDB
13 23 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
13 23 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (2.99%) SQL Server
15 21 (2.85%) BigQuery
16 20 (2.72%) Flink
16 20 (2.72%) Scylla
17 19 (2.58%) Impala
17 19 (2.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (6.25%) Git
2 25 (3.40%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.31%) JIRA
4 12 (1.63%) Gatling
5 9 (1.22%) CircleCI
5 9 (1.22%) GitLab
5 9 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (1.09%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.54%) MLflow
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.54%) Subversion
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%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 385 (52.31%) Finance
2 360 (48.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 335 (45.52%) Law
4 209 (28.40%) Marketing
5 165 (22.42%) Influencing Skills
6 124 (16.85%) Legal
7 112 (15.22%) Social Skills
8 74 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (9.78%) Financial Institution
10 55 (7.47%) Banking
11 33 (4.48%) Investment Banking
12 25 (3.40%) Electronics
13 17 (2.31%) Front Office
14 14 (1.90%) Public Sector
15 11 (1.49%) 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
1 365 (49.59%) Software Engineer
2 249 (33.83%) Scala Engineer
3 241 (32.74%) Scala Software Engineer
4 228 (30.98%) Big Data Engineer
4 228 (30.98%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 186 (25.27%) Lead
6 155 (21.06%) Java Engineer
7 152 (20.65%) Java Software Engineer
8 149 (20.24%) Lead Software Engineer
9 139 (18.89%) Java Scala Software Engineer
10 134 (18.21%) Senior
11 130 (17.66%) Developer
12 127 (17.26%) AWS Engineer
13 123 (16.71%) Lead Java Engineer
14 115 (15.63%) AWS Software Engineer
14 115 (15.63%) Data Engineer
15 108 (14.67%) Lead Big Data Engineer
16 90 (12.23%) Scala Developer
17 78 (10.60%) Senior Software Engineer
18 60 (8.15%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (12.23%) Kafka
2 45 (6.11%) GraphQL
3 37 (5.03%) REST
4 35 (4.76%) http4s
5 26 (3.53%) Web Services
6 25 (3.40%) JSON
6 25 (3.40%) Lambda Expressions
6 25 (3.40%) Spring
7 22 (2.99%) Akka
8 21 (2.85%) React
8 21 (2.85%) Spring Boot
9 20 (2.72%) Apache Beam
10 18 (2.45%) Pandas
10 18 (2.45%) RESTful
10 18 (2.45%) Scalaz
11 17 (2.31%) NumPy
12 15 (2.04%) PySpark
13 14 (1.90%) gRPC
14 13 (1.77%) Protocol Buffers
14 13 (1.77%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 127 (17.26%) Cloud Native
2 92 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 48 (6.52%) Public Cloud
4 40 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (5.30%) Data Structures
6 35 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
7 33 (4.48%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (2.45%) Blog
9 18 (2.45%) Media Streaming
9 18 (2.45%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.31%) Blockchain
10 17 (2.31%) Hedge funds
11 14 (1.90%) Distributed Applications
12 13 (1.77%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.63%) Derivative
13 12 (1.63%) Equities
13 12 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.09%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.49%) Linux
2 10 (1.36%) Windows
3 3 (0.41%) Unix
4 2 (0.27%) VMS
4 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (67.26%) Software Engineering
2 472 (64.13%) Agile
3 373 (50.68%) CI/CD
4 357 (48.51%) SDLC
5 276 (37.50%) Operational Stability
6 232 (31.52%) Performance Tuning
7 196 (26.63%) Problem-Solving
8 161 (21.88%) Machine Learning
9 129 (17.53%) Risk Management
10 125 (16.98%) Artificial Intelligence
11 117 (15.90%) Continuous Delivery
12 116 (15.76%) Decision-Making
12 116 (15.76%) Mentoring
13 100 (13.59%) Data Pipeline
14 99 (13.45%) Community of Practice
15 87 (11.82%) Analytics
16 82 (11.14%) Data Modelling
17 80 (10.87%) Coaching
18 78 (10.60%) Data Engineering
19 77 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 602 (81.79%) Java
2 403 (54.76%) SQL
3 227 (30.84%) Python
4 84 (11.41%) Kotlin
5 45 (6.11%) Go
6 37 (5.03%) TypeScript
7 26 (3.53%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.13%) Bash
9 21 (2.85%) Ruby
10 19 (2.58%) C#
11 18 (2.45%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.31%) Clojure
13 14 (1.90%) C
14 12 (1.63%) R
15 11 (1.49%) PowerShell
16 9 (1.22%) C++
16 9 (1.22%) Groovy
17 7 (0.95%) F#
17 7 (0.95%) Haskell
18 6 (0.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 78 (10.60%) Degree
2 50 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.63%) Master's Degree
4 12 (1.63%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.63%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 6 (0.82%) SANS
7 5 (0.68%) CISA
7 5 (0.68%) CISM
7 5 (0.68%) CISSP
7 5 (0.68%) CRISC
8 3 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.14%) OCP
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.89%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.62%) SLA
3 27 (3.67%) QA
4 6 (0.82%) NIST
5 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.54%) MiFID
7 1 (0.14%) GDPR
7 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 32 (4.35%) Docker
2 17 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.49%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 77 (10.46%) Kubernetes
2 72 (9.78%) Terraform
3 48 (6.52%) 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 79 (10.73%) Google
2 74 (10.05%) Databricks
3 38 (5.16%) Microsoft
3 38 (5.16%) Oracle
4 20 (2.72%) Dell
5 19 (2.58%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.45%) Cognos
6 18 (2.45%) Sybase
7 14 (1.90%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.49%) Teradata
9 10 (1.36%) Dataiku
10 9 (1.22%) Adobe
10 9 (1.22%) 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