Scala Jobs in Scotland

Scala
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 73 175 215
Rank change year-on-year +102 +40 -77
Permanent jobs citing Scala 347 40 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.17% 0.87% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.30% 2.04% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile - £61,180 £44,478
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,447 £46,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £70,974 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.70% +29.04% +4.76%
75th Percentile £78,056 £77,715 £66,875
90th Percentile £90,306 £84,075 £68,850
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +10.34%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,733 1,963 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 55.66% 42.74% 45.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,123 1,080 1,566
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,625 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Scala in Scotland

Scala
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Scala in Scotland

Scala
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scala in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Scala in Scotland

Scala
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the Scotland region 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
Glasgow +55 322 £55,000 -24.14% 4
Edinburgh +47 24 £81,069 +16.73% 3
Lanarkshire -7 1 - - 1
Scala
UK

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 320 (92.22%) Apache Spark
2 101 (29.11%) Apache
3 1 (0.29%) Confluence
3 1 (0.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 228 (65.71%) AWS
2 73 (21.04%) Amazon SQS
3 51 (14.70%) Amazon EC2
3 51 (14.70%) Amazon ECS
3 51 (14.70%) Amazon EKS
3 51 (14.70%) Amazon EMR
3 51 (14.70%) AWS Lambda
3 51 (14.70%) Serverless
4 26 (7.49%) GCP
5 22 (6.34%) Amazon S3
5 22 (6.34%) Google Docs
5 22 (6.34%) Lucidchart
5 22 (6.34%) Miro
5 22 (6.34%) SaaS
5 22 (6.34%) Slack
6 4 (1.15%) Azure
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.29%) npm
7 1 (0.29%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.19%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (93.08%) Big Data
2 263 (75.79%) NoSQL
3 141 (40.63%) Hadoop
4 51 (14.70%) Electronic Patient Records
5 22 (6.34%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (6.34%) Redis
5 22 (6.34%) Scylla
6 19 (5.48%) Data Lake
7 18 (5.19%) DB2
7 18 (5.19%) MongoDB
7 18 (5.19%) Tableau
8 16 (4.61%) Apache Hive
8 16 (4.61%) Impala
9 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.29%) Looker
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Git
1 1 (0.29%) Gradle
1 1 (0.29%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.29%) JIRA
1 1 (0.29%) Maven
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (0.29%) Spinnaker
General
1 338 (97.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 319 (91.93%) Finance
2 319 (91.93%) Law
3 202 (58.21%) Marketing
4 161 (46.40%) Influencing Skills
5 117 (33.72%) Legal
6 72 (20.75%) Financial Institution
7 23 (6.63%) Social Skills
8 19 (5.48%) Banking
8 19 (5.48%) Investment Banking
9 18 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 270 (77.81%) Software Engineer
2 228 (65.71%) Big Data Engineer
2 228 (65.71%) Big Data Software Engineer
2 228 (65.71%) Scala Engineer
2 228 (65.71%) Scala Software Engineer
3 139 (40.06%) Java Engineer
3 139 (40.06%) Java Software Engineer
4 138 (39.77%) Java Scala Software Engineer
5 127 (36.60%) Lead
5 127 (36.60%) Lead Software Engineer
6 115 (33.14%) Lead Java Engineer
7 114 (32.85%) AWS Engineer
7 114 (32.85%) AWS Software Engineer
8 108 (31.12%) Lead Big Data Engineer
9 53 (15.27%) Big Data Manager
9 53 (15.27%) Engineering Manager
9 53 (15.27%) Software Engineering Manager
10 52 (14.99%) Senior
11 51 (14.70%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 51 (14.70%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (12.10%) Kafka
2 22 (6.34%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.29%) Middleware
3 1 (0.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 111 (31.99%) Cloud Native
2 73 (21.04%) Algorithms
3 36 (10.37%) Public Cloud
4 22 (6.34%) Data Structures
5 18 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 18 (5.19%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.29%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.29%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.29%) Kindle
6 1 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (98.27%) Software Engineering
2 323 (93.08%) Agile
3 319 (91.93%) SDLC
4 268 (77.23%) CI/CD
5 266 (76.66%) Operational Stability
6 230 (66.28%) Performance Tuning
7 124 (35.73%) Problem-Solving
8 117 (33.72%) Risk Management
9 94 (27.09%) Community of Practice
10 92 (26.51%) Artificial Intelligence
10 92 (26.51%) Machine Learning
11 90 (25.94%) Continuous Delivery
12 87 (25.07%) Decision-Making
13 57 (16.43%) Technical Leadership
14 55 (15.85%) Mentoring
15 54 (15.56%) Coaching
16 52 (14.99%) Visualisation
17 51 (14.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (14.70%) Tech Ops
18 40 (11.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 331 (95.39%) Java
2 282 (81.27%) SQL
3 62 (17.87%) Python
4 23 (6.63%) Bash
5 22 (6.34%) Go
6 18 (5.19%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.29%) C++
7 1 (0.29%) Groovy
7 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (0.29%) OCP
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.80%) SLA
2 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (11.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) Ansible
2 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.29%) Puppet
2 1 (0.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (6.92%) Google
2 23 (6.63%) Databricks
3 22 (6.34%) Dell
4 20 (5.76%) Oracle
5 18 (5.19%) Alteryx
5 18 (5.19%) Cognos
5 18 (5.19%) Sybase
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe
7 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.29%) Teradata