Scala Jobs in Scotland

Scala
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Scala skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Scala over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 191 221
Rank change year-on-year +106 +30 -77
Permanent jobs citing Scala 281 24 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.11% 0.56% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.01% 1.38% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 10
10th Percentile - - £44,841
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,180 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £70,974 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.70% +23.43% +9.52%
75th Percentile £78,056 £77,715 £73,438
90th Percentile £90,306 £80,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +10.34%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

Scala falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,508 1,733 2,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 51.29% 40.47% 44.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,174 988 1,600
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% +13.40%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,013
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 13 June 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 13 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
Glasgow +60 266 £55,000 -24.14%
Edinburgh +33 14 £81,069 +16.73% 2
Lanarkshire - 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
1 257 (91.46%) Apache Spark
2 83 (29.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 168 (59.79%) AWS
2 54 (19.22%) Amazon SQS
3 42 (14.95%) Amazon EC2
3 42 (14.95%) Amazon ECS
3 42 (14.95%) Amazon EKS
3 42 (14.95%) Amazon EMR
3 42 (14.95%) AWS Lambda
3 42 (14.95%) Serverless
4 16 (5.69%) GCP
5 12 (4.27%) Amazon S3
5 12 (4.27%) Google Docs
5 12 (4.27%) Lucidchart
5 12 (4.27%) Miro
5 12 (4.27%) SaaS
5 12 (4.27%) Slack
6 4 (1.42%) Azure
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.36%) npm
7 1 (0.36%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.56%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (91.46%) Big Data
2 220 (78.29%) NoSQL
3 111 (39.50%) Hadoop
4 42 (14.95%) Electronic Patient Records
5 14 (4.98%) Apache Hive
5 14 (4.98%) Impala
6 12 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (4.27%) Redis
6 12 (4.27%) Scylla
7 11 (3.91%) Data Lake
8 10 (3.56%) DB2
8 10 (3.56%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.56%) Tableau
9 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.36%) Looker
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Git
1 1 (0.36%) Gradle
1 1 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.36%) JIRA
1 1 (0.36%) Maven
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (0.36%) Spinnaker
General
1 272 (96.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 263 (93.59%) Finance
2 263 (93.59%) Law
3 166 (59.07%) Marketing
4 136 (48.40%) Influencing Skills
5 97 (34.52%) Legal
6 57 (20.28%) Financial Institution
7 13 (4.63%) Social Skills
8 11 (3.91%) Banking
8 11 (3.91%) Investment Banking
9 10 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 219 (77.94%) Software Engineer
2 192 (68.33%) Scala Engineer
2 192 (68.33%) Scala Software Engineer
3 187 (66.55%) Big Data Engineer
3 187 (66.55%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 119 (42.35%) Java Engineer
4 119 (42.35%) Java Software Engineer
5 118 (41.99%) Java Scala Software Engineer
6 109 (38.79%) Lead
6 109 (38.79%) Lead Java Engineer
6 109 (38.79%) Lead Software Engineer
7 90 (32.03%) Lead Big Data Engineer
8 84 (29.89%) AWS Engineer
8 84 (29.89%) AWS Software Engineer
9 46 (16.37%) Big Data Manager
9 46 (16.37%) Engineering Manager
9 46 (16.37%) Software Engineering Manager
10 43 (15.30%) Senior
11 42 (14.95%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 42 (14.95%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.54%) Kafka
2 12 (4.27%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.36%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.36%) Middleware
3 1 (0.36%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 92 (32.74%) Cloud Native
2 54 (19.22%) Algorithms
3 26 (9.25%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.27%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.36%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.36%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.36%) Kindle
6 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (97.86%) Software Engineering
2 267 (95.02%) Agile
3 263 (93.59%) SDLC
4 221 (78.65%) CI/CD
5 217 (77.22%) Operational Stability
6 188 (66.90%) Performance Tuning
7 97 (34.52%) Risk Management
8 96 (34.16%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (27.40%) Community of Practice
10 75 (26.69%) Continuous Delivery
11 72 (25.62%) Artificial Intelligence
11 72 (25.62%) Machine Learning
12 65 (23.13%) Decision-Making
13 48 (17.08%) Mentoring
13 48 (17.08%) Technical Leadership
14 47 (16.73%) Coaching
15 43 (15.30%) Visualisation
16 42 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (14.95%) Tech Ops
17 29 (10.32%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 267 (95.02%) Java
2 231 (82.21%) SQL
3 39 (13.88%) Python
4 13 (4.63%) Bash
5 12 (4.27%) Go
6 10 (3.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.36%) C++
7 1 (0.36%) Groovy
7 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (0.36%) OCP
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.54%) SLA
2 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (8.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.36%) Ansible
2 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.36%) Puppet
2 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (4.98%) Google
2 12 (4.27%) Databricks
2 12 (4.27%) Dell
2 12 (4.27%) Oracle
3 10 (3.56%) Alteryx
3 10 (3.56%) Cognos
3 10 (3.56%) Sybase
4 2 (0.71%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe
5 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.36%) Teradata