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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 294 231
Rank change year-on-year -79 -63 +32
Permanent jobs citing Scala 718 1,228 2,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 1.22% 1.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.16% 2.81% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 289 499 1,081
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £104,375 £102,500
90th Percentile £109,500 £116,447 £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 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £107,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +42 467 £55,000 -24.14% 40
Scotland +113 349 £61,250 -13.70% 10
England -221 340 £80,000 - 84
London -138 206 £80,000 -7.25% 60
Work from Home -122 196 £80,000 +6.67% 87
South East -21 35 £55,000 -16.03% 7
South West -36 35 £80,000 +15.20% 4
North of England -42 35 £55,000 -33.33% 9
North West -36 23 £57,500 -30.30% 7
Yorkshire +49 9 £55,000 -31.25% 2
Midlands -46 6 £52,500 -12.50%
East Midlands -30 4 £51,500 -6.36%
Wales +7 3 £55,000 - 3
North East -22 3 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland +22 2 £55,000 - 7
West Midlands -16 2 £55,000 -8.33%
East of England -33 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
1 401 (55.85%) Apache Spark
2 145 (20.19%) Apache
3 44 (6.13%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 414 (57.66%) AWS
2 125 (17.41%) GCP
3 95 (13.23%) Azure
4 80 (11.14%) Amazon SQS
5 66 (9.19%) Amazon EMR
6 64 (8.91%) Serverless
7 61 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (7.66%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (4.04%) Amazon S3
11 28 (3.90%) Snowflake
12 26 (3.62%) SaaS
13 25 (3.48%) Google Docs
14 24 (3.34%) dbt
15 23 (3.20%) Lucidchart
15 23 (3.20%) Miro
15 23 (3.20%) Slack
16 18 (2.51%) GitHub
17 15 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.51%) DSL
2 5 (0.70%) Network Security
3 4 (0.56%) FTP
4 2 (0.28%) HTTP
4 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (52.51%) Big Data
2 308 (42.90%) NoSQL
3 182 (25.35%) Hadoop
4 62 (8.64%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
6 56 (7.80%) Data Lake
7 52 (7.24%) Electronic Patient Records
8 40 (5.57%) Apache Hive
9 39 (5.43%) MongoDB
10 37 (5.15%) Relational Database
11 28 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (3.34%) Redis
13 23 (3.20%) Scylla
13 23 (3.20%) SQL Server
14 22 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (3.06%) Flink
15 20 (2.79%) BigQuery
15 20 (2.79%) Impala
15 20 (2.79%) RDBMS
16 19 (2.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (6.41%) Git
2 23 (3.20%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.51%) JIRA
4 9 (1.25%) CircleCI
4 9 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (0.97%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (0.56%) Subversion
7 3 (0.42%) GitLab
7 3 (0.42%) JUnit
7 3 (0.42%) MLflow
7 3 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.28%) Gatling
8 2 (0.28%) Gradle
8 2 (0.28%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.28%) Maven
8 2 (0.28%) ScalaTest
9 1 (0.14%) ERwin
9 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 388 (54.04%) Finance
2 364 (50.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 335 (46.66%) Law
4 210 (29.25%) Marketing
5 165 (22.98%) Influencing Skills
6 124 (17.27%) Legal
7 102 (14.21%) Social Skills
8 80 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (10.03%) Financial Institution
10 56 (7.80%) Banking
11 33 (4.60%) Investment Banking
12 17 (2.37%) Front Office
13 14 (1.95%) Public Sector
14 11 (1.53%) Electronics
15 8 (1.11%) Retail Banking
16 7 (0.97%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.56%) Retail
18 3 (0.42%) Games
19 2 (0.28%) Advertising
19 2 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 344 (47.91%) Software Engineer
2 242 (33.70%) Scala Engineer
3 237 (33.01%) Scala Software Engineer
4 228 (31.75%) Big Data Engineer
4 228 (31.75%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 178 (24.79%) Lead
6 155 (21.59%) Java Engineer
7 152 (21.17%) Java Software Engineer
8 142 (19.78%) Lead Software Engineer
9 139 (19.36%) Java Scala Software Engineer
10 133 (18.52%) Developer
11 127 (17.69%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (17.13%) Lead Java Engineer
13 121 (16.85%) Senior
14 115 (16.02%) AWS Software Engineer
14 115 (16.02%) Data Engineer
15 108 (15.04%) Lead Big Data Engineer
16 89 (12.40%) Scala Developer
17 70 (9.75%) Senior Software Engineer
18 57 (7.94%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (13.09%) Kafka
2 28 (3.90%) GraphQL
3 26 (3.62%) JSON
4 25 (3.48%) Akka
4 25 (3.48%) Spring
5 22 (3.06%) Apache Beam
6 21 (2.92%) Spring Boot
7 19 (2.65%) React
8 18 (2.51%) Pandas
8 18 (2.51%) RESTful
9 17 (2.37%) NumPy
10 16 (2.23%) PySpark
10 16 (2.23%) REST
11 14 (1.95%) gRPC
11 14 (1.95%) http4s
12 13 (1.81%) Play Framework
12 13 (1.81%) Protocol Buffers
12 13 (1.81%) SciPy
13 11 (1.53%) Lambda Expressions
14 10 (1.39%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 128 (17.83%) Cloud Native
2 95 (13.23%) Algorithms
3 48 (6.69%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.85%) Data Structures
5 32 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (4.04%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.65%) Product Ownership
9 18 (2.51%) Hedge funds
10 15 (2.09%) Blockchain
11 14 (1.95%) Distributed Applications
11 14 (1.95%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.67%) Derivative
12 12 (1.67%) Equities
12 12 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.11%) Digital Signage
15 7 (0.97%) Replication
15 7 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.53%) Linux
2 10 (1.39%) Windows
3 2 (0.28%) Unix
3 2 (0.28%) VMS
3 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (66.02%) Software Engineering
2 449 (62.53%) Agile
3 364 (50.70%) CI/CD
4 357 (49.72%) SDLC
5 276 (38.44%) Operational Stability
6 233 (32.45%) Performance Tuning
7 199 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
8 159 (22.14%) Machine Learning
9 129 (17.97%) Risk Management
10 127 (17.69%) Artificial Intelligence
11 118 (16.43%) Continuous Delivery
12 113 (15.74%) Decision-Making
13 111 (15.46%) Mentoring
14 99 (13.79%) Community of Practice
15 96 (13.37%) Data Pipeline
16 84 (11.70%) Data Modelling
17 82 (11.42%) Analytics
18 79 (11.00%) Data Engineering
19 78 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
20 74 (10.31%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 589 (82.03%) Java
2 408 (56.82%) SQL
3 230 (32.03%) Python
4 72 (10.03%) Kotlin
5 49 (6.82%) Go
6 33 (4.60%) TypeScript
7 27 (3.76%) Bash
8 25 (3.48%) JavaScript
9 21 (2.92%) Ruby
10 20 (2.79%) C#
11 18 (2.51%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.37%) Clojure
13 14 (1.95%) C
14 13 (1.81%) R
15 11 (1.53%) C++
15 11 (1.53%) PowerShell
16 10 (1.39%) F#
17 9 (1.25%) Groovy
17 9 (1.25%) Haskell
18 6 (0.84%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (8.64%) Degree
2 34 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.67%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.67%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.39%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.84%) SANS
8 5 (0.70%) CISA
8 5 (0.70%) CISM
8 5 (0.70%) CISSP
8 5 (0.70%) CRISC
9 3 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.28%) 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 34 (4.74%) Data Quality
1 34 (4.74%) SLA
2 21 (2.92%) QA
3 6 (0.84%) NIST
4 4 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.56%) MiFID
5 1 (0.14%) GDPR
5 1 (0.14%) GMP
5 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 27 (3.76%) Docker
2 11 (1.53%) HDFS
3 10 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 80 (11.14%) Kubernetes
2 66 (9.19%) Terraform
3 48 (6.69%) Ansible
4 4 (0.56%) Grafana
5 2 (0.28%) Istio
5 2 (0.28%) Kibana
5 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
6 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 76 (10.58%) Google
2 71 (9.89%) Databricks
3 39 (5.43%) Oracle
4 30 (4.18%) Microsoft
5 24 (3.34%) Dell
6 18 (2.51%) Alteryx
6 18 (2.51%) Cognos
6 18 (2.51%) Sybase
7 13 (1.81%) Cloudera
8 11 (1.53%) Teradata
9 10 (1.39%) Dataiku
10 9 (1.25%) Adobe
10 9 (1.25%) Mercator
11 6 (0.84%) F5
12 4 (0.56%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.56%) Reuters
13 3 (0.42%) Apple
13 3 (0.42%) Informatica
13 3 (0.42%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.28%) Hortonworks