Scala

Scala builds and operates production software; the technology name is only the entry point.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $5,000 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $5,777 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 32 Last 3 months
Applications per job 1.86 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Exact language
$6,400 Scala median

Hiring Verify production ownership, system constraints, testing, and incident experience.

Candidate Show shipped systems, scale, and decisions—not a list of frameworks.

Data Language median across titles and experience levels.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 31 respondents
Exact match
Lower quartile$5100
Median$6300
Upper quartile$8150
Year over year +12.5%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile

Scala as the main programming language · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Scala 13 $4846–$5968 SQL 6 $2555–$3940 Apache Spark 5 $4650–$5644 Kubernetes 5 $3619–$5424 Akka 4 $4000–$6750 AWS 4 $3625–$5292 Hive 4 $4500–$5500 Airflow 3 $3956–$5045 Docker 3 $2696–$4525 MySQL 3 $2228–$3762 Apache Iceberg 2 $3672–$5250 Data Warehousing 2 $3109–$4647 Distributed Systems 2 $5032–$6376 HTTP 2 $1713–$2996 JVM 2 $20833–$85000 Play Framework 2 $5000–$6500

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Developer salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·