For what it worth, this website ranks the popularity of some keywords in UK's IT job ads: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/ http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/ Bank jobs

For what it worth, this website ranks the popularity of some keywords in UK's IT job ads: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/ http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/ Bank jobs are a big part of UK's IT jobs. There is a category "Programming Language", in which you can see Scala and Clojure has taken steam since 2010, even if interest in Clojure seems to have waned a bit this year (and now it trails COBOL or Delphi). Interestingly, the salary advertised for Scala and Clojure jobs are also larger than for the more popular programming languages.