Scala Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Scala
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 104 117
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing Scala 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.16% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.67% 0.54% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £544 - £608
25th Percentile £572 - £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £400 £620
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% -35.48% +51.22%
75th Percentile £697 - £634
90th Percentile £721 - £636
South East median daily rate £450 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% -4.76%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 299 373 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 24.61% 22.97% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 237 277
10th Percentile £363 £386 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +5.82% +7.84%
75th Percentile £571 £650 £638
90th Percentile £624 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £490 £514 £530
% change year-on-year -4.62% -3.07% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 8
10th Percentile - £50.25 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £19.50 £58.49 £52.15
Median % change year-on-year -66.66% +12.17% -34.82%
75th Percentile £20.25 £69.69 £58.17
90th Percentile - £77.39 £72.23
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -12.00%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scala relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Scala job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Scala.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Scala

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in Berkshire over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in Berkshire

Scala
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +34 2 £638 +59.38% 2
Scala
South East

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks