Scala Contract Job Trends in Reading

Scala
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 62 94
Rank change year-on-year -31 +32 -7
Contract jobs citing Scala 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.092% 0.33% 0.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.62% 1.12% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £544 -
25th Percentile £431 £572 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £638 £400
Median % change year-on-year -27.45% +59.38% -35.48%
75th Percentile £494 £697 -
90th Percentile - £721 -
Berkshire median daily rate £463 £638 £400
% change year-on-year -27.45% +59.38% -35.48%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 161 178 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.76% 29.52% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 109 189
10th Percentile £414 £364 £386
25th Percentile £500 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £605
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -12.40% +5.22%
75th Percentile £644 £600 £650
90th Percentile £708 £625 £670
Berkshire median daily rate £521 £500 £582
% change year-on-year +4.25% -14.09% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 4
10th Percentile £62.97 - £61.66
25th Percentile £67.71 - £66.42
Median hourly rate £76.47 - £71.31
75th Percentile £83.46 - £78.03
90th Percentile £85.08 - £83.71
Berkshire median hourly rate £71.00 £19.50 £58.49
% change year-on-year +264.10% -66.66% +17.62%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Scala job vacancy trend in Reading

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Scala

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared