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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 88 81
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 +15
Contract jobs citing Scala 1 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.14% 0.18% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.65% 0.67% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £453
25th Percentile £525 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -30.43% +40.24%
75th Percentile £575 - £626
90th Percentile - - £633
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +37.50% -30.43% +40.24%

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 155 298 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 21.95% 27.36% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 189 193
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +3.45% +10.48%
75th Percentile £600 £651 £638
90th Percentile £631 £671 £693
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -14.43% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £71.00 £69.57 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £70.34 £59.89
Median hourly rate £75.00 £73.25 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +21.79% +9.35%
75th Percentile £83.00 £81.18 £60.39
90th Percentile £84.80 £84.97 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £54.56
% change year-on-year +32.17% +4.00% -26.02%

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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks