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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 85 86
Rank change year-on-year +26 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing Scala 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.35% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 0.80% 0.69%
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% -
75th Percentile £697 - £634
90th Percentile £721 - £636
Berkshire median daily rate £638 £400 £620
% change year-on-year +59.38% -35.48% +18.10%

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 169 249 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 29.60% 22.70% 25.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 177 223
10th Percentile £367 £384 £380
25th Percentile £456 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +5.22% +17.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £643 £663 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £71.31 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year - -9.95% -
Berkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £63.93 £56.06
% change year-on-year -69.50% +14.04% -35.00%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Scala as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Scala 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in Reading over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in Reading

Scala
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

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