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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs citing Scala 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.20% - 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% - 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £244 - £434
25th Percentile £291 - £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - £493
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.12%
75th Percentile £491 - £533
90th Percentile £541 - £545
Berkshire median daily rate £388 - £493
% change year-on-year - - +20.12%

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 161 207 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 16.07% 30.85% 23.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 136 190
10th Percentile £359 £400 £374
25th Percentile £412 £494 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £620 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.10% +12.73% -
75th Percentile £614 £675 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 10
10th Percentile £72.04 - £54.13
25th Percentile £74.20 - £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £77.19 £59.22
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +30.34% -23.43%
75th Percentile £83.00 - £66.03
90th Percentile £84.65 - £67.63
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.50 £63.75 £61.60
% change year-on-year +27.85% +3.48% -12.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in Reading over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in Reading

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks