Scrum Contracts in Berkshire

Scrum
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 12 27
Rank change year-on-year -37 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 74 189 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.74% 10.41% 6.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 11.48% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 118 92
10th Percentile £420 £409 £390
25th Percentile £450 £436 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £650
90th Percentile £705 £691 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +55.56% -25.00% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,758 1,647 2,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.83% 90.69% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 1,060 1,375
10th Percentile £213 £345 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £707 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 44
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.72 £17.38
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £73.69 £39.38
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.51 £76.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Berkshire

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Berkshire

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Berkshire

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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 Scrum within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 -22 61 £544 -1.09% 11
Wokingham -12 5 £950 +55.10% 1
Newbury -3 2 £508 +19.41%
Bracknell -23 2 - - 1
Scrum
South East

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 11 (14.86%) Apache
1 11 (14.86%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (8.11%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (1.35%) JBoss
4 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Maximo
1 1 (1.35%) SAP MII
1 1 (1.35%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.62%) Azure
2 12 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (13.51%) Serverless
4 9 (12.16%) AWS
5 7 (9.46%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (9.46%) PaaS
5 7 (9.46%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (4.05%) Azure AKS
7 3 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.05%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (4.05%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.70%) SaaS
9 1 (1.35%) IaaS
9 1 (1.35%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.86%) BGP
1 11 (14.86%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (14.86%) MPLS
1 11 (14.86%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (14.86%) VPN
2 1 (1.35%) 3G
2 1 (1.35%) 4G
2 1 (1.35%) 5G
2 1 (1.35%) Broadband
2 1 (1.35%) DSL
2 1 (1.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (16.22%) NoSQL
3 11 (14.86%) MongoDB
4 7 (9.46%) Power BI
4 7 (9.46%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.76%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.70%) Power Query
8 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (29.73%) JIRA
2 14 (18.92%) Robot Framework
3 11 (14.86%) GitLab
3 11 (14.86%) TestRail
4 10 (13.51%) Git
5 8 (10.81%) Jenkins
6 5 (6.76%) JUnit
7 3 (4.05%) Selenium
7 3 (4.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.35%) JMeter
8 1 (1.35%) Maven
8 1 (1.35%) Mockito
8 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (13.51%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.16%) Billing
4 7 (9.46%) Finance
4 7 (9.46%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Marketing
7 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (22.97%) Developer
2 13 (17.57%) Analyst
3 10 (13.51%) Network Engineer
3 10 (13.51%) Test Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) Scrum Master
5 7 (9.46%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.11%) Product Owner
7 5 (6.76%) Full Stack Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Lead
8 4 (5.41%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (5.41%) Product Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) Senior
9 3 (4.05%) Applications Manager
9 3 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Site Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Solutions Analyst
9 3 (4.05%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.68%) REST
2 15 (20.27%) SOAP
3 11 (14.86%) NETCONF
3 11 (14.86%) RESTCONF
3 11 (14.86%) YANG
4 8 (10.81%) Spring Boot
5 7 (9.46%) Spring
5 7 (9.46%) Web Services
6 6 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (8.11%) Node.js
7 5 (6.76%) HTML
8 4 (5.41%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.41%) RESTful
9 3 (4.05%) .NET
9 3 (4.05%) J2EE
9 3 (4.05%) Kafka
9 3 (4.05%) XML
10 2 (2.70%) Apache Camel
10 2 (2.70%) Mustache
10 2 (2.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (33.78%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.46%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.05%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.05%) Smart Meter
5 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.35%) IoT
6 1 (1.35%) iPad
6 1 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.16%) Linux
1 9 (12.16%) Windows
2 6 (8.11%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (83.78%) Agile
2 23 (31.08%) DevOps
3 20 (27.03%) Test Automation
4 19 (25.68%) Kanban
4 19 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (22.97%) CI/CD
5 17 (22.97%) Workflow
6 13 (17.57%) Integration Testing
6 13 (17.57%) Performance Testing
6 13 (17.57%) Unit Testing
7 12 (16.22%) Containerisation
7 12 (16.22%) User Stories
8 11 (14.86%) Regression Testing
8 11 (14.86%) Security Testing
9 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (12.16%) Microservices
9 9 (12.16%) Project Delivery
9 9 (12.16%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 9 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (10.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.38%) SQL
2 16 (21.62%) Python
3 11 (14.86%) Java
4 10 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.81%) C#
6 3 (4.05%) F#
6 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.05%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.05%) VBScript
7 1 (1.35%) PHP
7 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.11%) Degree
4 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.70%) PMP
6 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.35%) CSPO
6 1 (1.35%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) GDPR
2 3 (4.05%) PMO
3 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (27.03%) Docker
2 3 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.76%) Ansible
3 1 (1.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.05%) Ab Initio
2 3 (4.05%) VMware
3 2 (2.70%) Adobe
4 1 (1.35%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.35%) SAP
4 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.35%) Splunk