Scrum Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Scrum
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 31 58
Rank change year-on-year -51 +27 -35
Contract jobs citing Scrum 36 76 77
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.95% 6.59% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 7.04% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 47 38
10th Percentile £395 £420 £409
25th Percentile £413 £470 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -6.10% +6.50%
75th Percentile £534 £573 £605
90th Percentile £598 £651 £629
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.00 -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £60.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +7.44% -13.57% +55.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Scrum falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,595 1,079 1,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.59% 93.58% 90.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 628 991
10th Percentile £300 £304 £213
25th Percentile £403 £413 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 30 98
10th Percentile £19.44 £26.09 £18.95
25th Percentile £55.63 £42.94 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +5.48% -5.53%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £97.50 £86.17 £86.05
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% -16.67%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Berkshire

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Scrum

Scrum
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 18 March 2026. 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 -55 14 £488 -7.14% 8
Wokingham -35 11 £500 +5.26%
Windsor +3 5 £475 -5.00%
Scrum
South East

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (8.33%) Confluence
1 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Azure
2 13 (36.11%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (19.44%) AWS
4 5 (13.89%) Serverless
5 4 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (8.33%) GCP
7 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.56%) Oracle CX
7 2 (5.56%) SaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.78%) Miro
8 1 (2.78%) OCI
8 1 (2.78%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) Gradle
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Maven
3 1 (2.78%) Postman
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.78%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Lead
2 6 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 6 (16.67%) Technical Leader
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Agile Project Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Scrum Master
4 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Junior
5 2 (5.56%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Test Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) DevOps Manager
6 1 (2.78%) SaaS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) REST
1 6 (16.67%) SOAP
2 4 (11.11%) Node.js
3 3 (8.33%) ADO
3 3 (8.33%) Kafka
4 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.56%) HTML
4 2 (5.56%) Spring
4 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.56%) Web Services
5 1 (2.78%) Ajax
5 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.78%) JWT
5 1 (2.78%) OAuth
5 1 (2.78%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.78%) Pandas
5 1 (2.78%) pytest
5 1 (2.78%) React
5 1 (2.78%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) CMDB
2 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) SCADA
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (97.22%) Agile
2 14 (38.89%) DevOps
3 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 7 (19.44%) ITIL
5 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (16.67%) ITSM
6 6 (16.67%) Project Management
6 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.89%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
7 5 (13.89%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (13.89%) Sprint Retrospective
7 5 (13.89%) Technical Architecture
7 5 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (11.11%) CAD
8 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (11.11%) PRINCE2
8 4 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 6 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (8.33%) Bicep
3 3 (8.33%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) SQL
3 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.78%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 3 (8.33%) PMP
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (2.78%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
2 4 (11.11%) GRC
3 3 (8.33%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) BMC
3 1 (2.78%) Remedy
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce