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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 23 65
Rank change year-on-year -47 +42 -42
Contract jobs citing Scrum 45 102 71
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.62% 8.05% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 8.65% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 56 33
10th Percentile £400 £436 £415
25th Percentile £450 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £620 £653 £620
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.00 -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -8.00% -10.71% +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 1,492 1,179 1,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.00% 93.05% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,000 649 999
10th Percentile £285 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £608
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 34 96
10th Percentile £18.95 £27.08 £20.33
25th Percentile £29.69 £46.59 £42.50
Median hourly rate £81.00 £61.50 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.72% +3.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £90.88 £65.39 £68.05
90th Percentile £106.40 £84.25 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £43.94 £45.21
% change year-on-year -42.76% -2.81% +0.47%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -47 18 £486 -9.95% 4
Wokingham -33 10 £500 -13.04% 1
Windsor +6 9 £493 -1.50%
Bracknell -4 2 - - 1
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 5 (11.11%) Confluence
2 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.22%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.00%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.33%) AWS
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.67%) GCP
5 3 (6.67%) Serverless
6 2 (4.44%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.44%) Contentstack
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle CX
6 2 (4.44%) SaaS
6 2 (4.44%) Slack
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.22%) Miro
7 1 (2.22%) OCI
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.22%) Data Mart
2 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
2 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) JIRA
2 6 (13.33%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.22%) Gradle
3 1 (2.22%) Maven
3 1 (2.22%) Postman
3 1 (2.22%) Selenium
3 1 (2.22%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.22%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.44%) General Ledger
3 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Marketing
4 1 (2.22%) Finance
4 1 (2.22%) Law
4 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Lead
1 8 (17.78%) Project Manager
2 6 (13.33%) Developer
2 6 (13.33%) Technical Leader
3 5 (11.11%) Analyst
3 5 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Agile Project Manager
4 4 (8.89%) Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Salesforce Developer
4 4 (8.89%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Scrum Master
5 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle Business Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Product Owner
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) SOAP
2 8 (17.78%) REST
3 4 (8.89%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (8.89%) Visualforce
4 3 (6.67%) ADO
4 3 (6.67%) Node.js
5 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.44%) ARM Templates
5 2 (4.44%) HTML
5 2 (4.44%) Kafka
5 2 (4.44%) React
6 1 (2.22%) .NET
6 1 (2.22%) Ajax
6 1 (2.22%) CSS
6 1 (2.22%) JSP
6 1 (2.22%) Middleware
6 1 (2.22%) Spring
6 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.22%) Thymeleaf
6 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) CMDB
2 5 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.44%) PMI
3 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) VMS
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (95.56%) Agile
2 13 (28.89%) DevOps
3 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (17.78%) Analytics
6 7 (15.56%) Acceptance Criteria
6 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (15.56%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (13.33%) ITIL
7 6 (13.33%) ITSM
7 6 (13.33%) Roadmaps
8 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 5 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 5 (11.11%) Project Management
8 5 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
8 5 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
8 5 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
8 5 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) Java
1 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
2 4 (8.89%) Apex Code
2 4 (8.89%) Bicep
3 3 (6.67%) SQL
3 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.44%) Python
5 1 (2.22%) C#
5 1 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) PMI Certification
1 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) PMP
3 1 (2.22%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) PMO
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (8.89%) GRC
3 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) Terraform
3 2 (4.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle
1 5 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 5 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.22%) BMC
3 1 (2.22%) Citrix
3 1 (2.22%) Remedy