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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 21 58
Rank change year-on-year -49 +37 -36
Contract jobs citing Scrum 47 107 72
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.82% 8.28% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 8.93% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 61 35
10th Percentile £400 £422 £418
25th Percentile £452 £500 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £540 £544
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% -0.74% +8.80%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £609
90th Percentile £624 £653 £625
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.00 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £64.88
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.67% +44.18%

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 1,448 1,198 1,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.86% 92.72% 91.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 655 1,009
10th Percentile £292 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £408 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.65%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £608
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.10% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 35 94
10th Percentile £16.67 £27.35 £20.49
25th Percentile £20.79 £47.06 £42.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £61.30
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% +0.32% -5.22%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.17 £70.06
90th Percentile £107.00 £83.65 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

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 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 18 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 20 £488 -11.36% 5
Wokingham -32 10 £500 -13.04% 1
Windsor +8 9 £493 -1.50%
Bracknell -5 2 - - 2
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 (10.64%) Confluence
1 5 (10.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (4.26%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.13%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) Azure
2 14 (29.79%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (12.77%) AWS
4 4 (8.51%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (8.51%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (8.51%) SaaS
5 3 (6.38%) GCP
5 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.38%) Miro
5 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.38%) Serverless
6 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.26%) Contentstack
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle CX
6 2 (4.26%) Slack
7 1 (2.13%) OCI
7 1 (2.13%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.13%) Data Mart
3 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) JIRA
2 6 (12.77%) Git
3 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.13%) Gradle
3 1 (2.13%) Maven
3 1 (2.13%) Postman
3 1 (2.13%) Selenium
3 1 (2.13%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.13%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (40.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.26%) General Ledger
3 2 (4.26%) Marketing
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Finance
4 1 (2.13%) Law
4 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (19.15%) Project Manager
2 8 (17.02%) Lead
3 6 (12.77%) Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Technical Leader
4 5 (10.64%) Analyst
4 5 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Agile Project Manager
5 4 (8.51%) Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Salesforce Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Senior
6 3 (6.38%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Scrum Master
6 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle Business Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle Project Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.15%) SOAP
2 8 (17.02%) REST
3 4 (8.51%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (8.51%) Visualforce
4 3 (6.38%) ADO
4 3 (6.38%) Node.js
5 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.26%) ARM Templates
5 2 (4.26%) HTML
5 2 (4.26%) Kafka
5 2 (4.26%) React
6 1 (2.13%) .NET
6 1 (2.13%) Ajax
6 1 (2.13%) CSS
6 1 (2.13%) JSP
6 1 (2.13%) Middleware
6 1 (2.13%) Spring
6 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.13%) Thymeleaf
6 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) CMDB
2 5 (10.64%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.26%) PMI
3 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) VMS
2 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (95.74%) Agile
2 15 (31.91%) DevOps
3 11 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (19.15%) Data Modelling
5 8 (17.02%) Analytics
6 7 (14.89%) Acceptance Criteria
6 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (14.89%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (12.77%) ITIL
7 6 (12.77%) ITSM
7 6 (12.77%) Roadmaps
7 6 (12.77%) Waterfall
8 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
8 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (10.64%) PRINCE2
8 5 (10.64%) Project Delivery
8 5 (10.64%) Project Management
8 5 (10.64%) Sprint Planning
8 5 (10.64%) Sprint Retrospective
8 5 (10.64%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.89%) Java
1 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
2 4 (8.51%) Apex Code
2 4 (8.51%) Bicep
3 3 (6.38%) SQL
3 3 (6.38%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.26%) Python
5 1 (2.13%) C#
5 1 (2.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) PMI Certification
1 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) PMP
3 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) PMO
1 5 (10.64%) QA
2 4 (8.51%) GRC
3 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.51%) Terraform
3 2 (4.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Oracle
2 5 (10.64%) Salesforce
2 5 (10.64%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.13%) BMC
4 1 (2.13%) Citrix
4 1 (2.13%) Remedy