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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 35 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 +3
Contract jobs citing Scrum 61 89 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.17% 5.22% 7.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.66% 5.98% 7.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 53 80
10th Percentile £481 £421 £425
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.00% +14.54%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £627
90th Percentile £645 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £54.08 - -
25th Percentile £58.69 - -
Median hourly rate £66.75 - -
75th Percentile £73.63 - -
90th Percentile £77.45 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% +4.17%

All Process and 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 1,077 1,488 1,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.35% 87.32% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 777 1,013
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 72 64
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.51 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £45.31 £48.18
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.55 £58.44
Median % change year-on-year -47.50% +5.31% +41.87%
75th Percentile £58.00 £70.39 £72.08
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.32 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -63.85% +8.21% +70.14%

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
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 20 September 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in Berkshire

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 20 September 2025. 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 +4 40 £525 -4.55% 7
Bracknell +2 8 £511 +7.58% 3
Windsor - 6 £500 - 5
Wokingham -14 4 - - 1
Slough -3 1 - - 27
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 8 (13.11%) Confluence
2 5 (8.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) Appian
3 1 (1.64%) Camunda
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (3.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) SAP PM
2 2 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (3.28%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.23%) Azure
2 13 (21.31%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (11.48%) SaaS
4 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.20%) Miro
4 5 (8.20%) Oracle CX
4 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.28%) Contentstack
5 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) Slack
6 1 (1.64%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.64%) Figma
6 1 (1.64%) GCP
6 1 (1.64%) Route 53
6 1 (1.64%) Serverless
6 1 (1.64%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.64%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) Network Security
2 1 (1.64%) BGP
2 1 (1.64%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.64%) HTTP
2 1 (1.64%) MPLS
2 1 (1.64%) SSL
2 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) Power BI
2 4 (6.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.28%) Data Mart
3 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.64%) MySQL
4 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (24.59%) JIRA
2 4 (6.56%) Git
3 3 (4.92%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.28%) GitLab
4 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.28%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.64%) DbUnit
5 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.64%) jMock
5 1 (1.64%) JUnit
5 1 (1.64%) Maven
5 1 (1.64%) Mockito
5 1 (1.64%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.64%) Selenium
5 1 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.20%) Marketing
4 4 (6.56%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.28%) General Ledger
5 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.28%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Finance
6 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Legal
6 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Developer
2 9 (14.75%) Analyst
2 9 (14.75%) Business Analyst
3 8 (13.11%) Senior
4 7 (11.48%) Salesforce Developer
5 5 (8.20%) Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Product Owner
5 5 (8.20%) Project Manager
5 5 (8.20%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) Senior Business Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (6.56%) Scrum Master
6 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.92%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.92%) IT Programme Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) Programme Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Salesforce Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Salesforce Solution Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) REST
1 11 (18.03%) SOAP
2 10 (16.39%) Lightning Web Components
2 10 (16.39%) Visualforce
3 5 (8.20%) Web Services
4 4 (6.56%) CSS
4 4 (6.56%) HTML
5 3 (4.92%) XML
6 2 (3.28%) JSON
6 2 (3.28%) NETCONF
6 2 (3.28%) Playwright
6 2 (3.28%) React
6 2 (3.28%) SAP PI
6 2 (3.28%) YANG
7 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.64%) Blazor
7 1 (1.64%) JPA
7 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.64%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.20%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (8.20%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.56%) Life Science
4 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.28%) PMI
4 2 (3.28%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.64%) CMDB
5 1 (1.64%) IoT
5 1 (1.64%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) CentOS
2 1 (1.64%) Unix
2 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (91.80%) Agile
2 17 (27.87%) DevOps
3 15 (24.59%) Data Modelling
4 11 (18.03%) Migration
4 11 (18.03%) Roadmaps
5 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (16.39%) Waterfall
6 8 (13.11%) Sprint Planning
7 7 (11.48%) CI/CD
7 7 (11.48%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 7 (11.48%) Kanban
7 7 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (11.48%) User Stories
8 6 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (9.84%) CRM
8 6 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (9.84%) Matrix Organization
8 6 (9.84%) Workshop Facilitation
9 5 (8.20%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.39%) Apex Code
2 7 (11.48%) SQL
3 4 (6.56%) Java
3 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.92%) C#
5 2 (3.28%) Python
6 1 (1.64%) Bicep
6 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.28%) Degree
2 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.28%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.28%) GRC
1 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.28%) NIST
1 2 (3.28%) NIST 800
1 2 (3.28%) PMO
1 2 (3.28%) QA
1 2 (3.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Postfix
2 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Ansible
2 1 (1.64%) Grafana
2 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Oracle
1 13 (21.31%) Salesforce
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.56%) SAP
4 3 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.28%) Cisco
5 2 (3.28%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.64%) Citrix
6 1 (1.64%) Genesys
6 1 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.64%) Veracode