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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 24 51
Rank change year-on-year -21 +27 -15
Contract jobs citing Scrum 60 127 75
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.55% 7.90% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.09% 8.90% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 72 45
10th Percentile £459 £418 £425
25th Percentile £481 £494 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +17.35%
75th Percentile £609 £616 £625
90th Percentile £634 £653 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.80%
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% +2.88%

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 1,179 1,427 1,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.39% 88.80% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 766 972
10th Percentile £325 £325 £240
25th Percentile £420 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £501
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.34% +0.15%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.19% -1.70% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 55 69
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.93 £18.95
25th Percentile £16.72 £41.88 £45.21
Median hourly rate £27.50 £58.49 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -52.98% -5.34% +23.58%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.42 £72.33
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.19 £77.55
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +40.00%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 6 November 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 -14 36 £525 -4.55% 8
Bracknell -2 8 £511 +2.20% 1
Windsor - 6 £500 -
Wokingham -20 4 £475 -17.39% 1
Slough -3 1 - - 106
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 9 (15.00%) Confluence
2 5 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.67%) Appian
3 1 (1.67%) Camunda
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) SAP PM
2 2 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (3.33%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 18 (30.00%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (11.67%) SaaS
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.33%) Miro
4 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.67%) Oracle CX
6 2 (3.33%) Contentstack
6 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.33%) OCI
6 2 (3.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Slack
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.67%) GCP
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (1.67%) Serverless
7 1 (1.67%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Network Security
2 1 (1.67%) BGP
2 1 (1.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.67%) MPLS
2 1 (1.67%) SSL
2 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.33%) Data Mart
3 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (28.33%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.67%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.67%) Selenium
3 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.33%) Marketing
3 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.33%) General Ledger
4 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.33%) Retail
4 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.67%) Law
5 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (13.33%) Analyst
1 8 (13.33%) Architect
1 8 (13.33%) Business Analyst
1 8 (13.33%) Developer
1 8 (13.33%) Senior
2 7 (11.67%) Product Owner
2 7 (11.67%) Salesforce Developer
3 6 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Scrum Master
5 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow Architect
6 3 (5.00%) IT Manager
6 3 (5.00%) IT Programme Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Programme Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 2 (3.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.33%) REST
1 11 (18.33%) SOAP
2 10 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 10 (16.67%) Visualforce
3 2 (3.33%) JSON
3 2 (3.33%) NETCONF
3 2 (3.33%) React
3 2 (3.33%) SAP PI
3 2 (3.33%) Web Services
3 2 (3.33%) XML
3 2 (3.33%) YANG
4 1 (1.67%) Ajax
4 1 (1.67%) Jinja
4 1 (1.67%) Middleware
4 1 (1.67%) OAuth
4 1 (1.67%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.67%) RESTCONF
4 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.67%) Life Science
4 3 (5.00%) CMDB
5 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.33%) PMI
5 2 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.67%) IoT
6 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) CentOS
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Unix
1 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (91.67%) Agile
2 18 (30.00%) DevOps
3 17 (28.33%) Data Modelling
4 14 (23.33%) Roadmaps
5 12 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (18.33%) Migration
7 10 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
8 9 (15.00%) Waterfall
9 8 (13.33%) Backlog Refinement
9 8 (13.33%) User Stories
10 7 (11.67%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
10 7 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (11.67%) Sprint Retrospective
10 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (11.67%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (10.00%) Analytics
11 6 (10.00%) Backlog Management
11 6 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) Apex Code
2 4 (6.67%) Java
2 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.67%) Python
2 4 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (1.67%) Bicep
3 1 (1.67%) Perl
3 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) GRC
2 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.33%) NIST
2 2 (3.33%) NIST 800
2 2 (3.33%) PMO
2 2 (3.33%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) RMADS
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.67%) Ansible
2 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Oracle
1 12 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) SAP
2 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.33%) Cisco
3 2 (3.33%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.67%) Citrix
4 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.67%) Veracode