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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 24 64
Rank change year-on-year -56 +40 -41
Contract jobs citing Scrum 38 87 72
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.10% 7.44% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 7.95% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 52 36
10th Percentile £398 £422 £419
25th Percentile £452 £489 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £525 £547
Median % change year-on-year -7.38% -4.02% +9.40%
75th Percentile £526 £588 £614
90th Percentile £593 £652 £631
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.00 -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% -12.14% +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 1,570 1,094 1,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.60% 93.50% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,030 632 987
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £413 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £630 £601
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £509 £500
% change year-on-year -1.67% +1.70% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 31 98
10th Percentile £19.65 £26.00 £18.95
25th Percentile £55.63 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +5.48% -9.86%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £99.50 £86.08 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -15.40% -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 11 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 11 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 -60 15 £488 -11.36% 4
Wokingham -35 10 £500 +5.26%
Windsor +2 7 £484 -3.25%
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 (7.89%) Confluence
1 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) Azure
2 12 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (18.42%) AWS
4 5 (13.16%) Serverless
5 4 (10.53%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (7.89%) GCP
7 2 (5.26%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.26%) Oracle CX
7 2 (5.26%) SaaS
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.63%) Miro
8 1 (2.63%) OCI
8 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Git
2 5 (13.16%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.63%) Gradle
3 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.63%) Maven
3 1 (2.63%) Postman
3 1 (2.63%) Selenium
3 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Finance
5 1 (2.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Lead
2 6 (15.79%) Developer
2 6 (15.79%) Project Manager
2 6 (15.79%) Technical Leader
3 4 (10.53%) Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Agile Project Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Junior
5 2 (5.26%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Scrum Master
5 2 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) REST
1 8 (21.05%) SOAP
2 4 (10.53%) Node.js
3 3 (7.89%) ADO
3 3 (7.89%) Kafka
4 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.26%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.26%) HTML
4 2 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (5.26%) Spring
4 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.26%) Visualforce
4 2 (5.26%) Web Services
5 1 (2.63%) .NET
5 1 (2.63%) Ajax
5 1 (2.63%) CSS
5 1 (2.63%) JSP
5 1 (2.63%) Middleware
5 1 (2.63%) Mustache
5 1 (2.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) CMDB
2 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) SCADA
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) VMS
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (97.37%) Agile
2 13 (34.21%) DevOps
3 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.42%) Data Modelling
4 7 (18.42%) ITIL
4 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (15.79%) ITSM
5 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.16%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
6 5 (13.16%) Project Management
6 5 (13.16%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (10.53%) CAD
7 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (10.53%) IT Asset Management
7 4 (10.53%) Security Operations
7 4 (10.53%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
2 6 (15.79%) Java
3 3 (7.89%) Bicep
3 3 (7.89%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) SQL
3 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.26%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.63%) C#
5 1 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 2 (5.26%) PMP
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) GRC
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) ServiceNow
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle
2 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.63%) BMC
3 1 (2.63%) Citrix
3 1 (2.63%) Remedy