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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 48 53
Rank change year-on-year -29 +5 -39
Contract jobs citing Scrum 37 40 70
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.06% 3.56% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 3.82% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 40
10th Percentile £375 £457 £396
25th Percentile £400 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -1.57% -7.64%
75th Percentile £500 £551 £588
90th Percentile £554 £630 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £495
% change year-on-year +5.00% +1.01% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £78.51 - -
25th Percentile £80.08 - -
Median hourly rate £83.94 £48.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +74.86% - -
75th Percentile £86.56 - -
90th Percentile £87.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -21.43% +33.33%

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 1,488 1,047 1,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.99% 93.23% 87.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 954 649 845
10th Percentile £306 £325 £238
25th Percentile £400 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.34% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £608
90th Percentile £700 £678 £675
South East median daily rate £518 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +3.50% -1.96% +0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 25 104
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.50 £17.15
25th Percentile £76.09 £32.05 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.50 £61.50 £60.80
Median % change year-on-year +35.78% +1.14% -0.12%
75th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £71.89
90th Percentile £107.00 £88.87 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -24 18 £488 -7.14% 13
Windsor +4 9 £463 -7.50% 2
Wokingham -21 7 £425 -10.53%
Bracknell +2 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 4 (10.81%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.70%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.70%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 10 (27.03%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (16.22%) AWS
4 5 (13.51%) Serverless
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (10.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (8.11%) Miro
7 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.41%) GCP
7 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.70%) GitHub
8 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.70%) Big Data
2 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Git
2 5 (13.51%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) Gradle
4 1 (2.70%) Maven
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Aerospace
4 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Agriculture
5 2 (5.41%) Finance
6 1 (2.70%) Billing
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Analyst
1 8 (21.62%) Lead
2 6 (16.22%) Business Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.81%) Technical Leader
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Automation Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Junior
6 2 (5.41%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Node.js
2 3 (8.11%) ADO
2 3 (8.11%) Kafka
2 3 (8.11%) OAuth
2 3 (8.11%) REST
3 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.41%) LDAP
3 2 (5.41%) OpenID
3 2 (5.41%) SailPoint
3 2 (5.41%) SAML
3 2 (5.41%) Spring
3 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.41%) Web Services
4 1 (2.70%) CSS
4 1 (2.70%) JSP
4 1 (2.70%) JWT
4 1 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.70%) Middleware
4 1 (2.70%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Life Science
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.70%) CMDB
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.70%) IVR
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) SCADA
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (97.30%) Agile
2 10 (27.03%) DevOps
3 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
5 7 (18.92%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (18.92%) User Stories
6 6 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (16.22%) Project Management
7 5 (13.51%) Analytics
7 5 (13.51%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (10.81%) AI
8 4 (10.81%) Event-Driven
8 4 (10.81%) Kanban
8 4 (10.81%) PRINCE2
8 4 (10.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (10.81%) Waterfall
8 4 (10.81%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Java
2 4 (10.81%) SQL
3 3 (8.11%) Bicep
3 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) PMI Certification
3 4 (10.81%) PMP
4 3 (8.11%) Degree
5 2 (5.41%) CISSP
5 2 (5.41%) CSPO
6 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.70%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) QA
2 4 (10.81%) PMO
3 2 (5.41%) GDPR
4 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
3 3 (8.11%) Ansible
4 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.41%) ForgeRock
2 2 (5.41%) Okta
2 2 (5.41%) Ping Identity
2 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.70%) BMC
3 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
3 1 (2.70%) Databricks
3 1 (2.70%) Remedy
3 1 (2.70%) SAP