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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 24 66
Rank change year-on-year -36 +42 -41
Contract jobs citing Scrum 54 106 62
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.47% 8.04% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 8.76% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 60 31
10th Percentile £400 £421 £425
25th Percentile £458 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £616
90th Percentile £630 £653 £625
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +1.89%

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 1,346 1,210 1,707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.39% 91.74% 92.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 660 976
10th Percentile £295 £250 £210
25th Percentile £402 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -0.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £650 £671 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 36 91
10th Percentile £16.06 £26.13 £24.34
25th Percentile £20.57 £42.79 £45.21
Median hourly rate £58.00 £61.50 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +2.25% -7.48%
75th Percentile £91.81 £65.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £105.65 £76.35 £85.61
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £42.88 £48.15
% change year-on-year -45.02% -10.94% +8.81%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -34 27 £523 -5.00% 7
Windsor +1 9 £493 -1.50%
Wokingham -28 9 £525 -8.70% 1
Bracknell -6 3 - - 1
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 (9.26%) Confluence
1 5 (9.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) Appian
2 1 (1.85%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) SAP PM
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (3.70%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.85%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.19%) Azure
2 13 (24.07%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (11.11%) AWS
4 4 (7.41%) SaaS
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (5.56%) GCP
5 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.56%) Miro
5 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (5.56%) Serverless
6 2 (3.70%) Contentstack
6 2 (3.70%) Oracle CX
6 2 (3.70%) Slack
7 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.85%) OCI
7 1 (1.85%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Power BI
1 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.85%) Data Mart
3 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (22.22%) JIRA
2 6 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) Selenium
4 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.85%) GitLab
4 1 (1.85%) Gradle
4 1 (1.85%) Maven
4 1 (1.85%) Postman
4 1 (1.85%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.85%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.85%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.41%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Finance
4 2 (3.70%) General Ledger
4 2 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (1.85%) Law
5 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 8 (14.81%) Lead
3 7 (12.96%) Analyst
3 7 (12.96%) Architect
4 6 (11.11%) Developer
4 6 (11.11%) Technical Leader
5 5 (9.26%) Business Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (7.41%) Agile Project Manager
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Salesforce Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Senior
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Product Owner
7 3 (5.56%) Salesforce Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Scrum Master
7 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) SOAP
2 8 (14.81%) REST
3 7 (12.96%) Lightning Web Components
3 7 (12.96%) Visualforce
4 3 (5.56%) ADO
4 3 (5.56%) Node.js
5 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.70%) HTML
5 2 (3.70%) Kafka
5 2 (3.70%) React
5 2 (3.70%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.85%) Ajax
6 1 (1.85%) Jinja
6 1 (1.85%) JSON
6 1 (1.85%) Middleware
6 1 (1.85%) NETCONF
6 1 (1.85%) Spring
6 1 (1.85%) Web Services
6 1 (1.85%) XML
6 1 (1.85%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.11%) CMDB
3 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.70%) PMI
3 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) IoT
4 1 (1.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) VMS
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (94.44%) Agile
2 15 (27.78%) DevOps
3 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 8 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (12.96%) Acceptance Criteria
6 7 (12.96%) Analytics
6 7 (12.96%) Roadmaps
6 7 (12.96%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (11.11%) ITIL
7 6 (11.11%) ITSM
7 6 (11.11%) Migration
7 6 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (11.11%) Waterfall
8 5 (9.26%) Data Migration
8 5 (9.26%) PRINCE2
8 5 (9.26%) Project Management
8 5 (9.26%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) Java
1 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
2 7 (12.96%) Apex Code
3 3 (5.56%) Bicep
3 3 (5.56%) Python
3 3 (5.56%) SQL
3 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.85%) C#
4 1 (1.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) PMI Certification
1 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (3.70%) PMP
4 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) PMO
1 5 (9.26%) QA
2 4 (7.41%) GRC
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.56%) Ansible
2 3 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Salesforce
2 7 (12.96%) Oracle
3 5 (9.26%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.41%) SAP
5 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.85%) BMC
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco
6 1 (1.85%) Citrix
6 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.85%) Remedy
6 1 (1.85%) Veracode