Scrum Contracts in Berkshire

Scrum
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 53 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 -36 +18
Contract jobs citing Scrum 48 68 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.08% 3.44% 9.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 3.97% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 37 104
10th Percentile £485 £385 £413
25th Percentile £500 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.99% -8.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £705 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £49.20 - -
25th Percentile £51.00 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £70.00
75th Percentile £71.50 - -
90th Percentile £76.60 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% +2.80%

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 1,097 1,712 1,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.20% 86.73% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 853 1,021
10th Percentile £325 £265 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 110 53
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.45 £17.70
25th Percentile £24.66 £41.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £59.47 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% +1.23% +179.43%
75th Percentile £77.19 £72.18 £74.00
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.78 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.77% -4.44% +122.22%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Berkshire

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Berkshire

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Berkshire

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 +9 24 £538 +7.29% 20
Wokingham -6 8 £475 -37.70% 1
Bracknell +10 6 £511 +7.58% 5
Windsor - 4 £500 -
Slough - 1 £650 - 2
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 5 (10.42%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Primavera
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.75%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) SaaS
3 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.33%) AWS
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.25%) Oracle CX
5 3 (6.25%) Serverless
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.17%) GCP
6 2 (4.17%) GitHub
6 2 (4.17%) Miro
6 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.17%) Smartsheet
7 1 (2.08%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.08%) dbt
7 1 (2.08%) Figma
7 1 (2.08%) IaaS
7 1 (2.08%) OCI
7 1 (2.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) HTTP
2 3 (6.25%) Broadband
3 1 (2.08%) BGP
3 1 (2.08%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.08%) MPLS
3 1 (2.08%) SSL
3 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.08%) Data Mart
2 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.08%) MySQL
2 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) JIRA
2 4 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.17%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.08%) DbUnit
4 1 (2.08%) GitLab
4 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.08%) jMock
4 1 (2.08%) JUnit
4 1 (2.08%) Maven
4 1 (2.08%) Mockito
4 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Legal
5 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (14.58%) Developer
1 7 (14.58%) Lead
1 7 (14.58%) Scrum Master
2 6 (12.50%) Analyst
2 6 (12.50%) Architect
2 6 (12.50%) Senior
3 5 (10.42%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (6.25%) IT Manager
5 3 (6.25%) IT Programme Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Programme Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Salesforce Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Agile Scrum Master
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Product Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.00%) SOAP
2 11 (22.92%) Web Services
3 10 (20.83%) REST
4 7 (14.58%) CSS
4 7 (14.58%) HTML
5 5 (10.42%) XML
6 4 (8.33%) Ajax
7 3 (6.25%) JSON
7 3 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (6.25%) Visualforce
8 2 (4.17%) Playwright
9 1 (2.08%) Blazor
9 1 (2.08%) JPA
9 1 (2.08%) NETCONF
9 1 (2.08%) OAuth
9 1 (2.08%) RESTCONF
9 1 (2.08%) RESTful
9 1 (2.08%) Spring Batch
9 1 (2.08%) YAML
9 1 (2.08%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.42%) Life Science
3 4 (8.33%) CMDB
3 4 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) N-Tier
6 1 (2.08%) PKI
6 1 (2.08%) PMI
6 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) CentOS
2 1 (2.08%) Unix
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (87.50%) Agile
2 14 (29.17%) Roadmaps
2 14 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (22.92%) DevOps
4 9 (18.75%) ITIL
4 9 (18.75%) Kanban
4 9 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 8 (16.67%) Change Management
5 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 8 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 7 (14.58%) Service Management
6 7 (14.58%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 6 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
7 6 (12.50%) ITSM
7 6 (12.50%) Product Backlog
7 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (10.42%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (6.25%) Apex Code
2 3 (6.25%) C#
2 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (2.08%) Java
3 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) CISA
4 1 (2.08%) CISM
4 1 (2.08%) CISSP
4 1 (2.08%) PgMP
4 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.08%) PMP
4 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.25%) NIST
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) NIST 800
2 2 (4.17%) RMADS
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.08%) Postfix
3 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Grafana
1 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) ServiceNow
2 9 (18.75%) Oracle
3 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 3 (6.25%) Snow
6 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco
6 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.08%) Genesys
6 1 (2.08%) IBM
6 1 (2.08%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (2.08%) VMware