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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 46 54
Rank change year-on-year -39 +8 -40
Contract jobs citing Scrum 35 41 67
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.93% 3.64% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 3.92% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 38
10th Percentile £375 £461 £389
25th Percentile £400 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.57% -7.64%
75th Percentile £500 £551 £588
90th Percentile £563 £628 £703
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -7.41%
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% +36.59%

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 1,506 1,046 1,709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.02% 92.90% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 649 877
10th Percentile £306 £325 £235
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £608
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +3.00% -1.96% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 25 103
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.90 £17.10
25th Percentile £76.39 £48.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.25 £63.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% +3.28% +3.83%
75th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £72.04
90th Percentile £107.00 £88.87 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £27.76 £47.50
% change year-on-year +89.12% -41.56% -5.00%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -27 17 £494 -5.95% 11
Windsor +2 9 £463 -7.50% 1
Wokingham -23 6 £425 -10.53% 2
Bracknell 0 2 - - 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 3 (8.57%) Confluence
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.86%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.86%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (17.14%) AWS
4 5 (14.29%) Serverless
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (11.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (8.57%) Miro
7 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.71%) GCP
7 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.86%) GitHub
8 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.86%) Big Data
2 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Git
2 4 (11.43%) JIRA
3 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) GitLab
4 1 (2.86%) Gradle
4 1 (2.86%) Maven
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Aerospace
4 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Agriculture
5 2 (5.71%) Finance
6 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Lead
2 7 (20.00%) Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Technical Leader
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Automation Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Junior
6 2 (5.71%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Node.js
2 3 (8.57%) ADO
2 3 (8.57%) Kafka
2 3 (8.57%) OAuth
2 3 (8.57%) REST
3 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.71%) LDAP
3 2 (5.71%) OpenID
3 2 (5.71%) SailPoint
3 2 (5.71%) SAML
3 2 (5.71%) Spring
3 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.71%) Web Services
4 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.86%) JWT
4 1 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.86%) pytest
4 1 (2.86%) React
4 1 (2.86%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.71%) Life Science
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.86%) CMDB
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.86%) IVR
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) SCADA
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (97.14%) Agile
2 10 (28.57%) DevOps
3 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
5 7 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (17.14%) User Stories
7 5 (14.29%) Analytics
7 5 (14.29%) Project Management
7 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (11.43%) AI
8 4 (11.43%) Code Quality
8 4 (11.43%) Event-Driven
8 4 (11.43%) Kanban
8 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
8 4 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (11.43%) Waterfall
9 3 (8.57%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Java
2 3 (8.57%) Bicep
2 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
2 3 (8.57%) SQL
2 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.86%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 3 (8.57%) PMI Certification
3 3 (8.57%) PMP
4 2 (5.71%) CISSP
4 2 (5.71%) CSPO
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) PMO
3 2 (5.71%) GDPR
4 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.43%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) Ansible
4 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.71%) ForgeRock
2 2 (5.71%) Okta
2 2 (5.71%) Ping Identity
2 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.86%) BMC
3 1 (2.86%) CyberArk
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) Remedy
3 1 (2.86%) SAP