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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 51 13
Rank change year-on-year +7 -38 +14
Contract jobs citing Scrum 50 74 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.26% 3.73% 10.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 4.20% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 37 114
10th Percentile £450 £420 £407
25th Percentile £480 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £547 £613 £600
90th Percentile £618 £705 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £48.00 - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £70.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.93% +55.56% -25.00%

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 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +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 1 May 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
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 1 May 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 +2 28 £509 -6.53% 22
Wokingham -7 8 £475 -50.00% 1
Windsor - 6 £500 -
Bracknell +19 3 £513 - 2
Slough - 1 £650 - 17
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 2 (4.00%) Appian
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) AWS
3 6 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (12.00%) GitHub
3 6 (12.00%) Serverless
4 4 (8.00%) SaaS
5 3 (6.00%) Oracle CX
6 2 (4.00%) GCP
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.00%) dbt
7 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.00%) IaaS
7 1 (2.00%) PaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) HTTP
2 3 (6.00%) Broadband
3 1 (2.00%) BGP
3 1 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.00%) MPLS
3 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.00%) Big Data
1 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.00%) MySQL
1 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) JIRA
2 4 (8.00%) Git
3 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.00%) GitLab
3 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.00%) DbUnit
4 1 (2.00%) jMock
4 1 (2.00%) JUnit
4 1 (2.00%) Maven
4 1 (2.00%) Mockito
4 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Telecoms
3 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Billing
6 1 (2.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Scrum Master
2 8 (16.00%) Lead
3 6 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Product Owner
5 4 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Junior
5 4 (8.00%) Senior
6 3 (6.00%) Junior Scrum Master
6 3 (6.00%) Product Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Telecoms Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Agile Business Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Agile Product Owner
7 2 (4.00%) Agile Scrum Master
7 2 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Product Business Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) Web Services
2 8 (16.00%) SOAP
3 7 (14.00%) CSS
3 7 (14.00%) HTML
3 7 (14.00%) JSON
4 6 (12.00%) REST
5 5 (10.00%) XML
6 4 (8.00%) Ajax
7 2 (4.00%) Playwright
8 1 (2.00%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (2.00%) ADO
8 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET
8 1 (2.00%) Blazor
8 1 (2.00%) Hibernate
8 1 (2.00%) JPA
8 1 (2.00%) NETCONF
8 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
8 1 (2.00%) RESTCONF
8 1 (2.00%) Spring
8 1 (2.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.00%) CMDB
3 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Life Science
4 1 (2.00%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) PMI
4 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) CentOS
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (70.00%) Agile
2 14 (28.00%) DevOps
3 13 (26.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (26.00%) Roadmaps
3 13 (26.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 8 (16.00%) ITIL
5 8 (16.00%) Kanban
5 8 (16.00%) Product Roadmap
5 8 (16.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 8 (16.00%) User Stories
6 7 (14.00%) Analytics
6 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.00%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (12.00%) Coaching
7 6 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (12.00%) IT Asset Management
7 6 (12.00%) ITSM
7 6 (12.00%) Product Backlog
7 6 (12.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.00%) Python
1 8 (16.00%) SQL
2 5 (10.00%) C#
3 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) Assembly Language
4 1 (2.00%) C++
4 1 (2.00%) Java
4 1 (2.00%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.00%) CISA
3 1 (2.00%) CISM
3 1 (2.00%) CISSP
3 1 (2.00%) PgMP
3 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.00%) PMP
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.00%) Postfix
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Grafana
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.00%) Oracle
4 3 (6.00%) Cisco
4 3 (6.00%) Snow
5 2 (4.00%) Blue Prism
5 2 (4.00%) Genesys
5 2 (4.00%) Nokia
5 2 (4.00%) Rakuten
5 2 (4.00%) Xamarin
6 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.00%) VMware