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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 41 51
Rank change year-on-year -44 +10 -29
Contract jobs citing Scrum 36 58 79
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.96% 5.11% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 5.48% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 38 41
10th Percentile £395 £412 £413
25th Percentile £405 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.54% +4.39%
75th Percentile £526 £550 £613
90th Percentile £578 £615 £698
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +3.00% -0.10% -6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.00 -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £61.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +9.76% -7.17% +47.22%

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 1,578 1,058 1,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.04% 93.30% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,035 614 986
10th Percentile £303 £313 £213
25th Percentile £403 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -4.63%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £510 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 24 105
10th Percentile £20.59 £25.96 £18.97
25th Percentile £66.25 £52.13 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +2.25% +5.72%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.09 £71.75
90th Percentile £99.25 £84.94 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +23.08% -23.53% -5.56%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -46 12 £494 -0.05% 13
Wokingham -26 11 £500 +5.26%
Windsor +3 7 £450 -10.00%
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 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.78%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (44.44%) Azure
2 11 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (19.44%) AWS
4 5 (13.89%) Serverless
5 4 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 3 (8.33%) Miro
6 3 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.56%) SaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Gradle
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Maven
3 1 (2.78%) Postman
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.78%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Lead
2 6 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 6 (16.67%) Technical Leader
3 5 (13.89%) Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Agile Project Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Product Owner
5 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Junior
6 2 (5.56%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) REST
1 6 (16.67%) SOAP
2 4 (11.11%) Node.js
3 3 (8.33%) ADO
3 3 (8.33%) Kafka
4 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.56%) HTML
4 2 (5.56%) Spring
4 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.56%) Web Services
5 1 (2.78%) .NET
5 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.78%) JWT
5 1 (2.78%) Mustache
5 1 (2.78%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.78%) Pandas
5 1 (2.78%) pytest
5 1 (2.78%) React
5 1 (2.78%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) CMDB
2 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) SCADA
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (97.22%) Agile
2 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (30.56%) DevOps
4 9 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (19.44%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (19.44%) ITIL
5 7 (19.44%) Project Management
5 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
6 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 6 (16.67%) ITSM
6 6 (16.67%) User Stories
7 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
7 5 (13.89%) Technical Architecture
7 5 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (13.89%) Waterfall
8 4 (11.11%) Analytics
8 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 4 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
8 4 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
2 5 (13.89%) Java
3 3 (8.33%) Bicep
3 3 (8.33%) SQL
3 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.78%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.78%) Perl
4 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 3 (8.33%) PMP
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (2.78%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
2 4 (11.11%) GRC
3 3 (8.33%) PMO
4 2 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.78%) BMC
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Remedy