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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 23 59
Rank change year-on-year -27 +36 -32
Contract jobs citing Scrum 61 112 68
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.13% 8.03% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 8.81% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 65 36
10th Percentile £407 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +1.95% +7.90%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £614
90th Percentile £625 £663 £631
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -1.40%

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 1,279 1,271 1,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.65% 91.18% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 869 705 926
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £515
% change year-on-year -2.01% -0.92% +1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 35 66
10th Percentile £14.75 £26.85 £27.50
25th Percentile £19.38 £41.88 £48.73
Median hourly rate £56.50 £59.00 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year -4.24% -4.29% +12.08%
75th Percentile £81.75 £64.73 £67.50
90th Percentile £98.25 £71.72 £77.94
South East median hourly rate £23.00 £43.94 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.66% -20.11% +28.87%

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 7 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 7 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 -22 34 £525 -6.25% 7
Windsor -3 9 £493 -1.50% 2
Wokingham -29 8 £550 -4.35% 1
Bracknell -5 3 - - 1
Slough -2 1 - - 9
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 (8.20%) Confluence
1 5 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.64%) Appian
2 1 (1.64%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) SAP PM
2 2 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (3.28%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.64%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (39.34%) Azure
2 17 (27.87%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.84%) AWS
4 4 (6.56%) Oracle CX
4 4 (6.56%) SaaS
5 3 (4.92%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (4.92%) GCP
5 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.92%) Miro
5 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (4.92%) Serverless
6 2 (3.28%) Contentstack
6 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.28%) Slack
7 1 (1.64%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.64%) OCI
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Power BI
1 3 (4.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.64%) Data Mart
3 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) JIRA
2 6 (9.84%) Git
3 2 (3.28%) Selenium
4 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.64%) GitLab
4 1 (1.64%) Gradle
4 1 (1.64%) Maven
4 1 (1.64%) Postman
4 1 (1.64%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.64%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.20%) Marketing
2 5 (8.20%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Finance
4 2 (3.28%) General Ledger
4 2 (3.28%) Retail
5 1 (1.64%) Law
5 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Project Manager
2 8 (13.11%) Lead
3 7 (11.48%) Analyst
3 7 (11.48%) Architect
3 7 (11.48%) Product Owner
4 6 (9.84%) Business Analyst
4 6 (9.84%) Senior
4 6 (9.84%) Technical Leader
5 5 (8.20%) Developer
5 5 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.56%) Agile Project Manager
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Salesforce Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 3 (4.92%) Salesforce Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) SOAP
2 8 (13.11%) REST
3 7 (11.48%) Lightning Web Components
3 7 (11.48%) Visualforce
4 3 (4.92%) ADO
4 3 (4.92%) Node.js
5 2 (3.28%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.28%) HTML
5 2 (3.28%) Kafka
5 2 (3.28%) React
5 2 (3.28%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.64%) .NET
6 1 (1.64%) CSS
6 1 (1.64%) Jinja
6 1 (1.64%) JSP
6 1 (1.64%) Middleware
6 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.64%) Thymeleaf
6 1 (1.64%) Web Services
6 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.84%) CMDB
3 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.28%) PMI
3 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.64%) IoT
4 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) VMS
2 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (96.72%) Agile
2 19 (31.15%) DevOps
3 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (19.67%) Data Modelling
5 11 (18.03%) Roadmaps
6 9 (14.75%) Acceptance Criteria
7 8 (13.11%) Migration
7 8 (13.11%) Sprint Planning
7 8 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (13.11%) Translating Business Requirements
7 8 (13.11%) User Stories
8 7 (11.48%) Analytics
8 7 (11.48%) Backlog Refinement
8 7 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (11.48%) Project Management
8 7 (11.48%) Release Management
8 7 (11.48%) Waterfall
9 6 (9.84%) ITIL
9 6 (9.84%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.11%) Java
1 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
2 7 (11.48%) Apex Code
3 3 (4.92%) Bicep
3 3 (4.92%) Python
3 3 (4.92%) SQL
3 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.64%) C#
4 1 (1.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (6.56%) PMI Certification
1 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.92%) Degree
3 2 (3.28%) PMP
4 1 (1.64%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) GRC
2 5 (8.20%) PMO
3 4 (6.56%) QA
4 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.92%) Ansible
2 3 (4.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) Salesforce
2 9 (14.75%) Oracle
3 5 (8.20%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.56%) SAP
5 2 (3.28%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.64%) BMC
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco
6 1 (1.64%) Citrix
6 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.64%) Remedy
6 1 (1.64%) Veracode