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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 48 59
Rank change year-on-year -33 +11 -44
Contract jobs citing Scrum 37 41 65
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.02% 3.63% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 3.88% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 35
10th Percentile £382 £453 £378
25th Percentile £403 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.20% -8.91%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £588
90th Percentile £554 £633 £708
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -7.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £79.72 - -
25th Percentile £83.11 - -
Median hourly rate £86.08 £48.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +79.33% - -
75th Percentile £87.36 - -
90th Percentile £87.72 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -21.43% +30.23%

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 1,511 1,056 1,709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.57% 93.37% 87.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 649 859
10th Percentile £306 £325 £254
25th Percentile £401 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £509
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.67% -3.05%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £508
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.57% +0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 29 110
10th Percentile £31.25 £23.71 £17.45
25th Percentile £72.60 £32.05 £41.31
Median hourly rate £83.58 £63.75 £60.53
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +5.32% -0.57%
75th Percentile £88.00 £87.05 £71.75
90th Percentile £107.00 £88.87 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -34 16 £494 -5.95% 8
Windsor +7 10 £463 -7.50% 2
Wokingham -19 8 £425 -10.53%
Bracknell +5 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 5 (13.51%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.70%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (16.22%) AWS
4 5 (13.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 5 (13.51%) Serverless
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (10.81%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.11%) Miro
7 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.41%) GCP
7 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.70%) Big Data
2 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Git
2 6 (16.22%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) GitLab
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.81%) Aerospace
5 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Agriculture
6 2 (5.41%) Billing
6 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Finance
7 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
7 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Analyst
1 9 (24.32%) Lead
2 7 (18.92%) Business Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Product Owner
4 4 (10.81%) Technical Leader
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.41%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) OAuth
2 4 (10.81%) Node.js
2 4 (10.81%) OpenID
2 4 (10.81%) SAML
3 3 (8.11%) Kafka
3 3 (8.11%) LDAP
3 3 (8.11%) REST
3 3 (8.11%) SailPoint
4 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.70%) ADO
5 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.70%) JWT
5 1 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.70%) Mustache
5 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.70%) SOAP
5 1 (2.70%) Spring
5 1 (2.70%) Web Services
5 1 (2.70%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Life Science
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.70%) IVR
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) SCADA
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) Smart Meter
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (94.59%) Agile
2 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (24.32%) User Stories
4 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (21.62%) DevOps
5 7 (18.92%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
5 7 (18.92%) Requirements Gathering
5 7 (18.92%) Sprint Planning
5 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (16.22%) Project Management
6 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.51%) Analytics
7 5 (13.51%) Code Quality
7 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (13.51%) Validation
7 5 (13.51%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (10.81%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) Java
1 4 (10.81%) SQL
2 3 (8.11%) Bicep
2 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
2 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) Degree
4 3 (8.11%) CISSP
4 3 (8.11%) CSPO
5 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
5 2 (5.41%) PMP
6 1 (2.70%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) GRC
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
3 3 (8.11%) Ansible
4 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Salesforce
2 4 (10.81%) Okta
2 4 (10.81%) Ping Identity
3 3 (8.11%) ForgeRock
4 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.70%) SAP