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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 47 51
Rank change year-on-year -42 +4 -35
Contract jobs citing Scrum 39 53 70
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.98% 4.34% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 4.68% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 32 39
10th Percentile £363 £468 £393
25th Percentile £400 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £518 £501
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% +3.29% -8.91%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £588
90th Percentile £575 £648 £701
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £79.94 £49.20 -
25th Percentile £84.00 £51.00 -
Median hourly rate £86.08 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.73% - -
75th Percentile £87.36 £71.50 -
90th Percentile £87.97 £76.60 -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +27.27%

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 1,648 1,132 1,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.70% 92.79% 86.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 690 847
10th Percentile £319 £325 £268
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -3.95% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £700 £676 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -0.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 45 111
10th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £74.98 £19.91 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.79 £48.00 £60.60
Median % change year-on-year +74.56% -20.79% +2.06%
75th Percentile £88.00 £75.50 £72.04
90th Percentile £106.30 £88.32 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £24.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +129.17% -52.00% -

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -30 23 £463 -11.90% 3
Windsor +6 7 £415 -17.00% 1
Wokingham -24 6 £425 -10.53%
Bracknell -1 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 (12.82%) Confluence
2 3 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.56%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) Azure
2 10 (25.64%) AWS
3 9 (23.08%) GCP
4 6 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
5 5 (12.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (7.69%) Miro
6 3 (7.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.13%) Serverless
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub
8 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) DNS
1 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Big Data
1 3 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.13%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
1 6 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) GitLab
General
1 19 (48.72%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.90%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (25.64%) Aerospace
4 4 (10.26%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Agriculture
6 2 (5.13%) Billing
6 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Product Owner
2 9 (23.08%) Analyst
3 7 (17.95%) Business Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Lead
4 6 (15.38%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Automation Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Senior QA Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Tester
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Automation Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) OAuth
2 5 (12.82%) OpenID
2 5 (12.82%) SAML
3 4 (10.26%) LDAP
3 4 (10.26%) SailPoint
4 3 (7.69%) REST
5 2 (5.13%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (5.13%) PySpark
6 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.56%) JWT
6 1 (2.56%) Kafka
6 1 (2.56%) Mustache
6 1 (2.56%) Node.js
6 1 (2.56%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.56%) Pandas
6 1 (2.56%) pytest
6 1 (2.56%) React
6 1 (2.56%) SOAP
6 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (41.03%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.13%) Life Science
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.56%) IVR
5 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.56%) SCADA
5 1 (2.56%) Smart Meter
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (92.31%) Agile
2 14 (35.90%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (35.90%) User Stories
3 13 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 12 (30.77%) Requirements Gathering
5 11 (28.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (25.64%) Sprint Planning
7 9 (23.08%) Epics
7 9 (23.08%) Risk Management
8 8 (20.51%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
8 8 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (20.51%) DevOps
8 8 (20.51%) Product Backlog
8 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (20.51%) Validation
9 7 (17.95%) Product Vision
10 6 (15.38%) Product Roadmap
10 6 (15.38%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) SQL
2 6 (15.38%) Python
3 2 (5.13%) Apex Code
3 2 (5.13%) Java
4 1 (2.56%) Bicep
4 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 17 (43.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.90%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) CISSP
3 7 (17.95%) Degree
4 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (10.26%) CSPO
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
7 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
7 2 (5.13%) PMP
7 2 (5.13%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (2.56%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) GRC
4 1 (2.56%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Terraform
3 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Okta
1 5 (12.82%) Ping Identity
1 5 (12.82%) Salesforce
2 4 (10.26%) ForgeRock
3 3 (7.69%) Databricks
4 2 (5.13%) Google
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.56%) SAP