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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 35 31
Rank change year-on-year -32 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Scrum 55 64 106
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.02% 5.23% 6.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 5.75% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 36 60
10th Percentile £363 £466 £429
25th Percentile £425 £498 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.89% +1.33%
75th Percentile £575 £620 £616
90th Percentile - £644 £653
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile £72.20 £54.08 -
25th Percentile £81.00 £58.69 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £66.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.34% - -
75th Percentile £87.16 £73.63 -
90th Percentile £87.97 £77.45 -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +12.00%

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 1,504 1,113 1,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.64% 91.01% 87.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 701 756
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £430 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 45 67
10th Percentile £16.38 £14.75 £19.35
25th Percentile £34.13 £17.50 £41.88
Median hourly rate £80.00 £37.28 £61.06
Median % change year-on-year +114.59% -38.95% +1.77%
75th Percentile £91.31 £58.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.40 £79.67
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £22.19 £58.38
% change year-on-year +114.24% -61.99% +9.11%

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 3 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 3 October 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 -37 34 £550 +4.76% 15
Wokingham -3 7 £463 - 6
Windsor +2 6 £475 -5.00% 1
Bracknell -1 5 £212 -58.49% 8
Slough 0 1 £500 - 7
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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (5.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (43.64%) Azure
2 14 (25.45%) AWS
3 13 (23.64%) GCP
4 7 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 5 (9.09%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.45%) GitHub
6 3 (5.45%) Lucidchart
6 3 (5.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 3 (5.45%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.82%) Miro
7 1 (1.82%) SaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Serverless
7 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) Network Security
2 1 (1.82%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) Big Data
1 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.64%) Spark SQL
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.82%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (21.82%) JIRA
2 5 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (1.82%) GitLab
3 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (47.27%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.09%) Aerospace
3 11 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Manufacturing
5 5 (9.09%) Finance
6 4 (7.27%) Retail
7 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.64%) Agriculture
8 2 (3.64%) Billing
8 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.82%) Electronics
9 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Lead
2 9 (16.36%) Product Owner
2 9 (16.36%) Senior
3 8 (14.55%) Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) Business Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) Project Manager
5 6 (10.91%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (9.09%) Technical Leader
7 3 (5.45%) Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Manager
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Project Manager
8 2 (3.64%) QA Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Salesforce Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Scrum Master
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) Terraform
2 5 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
2 5 (9.09%) OAuth
2 5 (9.09%) OpenID
2 5 (9.09%) SAML
3 4 (7.27%) LDAP
3 4 (7.27%) SailPoint
4 3 (5.45%) Middleware
4 3 (5.45%) REST
5 2 (3.64%) PySpark
5 2 (3.64%) SOAP
6 1 (1.82%) Node.js
6 1 (1.82%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 22 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.09%) Life Science
3 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.64%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) SCADA
5 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Genomics
5 1 (1.82%) IVR
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.82%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Linux
1 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (92.73%) Agile
2 26 (47.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (34.55%) Roadmaps
5 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 15 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (25.45%) Requirements Gathering
7 14 (25.45%) User Stories
7 14 (25.45%) Validation
8 13 (23.64%) ITIL
8 13 (23.64%) Service Management
9 12 (21.82%) Computer Science
9 12 (21.82%) DevSecOps
10 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 11 (20.00%) Project Delivery
10 11 (20.00%) Risk Management
10 11 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
11 10 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.00%) SQL
2 5 (9.09%) Apex Code
2 5 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (1.82%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (43.64%) SC Cleared
1 24 (43.64%) Security Cleared
2 16 (29.09%) Degree
3 8 (14.55%) AWS Certification
4 7 (12.73%) CISSP
5 6 (10.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (10.91%) PMI Certification
5 6 (10.91%) PMP
6 4 (7.27%) CSPO
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.64%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (23.64%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.45%) GRC
3 1 (1.82%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Ansible
2 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.82%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Salesforce
2 5 (9.09%) Okta
2 5 (9.09%) Ping Identity
3 4 (7.27%) ForgeRock
4 3 (5.45%) Databricks
5 2 (3.64%) Google
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.64%) SAP
6 1 (1.82%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.82%) HP
6 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle