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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 46 39
Rank change year-on-year -28 -7 -15
Contract jobs citing Scrum 46 56 80
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.49% 4.67% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 5.10% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 50
10th Percentile £387 £493 £412
25th Percentile £413 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £561 £598 £622
90th Percentile £575 £650 £655
South East median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.86% -3.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £79.94 £54.08 -
25th Percentile £84.00 £58.69 -
Median hourly rate £86.08 £66.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.96% - -
75th Percentile £87.36 £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% +16.67%

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 1,515 1,099 1,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 81.98% 91.66% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 674 780
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% -6.59% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £733 £675 £698
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 41 74
10th Percentile £21.49 £14.75 £18.92
25th Percentile £57.50 £17.30 £44.13
Median hourly rate £83.00 £32.05 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +158.97% -47.97% +2.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.24 £72.18
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.25 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £22.29 £57.35
% change year-on-year +135.58% -61.14% +10.80%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -28 29 £525 - 12
Windsor +5 8 £415 -17.00% 1
Wokingham -12 4 £425 -15.00% 3
Bracknell -7 2 - - 2
Slough +3 1 £500 -
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 (10.87%) Confluence
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.17%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.17%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (43.48%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) AWS
3 11 (23.91%) GCP
4 9 (19.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 3 (6.52%) GitHub
7 3 (6.52%) Miro
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.17%) Serverless
8 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Network Security
2 1 (2.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Big Data
1 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.35%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) JIRA
2 6 (13.04%) Git
3 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 23 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (26.09%) Aerospace
4 5 (10.87%) Finance
5 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.35%) Agriculture
7 2 (4.35%) Billing
7 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Retail
8 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Lead
2 10 (21.74%) Product Owner
3 9 (19.57%) Senior
4 8 (17.39%) Analyst
5 7 (15.22%) Business Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Technical Leader
8 2 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (4.35%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Salesforce Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Salesforce Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Scrum Master
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) Lightning Web Components
1 5 (10.87%) OAuth
1 5 (10.87%) OpenID
1 5 (10.87%) SAML
2 4 (8.70%) LDAP
2 4 (8.70%) REST
2 4 (8.70%) SailPoint
2 4 (8.70%) Terraform
3 3 (6.52%) Middleware
4 2 (4.35%) PySpark
4 2 (4.35%) SOAP
5 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.17%) Kafka
5 1 (2.17%) Mustache
5 1 (2.17%) Node.js
5 1 (2.17%) React
5 1 (2.17%) Spring
5 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.17%) Visualforce
5 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (39.13%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Life Science
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.17%) IVR
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) SCADA
5 1 (2.17%) Smart Meter
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (95.65%) Agile
2 17 (36.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (32.61%) Roadmaps
3 15 (32.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (32.61%) User Stories
4 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (26.09%) Requirements Gathering
6 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
6 11 (23.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (21.74%) Sprint Planning
7 10 (21.74%) Validation
8 9 (19.57%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (19.57%) Epics
8 9 (19.57%) Risk Management
9 8 (17.39%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 8 (17.39%) ITIL
9 8 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (17.39%) Product Backlog
9 8 (17.39%) Project Management
9 8 (17.39%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) SQL
2 5 (10.87%) Apex Code
2 5 (10.87%) Python
3 2 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 17 (36.96%) SC Cleared
3 10 (21.74%) Degree
4 7 (15.22%) CISSP
5 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
5 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (10.87%) PMI Certification
5 5 (10.87%) PMP
6 4 (8.70%) CSPO
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
8 2 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (2.17%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.09%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) GRC
3 2 (4.35%) GDPR
4 1 (2.17%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Ansible
2 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) HP ALM
3 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Salesforce
2 5 (10.87%) Okta
2 5 (10.87%) Ping Identity
3 4 (8.70%) ForgeRock
4 3 (6.52%) Databricks
5 2 (4.35%) Google
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.35%) SAP
5 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.17%) HP
6 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle