Scrum Contracts in Reading

Scrum
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 34 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 -20 +11
Contract jobs citing Scrum 28 61 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.69% 5.12% 11.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 5.67% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 78
10th Percentile £445 £423 £450
25th Percentile £450 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.53% -1.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £570 £613 £600
90th Percentile £628 £640 £679
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -8.09% +3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £48.00 - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Reading

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Reading

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Reading

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Reading

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Appian
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
1 6 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle CX
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) AWS KMS
3 1 (3.57%) Azure AI
3 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.57%) dbt
3 1 (3.57%) GCP
3 1 (3.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Broadband
2 1 (3.57%) BGP
2 1 (3.57%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (3.57%) MPLS
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.57%) Big Data
1 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.57%) MySQL
1 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 2 (7.14%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (3.57%) DbUnit
3 1 (3.57%) jMock
3 1 (3.57%) JUnit
3 1 (3.57%) Maven
3 1 (3.57%) Mockito
3 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
1 9 (32.14%) Telecoms
2 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Billing
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Scrum Master
2 4 (14.29%) Junior
2 4 (14.29%) Lead
2 4 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Junior Scrum Master
3 3 (10.71%) Product Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Agile Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Agile Product Owner
4 2 (7.14%) Agile Scrum Master
4 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Product Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Agile Delivery Lead
5 1 (3.57%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) CSS
1 3 (10.71%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) Playwright
2 2 (7.14%) REST
2 2 (7.14%) SOAP
3 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (3.57%) Blazor
3 1 (3.57%) Bootstrap
3 1 (3.57%) NETCONF
3 1 (3.57%) PowerMock
3 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.57%) RESTCONF
3 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.57%) Spring Batch
3 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.57%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Spring Integration
3 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.57%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) IoT
3 1 (3.57%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) CentOS
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) Agile
2 11 (39.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 8 (28.57%) User Stories
4 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.00%) DevOps
4 7 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 7 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (21.43%) Kanban
5 6 (21.43%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (17.86%) Analytics
6 5 (17.86%) Coaching
6 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (14.29%) CRM
7 4 (14.29%) Epics
7 4 (14.29%) Product Backlog
7 4 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
8 3 (10.71%) Backlog Management
8 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) SQL
2 3 (10.71%) C#
2 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (3.57%) Assembly Language
4 1 (3.57%) C++
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.57%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco
4 2 (7.14%) Blue Prism
4 2 (7.14%) Nokia
4 2 (7.14%) Rakuten
5 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.57%) Genesys
5 1 (3.57%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce