Scrum Contracts in Reading

Scrum
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 8 29
Rank change year-on-year -37 +21 -7
Contract jobs citing Scrum 55 125 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.74% 12.34% 6.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.28% 13.81% 6.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 80 54
10th Percentile £363 £450 £395
25th Percentile £425 £494 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% -1.12% +23.61%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £647 £676 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £523 £528 £534
% change year-on-year -0.95% -1.29% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,042 905 1,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.83% 89.34% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 604 803
10th Percentile £213 £364 £249
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £652 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.24% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 23 8
10th Percentile £19.63 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +132.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £76.99 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.47 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.03
% change year-on-year +5.50% +174.99% -0.12%

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 13 May 2024.

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 10 (18.18%) Apache
1 10 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.27%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.82%) JBoss
4 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Maximo
1 1 (1.82%) SAP MII
1 1 (1.82%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.82%) Azure
2 9 (16.36%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (14.55%) Serverless
4 7 (12.73%) Power Platform
5 5 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (9.09%) AWS
5 5 (9.09%) PaaS
6 4 (7.27%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.45%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (5.45%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.64%) GCP
9 1 (1.82%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.18%) BGP
1 10 (18.18%) Ethernet VPN
1 10 (18.18%) MPLS
1 10 (18.18%) Radio Access Network
1 10 (18.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.09%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 10 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 7 (12.73%) Power BI
5 6 (10.91%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.64%) Power Query
7 2 (3.64%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) JIRA
2 13 (23.64%) Robot Framework
3 10 (18.18%) GitLab
3 10 (18.18%) TestRail
4 9 (16.36%) Git
5 5 (9.09%) Jenkins
6 3 (5.45%) JUnit
6 3 (5.45%) Selenium
7 1 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.82%) JMeter
7 1 (1.82%) Mockito
7 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (21.82%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Billing
3 7 (12.73%) Telecoms
4 6 (10.91%) Finance
4 6 (10.91%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.82%) Marketing
6 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) Developer
2 11 (20.00%) Analyst
3 9 (16.36%) Network Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) Test Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.27%) C# Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.27%) Product Owner
5 4 (7.27%) Scrum Master
6 3 (5.45%) Applications Manager
6 3 (5.45%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 3 (5.45%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Product Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Solutions Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Web Manager
7 2 (3.64%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.09%) REST
2 12 (21.82%) SOAP
3 11 (20.00%) YANG
4 10 (18.18%) NETCONF
4 10 (18.18%) RESTCONF
5 6 (10.91%) HTML
5 6 (10.91%) Spring Boot
6 5 (9.09%) Node.js
6 5 (9.09%) Spring
6 5 (9.09%) Web Services
6 5 (9.09%) XML
7 4 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (5.45%) Kafka
8 3 (5.45%) React
9 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.64%) Apache Camel
9 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET
9 2 (3.64%) CSS
9 2 (3.64%) Mustache
9 2 (3.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (34.55%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.27%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.45%) Client/Server
4 3 (5.45%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.00%) Linux
2 7 (12.73%) Windows
3 4 (7.27%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (83.64%) Agile
2 19 (34.55%) Test Automation
3 16 (29.09%) Workflow
4 15 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 15 (27.27%) DevOps
5 12 (21.82%) Integration Testing
5 12 (21.82%) Performance Testing
5 12 (21.82%) Unit Testing
6 11 (20.00%) Kanban
7 10 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (18.18%) Regression Testing
7 10 (18.18%) Security Testing
8 9 (16.36%) Project Delivery
9 8 (14.55%) User Stories
10 5 (9.09%) Microservices
10 5 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 5 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
10 5 (9.09%) Sprint Retrospective
10 5 (9.09%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.73%) SQL
2 16 (29.09%) Python
3 10 (18.18%) Java
4 8 (14.55%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.09%) C#
6 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.45%) T-SQL
6 3 (5.45%) VBScript
7 1 (1.82%) F#
7 1 (1.82%) PHP
7 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.64%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) PMP
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) GDPR
2 3 (5.45%) PMO
3 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (27.27%) Docker
2 3 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.64%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) Ab Initio
2 3 (5.45%) SAP
2 3 (5.45%) VMware
3 2 (3.64%) Adobe
3 2 (3.64%) Google
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle
4 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.82%) Splunk