Scrum Contracts in Berkshire

Scrum
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 14 38
Rank change year-on-year -37 +24 -15
Contract jobs citing Scrum 70 186 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.63% 10.47% 5.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 11.67% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 113 71
10th Percentile £396 £413 £390
25th Percentile £425 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% +2.33% +17.81%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £635
90th Percentile £700 £698 £688
South East median daily rate £495 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.82% -3.15%
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +33.33% +1.45% -17.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,694 1,594 2,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.91% 89.75% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 998 1,333
10th Percentile £235 £348 £264
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 53 38
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.89 £74.79 £34.97
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Berkshire

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Berkshire

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Berkshire

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend 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 31 May 2024. 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 -32 56 £501 -9.73% 7
Wokingham -10 6 £763 +24.49% 1
Bracknell -18 3 £438 +4.17% 2
Newbury -2 2 £508 +19.41%
Scrum
South East

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 8 (11.43%) Apache
2 7 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.29%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.43%) Confluence
5 1 (1.43%) JBoss
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Maximo
1 1 (1.43%) SAP MII
1 1 (1.43%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.14%) Azure
2 13 (18.57%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.00%) AWS
4 7 (10.00%) Serverless
5 6 (8.57%) PaaS
5 6 (8.57%) PowerApps
6 5 (7.14%) GCP
7 4 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (4.29%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.86%) SaaS
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.86%) BGP
1 9 (12.86%) MPLS
1 9 (12.86%) VPN
2 7 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 7 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (4.29%) Network Security
4 2 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (2.86%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (2.86%) DMVPN
4 2 (2.86%) EIGRP
4 2 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (2.86%) Firewall
4 2 (2.86%) IPsec
4 2 (2.86%) OSPF
4 2 (2.86%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (2.86%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.86%) Sourcefire
4 2 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.57%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.43%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 7 (10.00%) Power BI
4 6 (8.57%) Relational Database
5 5 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.29%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.86%) MySQL
7 2 (2.86%) Power Query
8 1 (1.43%) Big Data
8 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.43%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 19 (27.14%) JIRA
2 10 (14.29%) Robot Framework
3 9 (12.86%) Git
4 7 (10.00%) GitLab
4 7 (10.00%) TestRail
5 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.29%) Selenium
6 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (2.86%) JUnit
8 1 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.43%) JMeter
8 1 (1.43%) Mockito
General
1 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.86%) Billing
2 9 (12.86%) Telecoms
3 8 (11.43%) Finance
4 3 (4.29%) Marketing
5 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (25.71%) Developer
2 15 (21.43%) Analyst
3 6 (8.57%) Network Engineer
3 6 (8.57%) Test Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Product Owner
4 5 (7.14%) Scrum Master
5 4 (5.71%) C# Developer
5 4 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Java Developer
5 4 (5.71%) Product Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Senior
6 3 (4.29%) Applications Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Consultant
6 3 (4.29%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Solutions Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.14%) REST
2 8 (11.43%) SOAP
2 8 (11.43%) YANG
3 7 (10.00%) NETCONF
3 7 (10.00%) RESTCONF
4 6 (8.57%) HTML
4 6 (8.57%) XML
5 5 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.71%) Kafka
6 4 (5.71%) Node.js
6 4 (5.71%) React
6 4 (5.71%) Spring
6 4 (5.71%) Web Services
7 3 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.86%) .NET
8 2 (2.86%) Apache Camel
8 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (2.86%) Django
8 2 (2.86%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 20 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.71%) Client/Server
5 3 (4.29%) Smart Meter
5 3 (4.29%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.57%) Linux
2 10 (14.29%) Windows
3 7 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (80.00%) Agile
2 22 (31.43%) DevOps
3 16 (22.86%) Test Automation
4 14 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 13 (18.57%) Kanban
5 13 (18.57%) Workflow
6 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.14%) User Stories
7 9 (12.86%) Integration Testing
7 9 (12.86%) Performance Testing
7 9 (12.86%) Project Delivery
7 9 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (12.86%) Unit Testing
8 8 (11.43%) Analytics
9 7 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 7 (10.00%) Data Protection
9 7 (10.00%) Regression Testing
9 7 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (10.00%) Security Testing
9 7 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.71%) SQL
2 15 (21.43%) Python
3 11 (15.71%) Java
4 8 (11.43%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.00%) C#
6 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.71%) VBScript
7 3 (4.29%) F#
7 3 (4.29%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.43%) PHP
8 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.14%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) PMP
5 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.86%) CCNA
5 2 (2.86%) CCNP
5 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.43%) CSPO
6 1 (1.43%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) GDPR
2 3 (4.29%) PMO
3 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (15.71%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.43%) Ansible
2 1 (1.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.71%) VMware
3 3 (4.29%) Ab Initio
3 3 (4.29%) Google
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle
3 3 (4.29%) SAP
4 2 (2.86%) Adobe
4 2 (2.86%) Aruba
4 2 (2.86%) Blue Coat
4 2 (2.86%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.86%) Cisco
4 2 (2.86%) F5
4 2 (2.86%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.86%) Juniper
4 2 (2.86%) McAfee
4 2 (2.86%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.86%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.43%) Databricks
5 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce