The first table below looks at the demand for Waterfall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Waterfall over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Reading region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Waterfall Model
Rank 62 75 77
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +2
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 3 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.358% 0.359% 0.469%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.536% 0.567% 0.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
Average daily rate £325 £375 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £369
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £38.75 £28.00
% change year-on-year
-16.12% +38.39%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
560 705 710
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.75% 63.23% 66.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 268 317
Average daily rate £388 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.72% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 19
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Waterfall
Berkshire

Waterfall
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Waterfall across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Reading Waterfall Jobs Demand Trend

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Waterfall across the Reading region.

Reading Waterfall Daily Rate Trend

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Waterfall across the Reading region.

Reading Waterfall Hourly Rate Trend

Waterfall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Waterfall also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Waterfall.

1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Web Development
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (40.00%) J2EE
2 2 (40.00%) ISEB
2 2 (40.00%) RUP
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Handset
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) Swing
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) Web Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting

Waterfall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Waterfall also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Waterfall. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) J2EE
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) Swing
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) JavaFX
2 1 (20.00%) soapUI
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DbVisualizer
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) J2EE Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Business Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Java Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Web Development
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (40.00%) RUP
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Web Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISEB
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center