Waterfall Contracts in Berkshire

Waterfall Model
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Waterfall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Waterfall 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 68 98 48
Rank change year-on-year +30 -50 -2
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 25 26 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.13% 1.31% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 1.47% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 55
10th Percentile £495 £446 £425
25th Percentile £550 £515 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% +4.55% +6.64%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £610
90th Percentile £650 £793 £676
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £58.91 £103.50
% change year-on-year -18.51% -43.09% +95.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Waterfall 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 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in Berkshire

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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 Waterfall within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +25 13 £600 -1.23% 10
Bracknell +24 7 £550 -29.03%
Wokingham -11 1 - - 2
Slough - 1 £650 - 5
Waterfall
South East

Waterfall
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 1 (4.00%) CMS
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.00%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle CX
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.00%) GCP
2 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (4.00%) SaaS
2 1 (4.00%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Subversion
2 1 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Lead
2 5 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Change Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Business Change Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Business Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Change Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Programme Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Data Centre Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Programme Test Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) PMI
2 2 (8.00%) Infotainment
2 2 (8.00%) IoT
2 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Life Science
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (96.00%) Agile
2 13 (52.00%) Project Management
3 6 (24.00%) Change Management
4 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (20.00%) Data Management
4 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 5 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (16.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (16.00%) Impact Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Matrix Organization
6 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (12.00%) CRM
6 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
6 3 (12.00%) Programme Management
6 3 (12.00%) Project Governance
6 3 (12.00%) Scrum
7 2 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) PgMP
3 1 (4.00%) CISA
3 1 (4.00%) CISM
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
3 1 (4.00%) IIBA
3 1 (4.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) PMO
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) BMC
3 1 (4.00%) Remedy
3 1 (4.00%) Snow