WFM Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Workforce Management (WFM)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring WFM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 88 -
Rank change year-on-year -25 - -
Contract jobs citing WFM 5 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.28% 0.51% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £666 - -
25th Percentile £672 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.78% - -
75th Percentile £697 - -
90th Percentile £699 - -
South East median daily rate £660 £545 -
% change year-on-year +21.10% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

WFM 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 1,472 1,072 1,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 81.69% 91.47% 86.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 664 770
10th Percentile £350 £343 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.34% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £733 £668 £698
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 40 73
10th Percentile £17.43 £14.75 £19.32
25th Percentile £43.66 £16.66 £42.88
Median hourly rate £82.21 £32.18 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +155.45% -47.76% +2.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.62 £72.33
90th Percentile £104.50 £87.28 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £21.90 £57.35
% change year-on-year +139.73% -61.81% +9.24%

WFM
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WFM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

WFM job vacancy trend in Berkshire

WFM
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing WFM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing WFM

WFM
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 WFM within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 5 September 2026. 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 -27 3 £688 +52.78% 2
Slough - 2 - -
WFM
South East

WFM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Implementation Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) IVR
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) SFIA
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle