Target Operating Model Contract Job Trends in Reading

Target Operating Model (TOM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Target Operating Model skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 67 98
Rank change year-on-year -7 +31 -8
Contract jobs citing Target Operating Model 10 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.03% 0.41% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 0.44% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £443 £571 £526
25th Percentile £480 £588 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £615 £581
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% +5.94% +5.55%
75th Percentile £648 £655 £584
90th Percentile - £679 £587
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £560 £581
% change year-on-year +11.61% -3.53% +5.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Target Operating Model 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 856 684 1,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 88.25% 93.57% 92.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 384 625
10th Percentile £310 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £613
90th Percentile £670 £675 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 4 37
10th Percentile £56.40 £27.08 £19.10
25th Percentile £80.50 £28.31 £52.90
Median hourly rate £83.58 £45.38 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +84.17% -26.33% -12.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £106.00 £72.56 £87.53
Berkshire median hourly rate £82.50 £60.25 £58.65
% change year-on-year +36.94% +2.72% -9.32%

Target Operating Model
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Target Operating Model relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Target Operating Model job vacancy trend in Reading

Target Operating Model
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Target Operating Model.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Target Operating Model

Target Operating Model
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Target Operating Model in Reading over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Target Operating Model in Reading

Target Operating Model
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 5 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) SaaS
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Lead
2 5 (50.00%) Service Transition Leader
3 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (60.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 5 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
3 5 (50.00%) ERP
3 5 (50.00%) ITIL
3 5 (50.00%) ITSM
3 5 (50.00%) Service Management
3 5 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (10.00%) Cyber Resilience
6 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 1 (10.00%) Digital Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (10.00%) Time Management
6 1 (10.00%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) CyberArk
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Concur
3 1 (10.00%) Workday
3 1 (10.00%) Zoho