Waterfall Contracts in Reading

Waterfall Model
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Waterfall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Waterfall over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 48 47
Rank change year-on-year -29 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 19 38 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.60% 3.68% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 4.06% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 30 34
10th Percentile £445 £425 £426
25th Percentile £481 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% +6.67% +13.51%
75th Percentile £688 £616 £608
90th Percentile £800 £678 £676
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £550 £516
% change year-on-year +9.09% +6.64% +14.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Waterfall 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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,072 935 1,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.24% 90.60% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 623 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £236
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £658 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in Reading over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (5.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Android Studio
2 1 (5.26%) Postman
2 1 (5.26%) Selenium
2 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
2 1 (5.26%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
2 1 (5.26%) Xcode
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Project Manager
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Senior Manager
2 5 (26.32%) Senior Project Manager
3 4 (21.05%) Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Release Manager
3 4 (21.05%) Telecoms Manager
4 3 (15.79%) IT Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Product Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Applications Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Programme Manager
6 1 (5.26%) QA Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Android
2 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) Project Delivery
2 6 (31.58%) Roadmaps
2 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
3 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
3 4 (21.05%) Release Automation
3 4 (21.05%) Release Management
3 4 (21.05%) Runbook
3 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (21.05%) Use Case
3 4 (21.05%) Workflow
4 3 (15.79%) Project Management
4 3 (15.79%) Resource Management
4 3 (15.79%) SDLC
5 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.53%) Customer Experience
5 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Performance Measurement
5 2 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) C#
1 1 (5.26%) Java
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) APMP
2 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Atlassian
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe