Waterfall Contracts in Reading

Waterfall Model
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 47 72 48
Rank change year-on-year +25 -24 -3
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 13 19 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.18% 1.59% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.77% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 30
10th Percentile £500 £445 £425
25th Percentile £530 £498 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £608 £560
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +8.48% +6.67%
75th Percentile £630 £681 £616
90th Percentile £650 £790 £678
Berkshire median daily rate £586 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +1.91% +4.55% +6.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 (7.69%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle CX
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Subversion
2 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Business Change Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Business Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Change Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) PMO Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Programme Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Remedy Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Scrum Master
3 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Project Delivery
3 4 (30.77%) Matrix Organization
4 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (23.08%) CRM
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Project Governance
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) Active Listening
5 2 (15.38%) Change Management
5 2 (15.38%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.69%) Business Analysis
6 1 (7.69%) Integration Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Performance Testing
6 1 (7.69%) System Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Test Scripting
6 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
6 1 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) BMC
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Remedy
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Snow