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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 75 57
Rank change year-on-year +37 -18 -11
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 29 15 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.85% 1.36% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 1.58% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 29
10th Percentile £513 £514 -
25th Percentile £536 £593 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +4.00% +17.32%
75th Percentile £620 £724 £675
90th Percentile £650 £796 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £596 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -3.09% +2.50% +13.15%

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 551 951 967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.14% 85.91% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 512 644
10th Percentile £353 £350 £349
25th Percentile £450 £475 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £599 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +8.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 22
10th Percentile - £14.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £14.75 £51.52 £54.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.92% -6.67% +135.71%
75th Percentile £38.42 £74.87 £74.59
90th Percentile £59.13 £87.46 £76.82
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £60.60 £59.38
% change year-on-year -47.11% +2.06% +128.37%

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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 19 August 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 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (6.90%) Primavera
3 1 (3.45%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
1 10 (34.48%) Power Platform
2 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle CX
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.34%) Miro
4 3 (10.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Subversion
2 1 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Project Manager
2 8 (27.59%) Senior
3 6 (20.69%) Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Business Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Oracle Project Manager
4 5 (17.24%) Programme Manager
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Business Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) ERP Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Lead
6 3 (10.34%) Oracle Programme Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (6.90%) ERP Project Manager
7 2 (6.90%) IT Manager
7 2 (6.90%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Security Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (10.34%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Operational Technology
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) CMDB
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Agile
2 14 (48.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (44.83%) Project Delivery
4 10 (34.48%) Project Management
5 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (24.14%) Cost Management
5 7 (24.14%) ERP
5 7 (24.14%) Scrum
5 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (20.69%) Impact Assessments
6 6 (20.69%) Project Governance
7 5 (17.24%) Business Analysis
7 5 (17.24%) CRM
7 5 (17.24%) Customer Service
7 5 (17.24%) DevOps
7 5 (17.24%) Matrix Organization
7 5 (17.24%) Process Improvement
7 5 (17.24%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (13.79%) Customer Experience
8 4 (13.79%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
1 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 18 (62.07%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) Remedy
2 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) BMC
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.45%) Snow