WFM Contract Job Trends in Reading

Workforce Management (WFM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading 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 88 61 -
Rank change year-on-year -27 - -
Contract jobs citing WFM 3 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.28% 1.03% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 1.12% -
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 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £688 £450 -
% change year-on-year +52.78% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 873 538 940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 81.51% 91.97% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 341 508
10th Percentile £370 £356 £350
25th Percentile £458 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £550 £584
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -5.82% +6.18%
75th Percentile £650 £620 £651
90th Percentile £752 £675 £715
Berkshire median daily rate £545 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +6.34% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 19 32
10th Percentile £35.22 - £15.13
25th Percentile £71.43 £14.75 £55.41
Median hourly rate £85.00 £20.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +309.64% -66.31% -5.41%
75th Percentile £101.75 £46.71 £75.40
90th Percentile £106.00 £60.15 £87.46
Berkshire median hourly rate £82.21 £32.18 £61.60
% change year-on-year +155.45% -47.76% +2.67%

WFM
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

WFM job vacancy trend in Reading

WFM
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing WFM

WFM
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 1 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IVR
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) SFIA
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
WFM jobs