The first table below looks at the demand for Waterfall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Waterfall over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Waterfall Model
Rank 28 31 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 4 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 2.041% 1.504% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.703% 1.951% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
Average daily rate £350 £165 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+112.12% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £190.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £41.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-21.68% +72.91%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
148 205 199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 75.51% 77.07% 77.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 111 98
Average daily rate £363 £375 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +22.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £225 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £444 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 9
Average hourly rate £35.50 £40.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.25% -15.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Waterfall
East of England

Waterfall
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Waterfall across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bedfordshire Waterfall Jobs Demand Trend

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Waterfall across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Waterfall Daily Rate Trend

Waterfall
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Luton -3 2 £413 +10.00%
Bedford - - - -
Waterfall
East of England

Waterfall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Waterfall also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Waterfall.

1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
1 3 (75.00%) Web Development
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) WATIR
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing

Waterfall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Waterfall also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Waterfall. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) WATIR
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
1 3 (75.00%) Web Development
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Matrix Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby