The first table below looks at the demand for Waterfall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Waterfall over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Bristol 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Waterfall Model
Rank 47 56 40
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -16
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 3 8 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.581% 0.957% 1.548%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.984% 1.408% 2.299%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 4
Average daily rate £320 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +18.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £38.75 £28.00
% change year-on-year
-16.12% +38.39%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
305 568 435
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 59.11% 67.94% 67.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 379 249
Average daily rate £325 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £230 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 22
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.70 £16.00 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.25 £37.50 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Waterfall
South West

Waterfall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Waterfall Daily Rate Trend

Waterfall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 13 (86.67%) ETL
2 12 (80.00%) ERwin
2 12 (80.00%) Zachman Framework
2 12 (80.00%) TOGAF
2 12 (80.00%) Business Analysis
2 12 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 12 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 12 (80.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 12 (80.00%) Inmon Methodology
2 12 (80.00%) Metadata Management
3 11 (73.33%) Corporate Banking
3 11 (73.33%) Banking
3 11 (73.33%) Retail
3 11 (73.33%) Finance
4 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
4 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
5 7 (46.67%) Informatica
6 6 (40.00%) IBM
6 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (40.00%) UML
6 6 (40.00%) Ab Initio
6 6 (40.00%) DataFlux
7 2 (13.33%) SQL
8 1 (6.667%) VBA
8 1 (6.667%) .NET
8 1 (6.667%) Oracle
8 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
8 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
8 1 (6.667%) XML
8 1 (6.667%) MS Excel

Waterfall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 1 (6.667%) .NET
1 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
1 1 (6.667%) XML
1 1 (6.667%) XML Schema
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) ERwin
General
1 11 (73.33%) Corporate Banking
1 11 (73.33%) Banking
1 11 (73.33%) Retail
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Data Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Informatica Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Test Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) MI Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) OBIEE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) NHS
1 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) ETL
2 12 (80.00%) Zachman Framework
2 12 (80.00%) TOGAF
2 12 (80.00%) Business Analysis
2 12 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 12 (80.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 12 (80.00%) Inmon Methodology
2 12 (80.00%) Metadata Management
3 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (40.00%) UML
4 1 (6.667%) Validation
4 1 (6.667%) Data Security
4 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.667%) VBA
2 1 (6.667%) C#
2 1 (6.667%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.667%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Informatica
2 6 (40.00%) IBM
2 6 (40.00%) Ab Initio
2 6 (40.00%) DataFlux
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle
3 1 (6.667%) Siebel
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft