The first table below looks at the demand for Waterfall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 55 56 65
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +9
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 8 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.105% 0.876% 0.722%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.452% 1.423% 1.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
Average daily rate £375 £353 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -2.75%
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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
551 492 664
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.10% 61.58% 68.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 249 364
Average daily rate £375 £351 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.84% +7.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £250 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 25
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +12.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £31.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Waterfall
North West

Waterfall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Waterfall Daily Rate Trend

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Waterfall across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Waterfall Hourly 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Chester -3 2 £375 +13.63%
Waterfall
North West

Waterfall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 11 (68.75%) Finance
1 11 (68.75%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (56.25%) Ajax
2 9 (56.25%) WebSphere
2 9 (56.25%) Hibernate
2 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 9 (56.25%) J2EE
2 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 9 (56.25%) Java
2 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
2 9 (56.25%) Web Services
2 9 (56.25%) JSP
2 9 (56.25%) Servlets
2 9 (56.25%) WSDL
3 8 (50.00%) Subversion
3 8 (50.00%) jQuery
4 7 (43.75%) Banking
4 7 (43.75%) PMI Certification
4 7 (43.75%) PRINCE2
5 6 (37.50%) Project Management
6 5 (31.25%) PRINCE
6 5 (31.25%) CMMI
6 5 (31.25%) JBoss
6 5 (31.25%) XML
6 5 (31.25%) XSD
6 5 (31.25%) WebLogic
6 5 (31.25%) EJB
6 5 (31.25%) DB2
6 5 (31.25%) PMI
6 5 (31.25%) RUP

Waterfall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 9 (56.25%) Ajax
1 9 (56.25%) WebSphere
1 9 (56.25%) Hibernate
1 9 (56.25%) J2EE
1 9 (56.25%) Web Services
1 9 (56.25%) JSP
1 9 (56.25%) Servlets
1 9 (56.25%) WSDL
2 8 (50.00%) jQuery
3 5 (31.25%) XML
3 5 (31.25%) XSD
3 5 (31.25%) EJB
3 5 (31.25%) Struts
3 5 (31.25%) JMS
3 5 (31.25%) Struts2
4 4 (25.00%) Apache Axis
4 4 (25.00%) XHTML
4 4 (25.00%) JAX-RPC
4 4 (25.00%) CSS
4 4 (25.00%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) WebLogic
2 4 (25.00%) Apache
3 2 (12.50%) Magento
4 1 (6.250%) ESB
4 1 (6.250%) Mule
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) DB2
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Subversion
2 5 (31.25%) ClearCase
3 4 (25.00%) JUnit
4 3 (18.75%) Eclipse
4 3 (18.75%) JIRA
4 3 (18.75%) Git (software)
4 3 (18.75%) Gradle
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.250%) Retail Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Java Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Programme Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Analyst
6 1 (6.250%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Senior Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.250%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Technical Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Senior Technical Project Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Telecoms Project Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Senior Technical Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Agile Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) PMI
2 4 (25.00%) Web 2.0
3 1 (6.250%) RIA
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (43.75%) PRINCE2
3 6 (37.50%) Project Management
4 5 (31.25%) PRINCE
4 5 (31.25%) CMMI
4 5 (31.25%) RUP
4 5 (31.25%) BDD
5 4 (25.00%) TDD
6 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
6 3 (18.75%) Integration Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Web Development
8 1 (6.250%) Risk Assessment
8 1 (6.250%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (6.250%) DSDM
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
1 9 (56.25%) Java
1 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
2 4 (25.00%) XPath
2 4 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (18.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) PMI Certification
2 2 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) JBoss
2 5 (31.25%) Chordiant
3 3 (18.75%) Perforce
3 3 (18.75%) IBM
4 1 (6.250%) Genesys
4 1 (6.250%) Nortel
4 1 (6.250%) Avaya
4 1 (6.250%) Verint
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