The first table below looks at the demand for Waterfall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Waterfall over the 3 months to 21 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 Croydon 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Waterfall Model
Rank 13 20 28
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +8
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 1 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 2.000% 2.985% 4.592%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.030% 3.922% 7.563%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
Average daily rate £225 £438 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-48.57% -12.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +9.37%
All Processes & Methodologies
Croydon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
33 102 119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 66.00% 76.12% 60.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 73 67
Average daily rate £400 £463 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.51% +2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £325 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £638 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 - £20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Waterfall
London

Waterfall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon Waterfall Daily Rate Trend

Waterfall
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) dBASE
2 1 (33.33%) Information Management
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Sybase
2 1 (33.33%) Business Objects
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) RAD
2 1 (33.33%) Ingres
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management

Waterfall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 (33.33%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) dBASE
1 1 (33.33%) Ingres
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Discoverer
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Support Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Information Management
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) RAD
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase
1 1 (33.33%) Business Objects
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft