Waterfall Contracts in Edinburgh

Waterfall Model
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Waterfall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Waterfall over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 79 56
Rank change year-on-year +19 -23 +17
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 11 33 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.35% 2.53% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 2.66% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 55
10th Percentile £473 £401 £413
25th Percentile £538 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.58% -1.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £702 £606 £575
90th Percentile £750 £648 £625
Scotland median daily rate £525 £500 £491
% change year-on-year +5.00% +1.83% +15.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Waterfall is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 720 1,240 1,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.34% 95.17% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 884 1,254
10th Percentile £228 £254 £257
25th Percentile £413 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £568
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 17
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.16 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.87 £21.26 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -46.85% -26.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £53.97
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) IaaS
2 3 (27.27%) PaaS
2 3 (27.27%) SaaS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) LAN
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) ATM
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
1 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) Selenium
1 2 (18.18%) Subversion
1 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
1 2 (18.18%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Functional Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Functional Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Risk Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) HR Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Middleware
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Client/Server
1 2 (18.18%) Credit Risk
1 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Project Management
4 3 (27.27%) Business Case
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (18.18%) Credit Risk Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Data Science
5 2 (18.18%) Data Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C#
1 2 (18.18%) C++
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
1 2 (18.18%) VBA
1 2 (18.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ISEB
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Citrix