Waterfall Contracts in England

Waterfall Model
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 108 84
Rank change year-on-year -35 -24 +50
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 607 1,175 2,111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.64% 2.32% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.58% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 841 1,476
10th Percentile £400 £405 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £625
90th Percentile £775 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 14
10th Percentile £48.83 £43.86 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.70 £46.14 £48.75
Median hourly rate £58.91 £66.49 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +14.14% +5.91%
75th Percentile £64.44 £90.88 £69.05
90th Percentile £67.10 £99.88 -
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £80.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% +50.94% -3.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in England

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in England

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in England

Waterfall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in England.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in England

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Waterfall in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Waterfall in England

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -5 309 £600 +9.09% 79
North of England -2 102 £500 -9.09% 44
South East -46 82 £550 +4.76% 44
Yorkshire +3 58 £500 -16.67% 16
Midlands -26 53 £500 -4.76% 46
South West -20 51 £600 +9.09% 19
North West -15 36 £469 -11.76% 26
West Midlands -2 32 £563 +2.74% 26
East Midlands -10 20 £388 -16.22% 20
North East +26 10 £600 +29.73% 2
East of England -16 8 £428 -16.59% 10
Waterfall
UK

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 35 (5.77%) Confluence
2 18 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.66%) CMS
5 3 (0.49%) Appian
5 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.33%) Apache
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.33%) nginx
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.33%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.16%) CICS
Applications
1 34 (5.60%) Microsoft Project
2 30 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (3.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.47%) Loan IQ
3 13 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.99%) SAP Hybris
5 6 (0.99%) SAP PM
6 5 (0.82%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.66%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.49%) Primavera
9 2 (0.33%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.33%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle HRMS
10 1 (0.16%) SAP Travel Management
10 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 103 (16.97%) Azure
2 41 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (5.60%) SaaS
4 23 (3.79%) AWS
5 21 (3.46%) Power Platform
6 20 (3.29%) PaaS
7 17 (2.80%) IaaS
8 15 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.98%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.32%) GCP
11 8 (1.32%) GitHub
12 6 (0.99%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 5 (0.82%) OCI
13 5 (0.82%) Power Automate
14 4 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (0.66%) OneDrive
14 4 (0.66%) Smartsheet
14 4 (0.66%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.81%) LAN
2 10 (1.65%) WAN
3 8 (1.32%) 4G
4 7 (1.15%) 3G
4 7 (1.15%) VSAN
5 6 (0.99%) DNS
6 5 (0.82%) DHCP
6 5 (0.82%) Internet
6 5 (0.82%) SNA
7 4 (0.66%) ATM
8 3 (0.49%) 5G
8 3 (0.49%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.49%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.49%) VPN
9 2 (0.33%) Junos
9 2 (0.33%) Network Security
9 2 (0.33%) SAN
9 2 (0.33%) Skype
9 2 (0.33%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.46%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.47%) Power BI
3 7 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
4 5 (0.82%) GIS
5 4 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.66%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.33%) DB2
6 2 (0.33%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.33%) MySQL
6 2 (0.33%) Redis
6 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.16%) Big Data
7 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (13.18%) JIRA
2 11 (1.81%) Git
2 11 (1.81%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.65%) Postman
3 10 (1.65%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.99%) NUnit
4 6 (0.99%) Selenium
5 5 (0.82%) JMeter
5 5 (0.82%) LoadRunner
5 5 (0.82%) Subversion
6 4 (0.66%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.49%) Appium
7 3 (0.49%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.49%) GitLab
8 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.33%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 231 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 221 (36.41%) Finance
3 84 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 59 (9.72%) Banking
6 30 (4.94%) Telecoms
7 28 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (4.45%) Manufacturing
9 22 (3.62%) Marketing
10 20 (3.29%) Military
11 18 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (2.80%) Financial Institution
12 17 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.47%) Back Office
13 15 (2.47%) Electronics
13 15 (2.47%) Legal
14 9 (1.48%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.48%) Retail
15 7 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 149 (24.55%) Project Manager
2 123 (20.26%) Analyst
3 77 (12.69%) Business Analyst
4 67 (11.04%) Senior
5 52 (8.57%) Architect
6 46 (7.58%) Developer
6 46 (7.58%) Lead
7 35 (5.77%) Delivery Manager
8 31 (5.11%) Senior Manager
9 28 (4.61%) IT Manager
10 25 (4.12%) Programme Manager
10 25 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (3.62%) Senior Project Manager
12 16 (2.64%) Test Manager
13 15 (2.47%) IT Project Manager
13 15 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (2.47%) Technical Architect
13 15 (2.47%) Technical Manager
14 13 (2.14%) Security Manager
15 12 (1.98%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.61%) Middleware
2 21 (3.46%) .NET
3 10 (1.65%) AngularJS
3 10 (1.65%) GraphQL
4 8 (1.32%) Apache Camel
5 7 (1.15%) ADO
5 7 (1.15%) REST
5 7 (1.15%) Spring
5 7 (1.15%) Spring Boot
6 6 (0.99%) Flash
6 6 (0.99%) Kafka
6 6 (0.99%) XML
7 5 (0.82%) .NET Core
7 5 (0.82%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.82%) Playwright
7 5 (0.82%) SOAP
8 4 (0.66%) JSON
8 4 (0.66%) Node.js
8 4 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.66%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (3.95%) Product Ownership
2 19 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 14 (2.31%) Data Centre
4 11 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (1.65%) Derivative
6 9 (1.48%) PMI
6 9 (1.48%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.15%) Mobile App
8 6 (0.99%) Cloud Native
8 6 (0.99%) Clustering
8 6 (0.99%) Fixed Income
8 6 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.99%) Operational Technology
9 5 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (0.82%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.66%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.66%) Reinsurance
10 4 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.11%) Windows
2 29 (4.78%) Linux
3 6 (0.99%) Unix
4 5 (0.82%) Android
4 5 (0.82%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.49%) VMS
6 3 (0.49%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (91.27%) Agile
2 192 (31.63%) Project Management
3 145 (23.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 136 (22.41%) Project Delivery
5 96 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
6 95 (15.65%) Scrum
7 83 (13.67%) DevOps
8 82 (13.51%) PRINCE2
9 71 (11.70%) Migration
10 66 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (8.24%) Decision-Making
11 50 (8.24%) Programme Management
12 46 (7.58%) Service Management
13 45 (7.41%) Business Analysis
13 45 (7.41%) Change Management
13 45 (7.41%) SDLC
14 44 (7.25%) Business Case
14 44 (7.25%) ITIL
15 43 (7.08%) Roadmaps
16 39 (6.43%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (10.71%) SQL
2 28 (4.61%) Java
3 22 (3.62%) Python
4 17 (2.80%) C#
5 9 (1.48%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.32%) PL/SQL
7 7 (1.15%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.99%) C++
8 6 (0.99%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.82%) Go
10 3 (0.49%) ABAP
10 3 (0.49%) C
10 3 (0.49%) R
11 2 (0.33%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.33%) Ruby
11 2 (0.33%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.16%) COBOL
12 1 (0.16%) Swift
12 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (16.31%) Security Cleared
2 86 (14.17%) Degree
3 82 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 41 (6.75%) PMI Certification
5 37 (6.10%) DV Cleared
5 37 (6.10%) PMP
6 12 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.98%) ISTQB
7 11 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.48%) APMP
10 8 (1.32%) CCNA
11 7 (1.15%) Chartered Engineer
12 6 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 6 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.82%) CBAP
14 4 (0.66%) ISEB
14 4 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.23%) PMO
2 41 (6.75%) QA
3 8 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.82%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.82%) SLA
5 4 (0.66%) EMIR
5 4 (0.66%) GDPR
5 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 4 (0.66%) NIST
6 3 (0.49%) GRC
6 3 (0.49%) IFRS
6 3 (0.49%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (0.49%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.33%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.14%) Docker
3 8 (1.32%) VMware NSX
4 7 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.49%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 7 (1.15%) Ansible
1 7 (1.15%) vCenter Server
2 5 (0.82%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.66%) MOM
4 3 (0.49%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.49%) Puppet
4 3 (0.49%) Terraform
5 2 (0.33%) Grafana
5 2 (0.33%) WSUS
6 1 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.16%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.16%) OPNET
6 1 (0.16%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 74 (12.19%) Microsoft
2 63 (10.38%) SAP
3 35 (5.77%) Oracle
4 21 (3.46%) ServiceNow
5 17 (2.80%) Cisco
5 17 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.64%) Atlassian
7 14 (2.31%) VMware
8 11 (1.81%) IBM
9 8 (1.32%) Google
10 7 (1.15%) BMC
10 7 (1.15%) Cadence
10 7 (1.15%) Databricks
10 7 (1.15%) Remedy
10 7 (1.15%) Workday
11 6 (0.99%) Adobe
11 6 (0.99%) Sparx
12 4 (0.66%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (0.66%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.66%) Juniper