The first table below looks at the demand for Waterfall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford 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 - 18 20
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 0 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford - 3.306% 0.752%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 5.405% 1.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +12.00%
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
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
148 74 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 67.89% 61.16% 54.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 37 36
Average daily rate £425 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £281 £316 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -15.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Waterfall
Surrey

Waterfall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Waterfall Daily Rate Trend

Waterfall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Ant
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (33.33%) MS Project
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
2 1 (33.33%) EJB
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) ClearCase
2 1 (33.33%) Adabas
2 1 (33.33%) Sun
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) Sun Certification
2 1 (33.33%) RequisitePro
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (33.33%) NATURAL
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) VB6
2 1 (33.33%) SCJP
2 1 (33.33%) Spring

Waterfall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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%) ASP
1 1 (33.33%) EJB
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 1 (33.33%) WPF
1 1 (33.33%) Managed Extensibility Framework
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Adabas
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) ClearCase
1 1 (33.33%) RequisitePro
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Project Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) WPF Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) UML
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) NATURAL
1 1 (33.33%) VB6
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) Sun Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SCJP
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Sun