The first table below looks at the demand for Waterfall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire 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 30 24 -
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 1.896% 0.467% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.878% 0.769% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £450 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+63.63% -
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
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
139 130 154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 65.88% 60.75% 66.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 42 50
Average daily rate £425 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £205 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £414 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 19
Average hourly rate £18.25 £11.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.90% -65.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.55 £8.50 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £25.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Waterfall
East Midlands

Waterfall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Waterfall Daily 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 Leicestershire 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
Leicester -3 1 - -
Hinckley - 1 - -
Waterfall
East Midlands

Waterfall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) ESB
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) SCADA
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Zend
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (25.00%) WordPress
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) V-Model
2 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (25.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (25.00%) APMP
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) .NET

Waterfall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) CSS3
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) XHTML
1 1 (25.00%) LAMP
1 1 (25.00%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) ESB
1 1 (25.00%) WordPress
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (25.00%) PHPUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Software Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Development Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Change Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Software Development Manager
1 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Development Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Software Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Software Development Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
1 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) V-Model
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) RAD
2 1 (25.00%) SSADM
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Yourdon
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) SEO
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) APMP
2 1 (25.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Zend
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Apple