Waterfall Contracts in Northern Ireland

Waterfall Model
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 26 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.70% 0.49% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 0.63% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £475
25th Percentile - - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +40.13%
75th Percentile - - £563
90th Percentile - - £570
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 112 158 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 75.68% 77.45% 82.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 78 87
10th Percentile £210 £169 £145
25th Percentile £328 £278 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £406 £445
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -8.71% +9.88%
75th Percentile £581 £500 £500
90th Percentile £663 £607 £543
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 9
10th Percentile - £13.25 £10.16
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.92 £10.29
Median hourly rate £13.94 £15.50 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -10.06% -1.52% -0.76%
75th Percentile £23.54 £17.13 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.43 £21.65
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Northern Ireland

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Northern Ireland

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 19 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
County Antrim - 4 £500 - 1
Waterfall
UK

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (25.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) IDMS
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (50.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) System Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) COBOL
2 1 (25.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (25.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft