The first table below looks at the demand for Waterfall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Waterfall over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Waterfall Model
Rank 34 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 2 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.905% 1.445% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.299% 2.538% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £511 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.81% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £33.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year
-2.98% +4.68%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
154 197 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 69.68% 56.94% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 125 38
Average daily rate £350 £425 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +84.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £284 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 20 2
Average hourly rate £10.33 £20.06 £11.39
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.52% +76.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Waterfall
Oxfordshire

Waterfall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Waterfall Daily Rate Trend

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Waterfall across the Oxford region.

Oxford Waterfall Hourly Rate Trend

Waterfall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (40.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) ISEB
2 2 (40.00%) PMI
2 2 (40.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Siebel
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Hyperion
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) MS Project
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Content Management
3 1 (20.00%) Billing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (20.00%) Publishing

Waterfall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Project
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Publishing
1 1 (20.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PMI
1 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Content Management
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISEB
1 2 (40.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (40.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Siebel
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) Hyperion