The first table below looks at the demand for Waterfall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 93 103 98
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -5
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 25 7 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.025% 0.263% 0.471%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.493% 0.409% 0.701%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 6
Average daily rate £375 £225 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% -48.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £216 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £340 £475
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1674 1713 1854
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.63% 64.40% 67.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 868 956
Average daily rate £365 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 67 50
Average hourly rate £20.00 £22.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.08% -24.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.30 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Waterfall
UK

Waterfall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Waterfall Daily Rate Trend

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Waterfall across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Waterfall Daily Rate Histogram

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow -1 15 £375 +22.95%
Stirling - 4 - -
Edinburgh +7 2 - -
Dundee - 2 - -
West Lothian -1 1 £351 -
Waterfall
UK

Waterfall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 24 (52.17%) Finance
2 19 (41.30%) Agile Software Development
3 16 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (26.09%) Oracle
4 12 (26.09%) Banking
5 11 (23.91%) PRINCE2
6 10 (21.74%) Java
6 10 (21.74%) SQL
7 9 (19.57%) J2EE
8 8 (17.39%) UML
8 8 (17.39%) Data Analysis
8 8 (17.39%) Resource Management
9 7 (15.22%) Business Analysis
9 7 (15.22%) ETL
10 5 (10.87%) Use Case
10 5 (10.87%) BPMN
10 5 (10.87%) SQL Server 2008
10 5 (10.87%) BDD
10 5 (10.87%) Cadis
10 5 (10.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (10.87%) XPath
10 5 (10.87%) Derivative
10 5 (10.87%) Systems Analysis
10 5 (10.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (10.87%) Equities
10 5 (10.87%) TDD
10 5 (10.87%) Scrum
10 5 (10.87%) Data Mining
10 5 (10.87%) Data Modelling
10 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse

Waterfall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 9 (19.57%) J2EE
2 5 (10.87%) XML
3 3 (6.522%) Silverlight
4 1 (2.174%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.174%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.174%) Alfresco
1 1 (2.174%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (2.174%) LiveLink
1 1 (2.174%) Documentum
1 1 (2.174%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.174%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.174%) Broadband
1 1 (2.174%) Intranet
1 1 (2.174%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (10.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (10.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 5 (10.87%) Data Mining
1 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (10.87%) DTS
1 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.174%) dBASE
2 1 (2.174%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 4 (8.696%) JIRA
2 1 (2.174%) ERwin
General
1 24 (52.17%) Finance
2 12 (26.09%) Banking
3 3 (6.522%) Billing
4 2 (4.348%) Retail
5 1 (2.174%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.174%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.174%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Analyst
2 15 (32.61%) Business Analyst
3 7 (15.22%) Project Manager
3 7 (15.22%) Systems Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Development Manager
4 6 (13.04%) Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Software Development Manager
4 6 (13.04%) Software Manager
5 4 (8.696%) Business Systems Analyst
5 4 (8.696%) Financial Business Analyst
5 4 (8.696%) UML Business Analyst
5 4 (8.696%) Agile Coach
5 4 (8.696%) Financial Services Business Analyst
6 3 (6.522%) ICT Manager
6 3 (6.522%) Tester
7 2 (4.348%) Development Project Manager
7 2 (4.348%) Test Team Leader
7 2 (4.348%) Technical Tester
7 2 (4.348%) Team Leader
7 2 (4.348%) Software Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Derivative
1 5 (10.87%) Equities
2 2 (4.348%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.174%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (41.30%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (23.91%) PRINCE2
4 8 (17.39%) UML
4 8 (17.39%) Data Analysis
4 8 (17.39%) Resource Management
5 7 (15.22%) Business Analysis
5 7 (15.22%) ETL
6 5 (10.87%) Use Case
6 5 (10.87%) BPMN
6 5 (10.87%) BDD
6 5 (10.87%) Systems Analysis
6 5 (10.87%) TDD
6 5 (10.87%) Scrum
6 5 (10.87%) Data Modelling
7 4 (8.696%) CRM
7 4 (8.696%) Change Management
7 4 (8.696%) Requirements Management
7 4 (8.696%) ERD
7 4 (8.696%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) Java
1 10 (21.74%) SQL
2 5 (10.87%) XPath
2 5 (10.87%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.174%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.174%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (2.174%) ISEB
1 1 (2.174%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) Cadis
3 2 (4.348%) Ab Initio
4 1 (2.174%) DataFlux
4 1 (2.174%) IBM
4 1 (2.174%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.174%) Informatica
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Posted: 24 May 2013