Waterfall Contracts in Scotland

Waterfall Model
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 68 62
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 70 107 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.15% 3.74% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 4.04% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 86 105
10th Percentile £353 £397 £413
25th Percentile £463 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +1.83% +15.53%
75th Percentile £670 £566 £556
90th Percentile £700 £622 £603
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £80.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% +50.94% -3.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 2,651 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.60% 92.63% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,908 2,312
10th Percentile £229 £263 £240
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 46
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Scotland

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Scotland

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Scotland

Waterfall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in Scotland

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 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
Glasgow -8 32 £550 +18.41% 4
Edinburgh +19 11 £625 +26.58% 3
Perthshire +4 4 £675 +20.54%
Lanarkshire +4 3 £525 -16.00%
Aberdeen 0 2 £325 -35.00% 1
Waterfall
UK

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 12 (17.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (12.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.00%) Azure
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (11.43%) SaaS
2 8 (11.43%) Yammer
3 5 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.29%) IaaS
4 3 (4.29%) PaaS
5 2 (2.86%) AWS
5 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.14%) ATM
2 2 (2.86%) LAN
2 2 (2.86%) WAN
3 1 (1.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.43%) DB2
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.86%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.86%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.86%) Selenium
2 2 (2.86%) Subversion
2 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
2 2 (2.86%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (41.43%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.71%) Finance
3 12 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (15.71%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (11.43%) Banking
6 5 (7.14%) Publishing
7 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (30.00%) Architect
2 17 (24.29%) Solutions Architect
3 16 (22.86%) Project Manager
4 15 (21.43%) Change Manager
5 13 (18.57%) IT Manager
6 11 (15.71%) Analyst
7 10 (14.29%) IT Change Manager
8 8 (11.43%) Change Analyst
9 5 (7.14%) Technical Manager
10 4 (5.71%) IT Architect
10 4 (5.71%) Security Architect
10 4 (5.71%) Training Manager
11 3 (4.29%) Business Change Manager
11 3 (4.29%) Business Manager
11 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Manager
11 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
11 3 (4.29%) Senior
11 3 (4.29%) Technical Project Manager
12 2 (2.86%) IT Project Manager
12 2 (2.86%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) Middleware
2 2 (2.86%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) Operational Technology
2 6 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.14%) e-Learning
3 5 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (5.71%) Mainframe
5 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.86%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.86%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.86%) SCADA
7 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Linux
1 2 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (97.14%) Agile
2 36 (51.43%) Project Management
3 22 (31.43%) Project Delivery
4 20 (28.57%) Change Management
5 15 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
6 14 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (18.57%) TOGAF
8 12 (17.14%) Cyber Resilience
8 12 (17.14%) Roadmaps
9 11 (15.71%) IT Strategy
9 11 (15.71%) Technology Strategy
10 9 (12.86%) Analytics
10 9 (12.86%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (11.43%) ERP
11 8 (11.43%) Impact Assessments
12 7 (10.00%) Asset Management
12 7 (10.00%) Business Case
12 7 (10.00%) Infographics
12 7 (10.00%) Migration
13 6 (8.57%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.71%) Perl
1 4 (5.71%) Python
2 2 (2.86%) C#
2 2 (2.86%) C++
2 2 (2.86%) Java
2 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
2 2 (2.86%) SQL
2 2 (2.86%) VBA
2 2 (2.86%) VBScript
3 1 (1.43%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.86%) Degree
1 2 (2.86%) ISEB
1 2 (2.86%) ISTQB
1 2 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (2.86%) PMO
1 2 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.29%) Oracle
3 2 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (1.43%) Autodesk
4 1 (1.43%) Citrix
4 1 (1.43%) IBM
4 1 (1.43%) IFS
4 1 (1.43%) SAP