The first table below looks at the demand for Waterfall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Waterfall over the 3 months to 20 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 Slough 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Waterfall Model
Rank 35 26 39
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +13
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 4 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 1.646% 0.485% 0.654%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.797% 0.862% 0.976%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £341 £353 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.26% +38.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £353 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £354 £353 £259
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 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +9.37%
All Processes & Methodologies
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
143 116 205
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 58.85% 56.31% 66.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 67 110
Average daily rate £375 £413 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +33.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £290 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 14
Average hourly rate £22.50 £14.40 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.25% -64.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Waterfall
Berkshire

Waterfall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Waterfall Daily Rate Trend

Waterfall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) PRINCE2
3 3 (23.08%) DSDM
3 3 (23.08%) .NET
3 3 (23.08%) Six Sigma
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
3 3 (23.08%) XML
3 3 (23.08%) TOAD
3 3 (23.08%) Change Management
3 3 (23.08%) Lean Six Sigma
4 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (15.38%) Marketing
4 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
4 2 (15.38%) iSeries
4 2 (15.38%) RPG IV
4 2 (15.38%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) Web Application Development
4 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 2 (15.38%) Workflow
4 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
4 2 (15.38%) Content Management
4 2 (15.38%) Automated Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Advertising
4 2 (15.38%) CMS
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (15.38%) Linux
4 2 (15.38%) IBM
4 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2 Certification

Waterfall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 3 (23.08%) .NET
1 3 (23.08%) XML
2 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (15.38%) CMS
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Workflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) TOAD
2 2 (15.38%) DataStage
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) DB2
3 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) ERwin
General
1 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
1 2 (15.38%) Advertising
1 2 (15.38%) Marketing
2 1 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Project Manager
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Business Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Support Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Applications Support
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Team Leader
5 1 (7.692%) Project Support Officer
5 1 (7.692%) Project Officer
5 1 (7.692%) Online Project Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
1 2 (15.38%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) UNIX
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) PRINCE2
3 3 (23.08%) DSDM
3 3 (23.08%) Six Sigma
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
3 3 (23.08%) Change Management
3 3 (23.08%) Lean Six Sigma
4 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
4 2 (15.38%) Content Management
4 2 (15.38%) Automated Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Workflow
4 2 (15.38%) PRINCE
4 2 (15.38%) Web Application Development
5 1 (7.692%) Scrum
5 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce
5 1 (7.692%) SOA
5 1 (7.692%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) RPG
1 2 (15.38%) RPG IV
2 1 (7.692%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) C#
2 1 (7.692%) Java
2 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
1 2 (15.38%) IBM
2 1 (7.692%) Ab Initio
2 1 (7.692%) Teradata
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