Waterfall Contracts in the South West

Waterfall Model
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 77 83
Rank change year-on-year -24 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 51 102 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.61% 2.81% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 3.14% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 81 69
10th Percentile £425 £425 £350
25th Percentile £513 £490 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £775 £675 £575
90th Percentile £788 £751 £638
England median daily rate £578 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £68.75 £50.75
25th Percentile - £70.63 £56.45
Median hourly rate - £80.50 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year - +16.58% +25.55%
75th Percentile - £90.88 -
90th Percentile - £93.05 -
England median hourly rate £58.91 £66.49 £58.25
% change year-on-year -11.40% +14.14% +5.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,629 3,250 3,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.83% 89.63% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,396 2,332
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 335 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.00 £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £70.54
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the South West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Wiltshire -22 24 £750 +33.33% 2
Bristol +12 11 £575 +6.98% 12
Devon -4 6 £465 - 1
Dorset +7 4 £763 +22.00% 2
Gloucestershire -3 3 £563 -10.00% 2
Somerset +2 1 £600 -7.69% 3
Cornwall - 1 - -
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (23.53%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.92%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.96%) Magento
2 1 (1.96%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.96%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.69%) Azure
2 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.92%) AWS
3 2 (3.92%) PaaS
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.96%) GCP
4 1 (1.96%) GitHub
4 1 (1.96%) IaaS
4 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.96%) SaaS
4 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) 3G
1 7 (13.73%) 4G
1 7 (13.73%) VSAN
2 4 (7.84%) LAN
2 4 (7.84%) WAN
3 2 (3.92%) DHCP
3 2 (3.92%) DNS
3 2 (3.92%) Skype
3 2 (3.92%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.96%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
1 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) JIRA
2 5 (9.80%) Git
2 5 (9.80%) Visual Studio
3 4 (7.84%) NUnit
3 4 (7.84%) Postman
4 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.96%) GitLab
General
1 24 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 18 (35.29%) Public Sector
3 15 (29.41%) Telecoms
4 14 (27.45%) Finance
5 11 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (15.69%) Electronics
6 8 (15.69%) Manufacturing
6 8 (15.69%) Marketing
7 2 (3.92%) Local Government
8 1 (1.96%) Back Office
8 1 (1.96%) Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) Architect
2 11 (21.57%) Technical Architect
3 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 6 (11.76%) Senior
4 6 (11.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) ITSM Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) Lead
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Service Management Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) IT Manager
6 3 (5.88%) IT Services Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.92%) Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) .NET
1 6 (11.76%) Flash
2 5 (9.80%) Middleware
3 4 (7.84%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 3 (5.88%) Playwright
5 2 (3.92%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.96%) jQuery
6 1 (1.96%) JSON
6 1 (1.96%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.96%) ModSecurity
6 1 (1.96%) Node.js
6 1 (1.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Clustering
2 5 (9.80%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.88%) PKI
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Windows
2 5 (9.80%) Linux
3 2 (3.92%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.92%) Windows 7
3 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (98.04%) Agile
2 15 (29.41%) Service Management
2 15 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (25.49%) ITIL
4 10 (19.61%) Project Delivery
4 10 (19.61%) Project Management
4 10 (19.61%) Scrum
5 9 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (17.65%) NsoIT
5 9 (17.65%) Programme Management
6 8 (15.69%) Critical Thinking
6 8 (15.69%) Digital Marketing
6 8 (15.69%) System Testing
7 7 (13.73%) Computer Science
7 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (13.73%) Decision-Making
7 7 (13.73%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (13.73%) Kanban
7 7 (13.73%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) SQL
2 4 (7.84%) Python
2 4 (7.84%) TypeScript
3 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.92%) C
4 2 (3.92%) C#
4 2 (3.92%) C++
4 2 (3.92%) Java
4 2 (3.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (60.78%) Security Cleared
2 27 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 15 (29.41%) Degree
4 13 (25.49%) DV Cleared
5 7 (13.73%) CCNA
5 7 (13.73%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (13.73%) Master's Degree
6 6 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (7.84%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) HND
7 4 (7.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.96%) CCNP
8 1 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.96%) MCSE
8 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) PMO
2 4 (7.84%) QA
3 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (15.69%) VMware NSX
3 7 (13.73%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (7.84%) Docker
5 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) vCenter Server
2 2 (3.92%) Ansible
2 2 (3.92%) MOM
2 2 (3.92%) WSUS
3 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.96%) OPNET
3 1 (1.96%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.96%) Puppet
3 1 (1.96%) SCCM
3 1 (1.96%) SCOM
3 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Atlassian
2 9 (17.65%) SAP
2 9 (17.65%) VMware
3 8 (15.69%) Cisco
4 7 (13.73%) BMC
4 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
4 7 (13.73%) Remedy
5 2 (3.92%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.92%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.92%) Veeam
6 1 (1.96%) Adobe
6 1 (1.96%) Google
6 1 (1.96%) Splunk