The first table below looks at the demand for Waterfall skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Waterfall over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Waterfall Model
Rank 164 185 230
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +45
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 597 567 481
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 1.241% 0.977% 0.773%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.745% 1.431% 1.148%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 378 245
Average daily rate £420 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £288 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 3
Average hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +66.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.75 £41.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-18.67% +72.91%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
34218 39623 41917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.12% 68.27% 67.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20499 22617 23889
Average daily rate £413 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 979 1259 1448
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.83 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

Waterfall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Waterfall Daily Rate Trend

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Waterfall within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Waterfall Daily Rate Histogram

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Waterfall Hourly Rate Trend

Waterfall
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +13 565 £425 +6.25% 183
London +38 335 £450 - 84
City of London +21 118 £425 -5.55% 30
South East +25 96 £370 +5.71% 29
East of England +16 46 £363 -9.37% 16
Berkshire +41 35 £394 +5.00% 12
Scotland +5 26 £375 +36.36% 6
Hertfordshire +16 21 £400 +5.96% 7
North West -4 20 £375 +2.73% 17
Yorkshire +1 19 £325 -13.33% 10
South West +32 18 £350 - 15
Surrey +10 18 £375 -3.22% 3
Glasgow 0 18 £375 +40.18% 4
Canary Wharf +18 17 £575 -21.23%
West Midlands -10 15 £425 +25.92% 3
Hampshire +6 14 £330 -16.19% 5
West Yorkshire -5 14 £333 -11.33% 6
Oxfordshire +3 11 £483 +14.88%
Slough - 11 £357 -
Shropshire -2 10 £425 +33.33%
Manchester +3 9 £425 +17.16% 12
Essex +4 8 £425 +6.25% 1
Leeds -16 8 £325 -9.09% 5
Newcastle upon Tyne +22 7 £325 -23.52% 5
Tyne and Wear +21 7 £325 -23.52% 5
North East +16 7 £325 -30.10% 5
Norwich +10 7 £310 - 2
Norfolk +9 7 £310 - 2
East Midlands +4 7 £325 +18.18% 3
Cheshire -2 7 £375 - 1

Waterfall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 401 (36.96%) Finance
2 292 (26.91%) Project Management
3 249 (22.95%) SQL
4 221 (20.37%) Banking
5 218 (20.09%) PRINCE2
6 200 (18.43%) Agile Software Development
7 198 (18.25%) Oracle
8 185 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 169 (15.58%) Scrum
10 162 (14.93%) Java
11 145 (13.36%) Business Analysis
12 129 (11.89%) Retail
13 126 (11.61%) UML
14 125 (11.52%) C#
15 119 (10.97%) .NET
15 119 (10.97%) ISEB
16 118 (10.88%) Microsoft
17 110 (10.14%) E-Commerce
18 102 (9.401%) SQL Server
19 93 (8.571%) OO
20 92 (8.479%) User Acceptance Testing
21 91 (8.387%) XML
22 85 (7.834%) J2EE
22 85 (7.834%) Degree
23 78 (7.189%) Windows
24 76 (7.005%) Change Management
25 73 (6.728%) ITIL
26 72 (6.636%) JavaScript
27 70 (6.452%) QA
28 69 (6.359%) HTML

Waterfall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 119 (10.97%) .NET
2 91 (8.387%) XML
3 85 (7.834%) J2EE
4 69 (6.359%) HTML
5 62 (5.714%) Web Services
6 58 (5.346%) CSS
7 51 (4.700%) WebSphere
8 38 (3.502%) ASP.NET
9 30 (2.765%) SOAP
10 27 (2.488%) WPF
10 27 (2.488%) jQuery
11 26 (2.396%) Ajax
12 23 (2.120%) WCF
13 21 (1.935%) HTML5
14 20 (1.843%) XSLT
15 19 (1.751%) Middleware
15 19 (1.751%) MDX
15 19 (1.751%) .NET Framework
16 17 (1.567%) WSDL
17 16 (1.475%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 35 (3.226%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.857%) WebLogic
3 23 (2.120%) CMS
4 22 (2.028%) Apache
5 19 (1.751%) ESB
6 13 (1.198%) Tomcat
7 11 (1.014%) SharePoint 2010
8 9 (0.829%) SAS
8 9 (0.829%) Drupal
9 7 (0.645%) IIS
10 6 (0.553%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.369%) Escenic
11 4 (0.369%) Windows Azure
11 4 (0.369%) SharePoint 2013
11 4 (0.369%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.369%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.276%) Confluence
12 3 (0.276%) Oracle Service Bus
12 3 (0.276%) WordPress
12 3 (0.276%) Alfresco
Applications
1 69 (6.359%) MS Project
2 68 (6.267%) MS Excel
3 65 (5.991%) MS Office
4 50 (4.608%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.475%) MS PowerPoint
6 8 (0.737%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.553%) Office 365
8 5 (0.461%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.276%) Fireworks
10 2 (0.184%) Open Workbench
10 2 (0.184%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.290%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.276%) BusinessWorks
2 3 (0.276%) SAP FI
2 3 (0.276%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.276%) Oracle CRM
2 3 (0.276%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.184%) CA Clarity
3 2 (0.184%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.184%) Google Analytics
3 2 (0.184%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.184%) WebTrends
3 2 (0.184%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.184%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.092%) Global One
4 1 (0.092%) Maximo
4 1 (0.092%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.092%) Loanet
4 1 (0.092%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.092%) Taleo
4 1 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.751%) Intranet
2 15 (1.382%) Internet
3 7 (0.645%) HTTP
4 5 (0.461%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.276%) VoIP
5 3 (0.276%) WAN
5 3 (0.276%) ATM
5 3 (0.276%) CTI
6 2 (0.184%) VPN
6 2 (0.184%) SNMP
6 2 (0.184%) FTP
7 1 (0.092%) Broadband
7 1 (0.092%) SMS
7 1 (0.092%) 802.15
7 1 (0.092%) Extranet
7 1 (0.092%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.092%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (9.401%) SQL Server
2 41 (3.779%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (3.226%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 35 (3.226%) TOAD
4 31 (2.857%) SQL Server 2008
5 29 (2.673%) QlikView
5 29 (2.673%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 28 (2.581%) SQLPlus
7 26 (2.396%) OLAP
8 25 (2.304%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 25 (2.304%) Oracle OLAP
9 16 (1.475%) DB2
9 16 (1.475%) Data Mining
10 15 (1.382%) Oracle 10g
11 14 (1.290%) DTS
11 14 (1.290%) Oracle 8/8i
12 12 (1.106%) Oracle Reports
13 11 (1.014%) Oracle 11g
14 9 (0.829%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 8 (0.737%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 31 (2.857%) JIRA
2 30 (2.765%) ERwin
3 24 (2.212%) Subversion
4 19 (1.751%) Selenium
5 17 (1.567%) Visual Studio
6 15 (1.382%) QuickTest Pro
7 13 (1.198%) JUnit
8 11 (1.014%) TestDirector
8 11 (1.014%) Maven
9 10 (0.922%) Git (software)
9 10 (0.922%) Ant
10 8 (0.737%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.737%) ClearCase
11 7 (0.645%) Eclipse
11 7 (0.645%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (0.553%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.553%) Rational Rose
13 5 (0.461%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.461%) Axure RP
14 4 (0.369%) WATIR
General
1 401 (36.96%) Finance
2 221 (20.37%) Banking
3 129 (11.89%) Retail
4 57 (5.253%) Investment Banking
5 42 (3.871%) Back Office
6 34 (3.134%) Retail Banking
7 28 (2.581%) Legal
8 24 (2.212%) Marketing
9 19 (1.751%) Telecoms
10 17 (1.567%) Publishing
10 17 (1.567%) Front Office
11 15 (1.382%) Manufacturing
11 15 (1.382%) Advertising
11 15 (1.382%) Corporate Banking
12 13 (1.198%) Automotive
13 11 (1.014%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.014%) Games
14 7 (0.645%) International Banking
15 4 (0.369%) Billing
15 4 (0.369%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 307 (28.29%) Analyst
2 284 (26.18%) Project Manager
3 204 (18.80%) Business Analyst
4 193 (17.79%) Developer
5 61 (5.622%) Test Analyst
6 59 (5.438%) Architect
7 40 (3.687%) Systems Analyst
8 36 (3.318%) Consultant
9 32 (2.949%) Agile Project Manager
9 32 (2.949%) Test Manager
9 32 (2.949%) Technical Manager
10 28 (2.581%) Senior Analyst
11 27 (2.488%) Programme Manager
12 26 (2.396%) Business Systems Analyst
13 25 (2.304%) Development Manager
14 24 (2.212%) .NET Developer
15 23 (2.120%) Agile Business Analyst
16 22 (2.028%) Banking Business Analyst
16 22 (2.028%) Technical Project Manager
17 21 (1.935%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.253%) Derivative
2 49 (4.516%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 48 (4.424%) PMI
4 25 (2.304%) Credit Derivative
4 25 (2.304%) Market Risk
5 23 (2.120%) Equities
6 21 (1.935%) Mathematics
7 20 (1.843%) Management Information System
8 19 (1.751%) Data Integration
8 19 (1.751%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.567%) Digital Media
10 16 (1.475%) Mainframe
11 12 (1.106%) Credit Risk
11 12 (1.106%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.014%) iPad
12 11 (1.014%) SWIFT
13 10 (0.922%) Reference Data
13 10 (0.922%) Open Source
14 8 (0.737%) iSeries
14 8 (0.737%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 78 (7.189%) Windows
2 45 (4.147%) UNIX
3 39 (3.594%) Linux
4 20 (1.843%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.567%) Android
6 10 (0.922%) Windows 7
7 6 (0.553%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.461%) Windows 8
9 4 (0.369%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (0.276%) Windows XP
10 3 (0.276%) Solaris
10 3 (0.276%) Windows Phone
11 2 (0.184%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.184%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.184%) Windows Phone 7
12 1 (0.092%) Windows 2000
12 1 (0.092%) AIX
12 1 (0.092%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.092%) zOS
12 1 (0.092%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (26.91%) Project Management
2 218 (20.09%) PRINCE2
3 200 (18.43%) Agile Software Development
4 185 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 169 (15.58%) Scrum
6 145 (13.36%) Business Analysis
7 126 (11.61%) UML
8 110 (10.14%) E-Commerce
9 93 (8.571%) OO
10 92 (8.479%) User Acceptance Testing
11 76 (7.005%) Change Management
12 73 (6.728%) ITIL
13 64 (5.899%) Data Modelling
13 64 (5.899%) Risk Management
14 60 (5.530%) Use Case
15 59 (5.438%) ETL
16 58 (5.346%) Business Intelligence
16 58 (5.346%) TDD
16 58 (5.346%) Data Analysis
17 54 (4.977%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 249 (22.95%) SQL
2 162 (14.93%) Java
3 125 (11.52%) C#
4 72 (6.636%) JavaScript
5 35 (3.226%) PL/SQL
6 32 (2.949%) C++
7 26 (2.396%) C
8 25 (2.304%) XPath
9 21 (1.935%) PHP
10 20 (1.843%) T-SQL
11 13 (1.198%) VB
11 13 (1.198%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.014%) Python
12 11 (1.014%) VBA
13 10 (0.922%) VB.NET
13 10 (0.922%) Perl
14 9 (0.829%) XQuery
14 9 (0.829%) MATLAB
15 8 (0.737%) Uniface
15 8 (0.737%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 119 (10.97%) ISEB
2 85 (7.834%) Degree
3 66 (6.083%) PMI Certification
4 45 (4.147%) ISTQB
5 34 (3.134%) Security Cleared
6 26 (2.396%) SC Cleared
7 25 (2.304%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 20 (1.843%) PMP
9 18 (1.659%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 15 (1.382%) CISSP
11 12 (1.106%) APMP
12 10 (0.922%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.737%) MCSD
14 7 (0.645%) ISEB Practitioner
15 5 (0.461%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.369%) CISM
17 3 (0.276%) BC Cleared
18 2 (0.184%) CIMA
18 2 (0.184%) IBM Certification
18 2 (0.184%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.452%) QA
2 28 (2.581%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.843%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.106%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (0.829%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.553%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.461%) ISO 9000
8 4 (0.369%) TickIT
9 3 (0.276%) SLA
9 3 (0.276%) COBIT
10 1 (0.092%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.092%) Basel III
System Software
1 6 (0.553%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.184%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.184%) Varnish
2 2 (0.184%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 56 (5.161%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (0.553%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (0.184%) Splunk
4 1 (0.092%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 198 (18.25%) Oracle
2 118 (10.88%) Microsoft
3 64 (5.899%) IBM
4 34 (3.134%) Business Objects
5 32 (2.949%) HP
6 29 (2.673%) Informatica
7 20 (1.843%) Ab Initio
8 18 (1.659%) SAP
9 17 (1.567%) Sybase
9 17 (1.567%) DataFlux
10 14 (1.290%) Pega
10 14 (1.290%) Cadis
11 12 (1.106%) JBoss
12 11 (1.014%) TIBCO
12 11 (1.014%) Adobe
13 10 (0.922%) Google
13 10 (0.922%) Perforce
14 9 (0.829%) CheckPoint
14 9 (0.829%) webMethods
14 9 (0.829%) StatPro
Livingston, West Lothian
Our client, a renowned broadcaster and digital media provider, has an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager for an initial 3 month contract starting asap based in Livingston.....
Experis IT
Rate: £450 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
A busy Glasgow based organisation is looking for a solid Project Manager with a proven track record in the management of software development projects for 6 months.Role:...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £350.00 - £390.00 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
As will experience of working with the waterfall methodology. We are looking for you to be ISEB Certified and be a career BA with a wealth of project...
Hudson
Rate: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Provide expert knowledge around agile/scrum methodologies... Experience in developing Use cases and User Stories. Strong experience in an agile/scrum environment... Good knowledge of Microsoft tools including...
WorldPay
Posted: 10 June 2013
London
Agile/ Scrum / Waterfall I am looking for a contract PMO Analyst / PMO Manager to join a large organisation based in central London. The position will involve working closely...
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £550.00 - £650.00 per annum
Posted: 19 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + Contract
Posted: 3 June 2013
London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £350.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
London
WorldPay
Rate: Competitive + Bens
Posted: 6 June 2013
Sandy, South East
Hudson
Rate: £38000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 31 May 2013
England
Computer Futures
Rate: £275 - £350 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
London
Burns Sheehan
Rate: £350 - £405 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Essex
Venn Group
Rate: £350 - 450 Per Day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Search Consultancy
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Hir Solutions Ltd
Rate: Competitive Rate - 6 Months Contract with Possibility of Extension.
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Incisive Ltd
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
EAST ANGLIA
Provisio Solutions
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
East London
iKas International
Rate: £475 - £525 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
Circle Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £315 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £250 - £280 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
IT Human Resources
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 30 May 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
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