The first table below looks at the demand for Waterfall skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. 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 for the Watford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Waterfall Model
Rank 12 - 12
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 5 0 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 6.410% - 9.574%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% - 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.75 £41.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-18.67% +72.91%
All Processes & Methodologies
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
50 79 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 64.10% 83.16% 58.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 22
Average daily rate £450 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £290 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Waterfall
Hertfordshire

Waterfall
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Waterfall Daily Rate Trend

Waterfall
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 15 (100.00%) Java
1 15 (100.00%) J2EE
1 15 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 15 (100.00%) IBM
1 15 (100.00%) Project Management
1 15 (100.00%) Retail
1 15 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 12 (80.00%) Time Management
2 12 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (80.00%) Change Control
2 12 (80.00%) Finance
3 7 (46.67%) Games
4 5 (33.33%) Manufacturing

Waterfall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 15 (100.00%) J2EE
1 15 (100.00%) WebSphere
General
1 15 (100.00%) Retail
2 12 (80.00%) Finance
3 7 (46.67%) Games
4 5 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 12 (80.00%) E-Commerce Manager
2 12 (80.00%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Agile Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 15 (100.00%) Project Management
2 12 (80.00%) Time Management
2 12 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (80.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) IBM