Waterfall Contracts in Bedfordshire

Waterfall Model
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Waterfall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Waterfall over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 34 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 -2
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 9 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 5.77% 0.41% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 0.47% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile - - £478
25th Percentile £500 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.36%
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - £711
East of England median daily rate £540 £428 £513
% change year-on-year +26.32% -16.59% +6.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Waterfall falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 213 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 94.23% 86.59% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 123 120
10th Percentile £463 £303 £207
25th Percentile £500 £406 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +10.53% -3.06%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £626
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 6
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £28.21 £15.39 £29.31
Median hourly rate £60.75 £21.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +182.56% -66.27% +15.91%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.33 £87.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Bedfordshire

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Bedfordshire

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Luton +9 8 £600 - 4
Waterfall
East of England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) SAP ERP
1 4 (44.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
1 3 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) LoadRunner
1 5 (55.56%) NeoLoad
2 4 (44.44%) JIRA
3 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (33.33%) JMeter
General
1 7 (77.78%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Automotive
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Lead
2 4 (44.44%) Test Leader
3 3 (33.33%) Training Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) FMCG
1 5 (55.56%) Life Science
2 3 (33.33%) e-Learning
2 3 (33.33%) Learning Management System
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Non-Functional Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Test Management
3 4 (44.44%) ERP
3 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (33.33%) Matrix Management
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Service Management
4 3 (33.33%) Validation
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (11.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Self-Awareness
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMP
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GxP
1 3 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Ariba
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft