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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 31 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Waterfall 8 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 3.42% 0.96% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 1.16% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £189 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £194 -
Median % change year-on-year +209.06% - -
75th Percentile £613 £199 -
90th Percentile £635 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £338 £512
% change year-on-year +62.96% -34.02% +12.11%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 210 173 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 89.74% 83.17% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 103 82
10th Percentile £185 £300 £231
25th Percentile £460 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% +5.26% -4.90%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £550
90th Percentile £689 £650 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 17 2
10th Percentile £29.85 £36.75 £55.60
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.50 £58.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £61.00
90th Percentile - £70.00 £62.20
East of England median hourly rate £36.75 £43.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -14.53% +117.06% -3.37%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Waterfall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Waterfall

Waterfall
DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Luton -2 7 £600 - 2
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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (62.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (50.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (12.50%) OCI
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) LoadRunner
1 5 (62.50%) NeoLoad
2 4 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (37.50%) JMeter
General
1 5 (62.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Lead
2 4 (50.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Finance Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Head of PMO
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Finance Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Transformation Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) FMCG
1 5 (62.50%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) ERP
2 5 (62.50%) Non-Functional Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (62.50%) Test Management
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Matrix Management
3 3 (37.50%) Service Management
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Change Control
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Programme Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Resource Management
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (25.00%) PMP
2 1 (12.50%) ACCA
2 1 (12.50%) CIMA
2 1 (12.50%) CIPFA
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GxP
1 3 (37.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (12.50%) PMO
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Ariba