Waterfall Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Waterfall Model
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 37 65
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 +4
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 13 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 5.22% 2.49% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.53% 3.06% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 10
10th Percentile - £456 £463
25th Percentile - £459 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £525 £638
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% -17.65% +51.79%
75th Percentile £375 £645 £700
90th Percentile £425 - £717
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +8.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 235 360 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 94.38% 81.63% 93.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 245 647
10th Percentile £209 £235 £320
25th Percentile £338 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £560 £560 £588
90th Percentile £645 £648 £661
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 28 6
10th Percentile - £15.85 £13.37
25th Percentile £14.20 £17.91 £14.24
Median hourly rate £15.25 £25.00 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -39.00% +52.44% +33.23%
75th Percentile £20.50 £29.06 £18.16
90th Percentile £58.13 £48.75 £21.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £47.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year -48.08% -6.95% +126.89%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Buckinghamshire

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Buckinghamshire

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Milton Keynes +17 12 £325 -49.61% 7
Waterfall
South East

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
1 8 (61.54%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) MS Access
3 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.69%) Impala
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) QARun
2 2 (15.38%) WinRunner
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Analyst
2 9 (69.23%) Test Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Integration Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Integration Test Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Lead
5 2 (15.38%) Test Leader
6 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (23.08%) Middleware
2 3 (23.08%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (84.62%) Integration Testing
2 11 (84.62%) Logistics
2 11 (84.62%) System Integration Testing
3 9 (69.23%) Agile
3 9 (69.23%) Software Testing
3 9 (69.23%) Test Planning
4 8 (61.54%) DevOps
4 8 (61.54%) Test Automation
5 6 (46.15%) Data Migration
5 6 (46.15%) Defect Management
5 6 (46.15%) Migration
5 6 (46.15%) Scenario Testing
5 6 (46.15%) SDLC
6 5 (38.46%) End-to-End Testing
6 5 (38.46%) Test Management
7 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (30.77%) Validation
8 3 (23.08%) Microservices
8 3 (23.08%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) C#
1 6 (46.15%) VB
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Citrix
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle