Waterfall Contracts in Cambridge

Waterfall Model
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 14 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 6 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 5.26% - 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.94% - 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £443 - £426
25th Percentile £499 - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £475
75th Percentile £588 - £519
90th Percentile £655 - £529
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £540 - £513
% change year-on-year - - +10.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 177 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 88.60% 91.24% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 99 177
10th Percentile £296 £235 £185
25th Percentile £411 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 28 16
10th Percentile £16.28 £20.40 £17.12
25th Percentile £17.46 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.19% +156.10% -64.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in Cambridge over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) PMO Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
4 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (33.33%) Project Management
6 1 (16.67%) Change Management
6 1 (16.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (16.67%) ITSM
6 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 1 (16.67%) Service Management
6 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Time Management
6 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) VCAP
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) VxRail
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Avamar
2 2 (33.33%) PowerCLI
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
3 1 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Dell
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (16.67%) LogRhythm
3 1 (16.67%) Planview
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds