Waterfall Contract Job Trends in Chester

Waterfall Model
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Waterfall skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 4.82% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £666 - -
90th Percentile £716 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £469 £445 £450
% change year-on-year +5.34% -1.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69 57 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 83.13% 81.43% 77.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 18 32
10th Percentile £204 £452 £378
25th Percentile £422 £532 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +12.56% +26.47%
75th Percentile £686 £738 £588
90th Percentile £761 £741 £674
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -6.21% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 14
10th Percentile £12.56 £16.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £12.63 £25.50 £30.54
Median hourly rate £14.00 £35.00 £31.77
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +10.17% +45.87%
75th Percentile £20.20 £41.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £23.17 £47.50 £38.51
Cheshire median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +46.19%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Chester

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in Chester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in Chester over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Chester

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Smartsheet
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior PMO
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Change Control
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (75.00%) Portfolio Management
2 3 (75.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (75.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (75.00%) Project Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (75.00%) PMP
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) P3O
1 3 (75.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Planview