Waterfall Contracts in the East of England

Waterfall Model
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 59 105 82
Rank change year-on-year +46 -23 +7
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 23 7 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.45% 0.37% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 0.43% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 29
10th Percentile £423 £409 £421
25th Percentile £500 £414 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £428 £513
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -16.59% +6.60%
75th Percentile £600 £458 £625
90th Percentile - £528 £738
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £41.50 £58.91 £66.49
% change year-on-year -29.55% -11.40% +14.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in the East of England

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire +20 11 £540 - 10
Bedfordshire +10 9 £600 - 4
Hertfordshire +27 2 £538 +25.73% 5
Suffolk -8 1 £519 +3.28%
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) SAP ERP
2 4 (17.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) GitHub
2 3 (13.04%) Power Automate
2 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
1 4 (17.39%) Network Security
1 4 (17.39%) VSAN
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) JIRA
2 5 (21.74%) LoadRunner
2 5 (21.74%) NeoLoad
3 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.04%) JMeter
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.70%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Automotive
6 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) Lead
2 5 (21.74%) Test Leader
3 3 (13.04%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Training Manager
3 3 (13.04%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Financial Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Information Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Information Security Manager
5 1 (4.35%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Security Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) FMCG
1 5 (21.74%) Life Science
2 4 (17.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (13.04%) e-Learning
3 3 (13.04%) Learning Management System
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Android
1 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Agile
2 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (34.78%) Project Management
4 7 (30.43%) Project Delivery
4 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (30.43%) Test Management
5 6 (26.09%) ERP
5 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (26.09%) Zero Trust
6 5 (21.74%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 4 (17.39%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (17.39%) Service Management
8 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (13.04%) Critical Thinking
8 3 (13.04%) Matrix Management
8 3 (13.04%) PRINCE2
8 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (13.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
1 4 (17.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) PMI Certification
3 4 (17.39%) PMP
4 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.04%) VCAP
4 3 (13.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (8.70%) CISSP
6 1 (4.35%) CISM
6 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
6 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) GxP
1 3 (13.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) VMware NSX
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (17.39%) vSphere
3 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) VxRail
2 4 (17.39%) Ansible
2 4 (17.39%) PowerCLI
2 4 (17.39%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) vCenter Server
3 2 (8.70%) Avamar
4 1 (4.35%) HP ALM
4 1 (4.35%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Dell
1 6 (26.09%) SAP
1 6 (26.09%) VMware
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Ariba
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) LogRhythm
4 1 (4.35%) Micro Focus
4 1 (4.35%) Planview
4 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds