Waterfall Contracts in Edinburgh

Waterfall Model
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 50 61 79
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 -22
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 17 11 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.72% 1.35% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 1.53% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 22
10th Percentile £369 £473 £401
25th Percentile £400 £538 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £625 £494
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +26.58% -1.25%
75th Percentile £602 £702 £606
90th Percentile £665 £750 £648
Scotland median daily rate £446 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -15.05% +5.00% +1.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Power Platform
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) IaaS
3 3 (17.65%) PaaS
3 3 (17.65%) PowerApps
3 3 (17.65%) SaaS
4 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) ATM
1 1 (5.88%) Internet
1 1 (5.88%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
1 3 (17.65%) Cypress.io
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
1 3 (17.65%) Postman
1 3 (17.65%) Selenium
1 3 (17.65%) Subversion
1 3 (17.65%) TeamCity
1 3 (17.65%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Banking
5 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Publishing
6 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Lead
1 4 (23.53%) Project Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) IT Manager
2 3 (17.65%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (17.65%) QA Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) PMO Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Client/Server
1 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) CMDB
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Derivative
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Equities
2 1 (5.88%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
3 5 (29.41%) Project Management
3 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
3 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (23.53%) BDD
4 4 (23.53%) Service Management
5 3 (17.65%) ATDD
5 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Feature Driven Development
5 3 (17.65%) Kanban
5 3 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) SDLC
5 3 (17.65%) SOA
5 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
5 3 (17.65%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) C#
1 3 (17.65%) C++
1 3 (17.65%) Java
1 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
1 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
1 3 (17.65%) VBA
1 3 (17.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) ISEB
2 3 (17.65%) ISTQB
2 3 (17.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) P3O
2 2 (11.76%) PMO
3 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg
1 1 (5.88%) Pega
1 1 (5.88%) Reuters
1 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow