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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 60 74
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 -20
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 18 13 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.90% 1.58% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 1.82% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 24
10th Percentile £363 £491 £408
25th Percentile £400 £500 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £550 £483
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +13.81% -5.94%
75th Percentile £534 £647 £591
90th Percentile £668 £750 £620
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.37%

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 593 716 1,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.65% 86.79% 94.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 422 820
10th Percentile £240 £219 £253
25th Percentile £404 £398 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% - -
75th Percentile £538 £573 £544
90th Percentile £616 £662 £623
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 31 8
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -10.69% -34.95%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £47.22 - £58.40
Scotland median hourly rate £19.83 £19.50 £15.99
% change year-on-year +1.69% +21.95% -57.28%

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 19 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) IaaS
3 3 (16.67%) PaaS
3 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
3 3 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
1 1 (5.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
1 3 (16.67%) Postman
1 3 (16.67%) Selenium
1 3 (16.67%) Subversion
1 3 (16.67%) TeamCity
1 3 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Publishing
6 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
2 4 (22.22%) Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 3 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) QA Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Derivative
2 2 (11.11%) Equities
2 2 (11.11%) Fixed Income
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) CMDB
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Migration
2 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (27.78%) BDD
3 5 (27.78%) Project Delivery
3 5 (27.78%) Project Management
3 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
4 4 (22.22%) Service Management
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 3 (16.67%) Data Security
5 3 (16.67%) Feature Driven Development
5 3 (16.67%) Kanban
5 3 (16.67%) SDLC
5 3 (16.67%) SOA
5 3 (16.67%) TDD
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Validation
5 3 (16.67%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) C#
1 3 (16.67%) C++
1 3 (16.67%) Java
1 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
1 3 (16.67%) VBA
1 3 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) ISEB
2 3 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 3 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (11.11%) P3O
2 2 (11.11%) PMO
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Bloomberg
2 2 (11.11%) Reuters
3 1 (5.56%) Pega
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow