Waterfall Contracts in Glasgow

Waterfall Model
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 39 50 43
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 44 32 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.51% 3.65% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.89% 3.97% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 37
10th Percentile £346 £419 £378
25th Percentile £379 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £465
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +18.41% -2.21%
75th Percentile £527 £650 £525
90th Percentile £619 £688 £551
Scotland median daily rate £446 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -15.05% +5.00% +1.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 7 (15.91%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (20.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) Azure
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (15.91%) Yammer
3 5 (11.36%) SaaS
4 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.09%) IaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Asana
6 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) DHCP
1 3 (6.82%) DNS
2 1 (2.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) DB2
1 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (36.36%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) GoCD
3 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
General
1 22 (50.00%) Finance
2 19 (43.18%) Social Skills
3 16 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (25.00%) Banking
5 6 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (11.36%) Investment Banking
7 3 (6.82%) Financial Institution
7 3 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.27%) Electronics
8 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.27%) Marketing
8 1 (2.27%) Publishing
8 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Analyst
2 9 (20.45%) Project Manager
3 7 (15.91%) Architect
3 7 (15.91%) Change Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Business Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Business Change Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Scrum Master
6 3 (6.82%) Database Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior
6 3 (6.82%) Technical Manager
6 3 (6.82%) Technical Project Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Designer
7 2 (4.55%) Lead
7 2 (4.55%) PMO Lead
7 2 (4.55%) Solutions Designer
8 1 (2.27%) Agile Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) Middleware
1 6 (13.64%) REST
1 6 (13.64%) SOAP
2 5 (11.36%) Kafka
2 5 (11.36%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.82%) J2EE
4 2 (4.55%) Spring
5 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.55%) CMDB
2 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.55%) PMI
2 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.27%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) Agile
2 21 (47.73%) Project Management
3 15 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 10 (22.73%) Scrum
6 9 (20.45%) Change Management
7 8 (18.18%) DevOps
7 8 (18.18%) SDLC
7 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (15.91%) Workflow
9 6 (13.64%) Kanban
9 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
10 5 (11.36%) Backlog Management
10 5 (11.36%) Budget Management
10 5 (11.36%) Conflict Resolution
10 5 (11.36%) Data Security
10 5 (11.36%) Investment Management
10 5 (11.36%) Microservices
10 5 (11.36%) Wealth Management
11 4 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) Java
2 3 (6.82%) PL/SQL
2 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
2 3 (6.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) PMI Certification
2 2 (4.55%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) PMP
2 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) GDPR
3 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.55%) NIST
3 2 (4.55%) PMO
4 1 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 4 (9.09%) Pega
4 3 (6.82%) DocuSign
5 2 (4.55%) Autodesk
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.27%) Blue Prism
6 1 (2.27%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.27%) SAP