Waterfall Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Waterfall Model
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Waterfall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 52 47
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 3 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.91% 0.50% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.56% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £319 £469 £410
25th Percentile £333 £478 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -28.96% +2.56% -22.00%
75th Percentile £378 £516 £581
90th Percentile £391 £521 £641
South West median daily rate £498 £608 £500
% change year-on-year -18.11% +21.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £88.75 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 - -
75th Percentile £96.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £92.50 - £23.86
% change year-on-year - - -64.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 292 356 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.48% 89.00% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 192 257
10th Percentile £278 £400 £362
25th Percentile £382 £481 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £662 £676 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 27 52
10th Percentile £19.69 £25.80 £33.20
25th Percentile £27.07 £29.00 £48.72
Median hourly rate £34.34 £35.03 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -39.08% +40.14%
75th Percentile £67.92 £71.38 £79.40
90th Percentile £68.40 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Waterfall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Waterfall job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Waterfall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Gloucester -15 1 £310 -37.93% 4
Cheltenham - 1 - - 5
Waterfall
South West

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Business Change Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Change Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) ERP Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Process Mapping
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Emotional Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Six Sigma
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian