Waterfall Contracts in Lancashire

Waterfall Model
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 23 35
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 -1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Waterfall 4 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.01% 2.35% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 3.29% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £464 £360
25th Percentile £506 £559 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £697 £600
Median % change year-on-year -26.66% +16.24% +17.07%
75th Percentile £517 £743 £625
90th Percentile - £747 £627
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 178 152 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 89.45% 71.36% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 58 129
10th Percentile £363 £216 £350
25th Percentile £425 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.41% +0.08%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £634
90th Percentile £664 £743 £688
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 41 55
10th Percentile £18.87 - £20.58
25th Percentile £23.32 £16.06 £29.30
Median hourly rate £40.83 £28.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +45.80% -39.37% +59.46%
75th Percentile £63.40 £43.10 £49.76
90th Percentile £71.06 £46.18 £69.34
North West median hourly rate £27.19 £35.00 £30.76
% change year-on-year -22.32% +13.80% +41.21%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Lancashire

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Waterfall

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Preston -1 3 £512 -30.88% 2
Blackpool - 1 - - 3
Waterfall
North West

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) IMS/DB
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Manager
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) BPMN
3 1 (25.00%) Business Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Case Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Source to Pay
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JCL
1 1 (25.00%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Ariba
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Syncsort