Waterfall Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Waterfall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Waterfall over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Waterfall Model England / London
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	136	119	144
Rank change year-on-year	-17	+25
Contract jobs citing Waterfall	392	458	385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	1.89%	2.11%	1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	2.18%	2.47%	2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted	287	342	248
Median daily rate	£475	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£363	£325	£313
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£675	£663
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£413	£400
% change year-on-year	+3.03%	+3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	3
Median hourly rate	-	-	£24.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£47.50	£42.50	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+11.76%	+6.25%

Waterfall is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	17998	18524	18927
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	86.68%	85.33%	82.18%
Number of daily rates quoted	50303	52350	47249
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£333	£313	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£650	£638
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	502	404	591
Median hourly rate	£25.75	£21.00	£22.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+22.61%	-4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.00	£11.25	£10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£53.75	£46.88	£58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Waterfall as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Waterfall in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Waterfall in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Waterfall in London over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Waterfall in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Waterfall in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the London region over the 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	+21	83	£475	+5.55%	24
Croydon	-8	5	£425	-
Hayes	-	3	£375	-
Brentford	-	3	£425	-	1
Westminster	-	1	£275	-
Hammersmith	-	1	-	-
Kingston Upon Thames	-	1	£420	-	1
Orpington	-	1	-	-
Surbiton	-	1	£420	-	2
Waterfall England

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Waterfall also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for Waterfall.

1	750 (93.28%)	Agile Software Development
2	244 (30.35%)	Finance
3	180 (22.39%)	Project Management
4	170 (21.14%)	Scrum
5	157 (19.53%)	SQL
6	146 (18.16%)	SDLC
7	132 (16.42%)	Banking
8	123 (15.30%)	Business Analysis
9	112 (13.93%)	Stakeholder Management
10	110 (13.68%)	JIRA
11	105 (13.06%)	PRINCE2
11	105 (13.06%)	Microsoft
12	94 (11.69%)	Analytical Skills
13	88 (10.95%)	Retail
14	82 (10.20%)	Oracle

15	81 (10.07%)	CRM
16	78 (9.70%)	TDD
17	76 (9.45%)	Java
18	73 (9.08%)	Degree
18	73 (9.08%)	Security Cleared
19	69 (8.58%)	QA
20	68 (8.46%)	SQL Server
21	66 (8.21%)	DevOps
22	65 (8.08%)	Business Intelligence
23	64 (7.96%)	Jenkins
24	63 (7.84%)	User Stories
25	61 (7.59%)	User Acceptance Testing
26	60 (7.46%)	Use Case
26	60 (7.46%)	Git (software)
26	60 (7.46%)	HTML

Waterfall
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	48 (5.97%)	Confluence
2	34 (4.23%)	SharePoint
3	29 (3.61%)	BizTalk Server
4	26 (3.23%)	CMS
5	23 (2.86%)	Apache Spark
6	19 (2.36%)	Apache Solr
7	17 (2.11%)	WebSphere
8	15 (1.87%)	JBoss
8	15 (1.87%)	WebLogic
9	13 (1.62%)	Oracle SOA Suite
9	13 (1.62%)	Tomcat
10	12 (1.49%)	Skype for Business
11	9 (1.12%)	GlassFish
12	8 (1.00%)	Apache
12	8 (1.00%)	Sitecore CMS
13	7 (0.87%)	IIS
14	6 (0.75%)	Cloud Foundry
15	5 (0.62%)	Drupal
15	5 (0.62%)	Mule
15	5 (0.62%)	Oracle Self-Service HR

Applications
1	50 (6.22%)	Microsoft Project
2	42 (5.22%)	Microsoft Excel
3	28 (3.48%)	MS Visio
4	19 (2.36%)	Microsoft Office
4	19 (2.36%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	9 (1.12%)	Spreadsheet
6	1 (0.12%)	InVision
6	1 (0.12%)	OmniGraffle

Business Applications
1	39 (4.85%)	Dynamics CRM
2	18 (2.24%)	SAP Hybris
3	11 (1.37%)	Oracle iRecruitment
4	9 (1.12%)	Oracle EBS
5	7 (0.87%)	Dynamics AX
6	6 (0.75%)	Oracle Payroll
7	4 (0.50%)	iTrent
7	4 (0.50%)	SAP HR
7	4 (0.50%)	TrackWise
8	3 (0.37%)	IntelliMatch
8	3 (0.37%)	Loan IQ
8	3 (0.37%)	NetSuite
8	3 (0.37%)	Oracle BPM
8	3 (0.37%)	SAP Oil and Gas
9	1 (0.12%)	Magento
9	1 (0.12%)	Oracle Cash Management
9	1 (0.12%)	Oracle EBS R12
9	1 (0.12%)	Oracle Payables
9	1 (0.12%)	Oracle Retail
9	1 (0.12%)	thinkFolio

Cloud Services
1	44 (5.47%)	Microsoft Azure
2	26 (3.23%)	Amazon AWS
3	19 (2.36%)	Office 365
4	16 (1.99%)	PaaS
5	15 (1.87%)	SaaS
6	14 (1.74%)	IaaS
7	9 (1.12%)	Yammer
8	7 (0.87%)	Veeva
9	6 (0.75%)	Dynamics 365
9	6 (0.75%)	Oracle CX
9	6 (0.75%)	Oracle Service Cloud
10	5 (0.62%)	Azure Data Factory
10	5 (0.62%)	Data Lake Analytics
11	3 (0.37%)	Basecamp
11	3 (0.37%)	Cloud Computing
11	3 (0.37%)	CloudSense
11	3 (0.37%)	GitHub
12	2 (0.25%)	Force.com
12	2 (0.25%)	G Suite
12	2 (0.25%)	Google Cloud Platform

Communications & Networking
1	6 (0.75%)	HTTP
1	6 (0.75%)	IPsec
1	6 (0.75%)	SSL
2	5 (0.62%)	Internet
2	5 (0.62%)	Network Security
3	4 (0.50%)	HTTPS
3	4 (0.50%)	X.509
4	3 (0.37%)	Skype
5	2 (0.25%)	DMZ
5	2 (0.25%)	DNS
5	2 (0.25%)	MPLS
5	2 (0.25%)	SMS
5	2 (0.25%)	SWIFTNet
5	2 (0.25%)	TCP/IP
5	2 (0.25%)	VPLS
6	1 (0.12%)	Broadband
6	1 (0.12%)	FTP
6	1 (0.12%)	Intranet
6	1 (0.12%)	SAN
6	1 (0.12%)	WAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	68 (8.46%)	SQL Server
2	42 (5.22%)	Data Warehouse
3	35 (4.35%)	Big Data
3	35 (4.35%)	Hadoop
4	33 (4.10%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	31 (3.86%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
6	25 (3.11%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
7	21 (2.61%)	Relational Database
8	17 (2.11%)	Oracle Database
9	15 (1.87%)	MySQL
10	12 (1.49%)	SQL Server 2012
11	11 (1.37%)	Oracle Reports
12	10 (1.24%)	MarkLogic
12	10 (1.24%)	NoSQL
13	9 (1.12%)	Oracle Database 11g
13	9 (1.12%)	Power BI
14	8 (1.00%)	Data Mart
14	8 (1.00%)	Oracle BI EE
14	8 (1.00%)	QlikView
15	7 (0.87%)	Data Lake

Development Applications
1	110 (13.68%)	JIRA
2	64 (7.96%)	Jenkins
3	60 (7.46%)	Git (software)
4	33 (4.10%)	Team Foundation Server
5	30 (3.73%)	Subversion
6	27 (3.36%)	Selenium
7	22 (2.74%)	Vagrant
8	17 (2.11%)	Cucumber
9	13 (1.62%)	HP UFT
10	12 (1.49%)	TeamCity
11	11 (1.37%)	SoapUI
12	10 (1.24%)	Hudson
12	10 (1.24%)	JUnit
13	8 (1.00%)	Maven
13	8 (1.00%)	TestRail
13	8 (1.00%)	Visual Studio
14	7 (0.87%)	Mockito
14	7 (0.87%)	Protractor
14	7 (0.87%)	VersionOne
15	5 (0.62%)	WebDriver

General
1	244 (30.35%)	Finance
2	132 (16.42%)	Banking
3	88 (10.95%)	Retail
4	55 (6.84%)	Investment Banking
5	26 (3.23%)	Law
6	24 (2.99%)	Front Office
7	23 (2.86%)	Back Office
8	22 (2.74%)	Legal
8	22 (2.74%)	Marketing
9	17 (2.11%)	Advertising
10	15 (1.87%)	Publishing
11	13 (1.62%)	Retail Banking
12	11 (1.37%)	Telecoms
13	8 (1.00%)	Digital Economy
13	8 (1.00%)	Games
14	7 (0.87%)	Pharmaceutical
15	6 (0.75%)	Billing
15	6 (0.75%)	Private Banking
16	4 (0.50%)	Electronics
16	4 (0.50%)	Manufacturing

Job Titles
1	203 (25.25%)	Analyst
2	165 (20.52%)	Project Manager
3	157 (19.53%)	Business Analyst
4	125 (15.55%)	Developer
5	90 (11.19%)	Architect
6	37 (4.60%)	Consultant
7	32 (3.98%)	Java Developer
7	32 (3.98%)	Technical Architect
7	32 (3.98%)	Tester
8	31 (3.86%)	Solutions Architect
9	27 (3.36%)	Hybris Developer
10	25 (3.11%)	Senior Manager
11	22 (2.74%)	Business Systems Analyst
12	21 (2.61%)	Senior Analyst
13	20 (2.49%)	Agile Project Manager
13	20 (2.49%)	Senior Project Manager
14	19 (2.36%)	Programme Manager
15	18 (2.24%)	Test Manager
16	17 (2.11%)	Agile Coach
16	17 (2.11%)	CRM Consultant

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	60 (7.46%)	.NET
1	60 (7.46%)	HTML
2	51 (6.34%)	Spring
3	48 (5.97%)	Web Services
4	42 (5.22%)	CSS
5	40 (4.98%)	SOAP
6	38 (4.73%)	XML
7	26 (3.23%)	REST
7	26 (3.23%)	Spring MVC
8	23 (2.86%)	JSP
9	18 (2.24%)	Hibernate
9	18 (2.24%)	Servlets
9	18 (2.24%)	Spring Boot
10	17 (2.11%)	HTML5
11	16 (1.99%)	RESTful
12	15 (1.87%)	jQuery
12	15 (1.87%)	XSLT
13	14 (1.74%)	J2EE
14	13 (1.62%)	Java EE
15	12 (1.49%)	AngularJS

Miscellaneous
1	94 (11.69%)	Analytical Skills
2	26 (3.23%)	User Experience
3	25 (3.11%)	Computer Science
3	25 (3.11%)	Enterprise Software
4	20 (2.49%)	Management Information System
5	19 (2.36%)	Data Centre
6	18 (2.24%)	Derivative
6	18 (2.24%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
7	17 (2.11%)	Fixed Income
8	14 (1.74%)	SWIFT
9	13 (1.62%)	Fintech
10	11 (1.37%)	Virtual Team
11	10 (1.24%)	Mobile App
11	10 (1.24%)	Social Media
12	9 (1.12%)	Equities
13	7 (0.87%)	Cybercrime
13	7 (0.87%)	PMI
14	6 (0.75%)	Minimum Viable Product
15	5 (0.62%)	Cloud Native
16	4 (0.50%)	OTC Derivatives

Operating Systems
1	43 (5.35%)	Windows
2	33 (4.10%)	Unix
3	30 (3.73%)	Linux
4	12 (1.49%)	Windows Server
5	9 (1.12%)	Apple iOS
6	6 (0.75%)	Mac OS X
7	5 (0.62%)	Android
8	4 (0.50%)	Mac OS
9	3 (0.37%)	Solaris
9	3 (0.37%)	Windows 10
10	2 (0.25%)	CentOS
10	2 (0.25%)	Windows Vista
11	1 (0.12%)	AIX
11	1 (0.12%)	Ubuntu
11	1 (0.12%)	Windows 7
11	1 (0.12%)	Windows 8
11	1 (0.12%)	Windows Server 2003
11	1 (0.12%)	Windows Server 2008
11	1 (0.12%)	Windows Server 2012
11	1 (0.12%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	750 (93.28%)	Agile Software Development
2	180 (22.39%)	Project Management
3	170 (21.14%)	Scrum
4	146 (18.16%)	SDLC
5	123 (15.30%)	Business Analysis
6	112 (13.93%)	Stakeholder Management
7	105 (13.06%)	PRINCE2
8	81 (10.07%)	CRM
9	78 (9.70%)	TDD
10	66 (8.21%)	DevOps
11	65 (8.08%)	Business Intelligence
12	63 (7.84%)	User Stories
13	61 (7.59%)	User Acceptance Testing
14	60 (7.46%)	Use Case
15	55 (6.84%)	Kanban
16	50 (6.22%)	Continuous Improvement
17	49 (6.09%)	Test Automation
18	48 (5.97%)	E-Commerce
19	43 (5.35%)	Data Modelling
20	42 (5.22%)	Migration

Programming Languages
1	157 (19.53%)	SQL
2	76 (9.45%)	Java
3	46 (5.72%)	C#
4	39 (4.85%)	Python
5	38 (4.73%)	Shell Script
6	34 (4.23%)	JavaScript
7	22 (2.74%)	C
8	21 (2.61%)	Scala
9	12 (1.49%)	C++
9	12 (1.49%)	T-SQL
10	7 (0.87%)	PL/SQL
11	5 (0.62%)	Perl
12	4 (0.50%)	Apex Code
12	4 (0.50%)	Bash Shell
12	4 (0.50%)	PowerShell
13	3 (0.37%)	Apple Swift
13	3 (0.37%)	Objective-C
14	2 (0.25%)	Groovy
14	2 (0.25%)	PHP
14	2 (0.25%)	Ruby

Qualifications
1	73 (9.08%)	Degree
1	73 (9.08%)	Security Cleared
2	47 (5.85%)	SC Cleared
3	28 (3.48%)	PMP
4	26 (3.23%)	PMI Certification
5	25 (3.11%)	ISEB
6	12 (1.49%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
7	10 (1.24%)	BPSS Clearance
7	10 (1.24%)	ISTQB
8	9 (1.12%)	CTC Cleared
8	9 (1.12%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
9	7 (0.87%)	DV Cleared
10	6 (0.75%)	APMP
10	6 (0.75%)	IIBA
10	6 (0.75%)	PRINCE2 Certification
11	4 (0.50%)	MAPM
12	3 (0.37%)	CISSP
12	3 (0.37%)	ITIL Certification
13	2 (0.25%)	CISA
13	2 (0.25%)	Master's Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	69 (8.58%)	QA
2	32 (3.98%)	MiFID
3	18 (2.24%)	PMO
4	17 (2.11%)	Data Quality
5	16 (1.99%)	EMIR
6	11 (1.37%)	WAI
7	9 (1.12%)	WCAG
8	8 (1.00%)	SEPA
9	7 (0.87%)	Dodd-Frank
9	7 (0.87%)	GDPR
10	6 (0.75%)	COBIT
11	5 (0.62%)	Disclosure Scotland
11	5 (0.62%)	PCI DSS
11	5 (0.62%)	SLA
12	4 (0.50%)	ISO 20022
12	4 (0.50%)	Solvency II
13	3 (0.37%)	AIFMD
13	3 (0.37%)	FINREP
14	2 (0.25%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
15	1 (0.12%)	Basel II

System Software
1	15 (1.87%)	Docker
2	10 (1.24%)	Active Directory
3	6 (0.75%)	Virtual Machines
4	4 (0.50%)	Hyper-V
5	2 (0.25%)	VMware ESXi
5	2 (0.25%)	VMware Infrastructure
6	1 (0.12%)	Microsoft App-V
6	1 (0.12%)	Virtual Desktop

Systems Management
1	12 (1.49%)	Opscode Chef
2	11 (1.37%)	HP Quality Center
2	11 (1.37%)	Puppet
3	7 (0.87%)	Rancher
4	6 (0.75%)	SCCM
5	4 (0.50%)	Ansible
6	2 (0.25%)	Nagios
6	2 (0.25%)	Nessus
7	1 (0.12%)	BladeLogic
7	1 (0.12%)	Control-M
7	1 (0.12%)	ITRS Geneos
7	1 (0.12%)	Kubernetes
7	1 (0.12%)	Opsview

Vendors
1	105 (13.06%)	Microsoft
2	82 (10.20%)	Oracle
3	58 (7.21%)	SAP
4	42 (5.22%)	Salesforce.com
5	30 (3.73%)	Cloudera
6	28 (3.48%)	hybris
7	22 (2.74%)	Hortonworks
8	15 (1.87%)	HP
9	13 (1.62%)	IBM
10	10 (1.24%)	Tableau
11	9 (1.12%)	Adobe
12	8 (1.00%)	Infor
12	8 (1.00%)	ServiceNow
12	8 (1.00%)	Sitecore
12	8 (1.00%)	Sybase
13	7 (0.87%)	CA Agile Central
13	7 (0.87%)	Informatica
14	6 (0.75%)	Bloomberg
14	6 (0.75%)	PeopleSoft
14	6 (0.75%)	VMware