Waterfall Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Waterfall Model
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Waterfall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 66 80
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 +20
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 27 14 27
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.71% 1.21% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 1.39% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 22
10th Percentile £356 £399 £425
25th Percentile £365 £432 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £511 £538
Median % change year-on-year -19.80% -4.88% +5.39%
75th Percentile £580 £653 £625
90th Percentile £600 £705 £638
North West median daily rate £484 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +6.26% -4.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £56.63 - -
25th Percentile £59.06 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 - -
75th Percentile £69.06 - -
90th Percentile £71.88 - -
North West median hourly rate £63.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 896 1,006 1,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.87% 87.18% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 583 1,070
10th Percentile £306 £313 £270
25th Percentile £400 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £594 £594
90th Percentile £678 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £452 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.38% -2.50% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 34 61
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.94 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.97 £22.84 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +103.95% -5.61%
75th Percentile £35.50 £64.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £64.25 £87.45 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +50.21%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Waterfall job vacancy trend in Manchester

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Manchester

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Waterfall in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Waterfall in Manchester

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (11.11%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) GCP
2 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) SaaS
3 7 (25.93%) PaaS
4 6 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (22.22%) AWS
4 6 (22.22%) Serverless
5 5 (18.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (18.52%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (18.52%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (18.52%) Amazon EventBridge
5 5 (18.52%) Apigee
5 5 (18.52%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (18.52%) Datadog
5 5 (18.52%) GitHub
5 5 (18.52%) Loggly
5 5 (18.52%) Route 53
6 4 (14.81%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) DynamoDB
1 6 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (18.52%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (18.52%) BigQuery
2 5 (18.52%) MySQL
2 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
2 5 (18.52%) RDBMS
2 5 (18.52%) Redis
2 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
1 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 5 (18.52%) Gradle
2 5 (18.52%) Maven
2 5 (18.52%) SonarLint
2 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
3 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 13 (48.15%) Finance
3 8 (29.63%) Banking
4 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
5 3 (11.11%) Back Office
5 3 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (7.41%) Retail
7 1 (3.70%) Legal
7 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Java Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Java Technical Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Lead
2 6 (22.22%) Technical Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Business Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Designer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Service Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Banking Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Finance Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Regulatory Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Designer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Software Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Software Implementation Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) Dropwizard
1 6 (22.22%) J2EE
1 6 (22.22%) Micronaut
1 6 (22.22%) RESTful
1 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 5 (18.52%) Celery
2 5 (18.52%) JWT
3 3 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 3 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 6 (22.22%) N-Tier
2 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
3 3 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (11.11%) Private Cloud
4 2 (7.41%) Learning Management System
5 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
5 1 (3.70%) Life Science
5 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Unix
1 3 (11.11%) Windows
1 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Project Management
2 13 (48.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (37.04%) Risk Management
4 9 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 9 (33.33%) Microservices
4 9 (33.33%) Scrum
5 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (25.93%) Planning and Forecasting
5 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (25.93%) Resource Allocation
6 6 (22.22%) BDD
6 6 (22.22%) Domain-Driven Design
6 6 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (22.22%) OOP
6 6 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
6 6 (22.22%) TDD
6 6 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (22.22%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Java
1 6 (22.22%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) PMI Certification
3 2 (7.41%) PMP
4 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) PMBOK
2 1 (3.70%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 6 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Gigya
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) Citrix
3 3 (11.11%) F5
3 3 (11.11%) HP
3 3 (11.11%) IBM
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow