Waterfall Contracts in Merseyside

Waterfall Model
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 23 32 35
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 6 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.57% 0.44% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 0.56% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile £533 - £224
25th Percentile £564 - £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £420 £550
Median % change year-on-year +50.70% -23.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £657 - -
90th Percentile £662 - £670
North West median daily rate £450 £455 £531
% change year-on-year -1.10% -14.35% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 179 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.17% 78.51% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 229
10th Percentile £143 £145 £313
25th Percentile £203 £242 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £550
90th Percentile £649 £603 £689
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 8
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £25.63
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Merseyside

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Merseyside

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Merseyside

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Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Liverpool - 5 £649 - 5
Waterfall
North West

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
General
1 3 (50.00%) Military
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Manager
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Business Case
2 4 (66.67%) Line Management
2 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Supplier Management
4 2 (33.33%) Database Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle