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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 26 31
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +12
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Waterfall 3 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.64% 1.93% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.68% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £583 - £223
25th Percentile £688 - £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 £420 £250
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% +68.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £888 - £500
90th Percentile - - £890
North West median daily rate £438 £478 £538
% change year-on-year -8.38% -11.16% +7.50%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 155 149 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 84.70% 71.98% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 76 137
10th Percentile £129 £176 £255
25th Percentile £213 £213 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% -16.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £573 £513 £538
90th Percentile £682 £594 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 12
10th Percentile - £16.37 £15.35
25th Percentile £12.21 £19.14 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £27.69 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.52% +38.44% +14.29%
75th Percentile £17.44 £39.06 £34.25
90th Percentile - £54.00 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% +1.03% +60.70%

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

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in Merseyside over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Merseyside

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DemandTrendContract 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 28 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
Liverpool -3 1 £875 - 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Manager
1 2 (66.67%) IT Manager
1 2 (66.67%) IT Programme Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) EPoS
2 1 (33.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Fintech
2 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) PMI Certification
1 2 (66.67%) PMP
1 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Certification