Waterfall Contracts in the North of England

Waterfall Model
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 83 74
Rank change year-on-year -18 -9 +22
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 80 101 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.08% 2.22% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.65% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 75 113
10th Percentile £350 £378 £438
25th Percentile £388 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £517 £594 £625
90th Percentile £596 £694 £650
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 £62.96 -
Median hourly rate £83.50 £65.92 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% - -
75th Percentile £85.25 £68.88 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £58.91 £50.24
% change year-on-year -18.51% +17.26% -12.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,406 3,817 4,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.65% 83.96% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,182 2,307 3,253
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £556 £580 £600
90th Percentile £650 £664 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 323 198
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.19 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.47 £13.00 £17.73
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.00 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -18.06% +33.38%
75th Percentile £44.78 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.61 £53.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -7.06% +63.46%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the North of England

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in the North of England

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the North of England

Waterfall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in the North of England

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
North West -1 51 £410 -9.89% 72
Yorkshire -11 22 £495 +4.21% 54
North East -3 7 £450 -25.00% 16
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (11.25%) Confluence
2 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.75%) OpenEdge
3 3 (3.75%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (5.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (1.25%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.00%) SaaS
2 7 (8.75%) Azure
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.00%) GCP
4 3 (3.75%) IaaS
4 3 (3.75%) PaaS
5 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.50%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.50%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.25%) Asana
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.25%) GitHub
6 1 (1.25%) Miro
6 1 (1.25%) OCI
6 1 (1.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) SAN
2 1 (1.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.50%) MySQL
2 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.25%) DB2
3 1 (1.25%) GIS
3 1 (1.25%) IMS/DB
3 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) eggPlant
3 1 (1.25%) Git
3 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) JUnit
3 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (51.25%) Finance
2 36 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (23.75%) Banking
4 17 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
7 6 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (6.25%) Publishing
9 4 (5.00%) Automotive
9 4 (5.00%) Retail
10 3 (3.75%) Back Office
11 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.25%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.25%) Legal
11 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.25%) Marketing
11 1 (1.25%) Military
11 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Analyst
1 24 (30.00%) Project Manager
2 21 (26.25%) Business Analyst
3 11 (13.75%) Lead
4 7 (8.75%) Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Developer
5 6 (7.50%) Senior
6 5 (6.25%) Lead Business Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Business Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Business Project Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Service Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Product Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Project Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) Middleware
2 2 (2.50%) JSON
2 2 (2.50%) RAML
2 2 (2.50%) REST
2 2 (2.50%) Web Services
3 1 (1.25%) .NET
3 1 (1.25%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.25%) SOAP
3 1 (1.25%) XML
3 1 (1.25%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.75%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (3.75%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.25%) CMDB
5 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.25%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.25%) IoT
5 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Unix
2 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.25%) Android
3 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.25%) MVS
3 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (91.25%) Agile
2 24 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (22.50%) Project Management
4 17 (21.25%) Change Management
5 16 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (18.75%) Project Delivery
7 13 (16.25%) Requirements Gathering
7 13 (16.25%) Scrum
8 11 (13.75%) Business Analysis
8 11 (13.75%) Risk Management
8 11 (13.75%) Service Delivery
9 10 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (10.00%) Decision-Making
11 8 (10.00%) ITIL
11 8 (10.00%) Migration
11 8 (10.00%) Planning and Forecasting
11 8 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
12 7 (8.75%) Project Governance
13 6 (7.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.75%) SQL
2 2 (2.50%) Python
3 1 (1.25%) C#
3 1 (1.25%) Java
3 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.25%) JCL
3 1 (1.25%) PL/1
3 1 (1.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Degree
2 5 (6.25%) IIBA
3 4 (5.00%) ISEB
3 4 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (5.00%) RIBA
4 3 (3.75%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.75%) PMP
4 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) ACCA
6 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.25%) CBAP
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.25%) GRC
2 1 (1.25%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.25%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.25%) XenApp
3 1 (1.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.50%) Sysdig
3 1 (1.25%) Ansible
3 1 (1.25%) CA Endevor
3 1 (1.25%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.25%) SCCM
3 1 (1.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (23.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Citrix
2 7 (8.75%) ServiceNow
3 6 (7.50%) Oracle
4 5 (6.25%) HP
4 5 (6.25%) IBM
5 3 (3.75%) F5
5 3 (3.75%) SAP
5 3 (3.75%) VMware
6 2 (2.50%) Ariba
6 2 (2.50%) Glassbox
6 2 (2.50%) Splunk
7 1 (1.25%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.25%) Cisco
7 1 (1.25%) Dell
7 1 (1.25%) ESRI
7 1 (1.25%) Progress
7 1 (1.25%) Syncsort