Waterfall Contracts in Scotland

Waterfall Model
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 51 62 68
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 -10
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 70 70 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.31% 3.16% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 3.57% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 54 86
10th Percentile £313 £353 £397
25th Percentile £363 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.05% +5.00% +1.83%
75th Percentile £530 £670 £566
90th Percentile £636 £700 £622
UK median daily rate £510 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.30% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £58.91 £80.00
% change year-on-year -18.51% -26.37% +50.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Scotland

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Scotland

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Scotland

Waterfall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in Scotland

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +11 44 £450 -18.18% 5
Edinburgh +11 17 £419 -33.00% 4
Aberdeen +6 7 £375 +15.38%
Perthshire -2 2 £725 +7.41%
Argyll and Bute - 1 £400 -
Waterfall
UK

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 15 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (25.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (22.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 17 (24.29%) Azure
2 13 (18.57%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (18.57%) Yammer
3 9 (12.86%) SaaS
4 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (10.00%) IaaS
5 6 (8.57%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.29%) PaaS
6 3 (4.29%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.29%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.86%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) DHCP
1 3 (4.29%) DNS
2 1 (1.43%) ATM
2 1 (1.43%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) Internet
2 1 (1.43%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.29%) DB2
1 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.29%) Power BI
2 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (28.57%) JIRA
2 6 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.29%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.29%) Cypress.io
3 3 (4.29%) Git
3 3 (4.29%) Postman
3 3 (4.29%) Selenium
3 3 (4.29%) Subversion
3 3 (4.29%) TeamCity
3 3 (4.29%) WebDriver
4 2 (2.86%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.43%) GoCD
General
1 37 (52.86%) Social Skills
2 26 (37.14%) Finance
3 23 (32.86%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (20.00%) Banking
5 11 (15.71%) Public Sector
6 10 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (8.57%) Publishing
8 5 (7.14%) Investment Banking
8 5 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (4.29%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.43%) Electronics
11 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.43%) Marketing
11 1 (1.43%) Retail
11 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (34.29%) Analyst
2 14 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 13 (18.57%) Change Analyst
4 10 (14.29%) Architect
5 7 (10.00%) Senior
5 7 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.57%) Business Analyst
6 6 (8.57%) Business Change Analyst
6 6 (8.57%) Lead
7 5 (7.14%) Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.71%) IT Manager
8 4 (5.71%) IT Project Manager
8 4 (5.71%) Scrum Master
9 3 (4.29%) Database Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Designer
9 3 (4.29%) PMO Analyst
9 3 (4.29%) QA Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.29%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) Middleware
1 7 (10.00%) SOAP
2 6 (8.57%) REST
3 5 (7.14%) Kafka
3 5 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.29%) .NET
4 3 (4.29%) J2EE
5 2 (2.86%) Spring
5 2 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.71%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.29%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.29%) CMDB
3 3 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.86%) PMI
4 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.43%) Derivative
5 1 (1.43%) Equities
5 1 (1.43%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.43%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.43%) Robotics
5 1 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Linux
2 3 (4.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) Agile
2 33 (47.14%) Project Management
3 17 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (24.29%) Project Delivery
4 13 (18.57%) Change Management
4 13 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (15.71%) DevOps
5 11 (15.71%) SDLC
6 10 (14.29%) Scrum
7 9 (12.86%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (12.86%) Kanban
8 8 (11.43%) Infographics
8 8 (11.43%) Migration
8 8 (11.43%) Risk Management
9 7 (10.00%) Data Security
9 7 (10.00%) Roadmaps
9 7 (10.00%) Workflow
10 6 (8.57%) Budget Management
10 6 (8.57%) Programme Management
10 6 (8.57%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.43%) Java
2 6 (8.57%) Shell Script
2 6 (8.57%) SQL
3 3 (4.29%) C#
3 3 (4.29%) C++
3 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.29%) PL/SQL
3 3 (4.29%) VBA
3 3 (4.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.00%) Degree
2 3 (4.29%) ISEB
2 3 (4.29%) ISTQB
2 3 (4.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (4.29%) PMI Certification
2 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) PMP
3 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.00%) QA
2 4 (5.71%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (5.71%) PMO
3 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.29%) GDPR
3 3 (4.29%) NIST
4 2 (2.86%) P3O
5 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 16 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.86%) ServiceNow
3 5 (7.14%) Pega
4 3 (4.29%) Autodesk
4 3 (4.29%) DocuSign
4 3 (4.29%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.43%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.43%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.43%) Reuters
5 1 (1.43%) SAP