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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 71 61
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 +20
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 61 53 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.57% 2.55% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 2.94% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 86
10th Percentile £313 £350 £383
25th Percentile £394 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% - -3.38%
75th Percentile £527 £597 £550
90th Percentile £560 £651 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +1.85%

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 1,578 1,804 2,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.28% 86.94% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 1,108 1,720
10th Percentile £256 £213 £253
25th Percentile £368 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% -3.16% -
75th Percentile £538 £563 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 89 63
10th Percentile £16.43 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £50.48 £61.10 £60.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
% change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%

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 4 July 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 4 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
Glasgow +7 36 £500 -4.76% 23
Edinburgh +11 18 £413 -21.43% 24
Perthshire +3 2 £725 +3.57%
Aberdeen 0 2 £550 +69.23% 5
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 9 (14.75%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (18.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (16.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Primavera
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.31%) Azure
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (11.48%) SaaS
2 7 (11.48%) Yammer
3 6 (9.84%) IaaS
4 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.92%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.28%) Asana
6 2 (3.28%) PaaS
6 2 (3.28%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) DHCP
1 3 (4.92%) DNS
2 1 (1.64%) Internet
2 1 (1.64%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Power BI
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.64%) DB2
3 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (22.95%) JIRA
2 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.28%) Git
3 2 (3.28%) Postman
3 2 (3.28%) Selenium
3 2 (3.28%) Subversion
3 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.28%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.64%) GoCD
4 1 (1.64%) SoapUI
General
1 36 (59.02%) Social Skills
2 28 (45.90%) Finance
3 17 (27.87%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (18.03%) Banking
5 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
6 7 (11.48%) Investment Banking
6 7 (11.48%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (9.84%) Publishing
8 5 (8.20%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (6.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 20 (32.79%) Analyst
2 17 (27.87%) Project Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Architect
3 7 (11.48%) Business Analyst
3 7 (11.48%) Change Analyst
4 6 (9.84%) Senior
5 5 (8.20%) IT Manager
5 5 (8.20%) IT Project Manager
6 4 (6.56%) Scrum Master
6 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Designer
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Solutions Designer
7 3 (4.92%) Technical Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Technical Project Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Test Manager
8 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) .NET
1 2 (3.28%) REST
1 2 (3.28%) SOAP
2 1 (1.64%) J2EE
2 1 (1.64%) Kafka
2 1 (1.64%) Spring
2 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Product Ownership
1 6 (9.84%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (8.20%) CMDB
3 3 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.92%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.92%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.28%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.28%) Derivative
4 2 (3.28%) Equities
4 2 (3.28%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.28%) PMI
5 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Unix
2 1 (1.64%) Windows
2 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) Agile
2 30 (49.18%) Project Management
3 17 (27.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (24.59%) Project Delivery
6 11 (18.03%) Change Management
7 10 (16.39%) Scrum
8 9 (14.75%) DevOps
9 8 (13.11%) Budget Management
9 8 (13.11%) Kanban
10 7 (11.48%) Business Analysis
10 7 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (11.48%) Data Architecture
10 7 (11.48%) Data Management
10 7 (11.48%) Data Modelling
10 7 (11.48%) Data Security
10 7 (11.48%) Roadmaps
10 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (11.48%) Test Automation
11 6 (9.84%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.20%) SQL
2 3 (4.92%) Java
2 3 (4.92%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.28%) C#
3 2 (3.28%) C++
3 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.28%) VBA
3 2 (3.28%) VBScript
4 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) Degree
2 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.28%) ISEB
2 2 (3.28%) ISTQB
2 2 (3.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (3.28%) Master's Degree
2 2 (3.28%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.28%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) PMP
3 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.92%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (4.92%) GDPR
3 3 (4.92%) NIST
3 3 (4.92%) PMO
4 2 (3.28%) P3O
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.20%) Oracle
4 4 (6.56%) Pega
5 3 (4.92%) Autodesk
5 3 (4.92%) Bloomberg
6 2 (3.28%) Reuters
7 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.64%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.64%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.64%) Teradata