Waterfall Contracts in Sheffield

Waterfall Model
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 44 44 52
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 6 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.88% 2.90% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 3.13% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 4
10th Percentile £376 £378 -
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £456
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -1.37% -8.75%
75th Percentile £500 £531 £534
90th Percentile - £600 £596
South Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £450 £456
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.37% +4.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) RAML
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) API Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
4 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMP
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Citrix
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco