Waterfall Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Waterfall Model
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Waterfall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 42 45
Rank change year-on-year -31 +3 +11
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 11 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.59% 2.27% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.47% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £277 £470 £469
25th Percentile £301 £481 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% +15.07%
75th Percentile £409 - £566
90th Percentile £416 - £616
South Yorkshire median daily rate £375 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -31.03% +3.57% +15.07%

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 666 324 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 96.10% 92.05% 95.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 181 220
10th Percentile £316 £230 £386
25th Percentile £402 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £598 £650
90th Percentile £624 £665 £726
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -6.80% -6.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.14 £19.10
25th Percentile - £15.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +36.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £14.85 £22.50
% change year-on-year +1.04% -34.02% +60.71%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Waterfall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Waterfall job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in Sheffield over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Sheffield

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) Confluence
2 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Power Query
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
2 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Banking
3 4 (36.36%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Business Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Business Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Chief Technology Officer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Project Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
1 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) FMCG
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Project Delivery
2 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (45.45%) Project Management
4 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Change Management
4 3 (27.27%) Data Management
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Financial Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Kanban
5 2 (18.18%) Resource Management
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (18.18%) Use Case
5 2 (18.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
1 1 (9.09%) PMP
1 1 (9.09%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) MiFID
2 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Genesys
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) SAP