Waterfall Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Waterfall Model
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Waterfall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.35% 1.65% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.82% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £618 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +2.92% -7.69%
South West median daily rate £538 £563 £700
% change year-on-year -4.44% -19.64% +27.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 199 110 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.82% 90.91% 77.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 76 89
10th Percentile £263 £250 £160
25th Percentile £364 £396 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -4.88%
75th Percentile £581 £641 £588
90th Percentile £630 £728 £615
South West median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 5 32
10th Percentile £37.25 £14.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £51.25 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -43.05% -18.75%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £41.25
90th Percentile - £20.01 £54.91
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £47.83
% change year-on-year -11.54% +35.90% -22.23%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Waterfall job vacancy trend in Somerset

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. 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
Street - 1 £600 - 1
Waterfall
South West

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IAM Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft