Waterfall Contracts in the South East

Waterfall Model
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 101 122 73
Rank change year-on-year +21 -49 -22
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 59 84 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.96% 1.51% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.78% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 57 123
10th Percentile £388 £408 £406
25th Percentile £428 £456 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +3.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £735 £698
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £54.85 £101.75
Median hourly rate £48.00 £58.91 £103.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.51% -43.09% +95.28%
75th Percentile - £62.96 £105.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.50 £58.91 £66.49
% change year-on-year -29.55% -11.40% +14.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the South East 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
Thames Valley +38 37 £550 -0.45% 26
Berkshire +30 25 £586 +1.91% 16
Hampshire +19 13 £500 -15.92% 21
Buckinghamshire +14 11 £375 -35.90% 6
Surrey +10 5 £488 -12.16% 4
West Sussex +5 3 £463 -11.90% 8
Oxfordshire +3 1 £550 +10.00% 9
East Sussex -2 1 £500 - 4
Middlesex - 1 £750 - 1
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (1.69%) CMS
1 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.69%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) Azure
2 6 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.47%) SaaS
4 3 (5.08%) AWS
5 2 (3.39%) GCP
5 2 (3.39%) Oracle CX
6 1 (1.69%) Asana
6 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.69%) OCI
6 1 (1.69%) PaaS
6 1 (1.69%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.69%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) WAN
2 1 (1.69%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) LAN
2 1 (1.69%) MPLS
2 1 (1.69%) Network Security
2 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) Power BI
1 5 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.08%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.39%) MS Access
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.69%) Impala
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) QlikView
4 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.69%) Tableau
4 1 (1.69%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 15 (25.42%) JIRA
2 5 (8.47%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.47%) SoapUI
3 2 (3.39%) QARun
3 2 (3.39%) WinRunner
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.69%) Subversion
4 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.64%) Finance
3 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.39%) Retail
6 1 (1.69%) Back Office
6 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Local Government
6 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.69%) Marketing
6 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Analyst
2 10 (16.95%) Project Manager
3 9 (15.25%) Lead
4 7 (11.86%) Senior
5 6 (10.17%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.17%) Test Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Data Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Programme Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Change Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Data Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Test Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Test Leader
7 3 (5.08%) Tester
8 2 (3.39%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Data Migration Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) SOAP
1 5 (8.47%) XML
2 3 (5.08%) Middleware
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.39%) Web Services
4 1 (1.69%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) PMI
2 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.39%) Infotainment
3 2 (3.39%) IoT
3 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.69%) CMDB
4 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.69%) Life Science
4 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.17%) Windows
2 3 (5.08%) Unix
3 1 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (96.61%) Agile
2 21 (35.59%) Project Management
3 19 (32.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.95%) Software Testing
5 10 (16.95%) Test Automation
6 9 (15.25%) Change Management
6 9 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (15.25%) Test Scripting
7 8 (13.56%) Defect Management
7 8 (13.56%) DevOps
7 8 (13.56%) PRINCE2
8 7 (11.86%) Integration Testing
8 7 (11.86%) Migration
8 7 (11.86%) Test Strategy
9 6 (10.17%) Data Management
9 6 (10.17%) Logistics
9 6 (10.17%) Risk Management
9 6 (10.17%) Scrum
9 6 (10.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.86%) SQL
2 2 (3.39%) C#
2 2 (3.39%) VB
3 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.56%) Degree
3 6 (10.17%) PMI Certification
4 4 (6.78%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.78%) ISTQB
4 4 (6.78%) PMP
5 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.39%) PgMP
6 2 (3.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.69%) APMP
7 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.69%) CISA
7 1 (1.69%) CISM
7 1 (1.69%) CISSP
7 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.69%) IIBA
7 1 (1.69%) ISEB
7 1 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) QA
2 6 (10.17%) GDPR
3 4 (6.78%) PMO
4 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.39%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.69%) NIST
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
1 8 (13.56%) Oracle
2 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.39%) Citrix
3 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.69%) Adobe
4 1 (1.69%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.69%) BMC
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco
4 1 (1.69%) Databricks
4 1 (1.69%) NEC
4 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.69%) Remedy
4 1 (1.69%) SAP
4 1 (1.69%) Snow
4 1 (1.69%) UiPath