Waterfall Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Waterfall Model
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire requiring Waterfall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 2 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire 12.50% 60.00% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.04% 75.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £813 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.00% - -
75th Percentile £838 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £472 £416 £500
% change year-on-year +13.27% -16.75% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23 4 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 95.83% 80.00% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 82
10th Percentile £473 - £259
25th Percentile £550 - £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £500 £595
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -15.97% +37.57%
75th Percentile £653 - £684
90th Percentile £828 - £700
Scotland median daily rate £460 £450 £487
% change year-on-year +2.22% -7.50% +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.71
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +10.05%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

Waterfall job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing Waterfall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

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 Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
East Kilbride -6 3 £825 +65.00% 1
Waterfall
Scotland

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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 2 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft