Waterfall Contracts in the South West

Waterfall Model
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 68 104 76
Rank change year-on-year +36 -28 +12
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 43 53 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.56% 1.66% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 2.00% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 46 81
10th Percentile £413 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +8.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £606 £775 £675
90th Percentile £707 £788 £751
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £68.75
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate - - £80.50
75th Percentile - - £90.88
90th Percentile - - £93.05
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +28 20 £575 -23.33% 5
Bristol +18 11 £425 -26.41% 18
Dorset +6 6 £550 -27.87% 2
Gloucestershire +18 4 £543 -3.56% 11
Somerset +3 1 £610 +1.67%
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 22 (51.16%) Confluence
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.98%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.98%) Skype for Business
3 1 (2.33%) Appian
3 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (44.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.98%) Azure
2 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.33%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) 5G
1 4 (9.30%) Skype
1 4 (9.30%) Unified Communications
2 3 (6.98%) DHCP
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
3 2 (4.65%) iSCSI
3 2 (4.65%) SAN
3 2 (4.65%) VPN
4 1 (2.33%) BGP
4 1 (2.33%) Firewall
4 1 (2.33%) LAN
4 1 (2.33%) OSPF
4 1 (2.33%) VLAN
4 1 (2.33%) VoIP
4 1 (2.33%) VSAN
4 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (55.81%) JIRA
2 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.65%) Git
4 1 (2.33%) GitLab
4 1 (2.33%) NUnit
4 1 (2.33%) Postman
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
4 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (81.40%) Social Skills
2 21 (48.84%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (48.84%) Public Sector
3 9 (20.93%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Billing
4 4 (9.30%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 8 (18.60%) Project Manager
3 5 (11.63%) Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) OSS Project Manager
4 4 (9.30%) Telecoms Manager
4 4 (9.30%) Telecoms Project Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Coordinator
5 3 (6.98%) Security Assurance Coordinator
5 3 (6.98%) Senior
6 2 (4.65%) Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Scrum Master
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) Flash
2 2 (4.65%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.33%) Kafka
3 1 (2.33%) Middleware
3 1 (2.33%) ModSecurity
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.33%) Playwright
3 1 (2.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Clustering
2 6 (13.95%) PKI
3 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.30%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) CMDB
5 1 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Windows
2 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.30%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.65%) Linux
5 2 (4.65%) VMS
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Agile
2 18 (41.86%) Critical Thinking
3 17 (39.53%) Service Management
3 17 (39.53%) System Testing
4 16 (37.21%) NsoIT
5 15 (34.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (30.23%) Computer Science
7 12 (27.91%) High Availability
7 12 (27.91%) Power Management
7 12 (27.91%) Validation
8 10 (23.26%) Network Virtualisation
8 10 (23.26%) Project Management
8 10 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (20.93%) Risk Management
10 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (18.60%) Scrum
11 7 (16.28%) ITIL
11 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (13.95%) PRINCE2
13 4 (9.30%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) SQL
2 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.33%) Java
3 1 (2.33%) Python
3 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (65.12%) Security Cleared
2 25 (58.14%) SC Cleared
3 20 (46.51%) Degree
4 13 (30.23%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (30.23%) Master's Degree
5 12 (27.91%) CCNA
5 12 (27.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 9 (20.93%) DV Cleared
7 5 (11.63%) PMI Certification
7 5 (11.63%) PMP
8 3 (6.98%) CCNP
8 3 (6.98%) CESG Certified Professional
8 3 (6.98%) CISA
8 3 (6.98%) CISSP
9 2 (4.65%) MCSA
9 2 (4.65%) MCSE
9 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
10 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.98%) JSP 440
1 3 (6.98%) PMO
1 3 (6.98%) RMADS
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) GRC
2 1 (2.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.33%) NCSC
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
2 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.33%) PMBOK
2 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 13 (30.23%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (27.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (27.91%) VMware NSX
3 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.98%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (6.98%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) vCenter Server
2 4 (9.30%) Amdocs OSS
3 3 (6.98%) OPNET
3 3 (6.98%) WSUS
4 2 (4.65%) SCOM
5 1 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.33%) Ansible
5 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (41.86%) Atlassian
2 13 (30.23%) Cisco
2 13 (30.23%) VMware
3 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.30%) Amdocs
4 4 (9.30%) Ciena
4 4 (9.30%) Ericsson
4 4 (9.30%) NetCracker
4 4 (9.30%) Nokia
5 3 (6.98%) Oracle
5 3 (6.98%) SolarWinds
5 3 (6.98%) Veeam
6 1 (2.33%) BMC
6 1 (2.33%) Databricks
6 1 (2.33%) Remedy
6 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow