Waterfall Contracts in South Yorkshire

Waterfall Model
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 49 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 14 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.10% 2.32% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 2.68% -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 0
10th Percentile £390 £378 -
25th Percentile £400 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £500 £531 -
90th Percentile £535 £600 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £490 £600
% change year-on-year -0.51% -18.33% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 411 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.90% 86.53% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 228 286
10th Percentile £290 £345 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -11.14% +10.00%
75th Percentile £553 £582 £675
90th Percentile £638 £623 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 21 37
10th Percentile £18.10 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.55 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.69 £12.83 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +45.67% +20.70% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.50 -
90th Percentile - £23.75 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -40.94%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in South Yorkshire

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in South Yorkshire

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in South Yorkshire

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Sheffield +6 14 £413 -8.33% 8
Waterfall
Yorkshire

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (21.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JUnit
2 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Banking
3 6 (42.86%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Project Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Business Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Business Project Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Lead Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Lead Project Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Project Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Portfolio Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Portfolio Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Portfolio Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Project Portfolio Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) RAML
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
1 1 (7.14%) XML
1 1 (7.14%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Project Delivery
2 5 (35.71%) Project Management
3 4 (28.57%) Project Governance
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Requirements Workshops
4 2 (14.29%) Resource Management
5 1 (7.14%) API Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (7.14%) Budgeting
5 1 (7.14%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.14%) Inventory Management
5 1 (7.14%) Planning and Forecasting
5 1 (7.14%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) RIBA
2 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.14%) PMP
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (7.14%) XenApp
2 1 (7.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Citrix
3 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Dell
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) IBM