Waterfall Contracts in the South East

Waterfall Model
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Waterfall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Waterfall over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 69 54
Rank change year-on-year -38 -15 +31
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 85 172 327
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.55% 3.02% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 3.38% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 117 238
10th Percentile £385 £410 £400
25th Percentile £448 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +8.37% +6.84%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £588
90th Percentile £730 £700 £675
England median daily rate £575 £550 £530
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £49.02
25th Percentile £54.85 £101.75 £49.69
Median hourly rate £58.91 £103.50 £50.79
Median % change year-on-year -43.09% +103.78% -7.40%
75th Percentile £62.96 £105.25 £51.90
90th Percentile - - £52.56
England median hourly rate £58.91 £52.97 £58.25
% change year-on-year +11.20% -9.06% +5.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Waterfall is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,626 5,085 6,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.40% 89.37% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,697 3,536 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £402 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 222 283
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.05 £12.26
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.59 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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 -35 41 £553 -3.07% 12
Berkshire -52 25 £575 +0.88% 7
Hampshire -13 20 £595 +18.93% 8
Buckinghamshire +27 13 £585 +1.74% 1
Surrey 0 13 £525 +17.98% 6
West Sussex +11 10 £525 -41.67% 6
Oxfordshire +6 3 £500 -9.09% 4
Kent +4 2 - -
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 7 (8.24%) Confluence
2 3 (3.53%) Appian
3 1 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.18%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.18%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 1 (1.18%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.18%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.59%) SaaS
2 8 (9.41%) Azure
3 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.53%) AWS
5 2 (2.35%) PaaS
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.18%) OCI
6 1 (1.18%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Serverless
6 1 (1.18%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) ATM
1 1 (1.18%) LAN
1 1 (1.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.18%) DB2
3 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (18.82%) JIRA
2 3 (3.53%) Git
2 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.53%) Subversion
3 1 (1.18%) Android Studio
3 1 (1.18%) LabVIEW
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.18%) Postman
3 1 (1.18%) Selenium
3 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.18%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.18%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.18%) Xcode
General
1 39 (45.88%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.88%) Finance
3 17 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Banking
4 5 (5.88%) Military
4 5 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
7 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.18%) Automotive
8 1 (1.18%) Back Office
8 1 (1.18%) Law
8 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (29.41%) Project Manager
2 15 (17.65%) Analyst
3 12 (14.12%) Senior
4 9 (10.59%) Test Manager
5 8 (9.41%) Senior Manager
5 8 (9.41%) Senior Project Manager
6 7 (8.24%) Lead
7 6 (7.06%) Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.71%) IT Analyst
9 4 (4.71%) Product Analyst
9 4 (4.71%) Security Manager
10 3 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.53%) Integration Manager
10 3 (3.53%) IT Manager
10 3 (3.53%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Senior Software Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Test Engineer
11 2 (2.35%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.88%) Web Services
2 4 (4.71%) .NET
2 4 (4.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.53%) .NET Core
3 3 (3.53%) Blazor
3 3 (3.53%) GraphQL
3 3 (3.53%) gRPC
3 3 (3.53%) Kafka
3 3 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (3.53%) Razor View Engine
3 3 (3.53%) REST
4 2 (2.35%) HTML
4 2 (2.35%) Spring
4 2 (2.35%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.18%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.18%) JSON
5 1 (1.18%) Node.js
5 1 (1.18%) RESTful
5 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.88%) Life Science
1 5 (5.88%) PMI
1 5 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.53%) NHS
4 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Robotics
5 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.18%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.35%) Android
2 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (90.59%) Agile
2 28 (32.94%) Project Management
3 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (18.82%) PRINCE2
4 16 (18.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (16.47%) Test Automation
6 13 (15.29%) Decision-Making
7 12 (14.12%) Migration
7 12 (14.12%) Project Delivery
8 11 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (11.76%) Business Case
9 10 (11.76%) Test Management
10 9 (10.59%) Data Analysis
10 9 (10.59%) Roadmaps
10 9 (10.59%) Scrum
11 8 (9.41%) DevOps
11 8 (9.41%) Process Improvement
11 8 (9.41%) Software Testing
11 8 (9.41%) Test Strategy
12 7 (8.24%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.88%) SQL
2 4 (4.71%) C#
3 3 (3.53%) C++
3 3 (3.53%) Go
3 3 (3.53%) Java
4 1 (1.18%) COBOL
4 1 (1.18%) JCL
4 1 (1.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Degree
1 14 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.12%) PMI Certification
3 10 (11.76%) ISTQB
4 8 (9.41%) DV Cleared
4 8 (9.41%) PMP
5 7 (8.24%) SC Cleared
6 5 (5.88%) APMP
6 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.35%) PgMP
8 1 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) PMO
2 8 (9.41%) QA
3 4 (4.71%) HL7
4 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (2.35%) Def Stans
6 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (3.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.53%) MOM
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.88%) Oracle
3 4 (4.71%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.71%) SAP
4 3 (3.53%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.53%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.18%) Adobe
5 1 (1.18%) PeopleSoft