Waterfall Contracts in Southampton

Waterfall Model
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 17 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +13
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Waterfall 5 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 3.85% 2.53% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 3.54% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £589 £583 £409
25th Percentile £591 £602 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £609 £641 £525
90th Percentile £611 £646 -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £602 £538
% change year-on-year -16.97% +12.03% +6.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 109 113 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 83.85% 71.52% 82.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 73 103
10th Percentile £170 £203 £263
25th Percentile £318 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +5.53%
75th Percentile £597 £634 £614
90th Percentile £690 £650 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -7.33% +10.48% +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 6
10th Percentile £70.60 £52.80 £18.74
25th Percentile £70.75 - £21.23
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +223.23% +22.77%
75th Percentile £74.00 - £27.00
90th Percentile £74.60 - £32.88
Hampshire median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -40.92% +9.24% +18.67%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Southampton

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Waterfall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce CRM
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) HP UFT
1 1 (20.00%) Katalon Studio
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) CRM Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) B2C
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce