Waterfall Contracts in the Thames Valley

Waterfall Model
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 62 51
Rank change year-on-year -37 -11 +32
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 41 95 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.54% 3.28% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 3.57% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 75 95
10th Percentile £451 £425 £370
25th Percentile £483 £500 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.07% +14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £645 £631 £563
90th Percentile £744 £683 £663
South East median daily rate £540 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -1.82% +7.53% +7.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £53.00
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £103.50 £50.79
% change year-on-year -43.09% +103.78% -7.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,322 2,661 3,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.82% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 1,850 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 64 86
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £24.69
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 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
Berkshire -51 25 £575 +0.88% 7
Buckinghamshire +26 13 £585 -2.50% 1
Oxfordshire +4 3 £500 -9.09% 4
Waterfall
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (9.76%) Confluence
2 3 (7.32%) Appian
3 1 (2.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.44%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.76%) SaaS
2 3 (7.32%) AWS
2 3 (7.32%) Azure
3 2 (4.88%) PaaS
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) ATM
1 1 (2.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) DB2
1 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Android Studio
2 1 (2.44%) Postman
2 1 (2.44%) Selenium
2 1 (2.44%) SoapUI
2 1 (2.44%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.44%) WebDriver
2 1 (2.44%) Xcode
General
1 20 (48.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Finance
3 5 (12.20%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.32%) Military
5 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.88%) Marketing
6 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.44%) Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Project Manager
2 8 (19.51%) Analyst
2 8 (19.51%) Senior
2 8 (19.51%) Senior Manager
2 8 (19.51%) Senior Project Manager
3 4 (9.76%) Product Analyst
3 4 (9.76%) Security Manager
4 3 (7.32%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (7.32%) IT Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Integration Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Lead
5 2 (4.88%) Release Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Support Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Telecoms Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Test Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Transformation Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) HTML
1 2 (4.88%) Web Services
2 1 (2.44%) .NET
2 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.44%) JSON
2 1 (2.44%) Node.js
2 1 (2.44%) RESTful
2 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) PMI
2 3 (7.32%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (7.32%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Life Science
3 2 (4.88%) NHS
3 2 (4.88%) Robotics
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.44%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Android
2 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (92.68%) Agile
2 17 (41.46%) Project Management
3 11 (26.83%) PRINCE2
4 10 (24.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (21.95%) Project Delivery
6 8 (19.51%) Business Case
6 8 (19.51%) Test Automation
7 7 (17.07%) Decision-Making
8 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.63%) Roadmaps
8 6 (14.63%) Scrum
8 6 (14.63%) Workflow
9 5 (12.20%) Process Improvement
9 5 (12.20%) Programme Delivery
9 5 (12.20%) Programme Management
9 5 (12.20%) Software Testing
10 4 (9.76%) Customer Experience
10 4 (9.76%) Requirements Gathering
10 4 (9.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.44%) C#
1 1 (2.44%) COBOL
1 1 (2.44%) Java
1 1 (2.44%) JCL
1 1 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) PMI Certification
2 6 (14.63%) PMP
3 5 (12.20%) ISTQB
3 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
4 4 (9.76%) APMP
5 3 (7.32%) Degree
5 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.88%) PgMP
7 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) HL7
3 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Atlassian
2 3 (7.32%) Salesforce
2 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.44%) Adobe
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (2.44%) SAP