Waterfall Contracts in the Thames Valley

Waterfall Model
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 65 103 61
Rank change year-on-year +38 -42 -7
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 37 42 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.45% 1.56% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 1.79% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 26 76
10th Percentile £373 £451 £425
25th Percentile £450 £483 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +0.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £603
90th Percentile £650 £744 £682
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £58.91 £103.50
% change year-on-year -18.51% -43.09% +95.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Berkshire +30 25 £586 +1.91% 23
Buckinghamshire +14 11 £375 -35.90% 14
Oxfordshire +3 1 £550 +10.00% 13
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 1 (2.70%) CMS
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.70%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.11%) SaaS
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle CX
4 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.70%) AWS
5 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.70%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.41%) MS Access
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.41%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.70%) Impala
3 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) QARun
2 2 (5.41%) WinRunner
3 1 (2.70%) Subversion
3 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Marketing
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
4 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Analyst
2 8 (21.62%) Lead
3 4 (10.81%) Data Analyst
3 4 (10.81%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.81%) Senior
3 4 (10.81%) Test Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Change Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Business Change Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Business Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Change Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Programme Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Service Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Test Leader
5 2 (5.41%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Middleware
1 2 (5.41%) Web Services
2 1 (2.70%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) PMI
2 2 (5.41%) Infotainment
2 2 (5.41%) IoT
2 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.70%) CMDB
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.70%) Life Science
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (97.30%) Agile
2 15 (40.54%) Project Management
3 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (29.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (21.62%) Change Management
6 7 (18.92%) Integration Testing
7 6 (16.22%) Logistics
7 6 (16.22%) Project Delivery
7 6 (16.22%) System Integration Testing
8 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (13.51%) Data Management
8 5 (13.51%) DevOps
8 5 (13.51%) Matrix Organization
8 5 (13.51%) Migration
8 5 (13.51%) Regulatory Compliance
9 4 (10.81%) Data Governance
9 4 (10.81%) Scrum
9 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
9 4 (10.81%) Test Strategy
9 4 (10.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) C#
2 2 (5.41%) VB
3 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) PMI Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) PgMP
3 1 (2.70%) CISA
3 1 (2.70%) CISM
3 1 (2.70%) CISSP
3 1 (2.70%) IIBA
3 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) QA
2 6 (16.22%) GDPR
3 4 (10.81%) PMO
4 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.70%) NIST
5 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle
2 2 (5.41%) Citrix
2 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe
3 1 (2.70%) BMC
3 1 (2.70%) Remedy
3 1 (2.70%) Snow