Waterfall Contracts

Waterfall Model
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 113 90
Rank change year-on-year -24 -23 +37
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 724 1,282 2,514
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.71% 2.26% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.52% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 935 1,797
10th Percentile £381 £409 £400
25th Percentile £456 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 15
10th Percentile £48.50 £43.83 £26.15
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.86 £41.75
Median hourly rate £58.91 £66.49 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +25.44% -8.38%
75th Percentile £62.96 £87.38 £66.03
90th Percentile £65.33 £97.73 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.91 £83.00 £60.48
% change year-on-year -29.03% +37.25% -0.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,498 50,798 79,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 89.72% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,542 35,172 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £482
% change year-on-year - +3.73% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,685 1,905
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £15.99 £15.53
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -5.88%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Waterfall over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the UK over the 6 months to 22 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
England -27 622 £575 +4.55% 225
UK excluding London -36 364 £525 -4.55% 175
London -22 307 £600 +6.67% 57
Work from Home -10 272 £580 +10.48% 109
North of England +12 113 £500 -9.09% 41
South East -32 86 £530 -3.64% 48
Midlands -17 56 £475 -12.84% 42
Yorkshire -3 54 £500 -16.67% 13
Scotland -5 53 £500 - 9
South West -22 53 £590 +7.03% 19
North West +3 51 £465 -13.49% 24
West Midlands -10 30 £522 -5.09% 23
East Midlands -3 26 £411 -21.67% 19
North East +17 10 £600 +29.73% 5
East of England -20 6 £428 -16.50% 8
Wales +23 3 £463 - 6
Northern Ireland +5 2 - - 1

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 43 (5.94%) Confluence
2 32 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.69%) CMS
5 3 (0.41%) Appian
5 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.14%) CICS
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 35 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 30 (4.14%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (3.18%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.83%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.69%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.69%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.55%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.55%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.41%) Primavera
7 3 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.28%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
8 2 (0.28%) Shopify
9 1 (0.14%) IntelliMatch
9 1 (0.14%) Magento
9 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.14%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 135 (18.65%) Azure
2 50 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (6.08%) SaaS
4 36 (4.97%) AWS
5 25 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (3.31%) Power Platform
7 23 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (3.18%) PaaS
8 19 (2.62%) IaaS
9 14 (1.93%) GitHub
9 14 (1.93%) PowerApps
10 12 (1.66%) GCP
11 8 (1.10%) Yammer
12 7 (0.97%) Boomi
13 5 (0.69%) OCI
13 5 (0.69%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.69%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 5 (0.69%) Smartsheet
13 5 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.21%) LAN
2 15 (2.07%) WAN
3 9 (1.24%) ATM
3 9 (1.24%) Internet
4 7 (0.97%) 3G
4 7 (0.97%) 4G
5 5 (0.69%) VPN
5 5 (0.69%) VSAN
6 4 (0.55%) SAN
7 3 (0.41%) 5G
7 3 (0.41%) DNS
7 3 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.41%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.28%) DHCP
8 2 (0.28%) Junos
8 2 (0.28%) SNA
8 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.14%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.31%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.35%) Power BI
3 10 (1.38%) DB2
4 9 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
6 5 (0.69%) GIS
7 4 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.55%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.28%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.28%) Tableau
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.14%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 96 (13.26%) JIRA
2 18 (2.49%) Postman
3 17 (2.35%) Git
3 17 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.80%) Selenium
4 13 (1.80%) Visual Studio
5 10 (1.38%) LoadRunner
6 9 (1.24%) JMeter
7 8 (1.10%) NUnit
8 7 (0.97%) Appium
9 6 (0.83%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.83%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.83%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.83%) Subversion
10 5 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.55%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.41%) Gatling
12 3 (0.41%) GitLab
12 3 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 284 (39.23%) Social Skills
2 245 (33.84%) Finance
3 98 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (11.33%) Banking
5 62 (8.56%) Public Sector
6 40 (5.52%) Influencing Skills
7 34 (4.70%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.87%) Telecoms
9 26 (3.59%) Marketing
10 22 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (2.49%) Legal
13 16 (2.21%) Military
14 15 (2.07%) Electronics
15 13 (1.80%) Back Office
15 13 (1.80%) Retail
16 9 (1.24%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (0.97%) Law
18 6 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 188 (25.97%) Project Manager
2 141 (19.48%) Analyst
3 84 (11.60%) Business Analyst
4 79 (10.91%) Senior
5 78 (10.77%) Architect
6 51 (7.04%) Lead
7 50 (6.91%) Developer
8 41 (5.66%) IT Manager
9 40 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
10 38 (5.25%) Senior Manager
11 33 (4.56%) Delivery Manager
12 28 (3.87%) Programme Manager
12 28 (3.87%) Test Manager
13 24 (3.31%) Senior Project Manager
14 23 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
15 19 (2.62%) Infrastructure Manager
15 19 (2.62%) IT Project Manager
15 19 (2.62%) Technical Architect
15 19 (2.62%) Technical Manager
16 16 (2.21%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (5.11%) Middleware
2 31 (4.28%) .NET
3 14 (1.93%) AngularJS
4 12 (1.66%) GraphQL
5 11 (1.52%) REST
5 11 (1.52%) RESTful
6 10 (1.38%) SOAP
6 10 (1.38%) Web Services
7 9 (1.24%) React
8 8 (1.10%) Node.js
8 8 (1.10%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.97%) Playwright
9 7 (0.97%) Spring
9 7 (0.97%) XML
10 6 (0.83%) Kafka
11 5 (0.69%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.69%) .NET Framework
11 5 (0.69%) ADO
11 5 (0.69%) JSON
11 5 (0.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.70%) Product Ownership
2 20 (2.76%) Management Information System
3 19 (2.62%) Data Centre
3 19 (2.62%) Public Cloud
4 13 (1.80%) Mobile App
4 13 (1.80%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.66%) Mainframe
6 10 (1.38%) Operational Technology
7 8 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.10%) PMI
7 8 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 7 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (0.97%) Life Science
9 6 (0.83%) Derivative
9 6 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.69%) Clustering
10 5 (0.69%) e-Learning
10 5 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.14%) Windows
2 25 (3.45%) Linux
3 12 (1.66%) Android
4 10 (1.38%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.97%) Unix
6 4 (0.55%) VMS
6 4 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.28%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.28%) zOS
8 1 (0.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 672 (92.82%) Agile
2 234 (32.32%) Project Management
3 173 (23.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 146 (20.17%) Project Delivery
5 119 (16.44%) Scrum
6 113 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (14.09%) DevOps
8 91 (12.57%) PRINCE2
9 81 (11.19%) Migration
10 74 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 68 (9.39%) SDLC
12 60 (8.29%) Change Management
13 58 (8.01%) Business Analysis
13 58 (8.01%) Test Automation
14 55 (7.60%) Roadmaps
15 52 (7.18%) Business Case
16 51 (7.04%) Programme Management
17 49 (6.77%) Risk Management
18 47 (6.49%) Kanban
19 45 (6.22%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 63 (8.70%) SQL
2 35 (4.83%) Java
3 24 (3.31%) Python
4 17 (2.35%) C#
5 12 (1.66%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.66%) TypeScript
6 10 (1.38%) C
6 10 (1.38%) C++
7 7 (0.97%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.55%) Go
9 4 (0.55%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.55%) Perl
10 3 (0.41%) ABAP
10 3 (0.41%) R
10 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.41%) Swift
11 2 (0.28%) VBA
11 2 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 96 (13.26%) Security Cleared
2 91 (12.57%) Degree
3 77 (10.64%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.25%) PMI Certification
4 38 (5.25%) PMP
5 35 (4.83%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.76%) ISTQB
7 14 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.24%) APMP
10 8 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.10%) Chartered Engineer
10 8 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.97%) CISSP
11 7 (0.97%) ISEB
11 7 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 6 (0.83%) CBAP
12 6 (0.83%) CCNA
13 5 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.55%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.04%) PMO
2 46 (6.35%) QA
3 15 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.24%) GDPR
5 5 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.69%) HL7
5 5 (0.69%) NIST
5 5 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.69%) SLA
6 4 (0.55%) PSD2
7 3 (0.41%) EMIR
7 3 (0.41%) GRC
7 3 (0.41%) IFRS
7 3 (0.41%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.41%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.28%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 16 (2.21%) Docker
2 11 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.97%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (1.66%) Ansible
2 7 (0.97%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.69%) vCenter Server
4 4 (0.55%) MOM
4 4 (0.55%) Terraform
5 2 (0.28%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.28%) OPNET
5 2 (0.28%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.14%) Grafana
6 1 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 88 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.67%) SAP
3 40 (5.52%) Oracle
4 23 (3.18%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.35%) Cisco
7 12 (1.66%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.52%) VMware
9 9 (1.24%) Databricks
10 8 (1.10%) Google
11 7 (0.97%) BMC
11 7 (0.97%) Cadence
11 7 (0.97%) Remedy
12 6 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
12 6 (0.83%) Checkmarx
13 5 (0.69%) Adobe
13 5 (0.69%) Workday
14 4 (0.55%) Cognizant
14 4 (0.55%) IBM
14 4 (0.55%) Juniper