Waterfall Contract Job Trends in Watford

Waterfall Model
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Watford requiring Waterfall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 8 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 3 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 5.36% 8.33% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 9.62% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile - - £403
25th Percentile £463 £306 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £313 £600
Median % change year-on-year +52.00% -47.92% -
75th Percentile £488 £319 £775
90th Percentile - £345 £778
Hertfordshire median daily rate £675 £313 £600
% change year-on-year +116.00% -47.92% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51 52 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 91.07% 86.67% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 39 85
10th Percentile £178 £264 £225
25th Percentile £400 £306 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £443
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.60% -19.55%
75th Percentile £575 £528 £625
90th Percentile £630 £590 £748
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £15.21 £13.80 -
25th Percentile £18.14 £13.97 -
Median hourly rate £23.03 £14.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.83% - -
75th Percentile £28.94 £16.75 -
90th Percentile £32.49 £17.95 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -33.85% - -

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Waterfall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Waterfall job vacancy trend in Watford

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in Watford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Apigee
1 1 (33.33%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) CCTV Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Integration Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) BMC
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Talend