Waterfall Contracts in West Sussex

Waterfall Model
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 24 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -13
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 3 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 2.05% 3.83% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 4.20% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £421 £394 -
25th Percentile £434 £444 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £900
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -41.67% +93.55%
75th Percentile £484 £575 -
90th Percentile £494 £650 -
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 127 238 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 86.99% 91.19% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 174 200
10th Percentile £217 £304 £181
25th Percentile £350 £403 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +4.84%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £600
90th Percentile £632 £588 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 8
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.63 £18.74
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.20 -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £21.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -2.98% -59.15%
75th Percentile £36.25 £22.25 £22.40
90th Percentile £81.15 £28.05 £24.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in West Sussex

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in West Sussex

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the West Sussex 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
Worthing +11 2 £463 -7.50%
Waterfall
South East

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow