Waterfall Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Waterfall Model
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Waterfall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 23 35
Rank change year-on-year -9 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 9 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 3.28% 2.16% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 2.44% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £496 £421 £370
25th Percentile £500 £434 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% +15.63% -20.60%
75th Percentile £511 £484 £450
90th Percentile £620 £494 £480
South East median daily rate £514 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -6.55% +1.38% +3.33%

All Process & 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 216 123 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 78.83% 88.49% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 79 165
10th Percentile £205 £284 £205
25th Percentile £353 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £525
90th Percentile £720 £638 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 12
10th Percentile - £16.17 £13.41
25th Percentile £13.13 £16.95 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.56 £18.82 £20.44
Median % change year-on-year +78.32% -7.91% -7.77%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.21 £22.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £72.45 £28.25
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -29.41% +13.33% -16.67%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Waterfall job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Waterfall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in West Sussex over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 13 March 2026. 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 -5 8 £502 +8.43% 1
Burgess Hill - 1 - -
Waterfall
South East

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
1 7 (77.78%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Back Office
2 1 (11.11%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Engagement Manager
2 6 (66.67%) SAP Engagement Manager
2 6 (66.67%) SAP Manager
3 5 (55.56%) Senior
3 5 (55.56%) Senior Engagement Manager
3 5 (55.56%) Senior Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
1 1 (11.11%) gRPC
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps
3 7 (77.78%) AI
3 7 (77.78%) Budget Management
3 7 (77.78%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 7 (77.78%) Change Management
3 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (77.78%) Data Management
3 7 (77.78%) Machine Learning
3 7 (77.78%) Migration
3 7 (77.78%) Performance Management
3 7 (77.78%) Project Management
3 7 (77.78%) Project Planning
3 7 (77.78%) Regulatory Compliance
3 7 (77.78%) Resource Allocation
3 7 (77.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (77.78%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Fit Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Go
1 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (77.78%) SAP
2 7 (77.78%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) VMware