Waterfall Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Waterfall Model
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 129 115 114
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 -21
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 200 286 555
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.02% 1.86% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.12% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 220 413
10th Percentile £356 £424 £406
25th Percentile £413 £477 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £603 £675 £625
90th Percentile £650 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.30% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £60.13 £56.00 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £59.60 -
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £58.91 £80.00
% change year-on-year -18.51% -26.37% +50.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Waterfall
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Waterfall trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Waterfall.

Waterfall daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Waterfall over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Waterfall daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Waterfall.

Waterfall hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Waterfall over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Waterfall hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (8.00%) Confluence
2 8 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.50%) CMS
3 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (6.50%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (4.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.50%) Primavera
2 3 (1.50%) SAP WM
3 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.50%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.50%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 36 (18.00%) Azure
2 12 (6.00%) SaaS
3 11 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (4.50%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.00%) AWS
6 5 (2.50%) OCI
6 5 (2.50%) PaaS
6 5 (2.50%) Power Automate
6 5 (2.50%) Yammer
7 4 (2.00%) IaaS
8 3 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.50%) GitHub
8 3 (1.50%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.00%) Asana
9 2 (1.00%) GCP
10 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.50%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.50%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.00%) Firewall
2 3 (1.50%) 5G
2 3 (1.50%) WAN
3 2 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.00%) LAN
3 2 (1.00%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) ATM
4 1 (0.50%) BGP
4 1 (0.50%) DHCP
4 1 (0.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.50%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.50%) HSRP
4 1 (0.50%) IPsec
4 1 (0.50%) OSPF
4 1 (0.50%) SSL
4 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.50%) VPN
4 1 (0.50%) VRRP
4 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (3.00%) MS Access
1 6 (3.00%) Power BI
2 5 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.00%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (1.00%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.00%) DB2
5 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.50%) Big Data
5 1 (0.50%) DataStage
5 1 (0.50%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.50%) Informix
5 1 (0.50%) Looker
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.50%) QualityStage
5 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.50%) Tableau
5 1 (0.50%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 41 (20.50%) JIRA
2 8 (4.00%) QARun
2 8 (4.00%) WinRunner
3 5 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.50%) Selenium
4 4 (2.00%) Git
4 4 (2.00%) Postman
5 3 (1.50%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.00%) Subversion
6 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.00%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.00%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.50%) JMeter
7 1 (0.50%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.50%) Maven
7 1 (0.50%) NUnit
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 104 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 71 (35.50%) Finance
3 38 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.50%) Banking
4 21 (10.50%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.50%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.50%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.00%) Legal
8 5 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.00%) Retail
9 4 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.50%) Automotive
10 3 (1.50%) Billing
11 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Back Office
12 1 (0.50%) Law
12 1 (0.50%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 51 (25.50%) Project Manager
2 44 (22.00%) Analyst
3 24 (12.00%) Business Analyst
4 22 (11.00%) Senior
5 19 (9.50%) Architect
6 12 (6.00%) Lead
6 12 (6.00%) Test Analyst
7 11 (5.50%) Consultant
7 11 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (5.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 9 (4.50%) Developer
9 9 (4.50%) IT Manager
10 8 (4.00%) Infrastructure Manager
10 8 (4.00%) Programme Manager
10 8 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (4.00%) UAT Analyst
10 8 (4.00%) UAT Test Analyst
11 7 (3.50%) Change Manager
11 7 (3.50%) SAP Manager
11 7 (3.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.00%) Middleware
2 10 (5.00%) Flash
3 7 (3.50%) Web Services
4 5 (2.50%) .NET
5 3 (1.50%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.50%) Kafka
6 2 (1.00%) ADO
6 2 (1.00%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.00%) J2EE
6 2 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.00%) REST
6 2 (1.00%) SOAP
6 2 (1.00%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.50%) Ajax
7 1 (0.50%) CSS
7 1 (0.50%) EDI
7 1 (0.50%) HTML
7 1 (0.50%) Spring
7 1 (0.50%) WinForms
7 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.00%) Clustering
2 7 (3.50%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.50%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.50%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.50%) PMI
5 4 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.50%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.50%) Life Science
6 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.50%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.50%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.00%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.00%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.00%) Robotics
7 2 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.50%) Windows
2 7 (3.50%) Unix
3 3 (1.50%) Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Android
4 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (98.00%) Agile
2 71 (35.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 66 (33.00%) Project Management
4 56 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (18.00%) DevOps
6 34 (17.00%) Change Management
7 33 (16.50%) Project Delivery
8 29 (14.50%) PRINCE2
9 23 (11.50%) Project Planning
9 23 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (11.00%) Scrum
10 22 (11.00%) Test Automation
10 22 (11.00%) User Acceptance Testing
11 19 (9.50%) Risk Management
12 18 (9.00%) Computer Science
12 18 (9.00%) Decision-Making
13 16 (8.00%) Migration
13 16 (8.00%) Validation
14 15 (7.50%) Business Analysis
14 15 (7.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.50%) SQL
2 8 (4.00%) C#
3 7 (3.50%) Java
4 6 (3.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.00%) PL/SQL
5 4 (2.00%) VB
6 3 (1.50%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.00%) C++
7 2 (1.00%) VBA
7 2 (1.00%) VBScript
8 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.50%) Python
8 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (19.50%) Degree
2 33 (16.50%) Security Cleared
3 30 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 23 (11.50%) PMI Certification
4 23 (11.50%) PMP
5 13 (6.50%) Master's Degree
6 11 (5.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (5.00%) CCNA
7 10 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (4.00%) ISTQB
9 4 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.50%) ISEB
11 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (1.00%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.50%) PgMP
12 1 (0.50%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.50%) QA
2 12 (6.00%) NIST
3 5 (2.50%) PMO
4 4 (2.00%) GDPR
5 3 (1.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.00%) GxP
6 2 (1.00%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.50%) NCSC
7 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 11 (5.50%) VMware NSX
2 10 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.50%) Docker
4 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (5.50%) vCenter Server
2 3 (1.50%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (1.00%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.50%) Terraform
4 1 (0.50%) TrustSec
4 1 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.50%) Oracle
3 14 (7.00%) SAP
4 13 (6.50%) Cisco
5 11 (5.50%) Atlassian
5 11 (5.50%) VMware
6 7 (3.50%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.00%) Citrix
8 4 (2.00%) Ariba
8 4 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.50%) Amdocs
9 3 (1.50%) Aruba
9 3 (1.50%) Autodesk
9 3 (1.50%) Blue Prism
9 3 (1.50%) Ciena
9 3 (1.50%) Ericsson
9 3 (1.50%) F5
9 3 (1.50%) NetCracker
9 3 (1.50%) Nokia
9 3 (1.50%) Pega