Waterfall Contracts in Edinburgh

Waterfall Model
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 56 76
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 -13
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 15 32 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.00% 3.25% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 3.57% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 37
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £499 £500 £600
90th Percentile £500 £588 £675
Scotland median daily rate £497 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -0.60% +4.17% +1.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 897 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.47% 91.16% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 553 1,100
10th Percentile £226 £200 £350
25th Percentile £359 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £524 £538 £553
90th Percentile £600 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 19
10th Percentile £14.04 £12.47 £11.86
25th Percentile £19.28 £20.27 £16.27
Median hourly rate £23.59 £48.10 £18.90
Median % change year-on-year -50.96% +154.50% -16.00%
75th Percentile £24.18 £59.55 £30.63
90th Percentile - £62.00 £51.50
Scotland median hourly rate £22.88 £19.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year +17.31% +4.00% -6.09%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) IaaS
3 2 (13.33%) PaaS
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Skype
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
1 2 (13.33%) Selenium
1 2 (13.33%) Subversion
1 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
1 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Project Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) IT Manager
2 4 (26.67%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Data Integration Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Integration Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Integration Project Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) CRM Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Risk Manager
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
1 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) CRM
2 6 (40.00%) Migration
2 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) Project Management
3 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 3 (20.00%) ETL
4 3 (20.00%) Story Points
4 3 (20.00%) User Stories
5 2 (13.33%) BDD
5 2 (13.33%) Feature Driven Development
5 2 (13.33%) Kanban
5 2 (13.33%) Records Management
5 2 (13.33%) SOA
5 2 (13.33%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (13.33%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) C#
1 2 (13.33%) C++
1 2 (13.33%) Java
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
1 2 (13.33%) VBA
1 2 (13.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ISEB
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (6.67%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Alteryx
1 3 (20.00%) Cognizant
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Planview
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) VMware