Waterfall Contracts

Waterfall Model
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Waterfall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Waterfall over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 112 87
Rank change year-on-year -31 -25 +44
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 720 1,342 2,553
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.67% 2.27% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 2.52% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 958 1,810
10th Percentile £385 £406 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £625
90th Percentile £769 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 14
10th Percentile £48.50 £43.83 £24.68
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.86 £38.40
Median hourly rate £58.91 £66.49 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +24.85% -3.18%
75th Percentile £62.96 £87.38 £67.54
90th Percentile £65.33 £97.73 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.91 £83.00 £58.25
% change year-on-year -29.03% +42.49% -4.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Waterfall is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Waterfall over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
England -37 608 £575 +4.55% 235
UK excluding London -43 356 £525 -2.78% 174
London -12 306 £600 +6.86% 63
Work from Home 0 275 £595 +13.27% 132
North of England +2 104 £498 -9.55% 41
South East -44 83 £540 -1.82% 36
Scotland +3 59 £500 - 11
Midlands -10 57 £500 -7.41% 45
Yorkshire +2 56 £500 -16.67% 14
South West -17 51 £590 +7.27% 23
North West -3 40 £455 -15.35% 25
West Midlands -8 32 £550 - 24
East Midlands +3 25 £406 -14.47% 21
North East +25 10 £600 +29.73% 2
East of England -22 7 £428 -16.42% 12
Wales +15 2 £600 +29.73% 4
Northern Ireland +7 2 - - 1

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 38 (5.28%) Confluence
2 33 (4.58%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.56%) CMS
5 3 (0.42%) Appian
5 3 (0.42%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.28%) nginx
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.14%) CICS
7 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 38 (5.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.86%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (3.19%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (2.08%) Loan IQ
3 7 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.83%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.69%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.69%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.56%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.42%) Primavera
7 3 (0.42%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.28%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
8 2 (0.28%) Shopify
9 1 (0.14%) IntelliMatch
9 1 (0.14%) Magento
9 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 133 (18.47%) Azure
2 50 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (6.25%) SaaS
4 34 (4.72%) AWS
5 27 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (3.61%) Power Platform
7 22 (3.06%) PaaS
8 19 (2.64%) IaaS
9 15 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (1.94%) PowerApps
11 10 (1.39%) GitHub
12 9 (1.25%) GCP
13 8 (1.11%) Yammer
14 5 (0.69%) OCI
14 5 (0.69%) OneDrive
14 5 (0.69%) Power Automate
14 5 (0.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 5 (0.69%) Smartsheet
14 5 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
15 4 (0.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.94%) LAN
2 12 (1.67%) WAN
3 9 (1.25%) ATM
4 7 (0.97%) 3G
4 7 (0.97%) 4G
5 5 (0.69%) SNA
5 5 (0.69%) VSAN
6 4 (0.56%) DNS
6 4 (0.56%) Internet
6 4 (0.56%) SAN
7 3 (0.42%) 5G
7 3 (0.42%) DHCP
7 3 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.42%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.42%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.42%) VPN
8 2 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.28%) Junos
8 2 (0.28%) Network Security
8 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.47%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.50%) Power BI
3 10 (1.39%) DB2
4 7 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.69%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (0.69%) GIS
6 4 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.28%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.14%) Big Data
8 1 (0.14%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.14%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.14%) Redis
8 1 (0.14%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 91 (12.64%) JIRA
2 15 (2.08%) Git
3 14 (1.94%) Postman
4 13 (1.81%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.53%) Visual Studio
6 9 (1.25%) Selenium
7 8 (1.11%) JMeter
7 8 (1.11%) LoadRunner
8 7 (0.97%) NUnit
8 7 (0.97%) Subversion
9 6 (0.83%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.83%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.56%) Appium
10 4 (0.56%) GitLab
10 4 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.42%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.42%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 272 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 246 (34.17%) Finance
3 100 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (10.69%) Banking
5 66 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 32 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
7 31 (4.31%) Manufacturing
8 30 (4.17%) Telecoms
9 25 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (3.06%) Marketing
11 21 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.78%) Military
13 18 (2.50%) Legal
14 17 (2.36%) Financial Institution
15 15 (2.08%) Back Office
15 15 (2.08%) Electronics
16 11 (1.53%) Retail
17 10 (1.39%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 6 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 183 (25.42%) Project Manager
2 141 (19.58%) Analyst
3 85 (11.81%) Business Analyst
4 77 (10.69%) Architect
4 77 (10.69%) Senior
5 48 (6.67%) Developer
5 48 (6.67%) Lead
6 43 (5.97%) IT Manager
7 40 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
8 37 (5.14%) Delivery Manager
9 35 (4.86%) Senior Manager
10 27 (3.75%) Programme Manager
11 26 (3.61%) Test Manager
12 25 (3.47%) Senior Project Manager
13 23 (3.19%) Technical Manager
14 22 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
15 19 (2.64%) Infrastructure Manager
15 19 (2.64%) Technical Architect
16 18 (2.50%) IT Project Manager
16 18 (2.50%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.28%) Middleware
2 27 (3.75%) .NET
3 13 (1.81%) GraphQL
4 12 (1.67%) AngularJS
5 11 (1.53%) Web Services
6 9 (1.25%) REST
7 8 (1.11%) Apache Camel
7 8 (1.11%) RESTful
8 7 (0.97%) Kafka
8 7 (0.97%) React
8 7 (0.97%) Spring
8 7 (0.97%) Spring Boot
9 6 (0.83%) Playwright
9 6 (0.83%) SOAP
10 5 (0.69%) .NET Core
10 5 (0.69%) ADO
10 5 (0.69%) Flash
10 5 (0.69%) JSON
10 5 (0.69%) Node.js
10 5 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 22 (3.06%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 16 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 12 (1.67%) Mainframe
5 12 (1.67%) Operational Technology
6 11 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.39%) Derivative
7 10 (1.39%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.25%) PMI
9 8 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (0.83%) Fixed Income
10 6 (0.83%) Life Science
10 6 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.69%) Clustering
11 5 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.58%) Windows
2 30 (4.17%) Linux
3 11 (1.53%) Android
4 8 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.83%) Unix
6 5 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.56%) VMS
8 3 (0.42%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.28%) zOS
10 1 (0.14%) AIX
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 663 (92.08%) Agile
2 239 (33.19%) Project Management
3 163 (22.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 160 (22.22%) Project Delivery
5 114 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
6 108 (15.00%) Scrum
7 95 (13.19%) DevOps
8 93 (12.92%) PRINCE2
9 83 (11.53%) Migration
10 70 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (9.03%) SDLC
12 63 (8.75%) Change Management
13 53 (7.36%) Programme Management
13 53 (7.36%) Roadmaps
14 52 (7.22%) Business Analysis
14 52 (7.22%) Decision-Making
15 50 (6.94%) Business Case
16 48 (6.67%) Test Automation
17 46 (6.39%) Risk Management
17 46 (6.39%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (9.58%) SQL
2 35 (4.86%) Java
3 25 (3.47%) Python
4 18 (2.50%) C#
5 11 (1.53%) TypeScript
6 9 (1.25%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.11%) C
7 8 (1.11%) C++
8 7 (0.97%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.69%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.56%) Go
10 4 (0.56%) Perl
11 3 (0.42%) ABAP
11 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.42%) R
11 3 (0.42%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.28%) COBOL
12 2 (0.28%) VBA
12 2 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 100 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 94 (13.06%) Degree
3 83 (11.53%) SC Cleared
4 42 (5.83%) PMI Certification
5 41 (5.69%) PMP
6 35 (4.86%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.64%) ISTQB
8 14 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.53%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.25%) APMP
10 9 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.11%) Chartered Engineer
12 7 (0.97%) CCNA
12 7 (0.97%) ISEB
13 6 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.83%) CBAP
13 6 (0.83%) CISSP
13 6 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 4 (0.56%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (7.92%) PMO
2 44 (6.11%) QA
3 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.11%) GDPR
4 6 (0.83%) SLA
5 5 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.69%) NIST
6 4 (0.56%) EMIR
6 4 (0.56%) HL7
6 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.56%) PSD2
7 3 (0.42%) GRC
7 3 (0.42%) IFRS
7 3 (0.42%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (0.42%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.28%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (1.94%) Docker
2 11 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.83%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (0.97%) Ansible
2 5 (0.69%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.69%) vCenter Server
3 4 (0.56%) MOM
4 3 (0.42%) Terraform
5 2 (0.28%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.14%) Grafana
6 1 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.14%) OPNET
6 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
6 1 (0.14%) SCCM
6 1 (0.14%) SCOM
6 1 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 90 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.03%) SAP
3 40 (5.56%) Oracle
4 24 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.22%) Cisco
7 14 (1.94%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.94%) IBM
8 11 (1.53%) VMware
9 10 (1.39%) Databricks
10 8 (1.11%) Google
11 7 (0.97%) BMC
11 7 (0.97%) Cadence
11 7 (0.97%) Remedy
12 6 (0.83%) Workday
13 5 (0.69%) CA Agile Central
14 4 (0.56%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.56%) Juniper
15 3 (0.42%) Adobe
15 3 (0.42%) ESRI