Waterfall Contracts with Work from Home Options

Waterfall Model
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 111 92
Rank change year-on-year -8 -19 +29
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 272 544 1,282
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.85% 2.22% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 2.47% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 397 927
10th Percentile £411 £406 £399
25th Percentile £475 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% - +10.47%
75th Percentile £663 £630 £625
90th Percentile £750 £717 £713
UK median daily rate £564 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £20.25
25th Percentile - - £23.94
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £56.00 - £56.00
90th Percentile £59.60 - £63.00
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £66.49 £53.00
% change year-on-year -11.40% +25.44% -8.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,922 21,983 40,479
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.64% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 15,568 29,399
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 508 539
10th Percentile £14.74 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Waterfall
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Waterfall trend for jobs with a WFH option

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Waterfall over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

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 a work from home option citing Waterfall.

Waterfall hourly rate 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 19 (6.99%) Confluence
2 12 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.10%) Appian
3 3 (1.10%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.10%) CMS
3 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (5.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 14 (5.15%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.47%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.10%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.74%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.74%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 54 (19.85%) Azure
2 21 (7.72%) SaaS
3 18 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.15%) AWS
5 11 (4.04%) Power Platform
6 10 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.57%) IaaS
8 7 (2.57%) PaaS
9 6 (2.21%) GCP
9 6 (2.21%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.84%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.84%) Smartsheet
11 4 (1.47%) OCI
11 4 (1.47%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 3 (1.10%) Boomi
13 2 (0.74%) GitHub
13 2 (0.74%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.74%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 2 (0.74%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.31%) LAN
2 8 (2.94%) WAN
3 7 (2.57%) 3G
3 7 (2.57%) 4G
3 7 (2.57%) ATM
4 4 (1.47%) Internet
5 3 (1.10%) 5G
5 3 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.10%) SAN
6 2 (0.74%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.74%) SNA
7 1 (0.37%) BGP
7 1 (0.37%) DHCP
7 1 (0.37%) DNS
7 1 (0.37%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.37%) Intranet
7 1 (0.37%) OSPF
7 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.37%) VRRP
7 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.57%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.21%) Power BI
3 5 (1.84%) DB2
4 3 (1.10%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (1.10%) GIS
5 1 (0.37%) Big Data
5 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (14.71%) JIRA
2 5 (1.84%) Git
2 5 (1.84%) Oracle APEX
2 5 (1.84%) Postman
3 4 (1.47%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.47%) Selenium
4 3 (1.10%) Appium
4 3 (1.10%) NUnit
4 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.74%) Subversion
5 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.37%) GitLab
6 1 (0.37%) JMeter
6 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.37%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 112 (41.18%) Finance
2 102 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.24%) Banking
4 27 (9.93%) Manufacturing
5 26 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.56%) Public Sector
6 24 (8.82%) Marketing
7 19 (6.99%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (5.88%) Telecoms
9 15 (5.51%) Electronics
10 9 (3.31%) Legal
11 8 (2.94%) Military
12 5 (1.84%) Law
13 4 (1.47%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.47%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.47%) Retail
14 3 (1.10%) Back Office
14 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (29.04%) Project Manager
2 52 (19.12%) Analyst
3 42 (15.44%) Business Analyst
4 41 (15.07%) Architect
5 31 (11.40%) Senior
6 20 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (6.99%) Developer
7 19 (6.99%) Senior Manager
8 18 (6.62%) IT Manager
9 17 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
10 15 (5.51%) Test Manager
11 14 (5.15%) Technical Architect
12 12 (4.41%) Delivery Manager
13 10 (3.68%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (3.31%) Consultant
14 9 (3.31%) IT Project Manager
14 9 (3.31%) Lead
15 8 (2.94%) Infrastructure Manager
15 8 (2.94%) Senior Business Analyst
16 7 (2.57%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.09%) Middleware
2 12 (4.41%) .NET
3 6 (2.21%) Spring Boot
4 5 (1.84%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.84%) GraphQL
4 5 (1.84%) Spring
4 5 (1.84%) Web Services
5 4 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (1.47%) REST
5 4 (1.47%) RESTful
5 4 (1.47%) SOAP
5 4 (1.47%) XML
6 3 (1.10%) Node.js
6 3 (1.10%) Playwright
6 3 (1.10%) React
7 2 (0.74%) ADO
7 2 (0.74%) FIDO
7 2 (0.74%) JSON
7 2 (0.74%) RAML
7 2 (0.74%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.68%) Data Centre
1 10 (3.68%) Product Ownership
1 10 (3.68%) Public Cloud
2 7 (2.57%) Mainframe
2 7 (2.57%) Management Information System
2 7 (2.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (1.84%) Operational Technology
4 4 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.47%) Life Science
4 4 (1.47%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.10%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.10%) Derivative
5 3 (1.10%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.10%) Robotics
6 2 (0.74%) e-Learning
6 2 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.25%) Windows
2 15 (5.51%) Linux
3 6 (2.21%) Android
4 5 (1.84%) Unix
5 4 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.10%) VMS
7 2 (0.74%) zOS
8 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (93.01%) Agile
2 83 (30.51%) Project Management
3 73 (26.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 55 (20.22%) Project Delivery
5 46 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (16.54%) Scrum
7 40 (14.71%) DevOps
8 38 (13.97%) PRINCE2
9 32 (11.76%) Business Analysis
10 31 (11.40%) Migration
11 26 (9.56%) SDLC
12 24 (8.82%) Programme Management
13 22 (8.09%) Change Management
13 22 (8.09%) Requirements Gathering
14 21 (7.72%) Business Case
14 21 (7.72%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (6.99%) Data Analysis
16 19 (6.99%) Digital Marketing
17 18 (6.62%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.19%) SQL
2 16 (5.88%) Java
3 10 (3.68%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.21%) C
4 6 (2.21%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.84%) C#
5 5 (1.84%) Python
6 4 (1.47%) C++
7 3 (1.10%) ABAP
7 3 (1.10%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.74%) Perl
9 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.37%) Go
9 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.37%) VBA
9 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (12.87%) Degree
2 30 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.35%) PMP
5 16 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 16 (5.88%) PMI Certification
6 12 (4.41%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.21%) CISSP
8 5 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.47%) APMP
9 4 (1.47%) ISEB
9 4 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (1.10%) CISM
10 3 (1.10%) CRISC
10 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.37%) IIBA
12 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.35%) QA
2 10 (3.68%) PMO
3 9 (3.31%) GDPR
4 8 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.84%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.47%) PSD2
7 3 (1.10%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.74%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.74%) HL7
8 2 (0.74%) NIST
9 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.37%) EMIR
9 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.37%) MiFID
9 1 (0.37%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.47%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.10%) Ansible
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (13.24%) Microsoft
1 36 (13.24%) SAP
2 24 (8.82%) Oracle
3 13 (4.78%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.94%) Databricks
6 3 (1.10%) Cisco
6 3 (1.10%) ESRI
6 3 (1.10%) Google
6 3 (1.10%) IBM
6 3 (1.10%) Workday
7 2 (0.74%) Aruba
7 2 (0.74%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.74%) Checkmarx
7 2 (0.74%) Citrix
7 2 (0.74%) Juniper
7 2 (0.74%) PayPal
7 2 (0.74%) VMware
8 1 (0.37%) Perfecto Mobile
8 1 (0.37%) Zscaler