Waterfall Contracts in the South East

Waterfall Model
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 78 67
Rank change year-on-year -42 -11 +17
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 80 150 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.39% 2.65% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 2.97% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 102 192
10th Percentile £387 £406 £404
25th Percentile £453 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.71% +7.74%
75th Percentile £638 £658 £600
90th Percentile £680 £700 £699
England median daily rate £565 £550 £548
% change year-on-year +2.73% +0.32% +15.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.85 £101.75 -
Median hourly rate £58.91 £103.50 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -43.09% +113.05% -11.43%
75th Percentile £62.96 £105.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.91 £52.97 £53.97
% change year-on-year +11.20% -1.85% -1.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Thames Valley -31 36 £530 -9.79% 21
Berkshire -51 23 £575 +0.44% 17
Hampshire -17 19 £582 +16.43% 13
Surrey +3 16 £550 +23.60% 4
Buckinghamshire +25 11 £525 -17.65% 3
West Sussex +11 9 £550 -24.14% 2
Kent +8 2 - -
Oxfordshire - 2 £513 - 1
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.75%) Appian
3 2 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.25%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.25%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.25%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.50%) Azure
1 10 (12.50%) SaaS
2 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) OCI
4 1 (1.25%) PaaS
4 1 (1.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) LAN
1 2 (2.50%) WAN
2 1 (1.25%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.25%) DB2
Development Applications
1 12 (15.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.50%) Subversion
3 1 (1.25%) Android Studio
3 1 (1.25%) LabVIEW
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.25%) Postman
3 1 (1.25%) Selenium
3 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.25%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.25%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.25%) Xcode
General
1 38 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 23 (28.75%) Finance
3 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Banking
6 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.75%) Military
7 3 (3.75%) Retail
8 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.50%) Marketing
9 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.25%) Automotive
9 1 (1.25%) Back Office
9 1 (1.25%) Law
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (36.25%) Project Manager
2 12 (15.00%) Analyst
3 11 (13.75%) Senior
4 8 (10.00%) Lead
4 8 (10.00%) Test Manager
5 7 (8.75%) Senior Manager
5 7 (8.75%) Senior Project Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Developer
6 5 (6.25%) IT Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Security Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.00%) IT Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Product Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Software Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Programme Manager
9 2 (2.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) Web Services
2 4 (5.00%) .NET
2 4 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.75%) .NET Core
3 3 (3.75%) Blazor
3 3 (3.75%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (2.50%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.50%) gRPC
4 2 (2.50%) HTML
4 2 (2.50%) Kafka
4 2 (2.50%) Middleware
4 2 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.50%) REST
4 2 (2.50%) Spring
4 2 (2.50%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.25%) JSON
5 1 (1.25%) MACH
5 1 (1.25%) RESTful
5 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Life Science
1 5 (6.25%) PMI
2 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.75%) NHS
4 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Robotics
4 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
1 2 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (90.00%) Agile
2 30 (37.50%) Project Management
3 17 (21.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (17.50%) PRINCE2
6 11 (13.75%) Migration
7 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 10 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 10 (12.50%) Test Management
8 9 (11.25%) Data Analysis
9 8 (10.00%) Business Case
9 8 (10.00%) Process Improvement
9 8 (10.00%) Scrum
9 8 (10.00%) Test Strategy
10 7 (8.75%) DevOps
10 7 (8.75%) Programme Delivery
10 7 (8.75%) Project Delivery
10 7 (8.75%) Software Testing
11 6 (7.50%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.25%) SQL
2 4 (5.00%) C#
3 3 (3.75%) C++
3 3 (3.75%) Java
4 2 (2.50%) Go
5 1 (1.25%) COBOL
5 1 (1.25%) JCL
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) PMI Certification
2 11 (13.75%) Degree
3 9 (11.25%) Security Cleared
4 8 (10.00%) PMP
5 7 (8.75%) DV Cleared
5 7 (8.75%) ISTQB
6 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
8 3 (3.75%) APMP
9 2 (2.50%) PgMP
10 1 (1.25%) APMG
10 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) PMO
2 7 (8.75%) QA
3 4 (5.00%) HL7
4 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.25%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) MOM
Vendors
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) Oracle
3 4 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.00%) SAP
4 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.50%) Adobe
5 2 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.50%) Databricks
6 1 (1.25%) Atlassian