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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 105 91
Rank change year-on-year -17 -14 +29
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 256 549 1,277
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.74% 2.29% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.55% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 406 923
10th Percentile £404 £400 £388
25th Percentile £463 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +8.47%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £559 £550 £530
% change year-on-year +1.55% +3.77% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £20.25
25th Percentile - - £30.94
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £63.00
75th Percentile £56.00 - £64.13
90th Percentile £59.60 - £67.25
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £66.49 £55.48
% change year-on-year -11.40% +19.85% -4.10%

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 12,873 21,488 40,445
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.49% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,658 15,241 29,441
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 501 519
10th Percentile £14.91 £17.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.81 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.94
90th Percentile £74.35 £78.00 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +10.45%

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 7 June 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 16 (6.25%) Confluence
2 12 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.17%) Appian
3 3 (1.17%) CMS
3 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.78%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.39%) JBoss
Applications
1 13 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.17%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.78%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.39%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 55 (21.48%) Azure
2 20 (7.81%) SaaS
3 18 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.47%) AWS
5 10 (3.91%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.73%) IaaS
7 7 (2.73%) PaaS
8 6 (2.34%) GCP
9 5 (1.95%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.95%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.56%) OCI
10 4 (1.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 4 (1.56%) Smartsheet
11 3 (1.17%) Boomi
12 2 (0.78%) GitHub
12 2 (0.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 2 (0.78%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.78%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.91%) LAN
2 9 (3.52%) WAN
3 8 (3.13%) 3G
3 8 (3.13%) 4G
4 7 (2.73%) ATM
5 4 (1.56%) Internet
6 3 (1.17%) 5G
6 3 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.78%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.78%) SNA
7 2 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.39%) BGP
8 1 (0.39%) DHCP
8 1 (0.39%) DNS
8 1 (0.39%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.39%) Intranet
8 1 (0.39%) OSPF
8 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.39%) VRRP
8 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.95%) Power BI
3 3 (1.17%) DB2
4 2 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (0.78%) GIS
5 1 (0.39%) Big Data
5 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (13.28%) JIRA
2 8 (3.13%) Oracle APEX
3 5 (1.95%) Git
3 5 (1.95%) Postman
4 4 (1.56%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.56%) Selenium
5 3 (1.17%) Appium
5 3 (1.17%) NUnit
5 3 (1.17%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.78%) JMeter
6 2 (0.78%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.78%) Subversion
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 109 (42.58%) Finance
2 89 (34.77%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.89%) Banking
4 29 (11.33%) Manufacturing
5 24 (9.38%) Marketing
5 24 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 22 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (7.81%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (6.25%) Telecoms
9 15 (5.86%) Electronics
10 9 (3.52%) Legal
11 6 (2.34%) Military
12 5 (1.95%) Retail
13 4 (1.56%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.17%) Back Office
14 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.17%) Law
14 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.78%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 73 (28.52%) Project Manager
2 44 (17.19%) Analyst
3 41 (16.02%) Architect
4 36 (14.06%) Business Analyst
5 33 (12.89%) Senior
6 21 (8.20%) Senior Manager
6 21 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (7.81%) Developer
8 18 (7.03%) IT Manager
8 18 (7.03%) Senior Project Manager
9 16 (6.25%) Technical Architect
10 15 (5.86%) Test Manager
11 10 (3.91%) Delivery Manager
11 10 (3.91%) Lead
11 10 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (3.52%) Consultant
12 9 (3.52%) IT Project Manager
13 8 (3.13%) Infrastructure Manager
13 8 (3.13%) Oracle Developer
13 8 (3.13%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.98%) Middleware
2 12 (4.69%) .NET
3 5 (1.95%) GraphQL
3 5 (1.95%) Spring Boot
3 5 (1.95%) Web Services
4 4 (1.56%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.56%) REST
4 4 (1.56%) RESTful
4 4 (1.56%) SOAP
4 4 (1.56%) Spring
4 4 (1.56%) XML
5 3 (1.17%) Playwright
5 3 (1.17%) React
6 2 (0.78%) ADO
6 2 (0.78%) FIDO
6 2 (0.78%) JSON
6 2 (0.78%) JSP
6 2 (0.78%) Node.js
6 2 (0.78%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.30%) Public Cloud
2 9 (3.52%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.95%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.56%) Life Science
6 4 (1.56%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.56%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.17%) Robotics
8 2 (0.78%) Contactless
8 2 (0.78%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (0.78%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.78%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.78%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.64%) Windows
2 16 (6.25%) Linux
3 5 (1.95%) Android
3 5 (1.95%) Unix
4 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.17%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (93.75%) Agile
2 80 (31.25%) Project Management
3 72 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (20.70%) Project Delivery
5 42 (16.41%) Scrum
6 38 (14.84%) DevOps
7 36 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (12.50%) PRINCE2
9 27 (10.55%) Business Analysis
10 26 (10.16%) SDLC
11 25 (9.77%) Programme Management
12 24 (9.38%) Migration
13 21 (8.20%) Business Case
14 20 (7.81%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (7.42%) Change Management
15 19 (7.42%) Digital Marketing
15 19 (7.42%) User Acceptance Testing
16 18 (7.03%) Requirements Gathering
17 17 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (6.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (9.38%) SQL
2 13 (5.08%) Java
3 12 (4.69%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.13%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.95%) C
6 4 (1.56%) C#
7 3 (1.17%) ABAP
7 3 (1.17%) C++
7 3 (1.17%) Python
7 3 (1.17%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.39%) Bash
9 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.39%) Go
9 1 (0.39%) Perl
9 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.39%) VB
9 1 (0.39%) VBA
9 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (10.16%) Degree
1 26 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 20 (7.81%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.03%) PMP
4 17 (6.64%) DV Cleared
5 16 (6.25%) PMI Certification
6 11 (4.30%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.95%) CISSP
7 5 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.56%) CISM
8 4 (1.56%) CRISC
8 4 (1.56%) ISEB
9 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.78%) APMP
11 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.39%) CBAP
11 1 (0.39%) IIBA
11 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.20%) QA
2 8 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.13%) GDPR
3 7 (2.73%) PMO
4 5 (1.95%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.56%) PSD2
6 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.78%) HL7
6 2 (0.78%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.39%) EMIR
7 1 (0.39%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.39%) MiFID
7 1 (0.39%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.17%) Ansible
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (13.28%) SAP
2 32 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 30 (11.72%) Oracle
4 12 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.52%) Databricks
7 5 (1.95%) Workday
8 3 (1.17%) Google
9 2 (0.78%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.78%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco
9 2 (0.78%) Citrix
9 2 (0.78%) ESRI
9 2 (0.78%) PayPal
9 2 (0.78%) VMware
10 1 (0.39%) Arista
10 1 (0.39%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.39%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (0.39%) IFS
10 1 (0.39%) Perfecto Mobile