Waterfall Contracts in the North of England

Waterfall Model
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 79 105
Rank change year-on-year -6 +26 +2
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 108 141 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.23% 2.59% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 2.88% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 115 116
10th Percentile £375 £430 £363
25th Percentile £413 £494 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +20.00% +10.04%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £550
90th Percentile £692 £650 £638
England median daily rate £565 £550 £548
% change year-on-year +2.73% +0.32% +15.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £58.96
25th Percentile £62.96 - £60.48
Median hourly rate £65.92 - £63.00
75th Percentile £68.88 - -
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
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 North of England

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in the North of England

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in the North of England

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
North West +5 54 £465 -15.45% 26
Yorkshire -11 45 £490 -18.33% 11
North East +16 11 £600 +29.73% 2
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (1.85%) ArcGIS
1 2 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) CMS
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.78%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (4.63%) SAP PM
4 2 (1.85%) SAP CRM
4 2 (1.85%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.93%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.37%) Azure
2 16 (14.81%) SaaS
3 9 (8.33%) AWS
4 8 (7.41%) IaaS
4 8 (7.41%) PaaS
5 7 (6.48%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (5.56%) Boomi
6 6 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.70%) OCI
9 3 (2.78%) GCP
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.93%) GitHub
10 1 (0.93%) Intacct
10 1 (0.93%) Miro
10 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.85%) Internet
2 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (3.70%) GIS
3 3 (2.78%) DB2
4 2 (1.85%) Power BI
5 1 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 15 (13.89%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) Git
2 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.93%) JMeter
2 1 (0.93%) LoadRunner
General
1 50 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 29 (26.85%) Finance
3 12 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.26%) Banking
4 10 (9.26%) Influencing Skills
4 10 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.48%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.78%) Law
6 3 (2.78%) Legal
6 3 (2.78%) Marketing
7 2 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.93%) German Language
8 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (29.63%) Analyst
2 25 (23.15%) Project Manager
3 22 (20.37%) Business Analyst
4 16 (14.81%) Architect
5 15 (13.89%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (12.96%) Developer
7 8 (7.41%) Portfolio Manager
8 6 (5.56%) Agile Coach
8 6 (5.56%) Governance Analyst
8 6 (5.56%) Governance Manager
8 6 (5.56%) Integration Architect
9 5 (4.63%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.63%) Lead
9 5 (4.63%) Portfolio Analyst
9 5 (4.63%) Programme Manager
9 5 (4.63%) SAP Analyst
9 5 (4.63%) SAP Business Analyst
9 5 (4.63%) Senior
10 4 (3.70%) PMO Analyst
10 4 (3.70%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.26%) .NET
2 8 (7.41%) Middleware
3 7 (6.48%) REST
3 7 (6.48%) SOAP
4 6 (5.56%) RAML
5 5 (4.63%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.70%) HTML
6 4 (3.70%) React
6 4 (3.70%) Spring
6 4 (3.70%) XML
7 3 (2.78%) J2EE
7 3 (2.78%) JSP
7 3 (2.78%) Web Services
8 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.93%) D3.js
8 1 (0.93%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.93%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.78%) Mainframe
3 3 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.93%) IoT
4 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.93%) Mashup
4 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.93%) PMI
4 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.93%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.33%) Windows
2 6 (5.56%) Unix
3 3 (2.78%) Android
3 3 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.78%) Linux
3 3 (2.78%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.93%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (92.59%) Agile
2 39 (36.11%) Project Management
3 21 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (16.67%) Scrum
5 17 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (14.81%) CRM
6 16 (14.81%) DevOps
7 14 (12.96%) SDLC
8 12 (11.11%) PRINCE2
8 12 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 12 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
8 12 (11.11%) Roadmaps
9 11 (10.19%) Business Analysis
9 11 (10.19%) ERP
9 11 (10.19%) Migration
10 9 (8.33%) Data Modelling
10 9 (8.33%) Quality Management
11 8 (7.41%) Enterprise Architecture
11 8 (7.41%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.19%) Java
2 6 (5.56%) C
2 6 (5.56%) SQL
3 4 (3.70%) C#
3 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.78%) C++
5 1 (0.93%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (11.11%) Degree
2 4 (3.70%) CBAP
2 4 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.85%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.85%) PMP
4 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) QA
2 6 (5.56%) PMO
3 5 (4.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.78%) GDPR
4 3 (2.78%) GRC
5 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.93%) GxP
Systems Management
1 1 (0.93%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.19%) SAP
3 7 (6.48%) Oracle
4 4 (3.70%) Cadence
5 3 (2.78%) Google
5 3 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.85%) ESRI
6 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.93%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (0.93%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.93%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.93%) Sage
7 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud