Waterfall Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Waterfall Model
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Waterfall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 34 51
Rank change year-on-year -46 +17 -19
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 8 14 15
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.78% 2.77% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 3.21% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile £349 £73 £369
25th Percentile £402 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £421
Median % change year-on-year - +0.89% -6.39%
75th Percentile £538 £438 £483
90th Percentile £553 £516 £528
England median daily rate £528 £525 £589
% change year-on-year +0.48% -10.89% +7.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 840 436 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 81.71% 86.17% 78.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 293 407
10th Percentile £199 £200 £188
25th Percentile £363 £320 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £433 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% +1.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £598 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 22 64
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.74 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.05 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +25.97% -0.62%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.03 £26.24
90th Percentile £30.25 £33.55 £51.26
England median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
% change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Waterfall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Waterfall job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Waterfall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Waterfall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 April 2026. 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
Leicestershire -3 2 £419 -3.79% 1
Northamptonshire -26 2 £414 -2.71% 2
Nottinghamshire -24 1 £525 +650.00% 2
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 3
Derbyshire - 1 - - 2
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Hudson
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
1 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (12.50%) ERP Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Senior
1 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Business Case
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Ab Initio
1 1 (12.50%) IFS
1 1 (12.50%) Informatica
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Planview
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
1 1 (12.50%) Teradata