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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 37 51
Rank change year-on-year -42 +14 -20
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 6 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.59% 2.99% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 3.43% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 9
10th Percentile £331 £73 £358
25th Percentile £358 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £470 £438 £525
90th Percentile £510 £521 £540
England median daily rate £530 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +0.95% -8.70% +4.55%

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 848 466 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.46% 87.10% 79.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 304 423
10th Percentile £192 £200 £190
25th Percentile £360 £319 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £419
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% +1.43% -6.89%
75th Percentile £548 £520 £550
90th Percentile £625 £596 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 21 65
10th Percentile £13.66 £13.81 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.11 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +27.05% +5.23%
75th Percentile £24.86 £24.66 £26.50
90th Percentile £25.77 £33.75 £51.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 12 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the East Midlands

Waterfall
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 12 March 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 -4 1 £313 -28.13% 1
Derbyshire -6 1 - - 4
Nottinghamshire -21 1 £525 +650.00% 1
Northamptonshire -27 1 £402 -5.41% 2
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 3
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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) Sqoop
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
1 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
1 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (16.67%) IT Technical Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Support Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
5 1 (16.67%) Business Case
5 1 (16.67%) Change Management
5 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) ITSM
5 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Service Management
5 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio
1 1 (16.67%) Informatica
1 1 (16.67%) Planview
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
1 1 (16.67%) Teradata