Waterfall Contracts in the East Midlands

Waterfall Model
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 38 61
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 +3
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 10 33 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.39% 3.81% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 4.83% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 23
10th Percentile £73 £331 £280
25th Percentile £356 £378 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £392 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% -28.82% +6.80%
75th Percentile £438 £438 £625
90th Percentile £443 £445 £645
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Process and 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 626 683 883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.94% 78.78% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 450 676
10th Percentile £225 £212 £213
25th Percentile £332 £323 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £600
90th Percentile £589 £623 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 61 52
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.15 £12.75 £19.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -40.87% +33.72%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 £52.06
90th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in the East Midlands

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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 5 July 2025. 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
Northamptonshire -23 7 £392 -0.76% 13
Nottinghamshire -1 3 £75 -77.78% 16
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England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (20.00%) NetBeans
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL Developer
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) POSIX
2 1 (10.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Project Management
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Project Governance
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
5 2 (20.00%) Kanban
5 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Budget Management
6 1 (10.00%) Budgeting
6 1 (10.00%) Business Case
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C
1 2 (20.00%) C++
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) MISRA
1 2 (20.00%) MISRA C
1 2 (20.00%) QA
1 2 (20.00%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (10.00%) Basel III
2 1 (10.00%) IEC 61508
2 1 (10.00%) MiFID
2 1 (10.00%) PMO
2 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) QNX