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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 35 57
Rank change year-on-year -25 +22 -16
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 17 25 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.98% 3.42% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 4.05% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 4
10th Percentile £323 £312 £299
25th Percentile - £378 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £400 £459
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -12.81% +7.94%
75th Percentile £371 £438 £566
90th Percentile £538 £457 £616
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £77.50 £35.00 £54.43
% change year-on-year +121.43% -35.70% -5.71%

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 743 617 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.60% 84.40% 84.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 376 486
10th Percentile £211 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £480
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -7.29% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £541 £588
90th Percentile £638 £619 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 28 53
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +32.86%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile - £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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

Waterfall
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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 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 -17 15 £358 -10.50% 14
Derbyshire 0 1 - - 3
Nottinghamshire -3 1 £425 +25.93% 8
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 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.88%) Sqoop
General
1 13 (76.47%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Banking
3 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Marketing
5 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.88%) Legal
6 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Analyst
1 11 (64.71%) Business Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) ETL Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Payments Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Payments Business Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Salesforce Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Finance Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Financial Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Financial Services Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Service Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.88%) ERP Manager
5 1 (5.88%) ERP Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.76%) SCADA
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) Scrum
3 9 (52.94%) Kanban
4 8 (47.06%) Business Analysis
5 7 (41.18%) Project Management
6 5 (29.41%) CRM
6 5 (29.41%) Customer Experience
6 5 (29.41%) Decision-Making
6 5 (29.41%) ETL
6 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
6 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (23.53%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (23.53%) Business Strategy
7 4 (23.53%) Epics
7 4 (23.53%) Microservices
8 3 (17.65%) API Design
8 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
8 3 (17.65%) SDLC
8 3 (17.65%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) PMI Certification
1 2 (11.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Salesforce
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Ab Initio
3 1 (5.88%) Informatica
3 1 (5.88%) Teradata