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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 32 63
Rank change year-on-year -17 +31 -14
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 18 34 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.26% 4.25% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 5.10% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 3
10th Percentile £325 £310 £293
25th Percentile - £356 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £392 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% -17.58% +6.74%
75th Percentile £360 £438 £594
90th Percentile £533 £445 £628
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +57.14% -46.15% +17.68%

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 683 667 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.59% 83.38% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 414 538
10th Percentile £221 £263 £213
25th Percentile £340 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -9.55% +6.99%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £628 £629 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

Waterfall
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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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

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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 20 September 2025.

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

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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 20 September 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 -19 17 £358 -9.25% 6
Nottinghamshire -6 1 £425 +25.93% 3
Waterfall
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 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
General
1 14 (77.78%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Influencing Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Legal
4 3 (16.67%) Marketing
5 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Analyst
2 12 (66.67%) Business Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) ETL Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Project Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Payments Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Payments Business Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Financial Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Financial Services Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.56%) ERP Manager
6 1 (5.56%) ERP Project Manager
6 1 (5.56%) PMO Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 2 (11.11%) SCADA
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (61.11%) Scrum
3 10 (55.56%) Kanban
4 9 (50.00%) Business Analysis
5 8 (44.44%) Project Management
6 6 (33.33%) Customer Experience
6 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (27.78%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (27.78%) Business Strategy
7 5 (27.78%) CRM
7 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
7 5 (27.78%) Epics
7 5 (27.78%) Microservices
7 5 (27.78%) Project Delivery
7 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
7 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (22.22%) ETL
9 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
9 3 (16.67%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
1 2 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Basel III
1 1 (5.56%) MiFID
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.56%) PMO
1 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Salesforce
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft