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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 36 58
Rank change year-on-year -24 +22 -24
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 18 25 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.00% 3.51% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 4.15% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 5
10th Percentile £323 £310 -
25th Percentile - £375 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £400 £393
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +1.91% -7.65%
75th Percentile £371 £438 £538
90th Percentile £538 £464 £605
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £82.50 £35.00 £54.43
% change year-on-year +135.71% -35.70% -10.77%

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 776 603 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.22% 84.57% 83.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 360 471
10th Percentile £192 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £355 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £523 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £627 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 28 51
10th Percentile £16.16 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +4.38% +32.35%
75th Percentile £25.11 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +26.90%

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 20 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 20 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 -16 15 £358 -10.50% 8
Derbyshire 0 1 - - 5
Nottinghamshire -4 1 £425 +25.93% 7
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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.56%) Sqoop
General
1 14 (77.78%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Marketing
5 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.56%) Legal
6 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Analyst
1 11 (61.11%) Business Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) ETL Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Payments Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Payments Business Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Finance Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Services Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) ERP Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) Web Services
2 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) SCADA
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) Scrum
3 9 (50.00%) Kanban
4 8 (44.44%) Business Analysis
5 7 (38.89%) Project Management
6 6 (33.33%) CRM
7 5 (27.78%) Customer Experience
7 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
7 5 (27.78%) ETL
7 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
7 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (22.22%) Business Strategy
8 4 (22.22%) Epics
8 4 (22.22%) Microservices
8 4 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (16.67%) Change Control
9 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 3 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
1 2 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Salesforce
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Ab Initio
3 1 (5.56%) Informatica
3 1 (5.56%) Teradata