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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 45 41
Rank change year-on-year -28 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 10 11 26
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.90% 1.91% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 2.20% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 19
10th Percentile £363 £72 £350
25th Percentile £431 £286 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £392 £425
Median % change year-on-year +34.10% -7.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £552 £438 £448
90th Percentile £559 £445 £495
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 864 499 599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.98% 86.63% 78.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 338 411
10th Percentile £200 £206 £200
25th Percentile £389 £322 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £427 £418
Median % change year-on-year +8.02% +2.15% -9.62%
75th Percentile £545 £523 £550
90th Percentile £625 £591 £623
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 36 55
10th Percentile £13.53 £13.81 £11.24
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.94 £20.20 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.19% +18.79% -24.04%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £31.15 £37.99 £35.00
England median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%

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

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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 21 May 2026.

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

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 21 May 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
Derbyshire - 3 - - 1
Nottinghamshire -23 2 £531 +658.93% 5
Leicestershire - 2 £419 - 2
Northamptonshire -19 1 £425 -
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) OCI
1 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Hudson
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Retail
5 1 (10.00%) Local Government
5 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) ERP Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Technical Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Project Management
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
6 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
7 2 (20.00%) Budget Management
7 2 (20.00%) Business Case
7 2 (20.00%) Change Control
7 2 (20.00%) Change Management
7 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (20.00%) ERP
7 2 (20.00%) ITIL
7 2 (20.00%) ITSM
7 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 2 (20.00%) Project Governance
7 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PMP
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) PMO
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) IFS
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Planview
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow