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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 54 42
Rank change year-on-year -19 -12 +10
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 12 9 32
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.09% 1.35% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.53% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 22
10th Percentile £402 £72 £356
25th Percentile £410 £286 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £392 £395
Median % change year-on-year +27.71% -0.76% -30.64%
75th Percentile £533 £438 £443
90th Percentile £558 £445 £450
England median daily rate £535 £512 £563
% change year-on-year +4.49% -8.98% +2.27%

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 857 588 698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.77% 88.02% 78.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 395 460
10th Percentile £205 £220 £200
25th Percentile £395 £325 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -2.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £573 £500 £553
90th Percentile £650 £592 £623
England median daily rate £519 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 47 64
10th Percentile £13.38 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.68 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +9.39% -33.83%
75th Percentile £25.50 £25.13 £26.24
90th Percentile £33.75 £32.81 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%

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
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 18 June 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
Northamptonshire -2 3 £402 -5.41% 1
Derbyshire - 3 - - 1
Lincolnshire - 3 £500 - 1
Nottinghamshire -23 1 £538 +616.67% 3
Leicestershire - 1 £525 -
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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) BASE24
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (8.33%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Hudson
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Retail
4 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Local Government
5 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Retail Business Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) ERP Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Technical Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (50.00%) Project Management
4 5 (41.67%) Project Delivery
5 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (25.00%) Change Control
6 3 (25.00%) IT Strategy
6 3 (25.00%) Project Planning
7 2 (16.67%) Budget Management
7 2 (16.67%) Cost Management
7 2 (16.67%) Escalation Management
7 2 (16.67%) High Availability
7 2 (16.67%) Inventory Management
7 2 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
7 2 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
7 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) IFS
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow