Waterfall Contract Job Trends in the North East

Waterfall Model
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Waterfall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 35 22
Rank change year-on-year -4 -13 +42
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 2 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.66% 1.40% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.53% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £673 £446
25th Percentile £425 £688 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% +26.09% +5.75%
75th Percentile £475 £759 £659
90th Percentile - £773 £721
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 260 262 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 85.53% 91.93% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 98 158
10th Percentile £186 £325 £313
25th Percentile £373 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £452 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.66% +0.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £626 £691 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 35 11
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £39.97
90th Percentile £32.93 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -7.78% +28.77%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Waterfall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Waterfall job vacancy trend in the North East

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Waterfall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the North East region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Tyne and Wear -6 2 £450 -37.93% 7
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Smartsheet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Business Operations Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Business Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Operations Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Digital Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Commercialisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Deadline-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition