Waterfall Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Waterfall Model
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Waterfall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 18 25
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 -19
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 15 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 5.81% 6.21% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.33% 6.67% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 2
10th Percentile £321 £307 £397
25th Percentile - £360 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £425 £459
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% -7.36% +10.94%
75th Percentile £360 £454 £503
90th Percentile £543 £572 £524
East Midlands median daily rate £358 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -15.76% -15.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 237 150 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.86% 93.17% 95.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 117 112
10th Percentile £323 £307 £224
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £403 £481
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -16.23% +9.20%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £534
90th Percentile £550 £615 £586
East Midlands median daily rate £421 £436 £475
% change year-on-year -3.33% -8.32% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 14
10th Percentile - - £13.16
25th Percentile - £23.10 £18.01
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.55% +177.55%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £22.05 £21.52
% change year-on-year -9.28% +2.46% +27.84%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Waterfall job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Waterfall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Northamptonshire

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Northampton -7 14 £358 -8.79% 7
Towcester - 1 £700 -
Waterfall
East Midlands

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) Sqoop
General
1 13 (86.67%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Marketing
5 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (6.67%) Legal
6 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Analyst
1 11 (73.33%) Business Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) ETL Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Payments Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Payments Business Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Salesforce Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Finance Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Financial Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Financial Services Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Service Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) SCADA
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) Kanban
2 9 (60.00%) Scrum
3 8 (53.33%) Business Analysis
4 6 (40.00%) Project Management
5 5 (33.33%) CRM
5 5 (33.33%) Customer Experience
5 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 5 (33.33%) ETL
5 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (26.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (26.67%) Business Strategy
6 4 (26.67%) Epics
6 4 (26.67%) Microservices
7 3 (20.00%) API Design
7 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 3 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
1 2 (13.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Ab Initio
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica
3 1 (6.67%) Teradata