Waterfall Contracts in the West Midlands

Waterfall Model
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Waterfall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Waterfall over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 83 66
Rank change year-on-year +19 -17 -34
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 37 30 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.70% 1.59% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 1.90% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 32
10th Percentile £406 £438 £489
25th Percentile £481 £475 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £522 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -5.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £548 £650 £600
90th Percentile £626 £750 £636
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,217 1,577 1,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.96% 83.48% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 1,053 1,346
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -4.10% +4.59%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £671 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 114 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.91 £14.03 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.63 £22.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -17.22% +7.30% +24.64%
75th Percentile £26.51 £40.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £47.50
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Birmingham +14 12 £525 +5.00% 24
Warwickshire +2 11 £500 -33.33% 11
Shropshire +7 8 £541 +4.33% 22
Coventry +3 4 £338 -43.75% 19
Worcestershire 0 1 £525 +5.00% 10
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.70%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.70%) Collibra
3 1 (2.70%) IaaS
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (2.70%) PaaS
3 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (5.41%) LAN
2 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.70%) DataStage
2 1 (2.70%) DB2
2 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.70%) GIS
2 1 (2.70%) IDMS
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.70%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.70%) CA Gen
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (32.43%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Law
5 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Military
6 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Analyst
2 12 (32.43%) Business Analyst
3 9 (24.32%) Project Manager
4 7 (18.92%) Senior
5 6 (16.22%) Engagement Manager
5 6 (16.22%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Asset Management Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Asset Management Business Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Business Project Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) IT Manager
7 2 (5.41%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (5.41%) Payroll Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Project Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Resource Management Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) SAP FI Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Senior PMO
7 2 (5.41%) Senior PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) Gherkin
1 1 (2.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Data Structures
1 5 (13.51%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.11%) Operational Technology
2 3 (8.11%) SCADA
3 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.70%) IoT
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (94.59%) Agile
2 22 (59.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (27.03%) Business Analysis
4 9 (24.32%) Migration
4 9 (24.32%) Project Delivery
5 8 (21.62%) Data Analysis
5 8 (21.62%) Data Modelling
6 7 (18.92%) Business Process Modelling
7 6 (16.22%) Budget Management
7 6 (16.22%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (16.22%) Project Planning
8 5 (13.51%) Asset Management
8 5 (13.51%) Change Control
8 5 (13.51%) Change Management
8 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
8 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (13.51%) Test Scripting
8 5 (13.51%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) SQL
2 1 (2.70%) COBOL
2 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (2.70%) Java
2 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.70%) ISEB
1 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
1 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) PMO
2 4 (10.81%) NIST
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) NCSC
3 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (24.32%) SAP
3 2 (5.41%) IBM
3 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) Cognos
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Infor
4 1 (2.70%) Informatica
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) Workday