Waterfall Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Waterfall Model
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Waterfall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 60 29
Rank change year-on-year +1 -31 +22
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 20 4 53
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 2.22% 0.62% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 0.71% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 36
10th Percentile £416 - £459
25th Percentile £502 £363 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £545 £638 £606
90th Percentile £588 - £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £600 £529
% change year-on-year -14.58% +13.48% +0.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 770 565 1,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.65% 87.87% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 351 650
10th Percentile £287 £300 £310
25th Percentile £400 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 16
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.13 £11.82
25th Percentile £14.44 £17.08 £13.01
Median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £17.35
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +87.35% -26.96%
75th Percentile £28.19 £41.50 £33.52
90th Percentile £81.13 £99.32 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £20.00 £17.57
% change year-on-year +25.75% +13.83% +25.50%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Waterfall job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Waterfall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in West Yorkshire

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Waterfall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 January 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
Leeds -7 14 £525 +5.00% 7
Bradford - 4 £513 - 4
Waterfall
Yorkshire

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 6 (30.00%) Confluence
2 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Retail
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Billing
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Analyst
1 9 (45.00%) Business Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Project Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Digital Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Digital Business Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Agile Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Customer Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Customer Experience Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Software Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Web Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Web Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Data Migration Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Migration Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Payments Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) Customer Experience
2 6 (30.00%) Scrum
2 6 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 5 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 5 (25.00%) Project Management
3 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
4 4 (20.00%) SDLC
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (20.00%) User Stories
5 3 (15.00%) Coaching
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) CBAP
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) P3O
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow