Waterfall Contracts in Central London

Waterfall Model
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Waterfall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Waterfall over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 77 82
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 55 114 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.27% 3.01% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 3.30% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 88 93
10th Percentile £464 £413 £462
25th Percentile £519 £506 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £631 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.21% +14.29%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £713
90th Percentile £836 £800 £748
London median daily rate £600 £563 £575
% change year-on-year +6.67% -2.17% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Waterfall is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,196 3,454 4,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.59% 91.33% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,563 2,340 3,166
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.80% +9.05%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in Central London

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in Central London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Central London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
City of London -5 54 £600 -7.69% 5
West End of London +4 1 - - 1
Waterfall
London

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.82%) Apache
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (9.09%) MS Visio
4 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Primavera
2 1 (1.82%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (1.82%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.73%) Azure
2 3 (5.45%) AWS
3 2 (3.64%) Power Automate
3 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
3 2 (3.64%) SaaS
4 1 (1.82%) Akamai
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.82%) IaaS
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.82%) PaaS
4 1 (1.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (1.82%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) DHCP
1 1 (1.82%) DNS
1 1 (1.82%) Firewall
1 1 (1.82%) Internet
1 1 (1.82%) LAN
1 1 (1.82%) SAN
1 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.82%) WAN
1 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.64%) Power BI
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
2 1 (1.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) Selenium
3 1 (1.82%) Appium
3 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.82%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 17 (30.91%) Finance
3 13 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Retail
6 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.82%) Advertising
7 1 (1.82%) Back Office
7 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) Analyst
1 16 (29.09%) Project Manager
2 7 (12.73%) Business Analyst
3 4 (7.27%) Applications Manager
3 4 (7.27%) Senior
3 4 (7.27%) Test Analyst
4 3 (5.45%) Business IT Analyst
4 3 (5.45%) Data Manager
4 3 (5.45%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (5.45%) Developer
4 3 (5.45%) IT Analyst
4 3 (5.45%) IT Business Analyst
4 3 (5.45%) PMO Analyst
4 3 (5.45%) Python Developer
4 3 (5.45%) Technical Manager
5 2 (3.64%) Insurance Systems Analyst
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 2 (3.64%) Migration Manager
5 2 (3.64%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
5 2 (3.64%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) ADO
1 1 (1.82%) Kafka
1 1 (1.82%) LDAP
1 1 (1.82%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.64%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.82%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.82%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Linux
1 1 (1.82%) Unix
1 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (94.55%) Agile
2 17 (30.91%) Project Management
3 14 (25.45%) Project Delivery
4 13 (23.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.73%) Migration
7 6 (10.91%) Change Management
7 6 (10.91%) PRINCE2
7 6 (10.91%) Programme Delivery
7 6 (10.91%) Risk Management
8 5 (9.09%) Data Analysis
8 5 (9.09%) Programme Management
8 5 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (9.09%) Scrum
8 5 (9.09%) SDLC
9 4 (7.27%) Analytical Thinking
9 4 (7.27%) Business Analysis
9 4 (7.27%) Data Management
9 4 (7.27%) DevOps
9 4 (7.27%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.64%) SQL
2 7 (12.73%) Python
3 3 (5.45%) Java
4 2 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.64%) R
5 1 (1.82%) Go
5 1 (1.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (3.64%) CIMA
3 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.82%) PMP
3 1 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (23.64%) PMO
2 3 (5.45%) QA
3 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.64%) EMIR
4 1 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.82%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Ansible
1 1 (1.82%) Grafana
1 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) SAP
3 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.64%) Cisco
4 2 (3.64%) Oracle
4 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.82%) Adobe
5 1 (1.82%) Arista
5 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.82%) Databricks
5 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.82%) IBM
5 1 (1.82%) New Relic
5 1 (1.82%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.82%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (1.82%) Splunk
5 1 (1.82%) VMware