Waterfall Contracts in Central London

Waterfall Model
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 78 68
Rank change year-on-year -15 -10 +14
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 36 57 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.80% 2.33% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.57% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 36 88
10th Percentile £398 £469 £413
25th Percentile £494 £550 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £656 £728 £725
90th Percentile £695 £831 £820
London median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.04% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
London median hourly rate £35.00 - £43.86

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
City of London -18 30 £569 -12.50% 6
City of Westminster - 2 £500 -
West End of London -2 1 £625 - 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 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (5.56%) Trello
4 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (13.89%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.56%) OCI
5 2 (5.56%) SaaS
5 2 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.78%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.78%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.78%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) Network Security
2 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Big Data
2 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.78%) Looker
2 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (66.67%) Finance
2 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Banking
4 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Project Manager
2 8 (22.22%) Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Programme Manager
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (8.33%) IT Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Lead
6 3 (8.33%) Pricing Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) IT Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (5.56%) IT Programme Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Migration Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) ADO
1 1 (2.78%) Kafka
1 1 (2.78%) Middleware
1 1 (2.78%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Equities
1 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
1 2 (5.56%) Reference Data
1 2 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (2.78%) e-Learning
2 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.78%) Learning Management System
2 1 (2.78%) PMI
2 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.78%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (91.67%) Agile
2 18 (50.00%) Project Management
3 16 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (33.33%) PRINCE2
5 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 8 (22.22%) Project Delivery
7 7 (19.44%) Migration
8 6 (16.67%) Change Management
9 5 (13.89%) Analytics
9 5 (13.89%) Business Case
9 5 (13.89%) Scrum
10 4 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (11.11%) Business Strategy
10 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (11.11%) CRM
10 4 (11.11%) Programme Governance
10 4 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
10 4 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 4 (11.11%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) PMI Certification
2 9 (25.00%) PMP
3 8 (22.22%) Degree
4 3 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.78%) CAPM
5 1 (2.78%) CBAP
5 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) PMO
1 2 (5.56%) QA
1 2 (5.56%) SLA
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) SAP
3 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.56%) Concur
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) Citrix
5 1 (2.78%) Progress