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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 69 72
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 +40
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 58 124 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.40% 3.38% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 3.70% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 92 97
10th Percentile £464 £461 £443
25th Percentile £509 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £605
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% +15.24%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £713
90th Percentile £823 £800 £730
London median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +12.63%

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 2,195 3,349 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.74% 91.28% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 2,258 3,100
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +6.05%
75th Percentile £680 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 47
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.33 £25.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.19 £54.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%

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

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in Central London over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in Central London

Waterfall
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 20 June 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 -8 56 £600 -7.69% 3
West End of London +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 7 (12.07%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (8.62%) MS Visio
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Primavera
2 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle HRMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.79%) Azure
2 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
2 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.45%) PowerApps
3 1 (1.72%) AWS
3 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.72%) Contentful
3 1 (1.72%) Contentstack
3 1 (1.72%) GCP
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.72%) prismic.io
3 1 (1.72%) SaaS
3 1 (1.72%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (1.72%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Firewall
1 1 (1.72%) FTP
1 1 (1.72%) LAN
1 1 (1.72%) SAN
1 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.72%) WAN
1 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.45%) Power BI
1 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.72%) Sybase ASE
2 1 (1.72%) Sybase IQ
2 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (3.45%) Selenium
3 1 (1.72%) Appium
3 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.72%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.31%) Finance
3 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Retail
6 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.72%) Advertising
7 1 (1.72%) Back Office
7 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Front Office
7 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Project Manager
2 16 (27.59%) Analyst
3 7 (12.07%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.62%) Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Applications Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Test Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Business IT Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Data Manager
6 3 (5.17%) IT Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) IT Business Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Lead
6 3 (5.17%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (5.17%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Senior
6 3 (5.17%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365 Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Migration Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Regulatory Business Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.72%) .NET
1 1 (1.72%) ADO
1 1 (1.72%) ebXML
1 1 (1.72%) Middleware
1 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Acoustics
3 1 (1.72%) Data Fabric
3 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.72%) PDA
3 1 (1.72%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.72%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Unix
1 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (96.55%) Agile
2 19 (32.76%) Project Management
3 13 (22.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (20.69%) Project Delivery
5 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (13.79%) Migration
6 8 (13.79%) Programme Management
7 7 (12.07%) Change Management
7 7 (12.07%) PRINCE2
7 7 (12.07%) Risk Management
7 7 (12.07%) Scrum
8 6 (10.34%) Data Analysis
8 6 (10.34%) Programme Delivery
9 5 (8.62%) Business Analysis
9 5 (8.62%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (8.62%) SDLC
9 5 (8.62%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (6.90%) Data Management
10 4 (6.90%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.14%) SQL
2 3 (5.17%) Python
3 2 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.45%) Java
3 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
3 2 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (10.34%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) PMI Certification
2 3 (5.17%) PMP
3 2 (3.45%) CIMA
4 1 (1.72%) APMP
4 1 (1.72%) CAPM
4 1 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.41%) PMO
2 4 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.17%) QA
4 2 (3.45%) EMIR
5 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.72%) P3O
5 1 (1.72%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle
2 5 (8.62%) SAP
3 2 (3.45%) Cisco
3 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) Arista
4 1 (1.72%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.72%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.72%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (1.72%) Splunk
4 1 (1.72%) Sybase
4 1 (1.72%) UiPath
4 1 (1.72%) VMware