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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 70 63
Rank change year-on-year -18 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 45 65 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.20% 2.82% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 3.07% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 39 86
10th Percentile £363 £513 £506
25th Percentile £411 £554 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £590 £655
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% -9.92% +13.91%
75th Percentile £628 £700 £725
90th Percentile £703 £825 £800
London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £45.00 - £45.68
% change year-on-year - - -8.61%

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 1,915 2,115 3,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.83% 91.80% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,262 1,431 2,180
10th Percentile £325 £375 £350
25th Percentile £423 £472 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.03%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £772 £788 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 20 17
10th Percentile £19.24 £15.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.21 £20.43 £15.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -23.49% -17.65%
75th Percentile £47.68 £65.63 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
London median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% -12.50% +8.84%

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 19 August 2025.

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

Waterfall
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 19 August 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 40 £545 -9.17% 56
City of Westminster - 1 £375 - 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 (15.56%) Confluence
2 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (6.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (2.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (4.44%) Workfront
4 1 (2.22%) Aladdin
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) Azure
2 5 (11.11%) AWS
2 5 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.22%) Collibra
6 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) OCI
6 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.22%) SaaS
6 1 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) LAN
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.22%) VPN
3 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Power BI
2 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.22%) Looker
3 1 (2.22%) Metadata
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (64.44%) Finance
2 19 (42.22%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Banking
4 3 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.44%) Legal
5 2 (4.44%) Local Government
5 2 (4.44%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Back Office
6 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Front Office
6 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Analyst
2 13 (28.89%) Project Manager
3 11 (24.44%) Business Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Senior
7 2 (4.44%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) ERP Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) ERP Business Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (4.44%) IT Manager
7 2 (4.44%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Lead
7 2 (4.44%) PMO Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Process Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Programme Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) ADO
2 1 (2.22%) DCOM
2 1 (2.22%) JSON
2 1 (2.22%) Kafka
2 1 (2.22%) Middleware
2 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.22%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.44%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.22%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.22%) Derivative
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.22%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.22%) PMI
3 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.22%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (95.56%) Agile
2 21 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (40.00%) Project Management
4 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (26.67%) Project Delivery
6 10 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 10 (22.22%) PRINCE2
6 10 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
6 10 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (15.56%) Analytics
7 7 (15.56%) Scrum
8 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (13.33%) Migration
8 6 (13.33%) Risk Management
9 5 (11.11%) Business Case
9 5 (11.11%) DevOps
9 5 (11.11%) UML
9 5 (11.11%) User Stories
9 5 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (2.22%) Java
2 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) PMI Certification
2 10 (22.22%) PMP
3 7 (15.56%) Degree
4 3 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) CAPM
6 1 (2.22%) CBAP
6 1 (2.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) PMO
2 5 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.44%) SLA
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.22%) GDPR
4 1 (2.22%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.22%) PSD2
4 1 (2.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) SAP
3 3 (6.67%) Oracle
3 3 (6.67%) Workday
4 2 (4.44%) Adobe
4 2 (4.44%) Blue Prism
4 2 (4.44%) Citrix
4 2 (4.44%) Duck Creek
4 2 (4.44%) Guidewire
4 2 (4.44%) Progress
4 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.44%) UiPath
5 1 (2.22%) Concur
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) PeopleSoft