Waterfall Contracts in the City of London

Waterfall Model
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 71 62
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 +27
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 32 55 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.78% 2.58% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.83% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 33 84
10th Percentile £351 £465 £464
25th Percentile £463 £525 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £653
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -8.05% +6.10%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £725
90th Percentile £725 £820 £800
Central London median daily rate £544 £595 £650
% change year-on-year -8.61% -8.46% +8.33%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,687 1,944 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.88% 91.05% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,349 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (12.50%) Confluence
2 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
4 2 (6.25%) Trello
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (9.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.13%) Collibra
6 1 (3.13%) GCP
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.13%) OCI
6 1 (3.13%) SaaS
6 1 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) DNS
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) LAN
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.13%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.13%) Looker
2 1 (3.13%) Metadata
2 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (65.63%) Finance
2 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Back Office
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Front Office
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 11 (34.38%) Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Business Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) IT Manager
5 2 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Process Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Programme Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Lead
6 1 (3.13%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) ADO
1 1 (3.13%) DCOM
1 1 (3.13%) Kafka
1 1 (3.13%) Middleware
1 1 (3.13%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
1 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Credit Risk
2 1 (3.13%) Derivative
2 1 (3.13%) e-Learning
2 1 (3.13%) Learning Management System
2 1 (3.13%) Market Risk
2 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.13%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (3.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (93.75%) Agile
2 16 (50.00%) Project Management
3 15 (46.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (31.25%) PRINCE2
5 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.75%) Analytics
6 6 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
7 5 (15.63%) Business Case
7 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (15.63%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (15.63%) Scrum
8 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (12.50%) Change Management
8 4 (12.50%) CRM
8 4 (12.50%) Logistics
8 4 (12.50%) Migration
8 4 (12.50%) Risk Management
8 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (12.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Degree
2 7 (21.88%) PMI Certification
2 7 (21.88%) PMP
3 4 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) PMO
2 2 (6.25%) SLA
3 1 (3.13%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) SAP
3 2 (6.25%) Blue Prism
3 2 (6.25%) Duck Creek
3 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.25%) UiPath
4 1 (3.13%) Citrix
4 1 (3.13%) Concur
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (3.13%) Progress