Waterfall Contracts in the City of London

Waterfall Model
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 71 82
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 +26
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 52 107 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.40% 3.01% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 3.29% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 80 80
10th Percentile £463 £461 £480
25th Percentile £513 £513 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £620
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% +12.73%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £713
90th Percentile £838 £802 £789
Central London median daily rate £625 £625 £600
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,960 3,251 3,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.45% 91.55% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,387 2,187 2,928
10th Percentile £356 £354 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £677
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

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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 7 May 2024.

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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (9.62%) MS Visio
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Primavera
2 1 (1.92%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (1.92%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.46%) Azure
2 3 (5.77%) AWS
3 2 (3.85%) Power Automate
3 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.85%) PowerApps
3 2 (3.85%) SaaS
4 1 (1.92%) Akamai
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.92%) IaaS
4 1 (1.92%) IBM Blueworks
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.92%) PaaS
4 1 (1.92%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (1.92%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) DHCP
1 1 (1.92%) DNS
1 1 (1.92%) Firewall
1 1 (1.92%) Internet
1 1 (1.92%) LAN
1 1 (1.92%) SAN
1 1 (1.92%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.92%) WAN
1 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.92%) MySQL
2 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) JIRA
2 2 (3.85%) Selenium
3 1 (1.92%) Appium
3 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.92%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Finance
3 13 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 3 (5.77%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Retail
7 1 (1.92%) Advertising
7 1 (1.92%) Back Office
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Project Manager
2 15 (28.85%) Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Business Analyst
4 4 (7.69%) Applications Manager
4 4 (7.69%) Test Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Business IT Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Data Manager
5 3 (5.77%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (5.77%) Developer
5 3 (5.77%) IT Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) IT Business Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Python Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Technical Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Insurance Systems Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365 Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Migration Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Regulatory Business Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) ADO
1 1 (1.92%) Kafka
1 1 (1.92%) LDAP
1 1 (1.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
1 2 (3.85%) Market Risk
1 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.92%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.92%) Reinsurance
2 1 (1.92%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
1 1 (1.92%) Unix
1 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (94.23%) Agile
2 16 (30.77%) Project Management
3 13 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (21.15%) Project Delivery
5 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (11.54%) Migration
6 6 (11.54%) PRINCE2
6 6 (11.54%) Programme Delivery
7 5 (9.62%) Change Management
7 5 (9.62%) Risk Management
7 5 (9.62%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (7.69%) Analytical Thinking
8 4 (7.69%) Business Analysis
8 4 (7.69%) Data Analysis
8 4 (7.69%) Data Management
8 4 (7.69%) Programme Management
8 4 (7.69%) Regulatory Compliance
8 4 (7.69%) Scrum
8 4 (7.69%) SDLC
8 4 (7.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) SQL
2 7 (13.46%) Python
3 3 (5.77%) Java
4 2 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.85%) R
5 1 (1.92%) Go
5 1 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) CIMA
3 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.92%) PMP
3 1 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) PMO
2 3 (5.77%) QA
3 2 (3.85%) EMIR
4 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.92%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Ansible
1 1 (1.92%) Grafana
1 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.77%) SAP
3 2 (3.85%) Cisco
3 2 (3.85%) IBM
3 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.92%) Adobe
4 1 (1.92%) Arista
4 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.92%) Databricks
4 1 (1.92%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.92%) New Relic
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.92%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.92%) Splunk
4 1 (1.92%) VMware