Waterfall Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Waterfall Model
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Waterfall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 90 64
Rank change year-on-year +10 -26 +11
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 47 28 63
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.19% 1.62% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 1.76% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 17 43
10th Percentile £425 £475 £505
25th Percentile £516 £525 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £747 £675 £725
90th Percentile £836 £683 £820
Central London median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +10.64%

All Process & 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 1,884 1,595 2,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.87% 92.20% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,028 1,472
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.46 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £45.08 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £58.53 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Waterfall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Waterfall job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Waterfall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Waterfall

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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 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Waterfall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Waterfall

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (12.77%) Confluence
2 5 (10.64%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.26%) CMS
4 1 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.13%) Apache
4 1 (2.13%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (2.13%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) MS Visio
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.26%) Workday HCM
3 1 (2.13%) Loan IQ
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.51%) Azure
2 3 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.13%) AWS
3 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.13%) Miro
3 1 (2.13%) Nutanix
3 1 (2.13%) OCI
3 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Smartsheet
3 1 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) DNS
1 1 (2.13%) LAN
1 1 (2.13%) Network Security
1 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.13%) WAN
1 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (34.04%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) Selenium
2 1 (2.13%) TestRail
General
1 29 (61.70%) Finance
2 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
3 12 (25.53%) Banking
4 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.26%) Front Office
7 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.13%) International Banking
8 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.13%) Legal
8 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.13%) Marketing
8 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Project Manager
2 11 (23.40%) Analyst
3 9 (19.15%) Business Analyst
4 6 (12.77%) Banking Analyst
4 6 (12.77%) Delivery Manager
4 6 (12.77%) Senior
5 5 (10.64%) Banking Business Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Lead
6 4 (8.51%) Programme Manager
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Manager
7 3 (6.38%) Architect
7 3 (6.38%) CRM Manager
7 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (6.38%) IT Manager
7 3 (6.38%) Payments Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Payments Business Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Transformation Manager
8 2 (4.26%) Change Project Manager
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
8 2 (4.26%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (2.13%) OpenJDK
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.13%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.51%) PMI
3 3 (6.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.13%) ASIC
5 1 (2.13%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.13%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.13%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (85.11%) Agile
2 20 (42.55%) Project Management
3 19 (40.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (29.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (25.53%) PRINCE2
7 11 (23.40%) Project Delivery
7 11 (23.40%) Scrum
8 10 (21.28%) Migration
9 9 (19.15%) Change Management
10 8 (17.02%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (17.02%) Workshop Facilitation
11 7 (14.89%) Decision-Making
12 6 (12.77%) Business Analysis
12 6 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (12.77%) Kanban
13 5 (10.64%) Portfolio Management
13 5 (10.64%) User Acceptance Testing
14 4 (8.51%) Investment Management
14 4 (8.51%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.38%) SQL
2 1 (2.13%) Apex Code
2 1 (2.13%) Korn
2 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) PMI Certification
2 8 (17.02%) Degree
3 7 (14.89%) PMP
3 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) CBAP
4 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.13%) CISM
5 1 (2.13%) CISSP
5 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.53%) PMO
2 3 (6.38%) GDPR
2 3 (6.38%) ISO 20022
2 3 (6.38%) QA
3 2 (4.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.13%) Basel III
4 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.13%) EMIR
4 1 (2.13%) GAAP
4 1 (2.13%) IFRS
4 1 (2.13%) IFRS 9
4 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.13%) MiFID
4 1 (2.13%) NIST
4 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) HP ALM
1 1 (2.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.51%) Oracle
3 3 (6.38%) Planview
3 3 (6.38%) Workday
4 2 (4.26%) SAP
5 1 (2.13%) Adobe
5 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco
5 1 (2.13%) HP
5 1 (2.13%) Informatica
5 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.13%) Progress
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.13%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.13%) Vermilion
5 1 (2.13%) VMware