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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 79 71
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 40 40 66
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.13% 2.12% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.31% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 46
10th Percentile £416 £485 £475
25th Percentile £425 £525 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £611
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £722
90th Percentile £718 £725 £766
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £611
% change year-on-year -6.78% -3.44% +6.26%

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 1,671 1,734 2,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.07% 91.94% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,175 1,058 1,580
10th Percentile £350 £369 £357
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £574
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +0.22% -3.57%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -6.09% +1.77% -3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 12
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £18.45
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +23.81% -22.22%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £47.63
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £71.40
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%

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 25 January 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 8 (20.00%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) CMS
3 1 (2.50%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.50%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 7 (17.50%) MS Visio
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (5.00%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.50%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.50%) Exchequer
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) Apigee
4 1 (2.50%) AWS
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.50%) GCP
4 1 (2.50%) Miro
4 1 (2.50%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.50%) OCI
4 1 (2.50%) Smartsheet
4 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) DNS
1 1 (2.50%) LAN
1 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.50%) WAN
1 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (7.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Selenium
2 1 (2.50%) TestRail
General
1 26 (65.00%) Finance
2 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 14 (35.00%) Banking
4 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (7.50%) Front Office
6 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.50%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.50%) Legal
8 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.50%) Marketing
8 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Analyst
2 13 (32.50%) Business Analyst
3 11 (27.50%) Project Manager
4 6 (15.00%) Banking Analyst
4 6 (15.00%) Banking Business Analyst
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 5 (12.50%) Lead
6 4 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (10.00%) Payments Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Payments Business Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Manager
8 2 (5.00%) Business Change Manager
8 2 (5.00%) Business Manager
8 2 (5.00%) Business Project Manager
8 2 (5.00%) Change Manager
8 2 (5.00%) IT Manager
8 2 (5.00%) IT Project Manager
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) ADO
1 2 (5.00%) JSON
1 2 (5.00%) XML
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
2 1 (2.50%) OAuth
2 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.50%) OpenJDK
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.50%) RESTful
2 1 (2.50%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.50%) Swagger
2 1 (2.50%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.00%) PMI
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) ASIC
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.50%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (92.50%) Agile
2 19 (47.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (42.50%) Project Management
4 13 (32.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (27.50%) Requirements Gathering
7 10 (25.00%) Project Delivery
8 9 (22.50%) PRINCE2
8 9 (22.50%) Scrum
9 8 (20.00%) Change Management
9 8 (20.00%) Migration
9 8 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
10 7 (17.50%) Business Analysis
11 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
11 5 (12.50%) User Stories
12 4 (10.00%) Budget Management
12 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (10.00%) Data Mapping
12 4 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) Korn
3 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Degree
1 9 (22.50%) PMI Certification
2 6 (15.00%) PMP
3 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 4 (10.00%) CBAP
5 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.50%) IIBA
6 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) PMO
2 4 (10.00%) ISO 20022
3 3 (7.50%) QA
4 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.50%) Basel III
5 1 (2.50%) EMIR
5 1 (2.50%) GAAP
5 1 (2.50%) GDPR
5 1 (2.50%) IFRS
5 1 (2.50%) IFRS 9
5 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.50%) MiFID
5 1 (2.50%) NIST
5 1 (2.50%) PSD2
5 1 (2.50%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle
2 3 (7.50%) SAP
2 3 (7.50%) Workday
3 2 (5.00%) Planview
3 2 (5.00%) Progress
4 1 (2.50%) Adobe
4 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.50%) Calypso
4 1 (2.50%) HP
4 1 (2.50%) Informatica
4 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.50%) Murex
4 1 (2.50%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.50%) VMware
4 1 (2.50%) Xceptor