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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 79 79
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 34 44 61
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.84% 2.14% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.32% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 23 45
10th Percentile £399 £511 £513
25th Percentile £438 £544 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £710 £725
90th Percentile £706 £745 £784
Central London median daily rate £545 £590 £625
% change year-on-year -7.63% -5.60% +8.70%
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 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year -24.29% - -

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 1,666 1,894 2,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.40% 92.17% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,158 1,603
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -0.92%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.52 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £42.12 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £50.63 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.29% +27.27% -34.13%

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

Waterfall
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

Waterfall
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 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in the City of London

Waterfall
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

Waterfall
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 7 (20.59%) Confluence
2 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) MS Visio
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (5.88%) Workday HCM
1 2 (5.88%) Workfront
2 1 (2.94%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.94%) Exchequer
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) Azure
2 3 (8.82%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.94%) Apigee
3 1 (2.94%) AWS
3 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (2.94%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) Miro
3 1 (2.94%) OCI
3 1 (2.94%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (8.82%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Selenium
2 1 (2.94%) TestRail
General
1 21 (61.76%) Finance
2 11 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (29.41%) Banking
3 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Front Office
5 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Analyst
2 11 (32.35%) Business Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) Project Manager
4 5 (14.71%) Lead
5 4 (11.76%) Senior
6 3 (8.82%) Banking Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Banking Business Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (8.82%) Payments Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Payments Business Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Architect
7 2 (5.88%) CRM Manager
7 2 (5.88%) PMO Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) PMO Lead
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) IT Manager
8 1 (2.94%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) ADO
1 2 (5.88%) JSON
1 2 (5.88%) XML
2 1 (2.94%) Kafka
2 1 (2.94%) OAuth
2 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.94%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.94%) RESTful
2 1 (2.94%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.94%) Swagger
2 1 (2.94%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Onboarding
2 5 (14.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (5.88%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (5.88%) PMI
4 1 (2.94%) ASIC
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.94%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (91.18%) Agile
2 14 (41.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 14 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (38.24%) Project Management
4 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (26.47%) PRINCE2
6 8 (23.53%) Migration
6 8 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (20.59%) Project Delivery
7 7 (20.59%) Requirements Gathering
7 7 (20.59%) Workshop Facilitation
8 6 (17.65%) Scrum
9 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (11.76%) Asset Management
10 4 (11.76%) Business Analysis
10 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (11.76%) Change Management
10 4 (11.76%) Data Mapping
10 4 (11.76%) Risk Management
10 4 (11.76%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Java
3 1 (2.94%) Korn
3 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) PMI Certification
2 7 (20.59%) Degree
2 7 (20.59%) PMP
3 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) CBAP
5 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) IIBA
5 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) PMO
2 4 (11.76%) QA
3 3 (8.82%) ISO 20022
4 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.94%) Basel III
5 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.94%) EMIR
5 1 (2.94%) GAAP
5 1 (2.94%) GDPR
5 1 (2.94%) IFRS
5 1 (2.94%) IFRS 9
5 1 (2.94%) MiFID
5 1 (2.94%) PSD2
5 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.94%) SEPA
5 1 (2.94%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) SAP
2 4 (11.76%) Workday
3 2 (5.88%) Adobe
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) Progress
4 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.94%) Calypso
4 1 (2.94%) Citrix
4 1 (2.94%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.94%) HP
4 1 (2.94%) Informatica
4 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.94%) Murex
4 1 (2.94%) Planview
4 1 (2.94%) Xceptor