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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 70 76
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 31 56 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.76% 2.55% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.82% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 36 81
10th Percentile £440 £469 £461
25th Percentile £513 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £728 £725
90th Percentile £695 £831 £820
Central London median daily rate £594 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -8.65% +8.33% -

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 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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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 2 May 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 2 (6.45%) Confluence
1 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (6.45%) Trello
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (12.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (9.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (6.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.23%) GCP
6 1 (3.23%) OCI
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) Network Security
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Power BI
2 1 (3.23%) Big Data
2 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.23%) Looker
2 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (67.74%) Finance
2 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Back Office
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Project Manager
2 8 (25.81%) Analyst
3 6 (19.35%) Business Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Senior
5 3 (9.68%) Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Pricing Manager
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Manager
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Project Manager
5 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Business IT Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.45%) IT Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) IT Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Programme Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Portfolio Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.23%) SDLC Manager
7 1 (3.23%) SDLC Project Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Systems Integration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) ADO
1 1 (3.23%) Kafka
1 1 (3.23%) Middleware
1 1 (3.23%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Equities
1 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
1 2 (6.45%) Reference Data
1 2 (6.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (3.23%) e-Learning
2 1 (3.23%) Learning Management System
2 1 (3.23%) PMI
2 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.23%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (90.32%) Agile
2 17 (54.84%) Project Management
3 12 (38.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (35.48%) PRINCE2
5 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (22.58%) Project Delivery
6 6 (19.35%) Decision-Making
6 6 (19.35%) Migration
7 5 (16.13%) Analytics
7 5 (16.13%) Business Case
8 4 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (12.90%) Change Management
8 4 (12.90%) CRM
8 4 (12.90%) Data Analysis
8 4 (12.90%) Data Migration
8 4 (12.90%) Project Planning
8 4 (12.90%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (12.90%) UML
9 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (9.68%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) SQL
2 1 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
1 8 (25.81%) PMI Certification
2 7 (22.58%) PMP
3 3 (9.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (3.23%) CBAP
4 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
1 2 (6.45%) SLA
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) SAP
3 3 (9.68%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.45%) Concur
5 1 (3.23%) Citrix
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle
5 1 (3.23%) Progress