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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 78 82
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 36 43 58
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.96% 2.13% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.31% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 44
10th Percentile £404 £510 £504
25th Percentile £431 £534 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £656 £718 £725
90th Percentile £706 £748 £786
Central London median daily rate £545 £590 £638
% change year-on-year -7.63% -7.45% +10.87%

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 1,656 1,860 2,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.20% 92.17% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,128 1,572
10th Percentile £343 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +54.29% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.47 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.88 £129.85 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%

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

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 1 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 (22.22%) Confluence
2 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.78%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (5.56%) Workday HCM
1 2 (5.56%) Workfront
2 1 (2.78%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.78%) Exchequer
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.78%) Apigee
3 1 (2.78%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) Miro
3 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
3 1 (2.78%) OCI
3 1 (2.78%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) LAN
1 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.78%) WAN
1 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Selenium
2 1 (2.78%) TestRail
General
1 21 (58.33%) Finance
2 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Banking
2 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Front Office
4 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Legal
5 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Analyst
2 12 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 5 (13.89%) Lead
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Banking Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Banking Business Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Payments Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Payments Business Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Architect
7 2 (5.56%) CRM Manager
7 2 (5.56%) PMO Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) PMO Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) IT Project Manager
8 1 (2.78%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) ADO
1 2 (5.56%) JSON
1 2 (5.56%) XML
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) OAuth
2 1 (2.78%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.78%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.78%) OpenJDK
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.78%) RESTful
2 1 (2.78%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.78%) Swagger
2 1 (2.78%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 5 (13.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 3 (8.33%) PMI
4 2 (5.56%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) ASIC
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.78%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (91.67%) Agile
2 15 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (38.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 13 (36.11%) Project Management
5 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (27.78%) PRINCE2
7 9 (25.00%) Migration
8 8 (22.22%) Project Delivery
8 8 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
8 8 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
9 7 (19.44%) Scrum
10 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (13.89%) Business Analysis
11 5 (13.89%) Change Management
11 5 (13.89%) User Stories
12 4 (11.11%) Asset Management
12 4 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
12 4 (11.11%) Data Mapping
12 4 (11.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (2.78%) Java
3 1 (2.78%) Korn
3 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) PMI Certification
2 8 (22.22%) PMP
3 7 (19.44%) Degree
4 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.33%) CBAP
6 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) IIBA
6 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) PMO
2 4 (11.11%) QA
3 3 (8.33%) ISO 20022
4 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 2 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.78%) Basel III
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.78%) EMIR
5 1 (2.78%) GAAP
5 1 (2.78%) GDPR
5 1 (2.78%) IFRS
5 1 (2.78%) IFRS 9
5 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.78%) MiFID
5 1 (2.78%) NIST
5 1 (2.78%) PSD2
5 1 (2.78%) SEPA
5 1 (2.78%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) SAP
2 4 (11.11%) Workday
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) Adobe
4 2 (5.56%) Progress
5 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.78%) Calypso
5 1 (2.78%) Citrix
5 1 (2.78%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.78%) HP
5 1 (2.78%) Informatica
5 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.78%) Murex
5 1 (2.78%) Planview
5 1 (2.78%) VMware
5 1 (2.78%) Xceptor