Waterfall Contracts in the City of London

Waterfall Model
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Waterfall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Waterfall over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 80 86
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 59 110 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.66% 3.00% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 3.27% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 80 88
10th Percentile £471 £413 £461
25th Percentile £560 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +2.50% +11.63%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £713
90th Percentile £808 £820 £788
Central London median daily rate £638 £600 £598
% change year-on-year +6.25% +0.42% +13.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Waterfall is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 3,368 3,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.31% 91.80% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,417 2,260 2,968
10th Percentile £356 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.93 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +5.49% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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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 23 April 2024.

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 4 (6.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Apache
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (8.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Primavera
2 1 (1.69%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (1.69%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.25%) Azure
2 3 (5.08%) AWS
3 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
3 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.39%) PowerApps
3 2 (3.39%) SaaS
4 1 (1.69%) Akamai
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.69%) IaaS
4 1 (1.69%) IBM Blueworks
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.69%) PaaS
4 1 (1.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (1.69%) Smartsheet
4 1 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) DHCP
1 1 (1.69%) DNS
1 1 (1.69%) Firewall
1 1 (1.69%) Internet
1 1 (1.69%) LAN
1 1 (1.69%) SAN
1 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.69%) WAN
1 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.39%) Power BI
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.69%) MySQL
2 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) Selenium
3 1 (1.69%) Appium
3 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.69%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (32.20%) Finance
3 15 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Banking
6 3 (5.08%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Retail
8 1 (1.69%) Advertising
8 1 (1.69%) Back Office
8 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Analyst
2 16 (27.12%) Project Manager
3 9 (15.25%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.47%) Senior
5 4 (6.78%) Applications Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Business IT Analyst
5 4 (6.78%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Developer
5 4 (6.78%) IT Analyst
5 4 (6.78%) IT Business Analyst
5 4 (6.78%) PMO Analyst
5 4 (6.78%) Python Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Test Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Data Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Report Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (3.39%) SQL Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) ADO
1 1 (1.69%) Kafka
1 1 (1.69%) LDAP
1 1 (1.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.39%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.69%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.69%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Unix
1 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (94.92%) Agile
2 19 (32.20%) Project Management
3 18 (30.51%) Project Delivery
4 14 (23.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (10.17%) Analytical Thinking
6 6 (10.17%) Change Management
6 6 (10.17%) DevOps
6 6 (10.17%) Migration
7 5 (8.47%) ITIL
7 5 (8.47%) Programme Delivery
7 5 (8.47%) Risk Management
7 5 (8.47%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (8.47%) Scrum
7 5 (8.47%) Service Management
8 4 (6.78%) Business Analysis
8 4 (6.78%) Data Analysis
8 4 (6.78%) Data Management
8 4 (6.78%) ETL
8 4 (6.78%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.73%) SQL
2 9 (15.25%) Python
3 3 (5.08%) Java
4 2 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.39%) R
5 1 (1.69%) Go
5 1 (1.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Degree
2 2 (3.39%) CIMA
2 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.69%) PMP
3 1 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.42%) PMO
2 3 (5.08%) QA
3 2 (3.39%) EMIR
4 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Ansible
1 1 (1.69%) Grafana
1 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.08%) Databricks
2 3 (5.08%) SAP
3 2 (3.39%) Cisco
3 2 (3.39%) IBM
3 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.69%) Adobe
4 1 (1.69%) Arista
4 1 (1.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.69%) New Relic
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle
4 1 (1.69%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.69%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.69%) Splunk
4 1 (1.69%) VMware