Waterfall Contract Job Trends in London

Waterfall Model
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Waterfall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 149 134
Rank change year-on-year -16 -15 -22
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 353 259 310
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.75% 1.91% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 2.06% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 186 217
10th Percentile £375 £325 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £736 £793
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate £69.75 £51.00 £53.20
% change year-on-year +36.76% -4.14% +0.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Waterfall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Waterfall job vacancy trend in London

Waterfall
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Waterfall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in London over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in London

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Waterfall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the London region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -21 42 £675 +25.58% 17
West London -8 14 £329 +2.81% 6
South London -6 5 £550 - 2
North London -4 1 - - 1
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 30 (8.50%) Confluence
2 22 (6.23%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.27%) CMS
4 5 (1.42%) SAS
5 4 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.13%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.85%) Kentico
7 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Apache
8 1 (0.28%) Appian
8 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.28%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 39 (11.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (8.22%) Microsoft Project
3 26 (7.37%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (7.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (4.53%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.13%) Trello
6 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (3.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (2.27%) Magento
4 6 (1.70%) Loan IQ
5 4 (1.13%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.85%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.57%) Finacle
7 2 (0.57%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.57%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.57%) Shopify
7 2 (0.57%) Summit
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.28%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.28%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 89 (25.21%) Azure
2 43 (12.18%) AWS
3 39 (11.05%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (9.07%) Power Platform
5 20 (5.67%) GCP
6 18 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (4.53%) SaaS
8 12 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.98%) Adobe Analytics
10 7 (1.98%) Asana
11 6 (1.70%) GitHub
11 6 (1.70%) Smartsheet
12 5 (1.42%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.13%) Google Analytics
13 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (1.13%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.27%) Network Security
2 6 (1.70%) DNS
3 5 (1.42%) HTTP
3 5 (1.42%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.13%) DMZ
5 3 (0.85%) Firewall
5 3 (0.85%) Intranet
5 3 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.85%) WAN
5 3 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.57%) 4G
6 2 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.57%) FTP
6 2 (0.57%) Internet
6 2 (0.57%) MPLS
6 2 (0.57%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.57%) VLAN
6 2 (0.57%) VPN
6 2 (0.57%) Wireless
7 1 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.93%) Power BI
2 10 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.85%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.85%) Metadata
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.57%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.57%) DataStage
7 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.57%) Power Query
7 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.57%) Tableau
8 1 (0.28%) Looker
8 1 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 72 (20.40%) JIRA
2 12 (3.40%) Git
3 10 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.27%) Subversion
5 6 (1.70%) Selenium
6 5 (1.42%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (1.13%) TestRail
7 4 (1.13%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.28%) Appium
9 1 (0.28%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.28%) Postman
9 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.28%) TestDirector
General
1 177 (50.14%) Finance
2 156 (44.19%) Social Skills
3 86 (24.36%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (17.28%) Banking
5 42 (11.90%) Public Sector
6 25 (7.08%) Organisational Skills
6 25 (7.08%) Retail
7 18 (5.10%) Marketing
8 16 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.12%) Financial Institution
9 11 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.27%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.27%) Legal
12 7 (1.98%) Police
13 6 (1.70%) Front Office
13 6 (1.70%) Law
13 6 (1.70%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.42%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 112 (31.73%) Project Manager
2 77 (21.81%) Analyst
3 50 (14.16%) Business Analyst
4 42 (11.90%) Senior
5 33 (9.35%) Architect
6 25 (7.08%) Senior Manager
7 24 (6.80%) Senior Project Manager
8 21 (5.95%) Lead
9 18 (5.10%) Infrastructure Manager
9 18 (5.10%) Programme Manager
9 18 (5.10%) Technical Manager
10 17 (4.82%) Change Manager
10 17 (4.82%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 17 (4.82%) Technical Project Manager
11 16 (4.53%) IT Manager
12 14 (3.97%) Test Manager
13 11 (3.12%) Banking Analyst
13 11 (3.12%) Business Manager
13 11 (3.12%) IT Project Manager
13 11 (3.12%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.40%) Middleware
2 9 (2.55%) VML
3 7 (1.98%) ADO
4 5 (1.42%) OAuth
4 5 (1.42%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.42%) SAML
5 4 (1.13%) .NET
5 4 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.85%) Kafka
6 3 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.85%) SOAP
7 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.57%) REST
7 2 (0.57%) RxJava
7 2 (0.57%) Vert.x
7 2 (0.57%) Web Services
7 2 (0.57%) XML
8 1 (0.28%) ebXML
8 1 (0.28%) RESTful
8 1 (0.28%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.22%) Onboarding
2 23 (6.52%) Data Centre
3 21 (5.95%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.40%) CMDB
6 11 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (2.83%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.98%) PMI
9 6 (1.70%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.70%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.70%) NHS
9 6 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.42%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.42%) Derivative
10 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.42%) Windows
2 3 (0.85%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.57%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (92.63%) Agile
2 174 (49.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 120 (33.99%) Project Management
4 95 (26.91%) Project Delivery
5 88 (24.93%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (22.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 73 (20.68%) Migration
8 68 (19.26%) DevOps
9 59 (16.71%) PRINCE2
10 58 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (14.73%) Scrum
12 51 (14.45%) User Acceptance Testing
13 50 (14.16%) Change Management
14 49 (13.88%) Workshop Facilitation
15 45 (12.75%) Business Analysis
15 45 (12.75%) User Stories
16 43 (12.18%) Risk Management
17 42 (11.90%) Analytics
18 36 (10.20%) Requirements Gathering
18 36 (10.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (7.93%) SQL
2 12 (3.40%) Python
3 8 (2.27%) Java
4 7 (1.98%) Korn
5 5 (1.42%) Bash
5 5 (1.42%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.13%) C#
6 4 (1.13%) Groovy
7 3 (0.85%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.85%) VBA
8 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 57 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 45 (12.75%) Degree
3 40 (11.33%) PMI Certification
4 38 (10.76%) PMP
5 37 (10.48%) SC Cleared
6 23 (6.52%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.12%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.98%) APMG
8 7 (1.98%) ISEB
9 5 (1.42%) CISSP
9 5 (1.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.85%) CBAP
11 3 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.85%) IIBA
11 3 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.18%) QA
2 41 (11.61%) PMO
3 21 (5.95%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.70%) GDPR
4 6 (1.70%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.42%) NIST
6 4 (1.13%) P3O
6 4 (1.13%) SEPA
7 3 (0.85%) NCSC
7 3 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.57%) GRC
8 2 (0.57%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.28%) EMIR
9 1 (0.28%) GxP
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.28%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.28%) PSD2
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (2.55%) IAG
2 5 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.85%) Docker
4 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.42%) Terraform
4 4 (1.13%) Ansible
4 4 (1.13%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.57%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.28%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.28%) SCCM
6 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 67 (18.98%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.93%) ServiceNow
3 24 (6.80%) SAP
4 19 (5.38%) Salesforce
5 16 (4.53%) Oracle
6 10 (2.83%) Adobe
6 10 (2.83%) Sparx
7 9 (2.55%) Google
8 7 (1.98%) Cisco
9 6 (1.70%) Databricks
9 6 (1.70%) Murex
9 6 (1.70%) Planview
9 6 (1.70%) Sitecore
10 5 (1.42%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.42%) HP
11 4 (1.13%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.13%) Okta
11 4 (1.13%) Optimizely
11 4 (1.13%) Tealium
11 4 (1.13%) VMware