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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 159 126
Rank change year-on-year +2 -33 -23
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 354 240 339
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.75% 1.81% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.95% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 165 229
10th Percentile £381 £325 £400
25th Percentile £455 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £671 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £740
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +92.86% -23.38%
England median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +57.14% -33.92%

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 17,974 12,284 14,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.47% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,755 8,122 9,734
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -2.19% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 253 181
10th Percentile £17.21 £17.02 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £25.01 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.40 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 -22 41 £588 +9.30% 22
West London -5 15 £510 +59.38% 4
South London -5 4 £575 - 3
East London 0 2 - - 4
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 31 (8.76%) Confluence
2 23 (6.50%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.98%) CMS
4 5 (1.41%) SAS
5 4 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.13%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.85%) Kentico
7 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Apache
8 1 (0.28%) Appian
Applications
1 41 (11.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (9.04%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (8.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (6.78%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (4.52%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.13%) Trello
7 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (2.26%) Magento
4 3 (0.85%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.85%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.56%) Finacle
5 2 (0.56%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.56%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.56%) Shopify
5 2 (0.56%) Summit
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.28%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (22.32%) Azure
2 37 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (9.89%) AWS
4 31 (8.76%) Power Platform
5 16 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.52%) SaaS
6 14 (3.95%) GCP
7 12 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.98%) Adobe Analytics
8 7 (1.98%) Asana
9 6 (1.69%) GitHub
10 5 (1.41%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.41%) Smartsheet
11 4 (1.13%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.13%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.85%) Collibra
12 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.69%) Network Security
2 4 (1.13%) DMZ
2 4 (1.13%) Firewall
2 4 (1.13%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.85%) WAN
3 3 (0.85%) Wireless
4 2 (0.56%) 4G
4 2 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.56%) DNS
4 2 (0.56%) Internet
4 2 (0.56%) Intranet
4 2 (0.56%) MPLS
4 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.28%) BGP
5 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.28%) Multicast
5 1 (0.28%) OSPF
5 1 (0.28%) VLAN
5 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.63%) Power BI
2 10 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.98%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.41%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.85%) Metadata
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.56%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.56%) Power Query
7 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.56%) Tableau
8 1 (0.28%) Big Data
8 1 (0.28%) Looker
8 1 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.28%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 65 (18.36%) JIRA
2 10 (2.82%) Git
2 10 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.54%) Selenium
4 8 (2.26%) Subversion
5 4 (1.13%) eggPlant
6 3 (0.85%) HP UFT
6 3 (0.85%) SilkTest
6 3 (0.85%) SOAtest
6 3 (0.85%) TestRail
6 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.85%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.56%) Rational Functional Tester
8 1 (0.28%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.28%) Postman
8 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.28%) TestDirector
General
1 191 (53.95%) Finance
2 158 (44.63%) Social Skills
3 77 (21.75%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (18.36%) Banking
5 39 (11.02%) Public Sector
6 27 (7.63%) Retail
7 24 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (5.37%) Marketing
9 14 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.26%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.26%) Legal
10 8 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.98%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.69%) Front Office
12 6 (1.69%) Law
12 6 (1.69%) Police
13 5 (1.41%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (31.92%) Project Manager
2 80 (22.60%) Analyst
3 56 (15.82%) Business Analyst
4 44 (12.43%) Senior
5 30 (8.47%) Architect
6 28 (7.91%) Senior Manager
7 25 (7.06%) Senior Project Manager
8 22 (6.21%) Programme Manager
9 21 (5.93%) Lead
9 21 (5.93%) Technical Manager
10 18 (5.08%) Technical Project Manager
10 18 (5.08%) Test Manager
11 16 (4.52%) Change Manager
11 16 (4.52%) Infrastructure Manager
11 16 (4.52%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 15 (4.24%) IT Manager
13 11 (3.11%) Delivery Manager
13 11 (3.11%) IT Project Manager
14 10 (2.82%) Enterprise Architect
14 10 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.11%) Middleware
2 9 (2.54%) VML
3 8 (2.26%) ADO
4 5 (1.41%) .NET
4 5 (1.41%) SOAP
4 5 (1.41%) Terraform
4 5 (1.41%) Web Services
5 4 (1.13%) XML
6 3 (0.85%) DAO
6 3 (0.85%) Kafka
7 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.56%) HTML
7 2 (0.56%) OAuth
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.56%) REST
7 2 (0.56%) RxJava
7 2 (0.56%) SAML
7 2 (0.56%) Vert.x
7 2 (0.56%) XBRL
8 1 (0.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.63%) Onboarding
2 25 (7.06%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.37%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.82%) CMDB
5 10 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 7 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.98%) PMI
8 6 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.69%) NHS
8 6 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.41%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.41%) Derivative
10 4 (1.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.41%) Linux
2 3 (0.85%) Unix
3 2 (0.56%) Windows
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (93.79%) Agile
2 185 (52.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 121 (34.18%) Project Management
4 103 (29.10%) Project Delivery
5 80 (22.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 78 (22.03%) Migration
7 76 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (17.80%) DevOps
10 60 (16.95%) PRINCE2
11 59 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
12 51 (14.41%) Change Management
13 50 (14.12%) Workshop Facilitation
14 49 (13.84%) User Stories
15 48 (13.56%) Business Analysis
15 48 (13.56%) Scrum
16 47 (13.28%) Analytics
17 46 (12.99%) Risk Management
18 40 (11.30%) Requirements Gathering
18 40 (11.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 30 (8.47%) SQL
2 10 (2.82%) Java
2 10 (2.82%) Korn
3 7 (1.98%) Python
4 4 (1.13%) Groovy
5 3 (0.85%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.85%) VBA
6 2 (0.56%) C#
6 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.56%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.28%) Bash
7 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 48 (13.56%) Degree
3 46 (12.99%) SC Cleared
4 44 (12.43%) PMI Certification
5 39 (11.02%) PMP
6 22 (6.21%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.11%) ISTQB
8 8 (2.26%) ISEB
9 7 (1.98%) APMG
10 6 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.85%) CBAP
13 3 (0.85%) CISSP
13 3 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.85%) IIBA
14 2 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
14 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.56%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (14.12%) PMO
2 42 (11.86%) QA
3 17 (4.80%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.82%) ISO 20022
5 7 (1.98%) SEPA
6 4 (1.13%) ISO 15022
6 4 (1.13%) NIST
6 4 (1.13%) P3O
7 3 (0.85%) NCSC
7 3 (0.85%) TARGET2
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.28%) EMIR
9 1 (0.28%) GDPR
9 1 (0.28%) GxP
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.28%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (2.54%) IAG
2 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.56%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.13%) Ansible
2 4 (1.13%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.28%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.28%) SCCM
4 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 72 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.63%) ServiceNow
3 25 (7.06%) SAP
4 16 (4.52%) Oracle
5 14 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.82%) Adobe
6 10 (2.82%) Sparx
7 9 (2.54%) Google
8 7 (1.98%) Murex
9 6 (1.69%) Cisco
9 6 (1.69%) Databricks
9 6 (1.69%) Sitecore
10 5 (1.41%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.41%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.41%) HP
10 5 (1.41%) Planview
11 4 (1.13%) Amplitude
11 4 (1.13%) Braze
11 4 (1.13%) Optimizely
11 4 (1.13%) Tealium