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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 150 141
Rank change year-on-year -10 -9 -17
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 333 251 315
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.72% 1.92% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.08% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 173 226
10th Percentile £363 £331 £400
25th Percentile £455 £413 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £697
90th Percentile £750 £738 £794
England median daily rate £535 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
England median hourly rate £74.50 £49.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +50.51% -15.97% +17.26%

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 17,177 12,084 15,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.22% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 8,065 11,124
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 227 298
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -4 45 £663 +21.84% 27
West London -14 9 £329 -26.89% 8
South London -5 2 £513 - 3
East London -3 1 - - 5
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 25 (7.51%) Confluence
2 19 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.50%) CMS
4 4 (1.20%) SAS
5 3 (0.90%) Kentico
6 2 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.30%) Apache
7 1 (0.30%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.30%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 48 (14.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 33 (9.91%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (4.50%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (3.00%) Loan IQ
2 10 (3.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (1.80%) Magento
4 5 (1.50%) Temenos T24
5 3 (0.90%) FLEXCUBE
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.60%) Finacle
6 2 (0.60%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.60%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.60%) Shopify
6 2 (0.60%) Summit
7 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 76 (22.82%) Azure
2 35 (10.51%) AWS
3 33 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (9.31%) Power Platform
5 16 (4.80%) GCP
6 12 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (3.30%) SaaS
8 6 (1.80%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 6 (1.80%) Smartsheet
9 5 (1.50%) Asana
9 5 (1.50%) GitHub
10 4 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.20%) OCI
10 4 (1.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (0.90%) Adobe Analytics
11 3 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.90%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.40%) Network Security
2 5 (1.50%) DNS
2 5 (1.50%) HTTP
2 5 (1.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.90%) Firewall
4 2 (0.60%) Internet
5 1 (0.30%) 4G
5 1 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.30%) FTP
5 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.30%) Intranet
5 1 (0.30%) LAN
5 1 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.30%) VLAN
5 1 (0.30%) VPN
5 1 (0.30%) WAN
5 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.11%) Power BI
2 12 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.40%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.60%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.60%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.60%) DataStage
7 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.60%) Power Query
7 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.60%) Tableau
8 1 (0.30%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.30%) Metadata
8 1 (0.30%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.30%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 68 (20.42%) JIRA
2 10 (3.00%) Git
3 7 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.80%) Subversion
5 5 (1.50%) Browser DevTools
5 5 (1.50%) Selenium
6 3 (0.90%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.60%) TestRail
7 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.30%) Appium
8 1 (0.30%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.30%) Postman
8 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.30%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.30%) TestDirector
General
1 168 (50.45%) Finance
2 153 (45.95%) Social Skills
3 70 (21.02%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (17.72%) Banking
5 34 (10.21%) Public Sector
6 27 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (6.91%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (5.71%) Retail
9 12 (3.60%) Financial Institution
10 10 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.70%) Marketing
12 8 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.80%) Legal
14 5 (1.50%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.50%) Police
14 5 (1.50%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.20%) Front Office
16 3 (0.90%) Law
17 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 92 (27.63%) Project Manager
2 85 (25.53%) Analyst
3 53 (15.92%) Business Analyst
4 41 (12.31%) Senior
5 31 (9.31%) Architect
6 25 (7.51%) Lead
7 21 (6.31%) Change Manager
8 19 (5.71%) Senior Manager
9 18 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
9 18 (5.41%) Senior Project Manager
10 15 (4.50%) Business Manager
10 15 (4.50%) Infrastructure Manager
10 15 (4.50%) IT Manager
11 14 (4.20%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 13 (3.90%) Programme Manager
12 13 (3.90%) Test Manager
13 12 (3.60%) Banking Analyst
14 11 (3.30%) Business Change Manager
14 11 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (3.30%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.11%) Middleware
2 7 (2.10%) ADO
2 7 (2.10%) VML
3 6 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.50%) OAuth
4 5 (1.50%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.50%) SAML
5 4 (1.20%) .NET
5 4 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.90%) Kafka
6 3 (0.90%) SOAP
7 2 (0.60%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.60%) REST
7 2 (0.60%) RxJava
7 2 (0.60%) Vert.x
7 2 (0.60%) Web Services
7 2 (0.60%) XML
8 1 (0.30%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Beam
8 1 (0.30%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.31%) Onboarding
2 13 (3.90%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.70%) PMI
6 8 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.80%) CMDB
7 6 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.50%) Derivative
8 5 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.50%) NHS
8 5 (1.50%) Tandem
8 5 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.20%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.20%) IoT
9 4 (1.20%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.50%) Windows
2 3 (0.90%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.30%) Android
3 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.30%) Linux
3 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (91.29%) Agile
2 164 (49.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 114 (34.23%) Project Management
4 85 (25.53%) Project Delivery
5 83 (24.92%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (24.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 73 (21.92%) DevOps
8 67 (20.12%) Migration
9 57 (17.12%) User Acceptance Testing
10 54 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (15.02%) PRINCE2
11 50 (15.02%) Workshop Facilitation
12 49 (14.71%) Change Management
13 47 (14.11%) Business Analysis
14 42 (12.61%) Scrum
14 42 (12.61%) User Stories
15 38 (11.41%) Decision-Making
15 38 (11.41%) SDLC
16 37 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
16 37 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.91%) SQL
2 14 (4.20%) Python
3 6 (1.80%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.50%) Bash
4 5 (1.50%) Java
4 5 (1.50%) Korn
5 4 (1.20%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.20%) C#
5 4 (1.20%) Groovy
6 3 (0.90%) VBA
7 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.30%) ABAP
8 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 57 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 53 (15.92%) Degree
3 37 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 35 (10.51%) PMI Certification
5 32 (9.61%) PMP
6 20 (6.01%) DV Cleared
7 14 (4.20%) CBAP
8 13 (3.90%) ISTQB
9 12 (3.60%) IIBA
10 7 (2.10%) APMG
10 7 (2.10%) CISSP
11 6 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.50%) ISEB
13 4 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.90%) CISM
14 3 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.81%) PMO
2 45 (13.51%) QA
3 21 (6.31%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.40%) GDPR
5 5 (1.50%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.90%) NIST
6 3 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.60%) GRC
7 2 (0.60%) ISO 15022
7 2 (0.60%) NCSC
7 2 (0.60%) P3O
7 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.60%) PSD2
8 1 (0.30%) EMIR
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.30%) SEPA
8 1 (0.30%) TARGET2
System Software
1 5 (1.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (1.50%) IAG
2 3 (0.90%) Docker
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.40%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.20%) HP ALM
3 4 (1.20%) Terraform
4 2 (0.60%) Ansible
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.60%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.30%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.30%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.30%) SCCM
5 1 (0.30%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.21%) ServiceNow
3 20 (6.01%) SAP
4 19 (5.71%) Oracle
5 17 (5.11%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.00%) Sparx
7 7 (2.10%) Adobe
8 6 (1.80%) Databricks
8 6 (1.80%) Planview
9 5 (1.50%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.50%) HP
9 5 (1.50%) Murex
10 4 (1.20%) Google
10 4 (1.20%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.20%) Okta
10 4 (1.20%) Temenos
10 4 (1.20%) Workday
11 3 (0.90%) Netskope
11 3 (0.90%) Verint
11 3 (0.90%) Zscaler