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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 146 141
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -16
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 327 244 314
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.71% 1.92% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.08% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 168 226
10th Percentile £363 £332 £400
25th Percentile £448 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% -9.17% +4.35%
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% -

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 17,012 11,732 15,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.40% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,858 11,109
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 220 302
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.72 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -10 45 £625 +14.94% 7
West London -16 8 £329 -26.89% 6
East London -1 2 - - 5
South London -6 2 £513 - 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 24 (7.34%) Confluence
2 18 (5.50%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.53%) CMS
4 4 (1.22%) SAS
5 3 (0.92%) Kentico
6 2 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.31%) Apache
7 1 (0.31%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.31%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 47 (14.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (11.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 31 (9.48%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (3.98%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.06%) Loan IQ
1 10 (3.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.53%) Magento
4 3 (0.92%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.61%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.61%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.61%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.61%) Shopify
5 2 (0.61%) Summit
5 2 (0.61%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 74 (22.63%) Azure
2 33 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (9.79%) AWS
4 30 (9.17%) Power Platform
5 16 (4.89%) GCP
6 13 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (3.36%) SaaS
8 10 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.83%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 6 (1.83%) Smartsheet
10 5 (1.53%) Asana
11 4 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.22%) GitHub
11 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.22%) OCI
11 4 (1.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 3 (0.92%) Adobe Analytics
12 3 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.92%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.45%) Network Security
2 6 (1.83%) DNS
3 5 (1.53%) HTTP
3 5 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.92%) Firewall
5 2 (0.61%) Internet
5 2 (0.61%) LAN
5 2 (0.61%) WAN
5 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.31%) 4G
6 1 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.31%) FTP
6 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.31%) Intranet
6 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.31%) VLAN
6 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.95%) Power BI
2 10 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.45%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.22%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.61%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.61%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.61%) DataStage
7 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.61%) Power Query
7 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.61%) Tableau
8 1 (0.31%) Big Data
8 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.31%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 67 (20.49%) JIRA
2 9 (2.75%) Git
3 6 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.53%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (1.53%) Selenium
4 5 (1.53%) Subversion
5 3 (0.92%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.61%) TestRail
6 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.31%) Appium
7 1 (0.31%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
General
1 163 (49.85%) Finance
2 152 (46.48%) Social Skills
3 67 (20.49%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (17.13%) Banking
5 34 (10.40%) Public Sector
6 25 (7.65%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (7.34%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (5.20%) Retail
9 13 (3.98%) Financial Institution
10 12 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.45%) Marketing
12 5 (1.53%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.53%) Police
12 5 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.22%) Front Office
13 4 (1.22%) Legal
14 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.61%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 89 (27.22%) Project Manager
2 86 (26.30%) Analyst
3 54 (16.51%) Business Analyst
4 42 (12.84%) Senior
5 31 (9.48%) Architect
6 26 (7.95%) Lead
7 22 (6.73%) Senior Analyst
8 21 (6.42%) Change Manager
9 17 (5.20%) Senior Manager
10 16 (4.89%) Senior Project Manager
11 15 (4.59%) IT Manager
11 15 (4.59%) Senior Business Analyst
12 14 (4.28%) Business Manager
12 14 (4.28%) Infrastructure Manager
13 13 (3.98%) Banking Analyst
13 13 (3.98%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (3.98%) Infrastructure Project Manager
13 13 (3.98%) Test Manager
14 11 (3.36%) Business Change Manager
14 11 (3.36%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.89%) Middleware
2 6 (1.83%) ADO
2 6 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.83%) VML
3 5 (1.53%) SailPoint
4 4 (1.22%) .NET
4 4 (1.22%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.22%) OAuth
4 4 (1.22%) SAML
5 3 (0.92%) Kafka
6 2 (0.61%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.61%) RxJava
6 2 (0.61%) SOAP
6 2 (0.61%) Vert.x
6 2 (0.61%) Web Services
7 1 (0.31%) ebXML
7 1 (0.31%) React
7 1 (0.31%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.31%) STL
7 1 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.89%) Onboarding
2 12 (3.67%) Management Information System
2 12 (3.67%) PMI
2 12 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.36%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.53%) CMDB
7 5 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.53%) Derivative
7 5 (1.53%) NHS
7 5 (1.53%) Tandem
8 4 (1.22%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.22%) IoT
8 4 (1.22%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.92%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.53%) Windows
2 3 (0.92%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.31%) Android
3 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.31%) Linux
3 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (91.13%) Agile
2 160 (48.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 115 (35.17%) Project Management
4 85 (25.99%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (25.99%) Project Delivery
5 76 (23.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 73 (22.32%) DevOps
7 66 (20.18%) Migration
8 56 (17.13%) User Acceptance Testing
9 53 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (15.29%) Workshop Facilitation
11 49 (14.98%) Business Analysis
12 48 (14.68%) Change Management
12 48 (14.68%) PRINCE2
13 43 (13.15%) User Stories
14 42 (12.84%) Scrum
15 40 (12.23%) Requirements Gathering
15 40 (12.23%) SDLC
16 37 (11.31%) Decision-Making
17 36 (11.01%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 35 (10.70%) SQL
2 13 (3.98%) Python
3 6 (1.83%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.53%) Bash
4 5 (1.53%) Java
5 4 (1.22%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.22%) C#
5 4 (1.22%) Groovy
6 3 (0.92%) Korn
6 3 (0.92%) VBA
7 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.31%) ABAP
8 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 55 (16.82%) Degree
3 37 (11.31%) SC Cleared
4 36 (11.01%) PMI Certification
5 30 (9.17%) PMP
6 20 (6.12%) DV Cleared
7 19 (5.81%) CBAP
8 14 (4.28%) IIBA
9 13 (3.98%) ISTQB
10 7 (2.14%) APMG
10 7 (2.14%) CISSP
11 6 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.53%) ISEB
12 5 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.22%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.92%) CISM
14 3 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.07%) QA
2 44 (13.46%) PMO
3 20 (6.12%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.45%) GDPR
5 5 (1.53%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.22%) NIST
7 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.61%) GRC
7 2 (0.61%) ISO 15022
7 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.61%) NCSC
7 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.61%) PSD2
8 1 (0.31%) Basel III
8 1 (0.31%) IFRS
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.31%) MiFID
8 1 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.22%) IAG
3 3 (0.92%) Docker
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.22%) HP ALM
3 4 (1.22%) Terraform
4 2 (0.61%) Ansible
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.61%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.31%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.31%) SCCM
5 1 (0.31%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 64 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.73%) ServiceNow
3 19 (5.81%) SAP
4 18 (5.50%) Oracle
4 18 (5.50%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.06%) Sparx
6 7 (2.14%) Adobe
7 6 (1.83%) Databricks
8 5 (1.53%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.53%) Murex
8 5 (1.53%) Planview
8 5 (1.53%) Workday
9 4 (1.22%) Google
9 4 (1.22%) HP
9 4 (1.22%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.22%) Okta
9 4 (1.22%) VMware
10 3 (0.92%) Netskope
10 3 (0.92%) Verint
10 3 (0.92%) Zscaler