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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 141 121
Rank change year-on-year +1 -20 +13
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 287 251 373
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.94% 1.85% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 2.04% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 160 284
10th Percentile £320 £356 £413
25th Percentile £400 £422 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +8.99%
75th Percentile £638 £654 £682
90th Percentile £750 £739 £750
England median daily rate £530 £543 £571
% change year-on-year -2.30% -5.03% +5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £87.21 - -
25th Percentile £90.54 - -
Median hourly rate £98.57 £35.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +181.63% -61.11% +81.25%
75th Percentile £104.11 - -
90th Percentile £105.93 - -
England median hourly rate £91.25 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +160.71% -46.15% +22.71%

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 13,417 12,298 16,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.90% 90.53% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,905 7,768 11,834
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 153 347
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.23 £19.15
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +18.33% -18.06%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Waterfall in London over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Waterfall in London

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 February 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 -18 43 £550 -6.78% 33
East London +3 5 £578 +35.88% 9
South London -9 2 £750 +97.37% 5
West London -23 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 39 (13.59%) Confluence
2 10 (3.48%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.70%) CMS
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Appian
4 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.35%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 41 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (11.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 33 (11.50%) Microsoft Project
3 27 (9.41%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (7.32%) MS Visio
5 7 (2.44%) Trello
6 4 (1.39%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.79%) Loan IQ
3 5 (1.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.70%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.70%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.35%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.35%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.35%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.35%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 56 (19.51%) Azure
2 21 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (5.92%) Power Platform
4 16 (5.57%) GCP
5 13 (4.53%) AWS
5 13 (4.53%) SaaS
6 8 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.09%) Asana
8 5 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.74%) OCI
9 4 (1.39%) PaaS
9 4 (1.39%) Smartsheet
10 3 (1.05%) Miro
10 3 (1.05%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.70%) Figma
11 2 (0.70%) Intacct
11 2 (0.70%) Lucidchart
11 2 (0.70%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.39%) VPN
1 4 (1.39%) WAN
2 3 (1.05%) FTP
2 3 (1.05%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.70%) DNS
3 2 (0.70%) Firewall
3 2 (0.70%) LAN
3 2 (0.70%) NAS
3 2 (0.70%) VLAN
4 1 (0.35%) BGP
4 1 (0.35%) DHCP
4 1 (0.35%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.35%) HSRP
4 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.35%) Internet
4 1 (0.35%) Network Security
4 1 (0.35%) OSPF
4 1 (0.35%) SSL
4 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.35%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.83%) Power BI
2 9 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.44%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (2.09%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.05%) Metadata
6 2 (0.70%) Tableau
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.35%) Big Data
7 1 (0.35%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.35%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.35%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 76 (26.48%) JIRA
2 4 (1.39%) Selenium
3 3 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (1.05%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.70%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.70%) Postman
4 2 (0.70%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.70%) sqlmap
5 1 (0.35%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.35%) LSMW
5 1 (0.35%) NUnit
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.35%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.35%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.35%) TestRail
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 156 (54.36%) Finance
2 146 (50.87%) Social Skills
3 52 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (17.77%) Banking
5 21 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
6 20 (6.97%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.57%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (5.23%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (4.18%) Retail
11 10 (3.48%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.09%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.09%) Front Office
13 6 (2.09%) General Ledger
13 6 (2.09%) Legal
13 6 (2.09%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.39%) Local Government
15 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 110 (38.33%) Analyst
2 79 (27.53%) Business Analyst
3 50 (17.42%) Project Manager
4 43 (14.98%) Senior
5 31 (10.80%) Lead
5 31 (10.80%) Senior Analyst
6 18 (6.27%) Senior Business Analyst
7 17 (5.92%) Programme Manager
7 17 (5.92%) Test Analyst
8 12 (4.18%) Delivery Manager
8 12 (4.18%) Senior Test Analyst
8 12 (4.18%) Systems Analyst
9 11 (3.83%) Banking Analyst
9 11 (3.83%) Migration Analyst
10 10 (3.48%) Architect
10 10 (3.48%) Banking Business Analyst
10 10 (3.48%) Integration Analyst
10 10 (3.48%) Integration Test Analyst
10 10 (3.48%) Systems Integration Analyst
10 10 (3.48%) Systems Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.57%) Middleware
2 14 (4.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (2.44%) ADO
4 6 (2.09%) Web Services
5 4 (1.39%) Kafka
5 4 (1.39%) XML
6 3 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.05%) JSON
6 3 (1.05%) RESTful
6 3 (1.05%) SOAP
7 2 (0.70%) .NET
7 2 (0.70%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.70%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.70%) Swagger
8 1 (0.35%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.35%) OAuth
8 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.35%) OpenJDK
8 1 (0.35%) React
8 1 (0.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.32%) PMI
2 16 (5.57%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.18%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.48%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.74%) Tandem
9 4 (1.39%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.05%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.05%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.70%) Derivative
11 2 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.48%) Windows
2 4 (1.39%) Linux
3 2 (0.70%) VMS
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (92.33%) Agile
2 143 (49.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 105 (36.59%) Project Management
4 96 (33.45%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (27.53%) Project Delivery
6 69 (24.04%) Migration
7 58 (20.21%) Workshop Facilitation
8 57 (19.86%) DevOps
9 56 (19.51%) Business Analysis
10 54 (18.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 50 (17.42%) User Acceptance Testing
12 49 (17.07%) Requirements Gathering
13 46 (16.03%) Scrum
13 46 (16.03%) User Stories
14 44 (15.33%) Change Management
15 42 (14.63%) PRINCE2
16 41 (14.29%) SDLC
17 37 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
18 35 (12.20%) Data Migration
18 35 (12.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (10.45%) SQL
2 10 (3.48%) Python
3 7 (2.44%) Groovy
4 6 (2.09%) Java
5 4 (1.39%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.05%) Bash
6 3 (1.05%) C#
6 3 (1.05%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.05%) Korn
7 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.35%) Bicep
8 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (21.60%) Degree
2 41 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 28 (9.76%) Security Cleared
4 27 (9.41%) CBAP
5 25 (8.71%) SC Cleared
6 22 (7.67%) PMP
7 17 (5.92%) IIBA
8 9 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.79%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.44%) ISEB
10 7 (2.44%) ISTQB
11 6 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.39%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.05%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.05%) CISSP
13 3 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.70%) GPEN
14 2 (0.70%) GXPN
14 2 (0.70%) OSCP
14 2 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.63%) PMO
2 28 (9.76%) QA
3 16 (5.57%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.79%) GDPR
4 8 (2.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (2.09%) ISO 20022
5 6 (2.09%) MiFID
6 5 (1.74%) EMIR
7 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.05%) Basel III
7 3 (1.05%) GRC
7 3 (1.05%) PSD2
7 3 (1.05%) SEPA
8 2 (0.70%) IFRS
8 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.70%) NIST
9 1 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.35%) P3O
9 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.35%) TARGET2
System Software
1 5 (1.74%) Docker
2 4 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) IAG
4 1 (0.35%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (2.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.39%) HP ALM
3 3 (1.05%) Terraform
4 2 (0.70%) Nessus
4 2 (0.70%) Nmap
5 1 (0.35%) Ansible
5 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 32 (11.15%) Oracle
3 22 (7.67%) SAP
4 11 (3.83%) Workday
5 9 (3.14%) Planview
6 8 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.09%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.39%) Anaplan
9 4 (1.39%) HP
9 4 (1.39%) Hyperion
10 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.05%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.05%) VMware
11 2 (0.70%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.70%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.70%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.70%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.70%) Xceptor
11 2 (0.70%) Zscaler