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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 158 126
Rank change year-on-year -8 -32 -23
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 362 243 338
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 1.80% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.95% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 166 227
10th Percentile £389 £328 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £650 £671 £631
90th Percentile £733 £739 £738
England median daily rate £525 £506 £550
% change year-on-year +3.81% -8.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +92.86% -23.38%
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +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 18,084 12,490 14,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.58% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,262 9,757
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 257 180
10th Percentile £16.71 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.38 £48.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%

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 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 12 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 -14 44 £558 +3.72% 28
West London -12 16 £510 +59.38% 4
South London -5 4 £575 - 4
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 33 (9.12%) Confluence
2 23 (6.35%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.93%) CMS
4 5 (1.38%) SAS
5 4 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.10%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.83%) Kentico
6 3 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Apache
8 1 (0.28%) Appian
Applications
1 41 (11.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (8.56%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (8.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (6.35%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (4.14%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.10%) Trello
7 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (3.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (2.21%) Magento
4 3 (0.83%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.83%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.55%) Finacle
5 2 (0.55%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.55%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.55%) Summit
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.28%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.28%) Shopify
6 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (22.10%) Azure
2 37 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (9.39%) AWS
4 32 (8.84%) Power Platform
5 18 (4.97%) SaaS
6 16 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (3.59%) GCP
8 11 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.93%) Adobe Analytics
9 7 (1.93%) Asana
10 6 (1.66%) GitHub
11 5 (1.38%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.10%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.10%) Google Analytics
12 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.10%) Smartsheet
13 3 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (0.83%) Datadog
13 3 (0.83%) Google Workspace
13 3 (0.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.66%) Network Security
2 4 (1.10%) DMZ
2 4 (1.10%) Firewall
2 4 (1.10%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.83%) WAN
3 3 (0.83%) Wireless
4 2 (0.55%) 4G
4 2 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.55%) DNS
4 2 (0.55%) Internet
4 2 (0.55%) Intranet
4 2 (0.55%) MPLS
4 2 (0.55%) 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 (7.46%) Power BI
2 10 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.93%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.38%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.10%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.83%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.83%) Metadata
6 3 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.55%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.55%) Power Query
7 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.55%) Tableau
8 1 (0.28%) Big Data
8 1 (0.28%) Looker
8 1 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 67 (18.51%) JIRA
2 10 (2.76%) Git
2 10 (2.76%) Jenkins
2 10 (2.76%) Selenium
3 8 (2.21%) Subversion
4 5 (1.38%) eggPlant
5 4 (1.10%) SOAtest
6 3 (0.83%) HP UFT
6 3 (0.83%) SilkTest
6 3 (0.83%) TestRail
6 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.83%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.55%) 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
1 193 (53.31%) Finance
2 162 (44.75%) Social Skills
3 76 (20.99%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (18.51%) Banking
5 39 (10.77%) Public Sector
6 26 (7.18%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (7.18%) Retail
7 18 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (4.97%) Marketing
8 11 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.49%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.21%) Legal
11 7 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.93%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.66%) Front Office
12 6 (1.66%) Law
12 6 (1.66%) Police
13 5 (1.38%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 117 (32.32%) Project Manager
2 81 (22.38%) Analyst
3 57 (15.75%) Business Analyst
4 45 (12.43%) Senior
5 31 (8.56%) Architect
6 29 (8.01%) Senior Manager
7 26 (7.18%) Senior Project Manager
8 23 (6.35%) Programme Manager
8 23 (6.35%) Technical Manager
9 21 (5.80%) Lead
10 20 (5.52%) Technical Project Manager
11 19 (5.25%) Test Manager
12 17 (4.70%) Change Manager
12 17 (4.70%) IT Manager
13 15 (4.14%) Infrastructure Manager
13 15 (4.14%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 13 (3.59%) IT Project Manager
15 12 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
16 10 (2.76%) Business Manager
16 10 (2.76%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.04%) Middleware
2 8 (2.21%) ADO
2 8 (2.21%) VML
3 6 (1.66%) Web Services
4 5 (1.38%) .NET
4 5 (1.38%) SOAP
4 5 (1.38%) Terraform
5 4 (1.10%) XML
6 3 (0.83%) DAO
6 3 (0.83%) Kafka
7 2 (0.55%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.55%) HTML
7 2 (0.55%) OAuth
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.55%) REST
7 2 (0.55%) RxJava
7 2 (0.55%) SAML
7 2 (0.55%) Vert.x
7 2 (0.55%) XBRL
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.18%) Onboarding
1 26 (7.18%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.97%) Data Centre
3 10 (2.76%) CMDB
3 10 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 8 (2.21%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.93%) PMI
6 7 (1.93%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.66%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.66%) NHS
7 6 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.38%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.38%) Derivative
9 4 (1.10%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.38%) Linux
2 3 (0.83%) Unix
3 2 (0.55%) Windows
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (93.92%) Agile
2 193 (53.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 122 (33.70%) Project Management
4 106 (29.28%) Project Delivery
5 86 (23.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 78 (21.55%) Migration
7 76 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 64 (17.68%) DevOps
10 62 (17.13%) PRINCE2
11 61 (16.85%) User Acceptance Testing
12 55 (15.19%) Change Management
13 52 (14.36%) Workshop Facilitation
14 50 (13.81%) User Stories
15 48 (13.26%) Analytics
15 48 (13.26%) Business Analysis
15 48 (13.26%) Scrum
16 47 (12.98%) Risk Management
17 43 (11.88%) Roadmaps
18 42 (11.60%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 31 (8.56%) SQL
2 10 (2.76%) Java
2 10 (2.76%) Korn
3 7 (1.93%) Python
4 4 (1.10%) Groovy
5 3 (0.83%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.83%) VBA
6 2 (0.55%) C#
6 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.55%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.28%) Bash
7 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 68 (18.78%) Security Cleared
2 49 (13.54%) Degree
2 49 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 46 (12.71%) PMI Certification
4 41 (11.33%) PMP
5 22 (6.08%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.31%) ISTQB
7 8 (2.21%) ISEB
8 7 (1.93%) APMG
9 6 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 3 (0.83%) CBAP
12 3 (0.83%) CISSP
12 3 (0.83%) IIBA
13 2 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.55%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (14.36%) PMO
2 42 (11.60%) QA
3 18 (4.97%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.04%) ISO 20022
5 8 (2.21%) SEPA
6 4 (1.10%) ISO 15022
6 4 (1.10%) NIST
6 4 (1.10%) P3O
6 4 (1.10%) TARGET2
7 3 (0.83%) NCSC
8 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.55%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) EMIR
9 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.28%) GDPR
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.28%) MiFID
9 1 (0.28%) PMBOK
System Software
1 9 (2.49%) IAG
2 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.55%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.10%) Ansible
2 4 (1.10%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (0.55%) 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 (19.89%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.46%) ServiceNow
3 24 (6.63%) SAP
4 17 (4.70%) Oracle
5 14 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.76%) Sparx
7 9 (2.49%) Adobe
8 8 (2.21%) Google
9 7 (1.93%) Databricks
9 7 (1.93%) Murex
10 6 (1.66%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.66%) Cisco
11 5 (1.38%) Bloomberg
11 5 (1.38%) HP
11 5 (1.38%) Planview
11 5 (1.38%) Sitecore
12 4 (1.10%) Amplitude
12 4 (1.10%) Braze
12 4 (1.10%) Optimizely
12 4 (1.10%) Tealium