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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 148 136
Rank change year-on-year +4 -12 +12
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 313 242 327
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.91% 1.89% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 2.07% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 166 246
10th Percentile £325 £320 £425
25th Percentile £413 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £613
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% -15.31% +9.33%
75th Percentile £642 £647 £712
90th Percentile £750 £725 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £87.50 £41.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +110.84% -29.55% +5.81%

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 14,745 11,676 16,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.75% 91.09% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,877 7,820 11,502
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 162 343
10th Percentile £18.14 £20.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £71.50 £77.25 £69.35
England median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 46 £638 +6.25% 22
East London +1 4 £578 +35.88% 7
West London -17 3 £329 -44.52% 5
South London -16 1 £513 +34.87% 2
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 (12.46%) Confluence
2 14 (4.47%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.96%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.32%) Apache
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Appian
4 1 (0.32%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.32%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.32%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 43 (13.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (11.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 37 (11.82%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (7.67%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (6.39%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.92%) Trello
6 3 (0.96%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.83%) Loan IQ
2 7 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.64%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.64%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.64%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.64%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.64%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.64%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.64%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.32%) Quorum
6 1 (0.32%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.32%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 61 (19.49%) Azure
2 24 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (6.39%) AWS
4 18 (5.75%) GCP
4 18 (5.75%) Power Platform
5 9 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (2.56%) SaaS
7 5 (1.60%) Asana
7 5 (1.60%) Smartsheet
8 4 (1.28%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (0.96%) OCI
9 3 (0.96%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.64%) Figma
10 2 (0.64%) Intacct
10 2 (0.64%) iPaaS
10 2 (0.64%) Miro
10 2 (0.64%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.92%) DNS
2 5 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.28%) FTP
3 4 (1.28%) HTTP
3 4 (1.28%) WAN
4 3 (0.96%) Firewall
4 3 (0.96%) Network Security
4 3 (0.96%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.96%) VPN
5 2 (0.64%) LAN
5 2 (0.64%) NAS
6 1 (0.32%) BGP
6 1 (0.32%) DHCP
6 1 (0.32%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.32%) Internet
6 1 (0.32%) Intranet
6 1 (0.32%) IPsec
6 1 (0.32%) OSPF
6 1 (0.32%) SSL
6 1 (0.32%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.19%) Power BI
2 8 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.24%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.24%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.96%) Metadata
6 2 (0.64%) Big Data
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.32%) DataStage
7 1 (0.32%) DB2
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.32%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.32%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 88 (28.12%) JIRA
2 5 (1.60%) Selenium
3 4 (1.28%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (1.28%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.64%) Git
4 2 (0.64%) TestRail
5 1 (0.32%) Appium
5 1 (0.32%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.32%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.32%) LSMW
5 1 (0.32%) NUnit
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.32%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 170 (54.31%) Finance
2 156 (49.84%) Social Skills
3 62 (19.81%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (17.57%) Banking
5 27 (8.63%) Presentation Skills
6 21 (6.71%) Organisational Skills
6 21 (6.71%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.39%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.15%) Financial Institution
8 13 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.51%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.56%) Legal
11 7 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.24%) Retail
12 6 (1.92%) Front Office
13 4 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.96%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.64%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 106 (33.87%) Analyst
2 74 (23.64%) Business Analyst
3 66 (21.09%) Project Manager
4 42 (13.42%) Senior
5 30 (9.58%) Lead
5 30 (9.58%) Senior Analyst
6 19 (6.07%) Delivery Manager
7 18 (5.75%) Programme Manager
7 18 (5.75%) Senior Business Analyst
8 15 (4.79%) Migration Analyst
8 15 (4.79%) Test Analyst
9 14 (4.47%) Banking Analyst
10 13 (4.15%) Transformation Analyst
11 12 (3.83%) Banking Business Analyst
12 11 (3.51%) Architect
12 11 (3.51%) Business Manager
12 11 (3.51%) Change Manager
12 11 (3.51%) IT Manager
12 11 (3.51%) Senior Test Analyst
13 10 (3.19%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.43%) Middleware
2 12 (3.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (1.92%) ADO
4 5 (1.60%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (1.60%) Web Services
5 4 (1.28%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.96%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (0.96%) OAuth
6 3 (0.96%) SAML
7 2 (0.64%) .NET
7 2 (0.64%) Kafka
7 2 (0.64%) RESTful
7 2 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.64%) XML
8 1 (0.32%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.32%) ebXML
8 1 (0.32%) SAPUI5
8 1 (0.32%) SOAP
8 1 (0.32%) STL
8 1 (0.32%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.71%) Onboarding
2 17 (5.43%) PMI
3 13 (4.15%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.19%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.24%) Tandem
7 6 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.92%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.28%) Derivative
9 4 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.96%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.64%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.64%) NHS
11 2 (0.64%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.64%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.19%) Windows
2 3 (0.96%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.64%) Linux
3 2 (0.64%) VMS
4 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (91.05%) Agile
2 152 (48.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 123 (39.30%) Project Management
4 105 (33.55%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (24.60%) Project Delivery
6 73 (23.32%) Migration
7 63 (20.13%) DevOps
8 62 (19.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 58 (18.53%) Workshop Facilitation
10 57 (18.21%) Business Analysis
11 56 (17.89%) Scrum
12 51 (16.29%) PRINCE2
13 49 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (15.65%) User Acceptance Testing
14 46 (14.70%) User Stories
15 44 (14.06%) Requirements Gathering
16 43 (13.74%) Change Management
17 39 (12.46%) SDLC
18 37 (11.82%) Data Migration
19 36 (11.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 32 (10.22%) SQL
2 9 (2.88%) Python
3 7 (2.24%) Groovy
4 5 (1.60%) Apex Code
4 5 (1.60%) Bash
4 5 (1.60%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.96%) C#
5 3 (0.96%) Java
5 3 (0.96%) Korn
5 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.64%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.64%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.32%) ABAP
7 1 (0.32%) Bicep
7 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (17.25%) Degree
2 41 (13.10%) PMI Certification
3 37 (11.82%) Security Cleared
4 33 (10.54%) SC Cleared
5 29 (9.27%) PMP
6 22 (7.03%) CBAP
7 16 (5.11%) IIBA
8 11 (3.51%) ISTQB
9 9 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (2.24%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.24%) ISEB
11 6 (1.92%) CISSP
11 6 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.28%) APMG
13 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.96%) CISM
13 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 2 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (12.46%) PMO
2 36 (11.50%) QA
3 19 (6.07%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.47%) GDPR
5 9 (2.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.92%) MiFID
7 5 (1.60%) EMIR
7 5 (1.60%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.96%) Basel III
8 3 (0.96%) GRC
8 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.96%) NIST
9 2 (0.64%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS
9 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.64%) PSD2
10 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.32%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 5 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.28%) Docker
3 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.32%) RACF
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.92%) HP ALM
1 6 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.64%) Terraform
4 1 (0.32%) Ansible
4 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 69 (22.04%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.90%) Oracle
3 23 (7.35%) SAP
4 13 (4.15%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.88%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.88%) Workday
6 8 (2.56%) Planview
7 6 (1.92%) HP
8 5 (1.60%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.60%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.28%) Cisco
9 4 (1.28%) VMware
10 3 (0.96%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.96%) Citrix
10 3 (0.96%) Jitterbit
10 3 (0.96%) Netskope
10 3 (0.96%) Okta
11 2 (0.64%) Databricks
11 2 (0.64%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.64%) Tagetik