Waterfall Contracts in London

Waterfall Model
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Waterfall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Waterfall over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 134 105
Rank change year-on-year -5 -29 +63
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 309 532 1,046
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.74% 1.96% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 2.16% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 379 727
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £513 £468 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +12.75%
75th Percentile £712 £675 £655
90th Percentile £798 £771 £772
England median daily rate £578 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £43.86 -
England median hourly rate £58.91 £66.49 £58.25
% change year-on-year -11.40% +14.14% +5.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Waterfall is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in London

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in London.

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in London

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in London

Waterfall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 27 April 2024. 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 -3 60 £650 +8.33% 8
West London +16 7 £713 +50.00% 3
South London +11 4 £550 +4.76% 1
East London -3 4 £553 +2.31% 2
North London 0 1 £425 -10.53%
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.53%) Confluence
2 13 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.97%) CMS
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.65%) Apache
4 2 (0.65%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.65%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (5.83%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (5.18%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.85%) Loan IQ
2 8 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.62%) SAP BPC
4 4 (1.29%) Aladdin
4 4 (1.29%) SAP Hybris
5 3 (0.97%) Primavera
6 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.32%) Endur
7 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle HRMS
7 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.32%) SAP Travel Management
7 1 (0.32%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (16.50%) Azure
2 21 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (4.85%) Power Platform
4 12 (3.88%) AWS
4 12 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (3.56%) PowerApps
6 9 (2.91%) SaaS
7 7 (2.27%) GitHub
8 6 (1.94%) IaaS
8 6 (1.94%) PaaS
9 5 (1.62%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.29%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.29%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 4 (1.29%) Smartsheet
10 4 (1.29%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.97%) Asana
11 3 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.97%) GCP
12 2 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.62%) SNA
2 4 (1.29%) DNS
3 3 (0.97%) 5G
3 3 (0.97%) ATM
3 3 (0.97%) DHCP
3 3 (0.97%) Internet
4 2 (0.65%) LAN
4 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.65%) WAN
5 1 (0.32%) 4G
5 1 (0.32%) BGP
5 1 (0.32%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.32%) Firewall
5 1 (0.32%) OSPF
5 1 (0.32%) SAN
5 1 (0.32%) SNMP
5 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.32%) VRRP
5 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.21%) Power BI
2 8 (2.59%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.29%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.65%) MySQL
5 2 (0.65%) Redis
5 2 (0.65%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.32%) DB2
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 32 (10.36%) JIRA
2 6 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.62%) Postman
3 5 (1.62%) Selenium
4 4 (1.29%) JMeter
4 4 (1.29%) LoadRunner
4 4 (1.29%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.97%) Appium
5 3 (0.97%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.97%) Git
5 3 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.65%) NUnit
6 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.32%) TestDirector
General
1 136 (44.01%) Finance
2 109 (35.28%) Social Skills
3 46 (14.89%) Banking
4 37 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (9.39%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (5.50%) Financial Institution
8 15 (4.85%) Military
9 13 (4.21%) Back Office
9 13 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (3.24%) Marketing
12 9 (2.91%) Legal
13 8 (2.59%) Investment Banking
13 8 (2.59%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.94%) Electronics
14 6 (1.94%) Front Office
14 6 (1.94%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.94%) Retail
15 5 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 75 (24.27%) Project Manager
2 54 (17.48%) Analyst
3 41 (13.27%) Senior
4 35 (11.33%) Business Analyst
5 26 (8.41%) Delivery Manager
6 25 (8.09%) Lead
7 24 (7.77%) Architect
8 20 (6.47%) Developer
9 19 (6.15%) Senior Manager
10 18 (5.83%) Programme Manager
11 17 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (4.21%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (3.56%) IT Manager
13 11 (3.56%) Test Manager
14 10 (3.24%) Senior Project Manager
14 10 (3.24%) Technical Manager
15 8 (2.59%) Applications Manager
15 8 (2.59%) Infrastructure Manager
16 7 (2.27%) IT Project Manager
16 7 (2.27%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.24%) Middleware
2 8 (2.59%) Apache Camel
3 6 (1.94%) .NET
4 4 (1.29%) ADO
4 4 (1.29%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.29%) Swagger
5 3 (0.97%) Kafka
5 3 (0.97%) RESTful
5 3 (0.97%) XML
6 2 (0.65%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.65%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.65%) FpML
6 2 (0.65%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.65%) LDAP
6 2 (0.65%) Node.js
6 2 (0.65%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.65%) Playwright
6 2 (0.65%) React Native
6 2 (0.65%) REST
6 2 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.18%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.24%) Derivative
3 8 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.94%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.94%) Fixed Income
5 6 (1.94%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.94%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.29%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.29%) Reinsurance
6 4 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.29%) Solar Panel
7 3 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.97%) Equities
7 3 (0.97%) FMCG
7 3 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (0.65%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.15%) Linux
2 17 (5.50%) Windows
3 3 (0.97%) Android
3 3 (0.97%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.97%) VMS
4 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (90.61%) Agile
2 99 (32.04%) Project Management
3 86 (27.83%) Project Delivery
4 68 (22.01%) Stakeholder Management
5 54 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (14.24%) Migration
7 42 (13.59%) DevOps
8 39 (12.62%) Scrum
9 37 (11.97%) PRINCE2
10 30 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (9.39%) Risk Management
12 28 (9.06%) Data Modelling
13 27 (8.74%) Decision-Making
13 27 (8.74%) Programme Management
14 26 (8.41%) SDLC
15 25 (8.09%) Change Management
15 25 (8.09%) ITIL
16 24 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
16 24 (7.77%) CI/CD
16 24 (7.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 43 (13.92%) SQL
2 17 (5.50%) Python
3 15 (4.85%) Java
4 6 (1.94%) C#
5 5 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.29%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.97%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.97%) R
8 2 (0.65%) Go
8 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.65%) Ruby
9 1 (0.32%) ABAP
9 1 (0.32%) C
9 1 (0.32%) C++
9 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.32%) Swift
9 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 47 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 40 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 38 (12.30%) Degree
4 18 (5.83%) DV Cleared
4 18 (5.83%) PMI Certification
4 18 (5.83%) PMP
5 8 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.94%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.29%) APMP
7 4 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.97%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (0.97%) CIMA
8 3 (0.97%) CITP
8 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.65%) CISM
9 2 (0.65%) CISSP
9 2 (0.65%) ISEB
9 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.97%) PMO
2 16 (5.18%) QA
3 4 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.29%) EMIR
4 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.97%) IFRS
4 3 (0.97%) IFRS 17
4 3 (0.97%) NIST
4 3 (0.97%) SLA
4 3 (0.97%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.65%) Dodd-Frank
5 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.65%) MiFID
5 2 (0.65%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.32%) GRC
6 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (1.94%) Docker
2 4 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.62%) Ansible
2 4 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.65%) Grafana
3 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.65%) Puppet
3 2 (0.65%) Terraform
4 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.32%) MOM
Vendors
1 36 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.71%) SAP
3 13 (4.21%) Oracle
3 13 (4.21%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.56%) IBM
5 8 (2.59%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.94%) Cisco
7 5 (1.62%) Databricks
8 4 (1.29%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.29%) VMware
8 4 (1.29%) Workday
9 3 (0.97%) Adobe
9 3 (0.97%) Google
10 2 (0.65%) Apple
10 2 (0.65%) Arista
10 2 (0.65%) EMC
10 2 (0.65%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.65%) New Relic
10 2 (0.65%) Splunk
10 2 (0.65%) Temenos