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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 138 97
Rank change year-on-year -12 -41 +46
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 262 305 493
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.93% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 2.15% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 201 369
10th Percentile £317 £400 £390
25th Percentile £400 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £685
90th Percentile £746 £738 £751
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile £31.53 - £48.47
25th Percentile £40.19 - £55.40
Median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £66.93
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% -47.71% +26.35%
75th Percentile £98.04 - £78.47
90th Percentile £103.50 - £85.39
England median hourly rate £82.50 £35.00 £54.43
% change year-on-year +135.71% -35.70% -10.77%

All Process and 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 12,965 14,161 17,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.02% 89.69% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,536 9,145 12,688
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £769 £800 £800
England median daily rate £501 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.22%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £69.17 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 -24 37 £525 -11.02% 14
West London -10 5 £320 -45.39% 16
East London +5 4 £630 +48.24% 15
North London +5 3 £550 - 4
South London -3 3 £750 +57.89% 12
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 (12.60%) Confluence
2 6 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.76%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (10.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (9.54%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (6.87%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (6.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (6.11%) MS Visio
5 8 (3.05%) Trello
6 3 (1.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (4.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.15%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.76%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 2 (0.76%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.76%) Workfront
5 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.38%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.38%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (19.47%) Azure
2 18 (6.87%) AWS
3 15 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.34%) GCP
4 14 (5.34%) Power Platform
5 13 (4.96%) SaaS
6 7 (2.67%) PaaS
7 6 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.91%) GitHub
9 4 (1.53%) Asana
10 3 (1.15%) Figma
10 3 (1.15%) IaaS
10 3 (1.15%) Miro
10 3 (1.15%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.15%) Slack
10 3 (1.15%) Smartsheet
11 2 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.76%) Lucidchart
11 2 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.67%) Firewall
2 6 (2.29%) WAN
3 4 (1.53%) VPN
4 3 (1.15%) LAN
4 3 (1.15%) Network Security
5 2 (0.76%) DNS
5 2 (0.76%) FTP
5 2 (0.76%) NAS
5 2 (0.76%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.76%) VLAN
6 1 (0.38%) BGP
6 1 (0.38%) DHCP
6 1 (0.38%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.38%) Internet
6 1 (0.38%) NGFW
6 1 (0.38%) OSPF
6 1 (0.38%) SAN
6 1 (0.38%) SSL
6 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.38%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.82%) Power BI
2 7 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.91%) Big Data
3 5 (1.91%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.91%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.53%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.53%) HPCC
5 3 (1.15%) Metadata
5 3 (1.15%) Tableau
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.38%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.38%) Power Query
6 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.38%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 63 (24.05%) JIRA
2 7 (2.67%) Selenium
3 5 (1.91%) Git
4 4 (1.53%) GitLab
4 4 (1.53%) Zephyr
5 3 (1.15%) Gradle
5 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.15%) Maven
5 3 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.76%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.76%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.76%) Postman
6 2 (0.76%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.76%) sqlmap
6 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.38%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.38%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.38%) TestRail
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 129 (49.24%) Finance
2 128 (48.85%) Social Skills
3 51 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (14.50%) Banking
5 22 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.11%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (6.11%) Retail
7 14 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.82%) Legal
10 9 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (3.44%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.67%) Front Office
11 7 (2.67%) Local Government
11 7 (2.67%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.15%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.15%) Publishing
13 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (32.06%) Analyst
2 70 (26.72%) Business Analyst
3 58 (22.14%) Project Manager
4 23 (8.78%) Lead
5 22 (8.40%) Senior
6 16 (6.11%) Architect
7 13 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.20%) Programme Manager
8 11 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
9 10 (3.82%) Technical Analyst
9 10 (3.82%) Test Analyst
10 9 (3.44%) IT Manager
10 9 (3.44%) SAP Manager
11 8 (3.05%) IT Project Manager
11 8 (3.05%) Senior Manager
11 8 (3.05%) Senior Project Manager
11 8 (3.05%) Technical Business Analyst
11 8 (3.05%) Tester
12 7 (2.67%) PMO Lead
13 6 (2.29%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (3.05%) Middleware
2 8 (3.05%) XML
3 7 (2.67%) JSON
4 5 (1.91%) ADO
4 5 (1.91%) RESTful
4 5 (1.91%) SOAP
5 4 (1.53%) HTML
5 4 (1.53%) Web Services
6 3 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.15%) DCOM
6 3 (1.15%) Kafka
6 3 (1.15%) Spring
7 2 (0.76%) .NET
7 2 (0.76%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.76%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.76%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.76%) Swagger
7 2 (0.76%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.49%) Onboarding
1 17 (6.49%) PMI
2 14 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.82%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.05%) Reinsurance
4 8 (3.05%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.53%) Derivative
8 4 (1.53%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.15%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.76%) FMCG
10 2 (0.76%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.87%) Windows
2 6 (2.29%) Linux
2 6 (2.29%) Unix
3 1 (0.38%) VMS
3 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (93.51%) Agile
2 108 (41.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 82 (31.30%) Project Management
4 81 (30.92%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (24.43%) Project Delivery
6 55 (20.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 47 (17.94%) PRINCE2
8 46 (17.56%) Change Management
8 46 (17.56%) Migration
9 45 (17.18%) User Acceptance Testing
10 44 (16.79%) Workshop Facilitation
11 42 (16.03%) Scrum
12 41 (15.65%) Requirements Gathering
13 38 (14.50%) SDLC
14 36 (13.74%) DevOps
15 34 (12.98%) Business Analysis
16 29 (11.07%) User Stories
17 27 (10.31%) Risk Management
18 26 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
18 26 (9.92%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.45%) SQL
2 14 (5.34%) Python
3 9 (3.44%) Java
4 5 (1.91%) C#
4 5 (1.91%) Groovy
5 4 (1.53%) C
5 4 (1.53%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.15%) Bash
6 3 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.15%) Korn
7 2 (0.76%) C++
7 2 (0.76%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.76%) Ruby
7 2 (0.76%) VB
8 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.38%) Bicep
8 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (18.32%) Degree
2 42 (16.03%) PMI Certification
3 27 (10.31%) PMP
4 20 (7.63%) Security Cleared
5 18 (6.87%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.05%) CBAP
6 8 (3.05%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.29%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.53%) IIBA
8 4 (1.53%) ISEB
9 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.15%) CISSP
9 3 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.76%) CISM
10 2 (0.76%) GXPN
10 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (14.89%) PMO
2 24 (9.16%) QA
3 12 (4.58%) GDPR
4 7 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.67%) MiFID
5 6 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.29%) EMIR
5 6 (2.29%) Solvency II
6 5 (1.91%) SLA
7 4 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.15%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.15%) PSD2
8 3 (1.15%) SEPA
9 2 (0.76%) WCAG
10 1 (0.38%) Basel III
10 1 (0.38%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.38%) P3O
System Software
1 4 (1.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.38%) IAG
3 1 (0.38%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.91%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.53%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.76%) Nessus
3 2 (0.76%) Nmap
3 2 (0.76%) Terraform
4 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.78%) SAP
3 22 (8.40%) Oracle
4 9 (3.44%) Workday
5 6 (2.29%) MuleSoft
5 6 (2.29%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.91%) HP
6 5 (1.91%) Planview
7 4 (1.53%) Anaplan
7 4 (1.53%) Databricks
7 4 (1.53%) Guidewire
7 4 (1.53%) Hyperion
8 3 (1.15%) Adobe
8 3 (1.15%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.15%) Duck Creek
8 3 (1.15%) PeopleSoft
8 3 (1.15%) VMware
9 2 (0.76%) Cisco
9 2 (0.76%) Siebel