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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 141 137
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 -19
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 352 267 309
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 1.96% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.13% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 192 222
10th Percentile £375 £326 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -4.78% +3.37%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £737 £799
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.75 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £48.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +35.42% -18.51% +24.01%

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 17,663 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -10 42 £675 +22.73% 14
West London -7 14 £329 +2.81% 5
South London -14 5 £550 - 2
North London -3 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 30 (8.52%) Confluence
2 24 (6.82%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.99%) CMS
4 4 (1.14%) SAS
5 3 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.85%) Kentico
5 3 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.28%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 40 (11.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (7.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 28 (7.95%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (4.55%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.85%) Trello
6 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (2.27%) Magento
4 6 (1.70%) Loan IQ
5 4 (1.14%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.85%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.57%) Finacle
7 2 (0.57%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.57%) Shopify
7 2 (0.57%) Summit
8 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 91 (25.85%) Azure
2 44 (12.50%) AWS
3 37 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (10.23%) Power Platform
5 20 (5.68%) GCP
6 18 (5.11%) SaaS
7 17 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.70%) Adobe Analytics
10 6 (1.70%) Asana
10 6 (1.70%) GitHub
10 6 (1.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 6 (1.70%) Smartsheet
11 4 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.14%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.14%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 3 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.27%) Network Security
2 6 (1.70%) DNS
3 5 (1.42%) HTTP
3 5 (1.42%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.85%) DMZ
4 3 (0.85%) Firewall
4 3 (0.85%) Intranet
4 3 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (0.85%) WAN
4 3 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.57%) 4G
5 2 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.57%) FTP
5 2 (0.57%) Internet
5 2 (0.57%) MPLS
5 2 (0.57%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.57%) VLAN
5 2 (0.57%) VPN
5 2 (0.57%) Wireless
6 1 (0.28%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.52%) Power BI
2 10 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.70%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.85%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.85%) Metadata
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.57%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.57%) DataStage
7 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.57%) Power Query
7 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.57%) Tableau
8 1 (0.28%) Looker
8 1 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 74 (21.02%) JIRA
2 12 (3.41%) Git
3 10 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.27%) Subversion
5 6 (1.70%) Selenium
6 5 (1.42%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (1.14%) TestRail
7 4 (1.14%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.28%) Appium
9 1 (0.28%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.28%) Postman
9 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.28%) TestDirector
General
1 172 (48.86%) Finance
2 157 (44.60%) Social Skills
3 81 (23.01%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (15.34%) Banking
5 43 (12.22%) Public Sector
6 26 (7.39%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (6.53%) Retail
8 17 (4.83%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (4.55%) Marketing
10 12 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.13%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (2.27%) Legal
14 7 (1.99%) Police
15 6 (1.70%) Law
15 6 (1.70%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.42%) Front Office
16 5 (1.42%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 108 (30.68%) Project Manager
2 70 (19.89%) Analyst
3 45 (12.78%) Business Analyst
4 40 (11.36%) Senior
5 34 (9.66%) Architect
6 26 (7.39%) Senior Manager
7 24 (6.82%) Senior Project Manager
8 23 (6.53%) Lead
9 19 (5.40%) Change Manager
10 18 (5.11%) Infrastructure Manager
11 17 (4.83%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 17 (4.83%) Technical Manager
11 17 (4.83%) Technical Project Manager
12 16 (4.55%) IT Manager
12 16 (4.55%) Programme Manager
13 15 (4.26%) Test Manager
14 14 (3.98%) Delivery Manager
15 13 (3.69%) Business Manager
16 10 (2.84%) Banking Analyst
16 10 (2.84%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.69%) Middleware
2 9 (2.56%) VML
3 7 (1.99%) ADO
4 5 (1.42%) OAuth
4 5 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.42%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.42%) SAML
5 4 (1.14%) .NET
5 4 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.85%) Kafka
6 3 (0.85%) SOAP
7 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.57%) REST
7 2 (0.57%) RxJava
7 2 (0.57%) Vert.x
7 2 (0.57%) Web Services
7 2 (0.57%) XML
8 1 (0.28%) Pandas
8 1 (0.28%) pytest
8 1 (0.28%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.95%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.40%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.41%) CMDB
6 11 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (2.84%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.99%) PMI
9 6 (1.70%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.70%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.70%) Derivative
9 6 (1.70%) NHS
9 6 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.42%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.14%) IoT
11 4 (1.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.42%) Windows
2 3 (0.85%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.57%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (92.90%) Agile
2 169 (48.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 118 (33.52%) Project Management
4 89 (25.28%) Project Delivery
5 87 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
6 80 (22.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 74 (21.02%) Migration
8 70 (19.89%) DevOps
9 59 (16.76%) PRINCE2
10 58 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 54 (15.34%) Scrum
12 53 (15.06%) User Acceptance Testing
13 52 (14.77%) Change Management
14 42 (11.93%) Risk Management
15 41 (11.65%) Workshop Facilitation
16 40 (11.36%) User Stories
17 39 (11.08%) Business Analysis
18 37 (10.51%) Analytics
19 36 (10.23%) Decision-Making
20 34 (9.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.38%) SQL
2 15 (4.26%) Python
3 8 (2.27%) Java
4 6 (1.70%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.42%) Bash
5 5 (1.42%) Korn
6 4 (1.14%) Apex Code
6 4 (1.14%) C#
6 4 (1.14%) Groovy
7 3 (0.85%) VBA
8 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.28%) ABAP
9 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 46 (13.07%) Degree
3 37 (10.51%) PMI Certification
4 35 (9.94%) PMP
4 35 (9.94%) SC Cleared
5 23 (6.53%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.41%) ISTQB
7 7 (1.99%) APMG
7 7 (1.99%) CISSP
7 7 (1.99%) ISEB
8 6 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (1.14%) CBAP
10 4 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.85%) CISM
11 3 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.85%) IIBA
11 3 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.78%) QA
2 42 (11.93%) PMO
3 19 (5.40%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.27%) GDPR
5 6 (1.70%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.42%) NIST
7 3 (0.85%) NCSC
7 3 (0.85%) P3O
7 3 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.85%) SEPA
8 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.57%) GRC
8 2 (0.57%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.28%) PSD2
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (2.56%) IAG
2 5 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.85%) Docker
4 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.42%) Terraform
4 4 (1.14%) Ansible
4 4 (1.14%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.57%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.28%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.28%) SCCM
6 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 66 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.24%) ServiceNow
3 24 (6.82%) SAP
4 20 (5.68%) Salesforce
5 16 (4.55%) Oracle
6 10 (2.84%) Sparx
7 9 (2.56%) Adobe
8 8 (2.27%) Google
9 7 (1.99%) Cisco
9 7 (1.99%) Databricks
10 5 (1.42%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.42%) HP
10 5 (1.42%) Murex
10 5 (1.42%) Planview
10 5 (1.42%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.14%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.14%) Okta
11 4 (1.14%) VMware
12 3 (0.85%) Netskope
12 3 (0.85%) Zscaler