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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 152 142
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 -13
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 316 232 306
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 1.87% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.03% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 151 228
10th Percentile £363 £356 £404
25th Percentile £425 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £662 £703
90th Percentile £750 £740 £791
England median daily rate £530 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £41.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +44.58% -29.55% +11.20%

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 15,896 11,429 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.31% 92.26% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,636 7,715 11,109
10th Percentile £358 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £760 £812 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 185 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.10 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.90 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +22.13% -25.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 43 £650 +8.33% 9
West London -17 7 £329 - 8
South London - 2 £513 - 2
East London - 2 - - 3
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 28 (8.86%) Confluence
2 14 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.63%) 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 45 (14.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (11.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 34 (10.76%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (7.28%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (6.33%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.95%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.95%) Trello
7 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.80%) Loan IQ
2 9 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (2.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (1.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (1.27%) Magento
5 4 (1.27%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.63%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.63%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.63%) Shopify
7 2 (0.63%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.32%) Quorum
8 1 (0.32%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.32%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 68 (21.52%) Azure
2 30 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (8.54%) AWS
4 23 (7.28%) Power Platform
5 14 (4.43%) GCP
6 11 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (3.48%) SaaS
7 10 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 5 (1.58%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.27%) Asana
10 4 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (1.27%) Smartsheet
11 3 (0.95%) OCI
12 2 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.63%) BigCommerce
12 2 (0.63%) GitHub
12 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.90%) DNS
1 6 (1.90%) Network Security
2 5 (1.58%) HTTP
2 5 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.63%) Firewall
3 2 (0.63%) FTP
3 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.63%) VPN
3 2 (0.63%) WAN
4 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.32%) Intranet
4 1 (0.32%) LAN
4 1 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.32%) VLAN
4 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.43%) Power BI
2 10 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.27%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.27%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.95%) Metadata
4 3 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.63%) Big Data
6 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.32%) DataStage
6 1 (0.32%) DB2
6 1 (0.32%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.32%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.32%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 77 (24.37%) JIRA
2 6 (1.90%) Git
3 5 (1.58%) Browser DevTools
3 5 (1.58%) Selenium
4 4 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.27%) Subversion
4 4 (1.27%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.63%) TestRail
6 1 (0.32%) Appium
6 1 (0.32%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.32%) LSMW
6 1 (0.32%) NUnit
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.32%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 161 (50.95%) Finance
2 146 (46.20%) Social Skills
3 62 (19.62%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (15.51%) Banking
5 25 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 24 (7.59%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (6.96%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.75%) Retail
9 13 (4.11%) Financial Institution
9 13 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.22%) Marketing
11 7 (2.22%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.90%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.58%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.95%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.95%) Legal
14 3 (0.95%) Police
15 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 89 (28.16%) Analyst
2 75 (23.73%) Project Manager
3 58 (18.35%) Business Analyst
4 50 (15.82%) Senior
5 27 (8.54%) Lead
5 27 (8.54%) Senior Analyst
6 21 (6.65%) Architect
7 20 (6.33%) Delivery Manager
8 19 (6.01%) Senior Manager
9 16 (5.06%) Senior Business Analyst
10 15 (4.75%) Change Manager
10 15 (4.75%) Programme Manager
10 15 (4.75%) Senior Project Manager
11 14 (4.43%) IT Manager
11 14 (4.43%) Test Manager
12 13 (4.11%) Transformation Analyst
13 12 (3.80%) Migration Analyst
14 11 (3.48%) Banking Analyst
14 11 (3.48%) Infrastructure Manager
15 10 (3.16%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.75%) Middleware
2 8 (2.53%) ADO
2 8 (2.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (1.58%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (1.58%) VML
4 4 (1.27%) OAuth
4 4 (1.27%) SailPoint
4 4 (1.27%) SAML
5 2 (0.63%) .NET
5 2 (0.63%) Kafka
5 2 (0.63%) Web Services
6 1 (0.32%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.32%) ebXML
6 1 (0.32%) React
6 1 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.32%) SAPUI5
6 1 (0.32%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.32%) SOAP
6 1 (0.32%) STL
6 1 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.06%) Onboarding
2 13 (4.11%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.80%) PMI
4 10 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.53%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.22%) Tandem
7 6 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.27%) CMDB
8 4 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.95%) Derivative
9 3 (0.95%) Life Science
9 3 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.63%) Freedom of Information Act
10 2 (0.63%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.58%) Windows
2 3 (0.95%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (87.97%) Agile
2 156 (49.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 127 (40.19%) Project Management
4 96 (30.38%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (24.68%) Project Delivery
6 72 (22.78%) DevOps
7 70 (22.15%) Migration
8 65 (20.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 59 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (16.46%) Workshop Facilitation
11 49 (15.51%) Business Analysis
11 49 (15.51%) User Acceptance Testing
12 48 (15.19%) Scrum
13 42 (13.29%) PRINCE2
13 42 (13.29%) User Stories
14 41 (12.97%) Decision-Making
15 40 (12.66%) Change Management
16 38 (12.03%) SDLC
17 37 (11.71%) Requirements Gathering
17 37 (11.71%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.49%) SQL
2 10 (3.16%) Python
3 5 (1.58%) Apex Code
3 5 (1.58%) Bash
3 5 (1.58%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.95%) C#
4 3 (0.95%) Java
4 3 (0.95%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.63%) Groovy
5 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.32%) ABAP
6 1 (0.32%) Korn
6 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (16.46%) Degree
2 45 (14.24%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.81%) PMI Certification
3 31 (9.81%) SC Cleared
4 24 (7.59%) PMP
5 22 (6.96%) CBAP
6 15 (4.75%) IIBA
7 12 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 12 (3.80%) ISTQB
8 8 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.53%) ISEB
9 7 (2.22%) APMG
10 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.27%) CISSP
11 4 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.95%) CISM
12 3 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.95%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (16.14%) QA
2 44 (13.92%) PMO
3 20 (6.33%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.85%) GDPR
5 7 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.90%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.95%) Basel III
7 3 (0.95%) GRC
7 3 (0.95%) IFRS
7 3 (0.95%) NIST
8 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.63%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.63%) PSD2
9 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.95%) IAG
3 2 (0.63%) Docker
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.27%) HP ALM
2 4 (1.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.63%) Ansible
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.63%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 68 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.91%) Oracle
3 22 (6.96%) SAP
4 19 (6.01%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.53%) Sparx
7 7 (2.22%) Planview
7 7 (2.22%) Workday
8 5 (1.58%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.27%) Adobe
9 4 (1.27%) HP
9 4 (1.27%) Okta
9 4 (1.27%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.95%) Ariba
10 3 (0.95%) Cisco
10 3 (0.95%) Citrix
10 3 (0.95%) Computacenter
10 3 (0.95%) Databricks
10 3 (0.95%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.95%) VMware