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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 137 140
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 -23
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 359 267 313
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 1.97% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.14% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 185 228
10th Percentile £363 £332 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £800
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 £69.75 £48.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +45.31% -18.51% +17.26%

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 17,589 12,488 14,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,618 8,349 10,661
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 238 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.41 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.40 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -9.38% -19.16%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 21 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 21 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 -11 44 £675 +22.73% 29
West London -1 14 £329 -26.89% 5
South London -9 5 £550 - 4
East London -1 1 - - 4
North London -3 1 - - 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 28 (7.80%) Confluence
2 23 (6.41%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.67%) CMS
4 4 (1.11%) SAS
5 3 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.84%) Kentico
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.28%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 47 (13.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (10.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (8.91%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (7.52%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (4.46%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (3.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (2.51%) Loan IQ
4 8 (2.23%) Magento
5 4 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (1.11%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.84%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.56%) Finacle
7 2 (0.56%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.56%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.56%) Shopify
7 2 (0.56%) Summit
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 92 (25.63%) Azure
2 43 (11.98%) AWS
3 38 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (9.75%) Power Platform
5 19 (5.29%) GCP
6 15 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (4.18%) SaaS
7 14 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (2.23%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.95%) Smartsheet
10 6 (1.67%) Asana
10 6 (1.67%) GitHub
10 6 (1.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 5 (1.39%) Adobe Analytics
12 4 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.11%) OCI
12 4 (1.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 3 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.84%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.23%) Network Security
2 6 (1.67%) DNS
3 5 (1.39%) HTTP
3 5 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.84%) Firewall
4 3 (0.84%) Intranet
5 2 (0.56%) 4G
5 2 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.56%) FTP
5 2 (0.56%) Internet
5 2 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.56%) VLAN
5 2 (0.56%) VPN
5 2 (0.56%) WAN
5 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.28%) DHCP
6 1 (0.28%) LAN
6 1 (0.28%) Multicast
6 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.36%) Power BI
2 11 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.23%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.67%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.56%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.56%) DataStage
7 2 (0.56%) Metadata
7 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.56%) Power Query
7 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.56%) Tableau
8 1 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.28%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 74 (20.61%) JIRA
2 12 (3.34%) Git
3 10 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.23%) Subversion
5 6 (1.67%) Selenium
6 5 (1.39%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (1.11%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.84%) TestRail
8 3 (0.84%) 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
1 177 (49.30%) Finance
2 164 (45.68%) Social Skills
3 81 (22.56%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (16.16%) Banking
5 45 (12.53%) Public Sector
6 28 (7.80%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (6.41%) Retail
8 20 (5.57%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (3.90%) Marketing
10 13 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.79%) Financial Institution
12 8 (2.23%) Legal
13 7 (1.95%) Police
14 6 (1.67%) Law
14 6 (1.67%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.39%) Front Office
15 5 (1.39%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (28.13%) Project Manager
2 78 (21.73%) Analyst
3 50 (13.93%) Business Analyst
4 39 (10.86%) Senior
5 32 (8.91%) Architect
6 27 (7.52%) Lead
7 26 (7.24%) Senior Manager
8 24 (6.69%) Senior Project Manager
9 19 (5.29%) Change Manager
10 17 (4.74%) Infrastructure Manager
10 17 (4.74%) Programme Manager
11 16 (4.46%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 16 (4.46%) IT Manager
12 15 (4.18%) Test Manager
13 14 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
14 13 (3.62%) Business Manager
15 12 (3.34%) Banking Analyst
15 12 (3.34%) Technical Manager
15 12 (3.34%) Technical Project Manager
16 10 (2.79%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.90%) Middleware
2 9 (2.51%) VML
3 7 (1.95%) ADO
4 6 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.39%) OAuth
5 5 (1.39%) SailPoint
5 5 (1.39%) SAML
6 4 (1.11%) .NET
6 4 (1.11%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.84%) Kafka
7 3 (0.84%) SOAP
8 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.56%) REST
8 2 (0.56%) RxJava
8 2 (0.56%) Vert.x
8 2 (0.56%) Web Services
8 2 (0.56%) XML
9 1 (0.28%) Pandas
9 1 (0.28%) pytest
9 1 (0.28%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.24%) Onboarding
2 18 (5.01%) Data Centre
3 16 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.62%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (2.79%) CMDB
8 7 (1.95%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.95%) PMI
9 6 (1.67%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.67%) Derivative
9 6 (1.67%) NHS
9 6 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.11%) IoT
11 4 (1.11%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.11%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.39%) Windows
2 3 (0.84%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.56%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (92.76%) Agile
2 172 (47.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 121 (33.70%) Project Management
4 90 (25.07%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (24.79%) Project Delivery
6 85 (23.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 78 (21.73%) DevOps
8 77 (21.45%) Migration
9 60 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (16.71%) PRINCE2
10 58 (16.16%) User Acceptance Testing
11 54 (15.04%) Change Management
12 51 (14.21%) Scrum
13 46 (12.81%) Workshop Facilitation
14 45 (12.53%) User Stories
15 43 (11.98%) Business Analysis
16 42 (11.70%) Decision-Making
17 38 (10.58%) Requirements Gathering
17 38 (10.58%) Risk Management
17 38 (10.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.19%) SQL
2 15 (4.18%) Python
3 6 (1.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.39%) Bash
4 5 (1.39%) Java
4 5 (1.39%) Korn
5 4 (1.11%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.11%) C#
5 4 (1.11%) Groovy
6 3 (0.84%) VBA
7 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.28%) ABAP
8 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 57 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 53 (14.76%) Degree
3 38 (10.58%) PMI Certification
4 37 (10.31%) SC Cleared
5 36 (10.03%) PMP
6 23 (6.41%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.62%) ISTQB
8 9 (2.51%) CBAP
9 8 (2.23%) IIBA
10 7 (1.95%) APMG
10 7 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.95%) CISSP
10 7 (1.95%) ISEB
11 6 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.84%) CISM
14 3 (0.84%) CTC Cleared
14 3 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.81%) QA
2 45 (12.53%) PMO
3 20 (5.57%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.23%) GDPR
5 7 (1.95%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.39%) NIST
7 4 (1.11%) SEPA
8 3 (0.84%) NCSC
8 3 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.56%) GRC
9 2 (0.56%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.56%) P3O
9 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.56%) PSD2
10 1 (0.28%) EMIR
10 1 (0.28%) IFRS
10 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.28%) PMBOK
System Software
1 9 (2.51%) IAG
2 5 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.11%) Docker
4 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.39%) Terraform
4 4 (1.11%) Ansible
4 4 (1.11%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.56%) 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 71 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.80%) ServiceNow
3 24 (6.69%) SAP
4 20 (5.57%) Salesforce
5 18 (5.01%) Oracle
6 10 (2.79%) Sparx
7 9 (2.51%) Adobe
8 6 (1.67%) Cisco
8 6 (1.67%) Databricks
8 6 (1.67%) Google
8 6 (1.67%) Planview
9 5 (1.39%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.39%) HP
9 5 (1.39%) Murex
10 4 (1.11%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.11%) Okta
10 4 (1.11%) Sitecore
10 4 (1.11%) VMware
11 3 (0.84%) Netskope
11 3 (0.84%) Zscaler