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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 147 127
Rank change year-on-year -16 -20 -18
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 354 259 312
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 1.92% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.08% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 183 217
10th Percentile £375 £325 £400
25th Percentile £454 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £664 £650
90th Percentile £750 £737 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £53.00 £53.20
% change year-on-year +22.64% -0.38% +0.44%

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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -6 45 £675 +25.29% 21
West London -11 15 £420 +31.09% 5
South London -6 4 £575 - 2
North London -4 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 29 (8.19%) Confluence
2 23 (6.50%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.98%) CMS
4 5 (1.41%) SAS
5 4 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.13%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.85%) Kentico
7 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Apache
8 1 (0.28%) Appian
8 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.28%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 41 (11.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (8.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (7.91%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (7.91%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (4.52%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.13%) Trello
6 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (2.26%) Magento
4 6 (1.69%) Loan IQ
5 4 (1.13%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.85%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.56%) Finacle
7 2 (0.56%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.56%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.56%) Shopify
7 2 (0.56%) Summit
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.28%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.28%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 85 (24.01%) Azure
2 43 (12.15%) AWS
3 38 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (9.04%) Power Platform
5 20 (5.65%) GCP
6 16 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (4.52%) SaaS
7 12 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.98%) Adobe Analytics
8 7 (1.98%) Asana
9 6 (1.69%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.69%) GitHub
10 5 (1.41%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.41%) Smartsheet
11 4 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.13%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (0.85%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.26%) Network Security
2 6 (1.69%) DNS
3 5 (1.41%) HTTP
3 5 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.13%) DMZ
5 3 (0.85%) Firewall
5 3 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.85%) WAN
5 3 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.56%) 4G
6 2 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.56%) FTP
6 2 (0.56%) Internet
6 2 (0.56%) Intranet
6 2 (0.56%) MPLS
6 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.56%) VLAN
6 2 (0.56%) VPN
6 2 (0.56%) Wireless
7 1 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.91%) Power BI
2 10 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.26%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.41%) 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 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.56%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.56%) DataStage
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%) Looker
8 1 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 70 (19.77%) JIRA
2 12 (3.39%) Git
3 10 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.54%) Selenium
5 8 (2.26%) Subversion
6 5 (1.41%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (1.13%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.85%) eggPlant
8 3 (0.85%) HP UFT
8 3 (0.85%) TestRail
8 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.56%) Rational Functional Tester
9 2 (0.56%) SilkTest
9 2 (0.56%) SOAtest
10 1 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.28%) Postman
10 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 184 (51.98%) Finance
2 158 (44.63%) Social Skills
3 84 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (18.08%) Banking
5 42 (11.86%) Public Sector
6 26 (7.34%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (7.34%) Retail
7 18 (5.08%) Marketing
8 14 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.11%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.26%) Legal
12 7 (1.98%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.98%) Police
13 6 (1.69%) Front Office
13 6 (1.69%) Law
13 6 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.41%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 112 (31.64%) Project Manager
2 77 (21.75%) Analyst
3 50 (14.12%) Business Analyst
4 43 (12.15%) Senior
5 32 (9.04%) Architect
6 26 (7.34%) Senior Manager
7 24 (6.78%) Senior Project Manager
8 21 (5.93%) Lead
9 20 (5.65%) Programme Manager
10 18 (5.08%) Infrastructure Manager
10 18 (5.08%) Technical Manager
11 17 (4.80%) Change Manager
11 17 (4.80%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 17 (4.80%) Technical Project Manager
11 17 (4.80%) Test Manager
12 16 (4.52%) IT Manager
13 11 (3.11%) Business Manager
13 11 (3.11%) IT Project Manager
13 11 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (2.82%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.11%) Middleware
2 9 (2.54%) VML
3 8 (2.26%) ADO
4 5 (1.41%) .NET
4 5 (1.41%) OAuth
4 5 (1.41%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.41%) SAML
4 5 (1.41%) SOAP
4 5 (1.41%) Web Services
4 5 (1.41%) XML
5 3 (0.85%) Kafka
5 3 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.56%) HTML
6 2 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.56%) REST
6 2 (0.56%) RxJava
6 2 (0.56%) Vert.x
6 2 (0.56%) XBRL
7 1 (0.28%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.19%) Onboarding
2 23 (6.50%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.21%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.11%) CMDB
5 11 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (2.82%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.98%) PMI
8 6 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.69%) NHS
8 6 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.41%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.41%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.41%) Derivative
9 5 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.41%) Linux
2 3 (0.85%) Unix
2 3 (0.85%) Windows
3 1 (0.28%) Android
3 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (92.66%) Agile
2 177 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 122 (34.46%) Project Management
4 97 (27.40%) Project Delivery
5 86 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (22.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 73 (20.62%) Migration
8 66 (18.64%) DevOps
9 60 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (16.67%) PRINCE2
11 54 (15.25%) User Acceptance Testing
12 52 (14.69%) Scrum
13 49 (13.84%) Workshop Facilitation
14 47 (13.28%) Change Management
15 46 (12.99%) Business Analysis
16 44 (12.43%) User Stories
17 43 (12.15%) Risk Management
18 41 (11.58%) Analytics
19 38 (10.73%) Roadmaps
20 37 (10.45%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 31 (8.76%) SQL
2 11 (3.11%) Python
3 10 (2.82%) Java
3 10 (2.82%) Korn
4 5 (1.41%) Bash
5 4 (1.13%) Groovy
6 3 (0.85%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.85%) VBA
7 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.56%) C#
7 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.56%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 45 (12.71%) Degree
3 41 (11.58%) SC Cleared
4 39 (11.02%) PMI Certification
5 37 (10.45%) PMP
6 23 (6.50%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.67%) ISTQB
8 9 (2.54%) ISEB
9 7 (1.98%) APMG
10 5 (1.41%) CISSP
10 5 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 3 (0.85%) CBAP
12 3 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.85%) IIBA
12 3 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.28%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.43%) PMO
1 44 (12.43%) QA
2 21 (5.93%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.41%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.41%) NIST
4 4 (1.13%) GDPR
4 4 (1.13%) P3O
4 4 (1.13%) SEPA
5 3 (0.85%) NCSC
6 2 (0.56%) GRC
6 2 (0.56%) ISO 15022
6 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.28%) EMIR
7 1 (0.28%) GxP
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.28%) MiFID
7 1 (0.28%) PMBOK
System Software
1 9 (2.54%) IAG
2 3 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.56%) Docker
3 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.41%) HP ALM
3 5 (1.41%) Terraform
4 4 (1.13%) Ansible
5 2 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
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 69 (19.49%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.63%) SAP
2 27 (7.63%) ServiceNow
3 19 (5.37%) Oracle
4 16 (4.52%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.82%) Adobe
5 10 (2.82%) Sparx
6 9 (2.54%) Google
7 7 (1.98%) Cisco
8 6 (1.69%) Databricks
8 6 (1.69%) HP
8 6 (1.69%) Murex
8 6 (1.69%) Planview
8 6 (1.69%) Sitecore
9 5 (1.41%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.41%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.13%) Amplitude
10 4 (1.13%) Okta
10 4 (1.13%) Optimizely
10 4 (1.13%) Tealium