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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 135 120
Rank change year-on-year -9 -15 +16
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 293 259 364
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.91% 1.90% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 2.10% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 164 279
10th Percentile £325 £356 £411
25th Percentile £412 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £700
90th Percentile £750 £718 £750
England median daily rate £525 £528 £568
% change year-on-year -0.47% -7.05% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
Median hourly rate £107.14 £35.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +206.11% -61.11% +81.25%
England median hourly rate £82.50 £35.00 £77.96
% change year-on-year +135.71% -55.11% +47.18%

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 13,905 12,332 16,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.68% 90.64% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,265 7,884 11,766
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 153 341
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.25 £50.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -21 39 £600 +1.69% 17
East London +4 5 £578 +35.88% 12
South London -13 3 £750 +97.37% 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 38 (12.97%) Confluence
2 15 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.34%) Appian
4 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.34%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 42 (14.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (12.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (10.92%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (9.22%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (7.17%) MS Visio
6 6 (2.05%) Trello
7 4 (1.37%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (2.73%) Loan IQ
2 6 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.02%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.02%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.68%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.68%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.68%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.68%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.34%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 58 (19.80%) Azure
2 21 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (6.83%) Power Platform
4 17 (5.80%) GCP
5 15 (5.12%) AWS
6 9 (3.07%) SaaS
7 8 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.05%) Asana
9 4 (1.37%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.37%) Smartsheet
10 3 (1.02%) Miro
10 3 (1.02%) OCI
10 3 (1.02%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (1.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.68%) Intacct
11 2 (0.68%) iPaaS
11 2 (0.68%) Lucidchart
11 2 (0.68%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) VPN
1 4 (1.37%) WAN
2 3 (1.02%) FTP
2 3 (1.02%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.68%) DNS
3 2 (0.68%) Firewall
3 2 (0.68%) LAN
3 2 (0.68%) NAS
3 2 (0.68%) VLAN
4 1 (0.34%) BGP
4 1 (0.34%) DHCP
4 1 (0.34%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.34%) HSRP
4 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.34%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) Intranet
4 1 (0.34%) OSPF
4 1 (0.34%) SSL
4 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.34%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.10%) Power BI
2 8 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.39%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.39%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (2.05%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.02%) Metadata
6 2 (0.68%) Tableau
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.34%) Big Data
7 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.34%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.34%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 77 (26.28%) JIRA
2 4 (1.37%) Selenium
3 3 (1.02%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.68%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.68%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.68%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.68%) sqlmap
4 2 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.68%) TestRail
5 1 (0.34%) Appium
5 1 (0.34%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.34%) NUnit
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.34%) Postman
5 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.34%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 158 (53.92%) Finance
2 146 (49.83%) Social Skills
3 53 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (16.38%) Banking
5 24 (8.19%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (6.48%) Public Sector
7 18 (6.14%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (5.12%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.75%) Retail
11 9 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (3.07%) Investment Banking
12 7 (2.39%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.39%) Legal
13 6 (2.05%) Front Office
13 6 (2.05%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.37%) Local Government
16 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 107 (36.52%) Analyst
2 78 (26.62%) Business Analyst
3 52 (17.75%) Project Manager
4 42 (14.33%) Senior
5 34 (11.60%) Lead
6 31 (10.58%) Senior Analyst
7 18 (6.14%) Senior Business Analyst
8 17 (5.80%) Delivery Manager
8 17 (5.80%) Programme Manager
8 17 (5.80%) Test Analyst
9 12 (4.10%) Senior Test Analyst
10 11 (3.75%) Migration Analyst
11 10 (3.41%) Architect
11 10 (3.41%) Banking Analyst
11 10 (3.41%) Consultant
11 10 (3.41%) Integration Analyst
11 10 (3.41%) Integration Test Analyst
11 10 (3.41%) Systems Analyst
11 10 (3.41%) Systems Integration Analyst
11 10 (3.41%) Systems Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.46%) Middleware
2 11 (3.75%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (2.05%) ADO
3 6 (2.05%) Web Services
4 4 (1.37%) Kafka
4 4 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.02%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.02%) RESTful
5 3 (1.02%) SOAP
6 2 (0.68%) .NET
6 2 (0.68%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (0.68%) XML
7 1 (0.34%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.34%) JSON
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.34%) React
7 1 (0.34%) SAPUI5
7 1 (0.34%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.34%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.48%) PMI
2 17 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.39%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.71%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.71%) Tandem
8 4 (1.37%) Derivative
8 4 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.02%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.02%) Life Science
9 3 (1.02%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.68%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.10%) Windows
2 4 (1.37%) Linux
3 2 (0.68%) VMS
3 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (92.83%) Agile
2 145 (49.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 108 (36.86%) Project Management
4 97 (33.11%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (26.62%) Project Delivery
6 68 (23.21%) Migration
7 58 (19.80%) DevOps
8 55 (18.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 55 (18.77%) Workshop Facilitation
9 54 (18.43%) Business Analysis
10 51 (17.41%) User Acceptance Testing
11 49 (16.72%) Scrum
12 48 (16.38%) Change Management
13 46 (15.70%) Requirements Gathering
14 44 (15.02%) User Stories
15 43 (14.68%) PRINCE2
16 42 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (13.65%) SDLC
18 34 (11.60%) Data Migration
18 34 (11.60%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (11.26%) SQL
2 8 (2.73%) Python
3 7 (2.39%) Groovy
4 5 (1.71%) Java
4 5 (1.71%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.02%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.02%) Bash
5 3 (1.02%) C#
5 3 (1.02%) Korn
6 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.34%) ABAP
7 1 (0.34%) Bicep
7 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (20.14%) Degree
2 37 (12.63%) PMI Certification
3 31 (10.58%) Security Cleared
4 28 (9.56%) SC Cleared
5 25 (8.53%) CBAP
6 20 (6.83%) PMP
7 17 (5.80%) IIBA
8 10 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.73%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.73%) ISTQB
10 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.05%) ISEB
11 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.37%) CISSP
13 3 (1.02%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.68%) GPEN
14 2 (0.68%) GXPN
14 2 (0.68%) OSCP
14 2 (0.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.33%) PMO
2 30 (10.24%) QA
3 14 (4.78%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.41%) GDPR
5 8 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (2.05%) MiFID
7 5 (1.71%) EMIR
8 4 (1.37%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.02%) Basel III
9 3 (1.02%) GRC
10 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.68%) IFRS
10 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.68%) NIST
10 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.71%) Docker
3 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.34%) IAG
4 1 (0.34%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (2.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.37%) HP ALM
3 3 (1.02%) Terraform
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.68%) Nessus
4 2 (0.68%) Nmap
5 1 (0.34%) Ansible
5 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.90%) Oracle
3 19 (6.48%) SAP
4 11 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.07%) Planview
6 8 (2.73%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.39%) Workday
8 5 (1.71%) VMware
9 4 (1.37%) HP
9 4 (1.37%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.02%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.02%) Jitterbit
10 3 (1.02%) PeopleSoft
11 2 (0.68%) Databricks
11 2 (0.68%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.68%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.68%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.68%) Progress
11 2 (0.68%) Xceptor
11 2 (0.68%) Zscaler