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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 141 145
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -12
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 318 233 305
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.84% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 2.01% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 149 229
10th Percentile £327 £361 £425
25th Percentile £413 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -14.29% +11.36%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £712
90th Percentile £750 £705 £788
England median daily rate £526 £525 £589
% change year-on-year +0.24% -10.89% +7.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £87.50 £41.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +110.84% -29.55% -3.81%

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 15,438 11,597 15,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.12% 91.69% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,339 7,865 11,332
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 334
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.65
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £66.68
England median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 0 47 £625 +6.38% 16
West London -16 7 £329 -45.17% 4
South London -13 2 £513 +34.87% 2
East London - 2 - - 7
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 37 (11.64%) Confluence
2 16 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.94%) CMS
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.31%) Appian
4 1 (0.31%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.31%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.31%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 46 (14.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (11.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 37 (11.64%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (6.60%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.57%) Trello
6 4 (1.26%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.77%) Loan IQ
2 8 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.26%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.94%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.63%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.63%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.63%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.63%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.63%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.63%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.63%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 66 (20.75%) Azure
2 28 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (7.86%) AWS
4 22 (6.92%) Power Platform
5 18 (5.66%) GCP
6 11 (3.46%) SaaS
7 10 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.57%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (1.57%) Smartsheet
9 4 (1.26%) Asana
10 3 (0.94%) OCI
10 3 (0.94%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.63%) Datadog
11 2 (0.63%) GitHub
11 2 (0.63%) iPaaS
11 2 (0.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.20%) DNS
2 6 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.57%) HTTP
4 4 (1.26%) FTP
4 4 (1.26%) Network Security
5 3 (0.94%) Firewall
5 3 (0.94%) VPN
5 3 (0.94%) WAN
6 2 (0.63%) NAS
6 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.31%) DHCP
7 1 (0.31%) HSRP
7 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.31%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.31%) IPsec
7 1 (0.31%) NGFW
7 1 (0.31%) SSL
7 1 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.31%) VLAN
7 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.09%) Power BI
2 9 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.20%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.94%) Metadata
7 2 (0.63%) Big Data
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.31%) DataStage
8 1 (0.31%) DB2
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.31%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.31%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.31%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.31%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 88 (27.67%) JIRA
2 6 (1.89%) Selenium
3 5 (1.57%) Browser DevTools
3 5 (1.57%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.63%) Git
4 2 (0.63%) TestRail
5 1 (0.31%) Appium
5 1 (0.31%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.31%) LSMW
5 1 (0.31%) NUnit
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.31%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.31%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 168 (52.83%) Finance
2 155 (48.74%) Social Skills
3 66 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (17.30%) Banking
5 27 (8.49%) Presentation Skills
6 25 (7.86%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (4.09%) Financial Institution
10 11 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.14%) Retail
12 8 (2.52%) Investment Banking
13 7 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.26%) Front Office
14 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.26%) Police
14 4 (1.26%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.94%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.94%) Legal
16 2 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 99 (31.13%) Analyst
2 69 (21.70%) Business Analyst
3 67 (21.07%) Project Manager
4 43 (13.52%) Senior
5 28 (8.81%) Lead
5 28 (8.81%) Senior Analyst
6 20 (6.29%) Delivery Manager
7 16 (5.03%) Programme Manager
7 16 (5.03%) Senior Business Analyst
8 15 (4.72%) Migration Analyst
8 15 (4.72%) Test Analyst
9 14 (4.40%) IT Manager
10 13 (4.09%) Banking Analyst
10 13 (4.09%) Change Manager
10 13 (4.09%) Transformation Analyst
11 12 (3.77%) Senior Manager
11 12 (3.77%) Test Manager
12 11 (3.46%) Architect
12 11 (3.46%) Banking Business Analyst
12 11 (3.46%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.35%) Middleware
2 11 (3.46%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (2.20%) ADO
4 5 (1.57%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.26%) OAuth
5 4 (1.26%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.26%) SAML
5 4 (1.26%) Web Services
6 3 (0.94%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.63%) .NET
7 2 (0.63%) Kafka
7 2 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.63%) XML
8 1 (0.31%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.31%) ebXML
8 1 (0.31%) React
8 1 (0.31%) RESTful
8 1 (0.31%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.31%) STL
8 1 (0.31%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.29%) Onboarding
2 15 (4.72%) PMI
3 13 (4.09%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.14%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.20%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.20%) Tandem
6 6 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.26%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.26%) CMDB
8 4 (1.26%) Derivative
8 4 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.94%) Life Science
10 2 (0.63%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.14%) Windows
2 3 (0.94%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.63%) Linux
3 2 (0.63%) VMS
4 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (90.25%) Agile
2 157 (49.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 123 (38.68%) Project Management
4 106 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (23.90%) Project Delivery
6 72 (22.64%) Migration
7 67 (21.07%) DevOps
7 67 (21.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 59 (18.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 58 (18.24%) Workshop Facilitation
10 53 (16.67%) Scrum
11 52 (16.35%) Business Analysis
12 50 (15.72%) User Acceptance Testing
13 47 (14.78%) PRINCE2
14 45 (14.15%) User Stories
15 43 (13.52%) Decision-Making
16 41 (12.89%) Requirements Gathering
17 40 (12.58%) Change Management
18 37 (11.64%) Data Migration
19 35 (11.01%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 32 (10.06%) SQL
2 11 (3.46%) Python
3 6 (1.89%) Bash
3 6 (1.89%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.57%) Apex Code
4 5 (1.57%) Groovy
5 3 (0.94%) C#
5 3 (0.94%) Java
5 3 (0.94%) PL/SQL
5 3 (0.94%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.63%) Korn
6 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.31%) ABAP
7 1 (0.31%) Bicep
7 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (15.41%) Degree
2 41 (12.89%) Security Cleared
3 37 (11.64%) SC Cleared
4 36 (11.32%) PMI Certification
5 27 (8.49%) PMP
6 21 (6.60%) CBAP
7 14 (4.40%) IIBA
8 12 (3.77%) ISTQB
9 9 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.89%) APMG
10 6 (1.89%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.89%) CISSP
10 6 (1.89%) ISEB
11 5 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.94%) CISM
12 3 (0.94%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.78%) PMO
2 43 (13.52%) QA
3 19 (5.97%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.46%) GDPR
5 7 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.57%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.94%) Basel III
7 3 (0.94%) GRC
7 3 (0.94%) NIST
8 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.63%) IFRS
8 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.63%) MiFID
8 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.63%) PSD2
9 1 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.31%) EMIR
9 1 (0.31%) GAAP
9 1 (0.31%) TARGET2
System Software
1 5 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.94%) Docker
2 3 (0.94%) IAG
3 1 (0.31%) RACF
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (2.20%) HP ALM
2 6 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.63%) Ansible
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.63%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 68 (21.38%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.06%) Oracle
3 25 (7.86%) SAP
4 15 (4.72%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.83%) Workday
7 8 (2.52%) Planview
8 7 (2.20%) HP
9 5 (1.57%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.57%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.26%) Cisco
10 4 (1.26%) Okta
11 3 (0.94%) Adobe
11 3 (0.94%) Citrix
11 3 (0.94%) Databricks
11 3 (0.94%) Jitterbit
11 3 (0.94%) Netskope
11 3 (0.94%) Verint
11 3 (0.94%) VMware
12 2 (0.63%) Palo Alto