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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 146 137
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 +6
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 311 241 324
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.93% 1.86% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 2.04% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 165 243
10th Percentile £325 £335 £425
25th Percentile £418 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +7.10%
75th Percentile £668 £650 £712
90th Percentile £750 £725 £785
England median daily rate £530 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -61.11% +94.22%
England median hourly rate £92.50 £35.00 £62.41
% change year-on-year +164.29% -43.92% -3.98%

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 14,510 11,786 16,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.86% 91.05% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,757 7,831 11,538
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 158 353
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.88% -16.22%
75th Percentile £56.85 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.77 £69.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 46 £625 +4.17% 10
East London +4 4 £578 +35.88% 9
South London -12 3 £750 +97.37% 2
West London -18 2 £329 -44.52% 5
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 40 (12.86%) Confluence
2 14 (4.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.96%) 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 42 (13.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (11.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 37 (11.90%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (7.72%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (6.43%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.93%) Trello
6 3 (0.96%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.86%) Loan IQ
2 9 (2.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.64%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.64%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.64%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.64%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.64%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.64%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.64%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.32%) Quorum
6 1 (0.32%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.32%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 61 (19.61%) Azure
2 23 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (6.43%) AWS
4 19 (6.11%) GCP
5 18 (5.79%) Power Platform
6 9 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (2.57%) SaaS
8 5 (1.61%) Asana
8 5 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (1.61%) Smartsheet
9 4 (1.29%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.96%) OCI
10 3 (0.96%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.64%) Figma
11 2 (0.64%) Intacct
11 2 (0.64%) iPaaS
11 2 (0.64%) Miro
11 2 (0.64%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.93%) DNS
2 5 (1.61%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.29%) FTP
3 4 (1.29%) HTTP
3 4 (1.29%) WAN
4 3 (0.96%) Firewall
4 3 (0.96%) Network Security
4 3 (0.96%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.96%) VPN
5 2 (0.64%) LAN
5 2 (0.64%) NAS
6 1 (0.32%) BGP
6 1 (0.32%) DHCP
6 1 (0.32%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.32%) Internet
6 1 (0.32%) Intranet
6 1 (0.32%) IPsec
6 1 (0.32%) OSPF
6 1 (0.32%) SSL
6 1 (0.32%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.22%) Power BI
2 8 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.25%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.25%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.29%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.96%) Metadata
6 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.32%) Big Data
6 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.32%) DataStage
6 1 (0.32%) DB2
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.32%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.32%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 88 (28.30%) JIRA
2 4 (1.29%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (1.29%) Selenium
3 3 (0.96%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.64%) Git
4 2 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.64%) TestRail
5 1 (0.32%) Appium
5 1 (0.32%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.32%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.32%) LSMW
5 1 (0.32%) NUnit
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.32%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 170 (54.66%) Finance
2 151 (48.55%) Social Skills
3 60 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (18.33%) Banking
5 27 (8.68%) Presentation Skills
6 20 (6.43%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (6.11%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (6.11%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.18%) Financial Institution
8 13 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.54%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.25%) Legal
10 7 (2.25%) Retail
11 6 (1.93%) Front Office
12 4 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.96%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 109 (35.05%) Analyst
2 78 (25.08%) Business Analyst
3 61 (19.61%) Project Manager
4 43 (13.83%) Senior
5 31 (9.97%) Senior Analyst
6 30 (9.65%) Lead
7 19 (6.11%) Senior Business Analyst
8 18 (5.79%) Delivery Manager
9 17 (5.47%) Programme Manager
10 15 (4.82%) Migration Analyst
10 15 (4.82%) Test Analyst
11 14 (4.50%) Banking Analyst
12 13 (4.18%) Architect
12 13 (4.18%) Transformation Analyst
13 12 (3.86%) Banking Business Analyst
13 12 (3.86%) Business Manager
14 11 (3.54%) Change Manager
14 11 (3.54%) Senior Test Analyst
15 10 (3.22%) Business Change Manager
15 10 (3.22%) Systems Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.47%) Middleware
2 12 (3.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (1.93%) ADO
3 6 (1.93%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (1.61%) Web Services
5 4 (1.29%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.96%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (0.96%) OAuth
6 3 (0.96%) SAML
7 2 (0.64%) .NET
7 2 (0.64%) Kafka
7 2 (0.64%) RESTful
7 2 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.64%) XML
8 1 (0.32%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.32%) ebXML
8 1 (0.32%) SAPUI5
8 1 (0.32%) SOAP
8 1 (0.32%) STL
8 1 (0.32%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.43%) Onboarding
2 17 (5.47%) PMI
3 12 (3.86%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.89%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.89%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.25%) Tandem
6 6 (1.93%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.93%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.29%) Derivative
8 4 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.96%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.64%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.64%) NHS
10 2 (0.64%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.64%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.22%) Windows
2 3 (0.96%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.64%) Linux
3 2 (0.64%) VMS
4 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (91.00%) Agile
2 153 (49.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 114 (36.66%) Project Management
4 104 (33.44%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (23.47%) Migration
6 71 (22.83%) Project Delivery
7 65 (20.90%) DevOps
8 59 (18.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 58 (18.65%) Business Analysis
10 57 (18.33%) Scrum
10 57 (18.33%) Workshop Facilitation
11 50 (16.08%) PRINCE2
12 49 (15.76%) User Acceptance Testing
13 47 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 47 (15.11%) User Stories
14 43 (13.83%) Requirements Gathering
15 40 (12.86%) Change Management
15 40 (12.86%) SDLC
16 37 (11.90%) Data Migration
16 37 (11.90%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 32 (10.29%) SQL
2 9 (2.89%) Python
3 7 (2.25%) Groovy
4 5 (1.61%) Apex Code
4 5 (1.61%) Bash
4 5 (1.61%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.96%) C#
5 3 (0.96%) Java
5 3 (0.96%) Korn
5 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.64%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.64%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.32%) ABAP
7 1 (0.32%) Bicep
7 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (17.68%) Degree
2 39 (12.54%) PMI Certification
3 37 (11.90%) Security Cleared
4 33 (10.61%) SC Cleared
5 27 (8.68%) PMP
6 22 (7.07%) CBAP
7 16 (5.14%) IIBA
8 10 (3.22%) ISTQB
9 9 (2.89%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.25%) ISEB
11 6 (1.93%) CISSP
12 4 (1.29%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.96%) CISM
13 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.64%) CCNP
14 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.58%) PMO
2 32 (10.29%) QA
3 18 (5.79%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.50%) GDPR
5 9 (2.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.93%) MiFID
7 5 (1.61%) EMIR
7 5 (1.61%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.96%) Basel III
8 3 (0.96%) GRC
8 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.96%) NIST
9 2 (0.64%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS
9 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.64%) PSD2
10 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.32%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 6 (1.93%) Docker
2 5 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.32%) RACF
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.61%) HP ALM
3 4 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.64%) Terraform
5 1 (0.32%) Ansible
5 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 68 (21.86%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.65%) Oracle
3 22 (7.07%) SAP
4 14 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.89%) Workday
6 8 (2.57%) Planview
6 8 (2.57%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.61%) HP
7 5 (1.61%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.61%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.29%) VMware
9 3 (0.96%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.96%) Cisco
9 3 (0.96%) Citrix
9 3 (0.96%) Jitterbit
9 3 (0.96%) Netskope
9 3 (0.96%) Okta
10 2 (0.64%) Databricks
10 2 (0.64%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.64%) Tagetik