Waterfall Contracts in London

Waterfall Model
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Waterfall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Waterfall over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 146 122
Rank change year-on-year +3 -24 -22
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 253 309 547
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.90% 1.75% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.98% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 221 405
10th Percentile £331 £400 £404
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £759
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £43.77
25th Percentile £25.75 - £43.81
Median hourly rate £26.50 - £47.50
75th Percentile £27.25 - £52.11
90th Percentile - - £52.63
England median hourly rate £49.50 £58.91 £50.24
% change year-on-year -15.97% +17.26% -13.31%

All Process and 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 12,241 15,588 23,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.47% 90.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,173 11,098 16,857
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 295 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.97 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in London

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in London.

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in London

Waterfall
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Waterfall in London

Waterfall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in London.

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in London

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 5 July 2025. 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 -8 39 £550 -7.56% 82
East London +12 3 £585 +9.86% 9
North London -1 3 £550 +29.41% 4
West London +5 2 £450 -28.00% 16
South London -2 1 - - 7
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (7.11%) Confluence
2 9 (3.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.79%) CMS
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Camunda
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (7.51%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (3.16%) MS Visio
5 6 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.98%) Trello
7 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.19%) Shopify
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.40%) Epicor iScala
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.40%) Primavera
5 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 42 (16.60%) Azure
2 19 (7.51%) AWS
3 18 (7.11%) SaaS
4 14 (5.53%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.56%) OCI
8 7 (2.77%) GitHub
8 7 (2.77%) IaaS
8 7 (2.77%) PaaS
9 6 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.58%) GCP
10 4 (1.58%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.58%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.19%) BigCommerce
11 3 (1.19%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.19%) SAP Fieldglass
12 2 (0.79%) Asana
12 2 (0.79%) Collibra
12 2 (0.79%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.56%) Firewall
2 7 (2.77%) WAN
3 5 (1.98%) LAN
4 3 (1.19%) DNS
5 2 (0.79%) Network Security
5 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.79%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.40%) SAN
6 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.35%) Power BI
2 10 (3.95%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.37%) Oracle ODI
5 5 (1.98%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.98%) MS Access
6 4 (1.58%) Big Data
6 4 (1.58%) HPCC
7 3 (1.19%) Metadata
7 3 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.19%) Tableau
8 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.40%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.40%) DB2
9 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.40%) Looker
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.40%) Power Query
9 1 (0.40%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 48 (18.97%) JIRA
2 8 (3.16%) QARun
2 8 (3.16%) WinRunner
3 6 (2.37%) Git
4 4 (1.58%) GitLab
5 3 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.19%) Selenium
5 3 (1.19%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.79%) Gradle
6 2 (0.79%) Maven
6 2 (0.79%) Subversion
6 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.40%) Postman
7 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 109 (43.08%) Finance
2 105 (41.50%) Social Skills
3 37 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (12.25%) Banking
5 12 (4.74%) Retail
6 11 (4.35%) Legal
7 9 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.56%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.37%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.37%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.37%) Marketing
9 6 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.98%) Back Office
11 4 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.58%) Local Government
12 3 (1.19%) Front Office
12 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.79%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 78 (30.83%) Analyst
2 62 (24.51%) Project Manager
3 58 (22.92%) Business Analyst
4 31 (12.25%) Senior
5 19 (7.51%) Delivery Manager
6 16 (6.32%) Architect
6 16 (6.32%) Lead
7 15 (5.93%) Senior Manager
8 12 (4.74%) Senior Project Manager
9 11 (4.35%) Test Analyst
10 10 (3.95%) Programme Manager
10 10 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.16%) Infrastructure Manager
12 8 (3.16%) UAT Analyst
12 8 (3.16%) UAT Test Analyst
13 6 (2.37%) Insurance Business Analyst
13 6 (2.37%) IT Project Manager
13 6 (2.37%) Senior Business Analyst
13 6 (2.37%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.35%) Middleware
2 8 (3.16%) XML
3 7 (2.77%) HTML
4 6 (2.37%) Web Services
5 5 (1.98%) JSON
5 5 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.19%) DCOM
6 3 (1.19%) REST
6 3 (1.19%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.19%) SOAP
6 3 (1.19%) VML
7 2 (0.79%) .NET
7 2 (0.79%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (0.79%) EDI
7 2 (0.79%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.79%) Kafka
7 2 (0.79%) RESTful
7 2 (0.79%) Spring
7 2 (0.79%) XML Messaging
8 1 (0.40%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.16%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.16%) Virtual Team
3 7 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.37%) Reinsurance
5 4 (1.58%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.19%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.19%) Derivative
6 3 (1.19%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (0.79%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.79%) DTCC
7 2 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.79%) Market Risk
7 2 (0.79%) PMI
7 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.40%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.88%) Windows
2 9 (3.56%) Unix
3 7 (2.77%) Linux
4 4 (1.58%) VMS
5 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (94.07%) Agile
2 86 (33.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 83 (32.81%) Project Management
4 57 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (16.60%) DevOps
6 39 (15.42%) Project Delivery
7 37 (14.62%) PRINCE2
8 36 (14.23%) Change Management
9 34 (13.44%) Scrum
10 32 (12.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 32 (12.65%) User Acceptance Testing
11 31 (12.25%) Analytics
12 30 (11.86%) Requirements Gathering
13 29 (11.46%) Migration
14 28 (11.07%) Decision-Making
15 26 (10.28%) Business Analysis
15 26 (10.28%) User Stories
16 24 (9.49%) Workshop Facilitation
17 21 (8.30%) Test Automation
18 20 (7.91%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 31 (12.25%) SQL
2 9 (3.56%) C#
3 7 (2.77%) Java
4 6 (2.37%) Python
5 5 (1.98%) VB
6 4 (1.58%) C
7 3 (1.19%) C++
7 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.79%) Ruby
9 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (13.83%) Security Cleared
2 33 (13.04%) PMI Certification
3 32 (12.65%) Degree
4 31 (12.25%) PMP
4 31 (12.25%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.58%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.58%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 3 (1.19%) CBAP
6 3 (1.19%) IIBA
7 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.79%) CISM
7 2 (0.79%) CISSP
7 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.79%) CRISC
7 2 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) CAPM
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.23%) QA
2 12 (4.74%) PMO
3 7 (2.77%) GDPR
4 4 (1.58%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.58%) SLA
5 3 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.19%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.79%) GAAP
6 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.40%) Basel III
7 1 (0.40%) EMIR
7 1 (0.40%) FINRA
7 1 (0.40%) MiFID
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) PSD2
7 1 (0.40%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.40%) Docker
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.79%) Control-M
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 50 (19.76%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.67%) Oracle
3 19 (7.51%) SAP
4 16 (6.32%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.56%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.37%) Adobe
6 6 (2.37%) Citrix
6 6 (2.37%) Databricks
6 6 (2.37%) Duck Creek
6 6 (2.37%) Workday
7 4 (1.58%) Blue Prism
7 4 (1.58%) Guidewire
7 4 (1.58%) Informatica
7 4 (1.58%) PeopleSoft
8 3 (1.19%) IBM
8 3 (1.19%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.19%) UiPath
9 2 (0.79%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.79%) Snow
9 2 (0.79%) Wrike