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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 145 146
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -15
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 317 234 307
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 1.86% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 2.02% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 151 229
10th Percentile £359 £356 £413
25th Percentile £421 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +7.05%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £712
90th Percentile £750 £738 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £74.50 £41.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +79.52% -29.55% +11.20%

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 15,718 11,590 15,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 92.20% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,522 7,861 11,306
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £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 £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 171 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £22.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +19.30% -26.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.50 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £66.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -16.67% -3.59%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -4 44 £650 +9.47% 26
West London -21 7 £329 -45.17% 3
South London - 2 £513 - 1
East London - 2 - - 4
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 32 (10.09%) Confluence
2 14 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.95%) 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 45 (14.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (11.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 36 (11.36%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (6.62%) MS Visio
4 19 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.95%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.95%) Trello
6 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (4.10%) Loan IQ
2 7 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.95%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.63%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.63%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.63%) Shopify
5 2 (0.63%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.32%) Magento
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 66 (20.82%) Azure
2 30 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (7.89%) AWS
4 21 (6.62%) Power Platform
5 15 (4.73%) GCP
6 13 (4.10%) SaaS
7 11 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (1.58%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.58%) Smartsheet
11 4 (1.26%) Asana
11 4 (1.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 3 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.95%) OCI
13 2 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.63%) BigCommerce
13 2 (0.63%) Intacct
13 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.89%) DNS
1 6 (1.89%) Network Security
2 5 (1.58%) HTTP
2 5 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.95%) FTP
4 2 (0.63%) Firewall
4 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.63%) VPN
4 2 (0.63%) WAN
5 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.32%) Intranet
5 1 (0.32%) LAN
5 1 (0.32%) NAS
5 1 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.32%) VLAN
5 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.10%) Power BI
2 10 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.58%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.58%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.26%) Metadata
4 4 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.63%) Big Data
6 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.32%) DataStage
6 1 (0.32%) DB2
6 1 (0.32%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.32%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.32%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 84 (26.50%) JIRA
2 5 (1.58%) Browser DevTools
2 5 (1.58%) Selenium
2 5 (1.58%) Zephyr
3 3 (0.95%) Git
4 2 (0.63%) TestRail
5 1 (0.32%) Appium
5 1 (0.32%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.32%) LSMW
5 1 (0.32%) NUnit
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.32%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.32%) Subversion
5 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 164 (51.74%) Finance
2 149 (47.00%) Social Skills
3 64 (20.19%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (16.09%) Banking
5 25 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
5 25 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.94%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (4.10%) Financial Institution
7 13 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.79%) Retail
9 7 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.21%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.21%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.95%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.95%) Marketing
11 3 (0.95%) Police
12 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.63%) Billing
Job Titles
1 95 (29.97%) Analyst
2 71 (22.40%) Project Manager
3 63 (19.87%) Business Analyst
4 47 (14.83%) Senior
5 28 (8.83%) Lead
5 28 (8.83%) Senior Analyst
6 20 (6.31%) Delivery Manager
7 16 (5.05%) Programme Manager
7 16 (5.05%) Senior Business Analyst
7 16 (5.05%) Senior Manager
8 15 (4.73%) Change Manager
8 15 (4.73%) IT Manager
9 14 (4.42%) Migration Analyst
9 14 (4.42%) Test Manager
9 14 (4.42%) Transformation Analyst
10 13 (4.10%) Architect
10 13 (4.10%) Test Analyst
11 12 (3.79%) Banking Analyst
11 12 (3.79%) Senior Project Manager
12 11 (3.47%) Systems Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.36%) Middleware
2 9 (2.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (2.21%) ADO
4 5 (1.58%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.26%) OAuth
5 4 (1.26%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.26%) SAML
6 3 (0.95%) Kafka
7 2 (0.63%) .NET
7 2 (0.63%) VML
7 2 (0.63%) Web Services
8 1 (0.32%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.32%) ebXML
8 1 (0.32%) React
8 1 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.32%) SAPUI5
8 1 (0.32%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.32%) SOAP
8 1 (0.32%) STL
8 1 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.31%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.42%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.10%) PMI
4 12 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.21%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.21%) Tandem
7 6 (1.89%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.26%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.26%) CMDB
9 4 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.95%) Derivative
10 3 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.95%) Life Science
10 3 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.21%) Windows
2 3 (0.95%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.32%) Linux
3 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (89.27%) Agile
2 155 (48.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 126 (39.75%) Project Management
4 101 (31.86%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (24.29%) Project Delivery
6 75 (23.66%) Migration
7 71 (22.40%) DevOps
8 69 (21.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 58 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (17.03%) Workshop Facilitation
11 52 (16.40%) Business Analysis
12 51 (16.09%) User Acceptance Testing
13 50 (15.77%) Scrum
14 44 (13.88%) PRINCE2
14 44 (13.88%) User Stories
15 41 (12.93%) Decision-Making
16 39 (12.30%) Change Management
16 39 (12.30%) Requirements Gathering
17 38 (11.99%) Risk Management
18 37 (11.67%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (10.73%) SQL
2 10 (3.15%) Python
3 5 (1.58%) Apex Code
3 5 (1.58%) Bash
3 5 (1.58%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.26%) Java
5 3 (0.95%) C#
5 3 (0.95%) Groovy
5 3 (0.95%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.63%) Korn
6 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.32%) ABAP
7 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (15.77%) Degree
2 41 (12.93%) Security Cleared
3 33 (10.41%) SC Cleared
4 32 (10.09%) PMI Certification
5 24 (7.57%) PMP
6 22 (6.94%) CBAP
7 14 (4.42%) IIBA
8 11 (3.47%) ISTQB
9 9 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (2.21%) APMG
11 6 (1.89%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.89%) ISEB
12 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.26%) CISSP
14 3 (0.95%) CISM
14 3 (0.95%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.63%) CCNA
15 2 (0.63%) CCNP
15 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.77%) QA
2 44 (13.88%) PMO
3 21 (6.62%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.15%) GDPR
5 7 (2.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.58%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.95%) Basel III
7 3 (0.95%) GRC
7 3 (0.95%) IFRS
7 3 (0.95%) NIST
8 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.63%) PSD2
9 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.32%) SEPA
9 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.95%) IAG
3 2 (0.63%) Docker
4 1 (0.32%) RACF
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (1.58%) HP ALM
1 5 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.63%) Ansible
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.63%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 64 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.52%) Oracle
3 24 (7.57%) SAP
4 17 (5.36%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.10%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.52%) Workday
7 7 (2.21%) Planview
8 5 (1.58%) HP
8 5 (1.58%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.26%) Adobe
9 4 (1.26%) Okta
9 4 (1.26%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.95%) Ariba
10 3 (0.95%) Cisco
10 3 (0.95%) Citrix
10 3 (0.95%) Computacenter
10 3 (0.95%) Databricks
10 3 (0.95%) Netskope
10 3 (0.95%) Sparx
10 3 (0.95%) VMware