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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 150 118
Rank change year-on-year +7 -32 -19
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 233 308 529
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.92% 1.76% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.99% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 233 388
10th Percentile £356 £406 £400
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £600 £562
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% +6.86% -2.35%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £740 £775 £757
England median daily rate £525 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -8.10% +3.86% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £43.78
25th Percentile - - £43.83
Median hourly rate - - £45.68
75th Percentile - - £51.68
90th Percentile - - £52.45
England median hourly rate £65.75 £58.91 £52.97
% change year-on-year +11.62% +11.20% -0.06%

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 11,178 15,459 23,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.48% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,507 11,105 16,762
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 316 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.10 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -13 35 £600 - 10
East London +17 2 £585 +8.33% 5
West London +5 1 - - 35
North London 0 1 £413 -2.94%
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 19 (8.15%) Confluence
2 8 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Camunda
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (8.58%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.86%) MS Visio
3 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.58%) Trello
5 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (5.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.86%) Shopify
4 1 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.43%) Epicor iScala
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.43%) Primavera
4 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.45%) Azure
2 15 (6.44%) SaaS
3 14 (6.01%) AWS
3 14 (6.01%) Power Platform
4 10 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (4.29%) OCI
5 9 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.72%) GCP
7 4 (1.72%) IaaS
7 4 (1.72%) PaaS
8 3 (1.29%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.29%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.29%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.29%) SAP Fieldglass
9 2 (0.86%) Asana
9 2 (0.86%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.86%) Collibra
9 2 (0.86%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.86%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.43%) Firewall
2 6 (2.58%) Network Security
3 4 (1.72%) LAN
3 4 (1.72%) WAN
4 2 (0.86%) DNS
4 2 (0.86%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.86%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.15%) Power BI
2 9 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.58%) Oracle ODI
4 5 (2.15%) MS Access
5 3 (1.29%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.29%) Metadata
5 3 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.29%) Tableau
6 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.43%) DB2
7 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.43%) Looker
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.43%) Power Query
7 1 (0.43%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 49 (21.03%) JIRA
2 8 (3.43%) QARun
2 8 (3.43%) WinRunner
3 2 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.86%) Postman
3 2 (0.86%) Selenium
3 2 (0.86%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.43%) Git
4 1 (0.43%) Subversion
4 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 103 (44.21%) Social Skills
2 93 (39.91%) Finance
3 42 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.16%) Banking
5 10 (4.29%) Legal
6 9 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.86%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.86%) Retail
7 7 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.58%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.15%) Back Office
9 5 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.15%) Marketing
10 4 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.86%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.43%) Billing
13 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (30.04%) Analyst
2 64 (27.47%) Project Manager
3 46 (19.74%) Business Analyst
4 31 (13.30%) Senior
5 19 (8.15%) Delivery Manager
6 15 (6.44%) Lead
6 15 (6.44%) Senior Manager
7 14 (6.01%) Test Analyst
8 11 (4.72%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (4.72%) Senior Project Manager
9 10 (4.29%) Architect
10 9 (3.86%) Programme Manager
11 8 (3.43%) Consultant
11 8 (3.43%) Infrastructure Manager
11 8 (3.43%) UAT Analyst
11 8 (3.43%) UAT Test Analyst
12 7 (3.00%) Test Manager
13 6 (2.58%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
13 6 (2.58%) Senior Business Analyst
13 6 (2.58%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.43%) Middleware
2 5 (2.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (2.15%) Web Services
3 4 (1.72%) XML
4 3 (1.29%) Kafka
4 3 (1.29%) REST
5 2 (0.86%) .NET
5 2 (0.86%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (0.86%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (0.86%) EDI
5 2 (0.86%) HTML
5 2 (0.86%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.86%) SOAP
5 2 (0.86%) VML
5 2 (0.86%) XML Messaging
6 1 (0.43%) ADO
6 1 (0.43%) CSS
6 1 (0.43%) SAML
6 1 (0.43%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.43%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.86%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (3.00%) Virtual Team
3 5 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.15%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.15%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.29%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.86%) DTCC
6 2 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.86%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.43%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.43%) EPoS
7 1 (0.43%) Equities
7 1 (0.43%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.73%) Windows
2 5 (2.15%) Linux
3 4 (1.72%) Unix
3 4 (1.72%) VMS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (94.42%) Agile
2 81 (34.76%) Project Management
3 78 (33.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 61 (26.18%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (18.03%) PRINCE2
6 38 (16.31%) DevOps
7 36 (15.45%) Change Management
7 36 (15.45%) Project Delivery
8 28 (12.02%) Analytics
8 28 (12.02%) Scrum
9 26 (11.16%) Business Analysis
9 26 (11.16%) Decision-Making
10 25 (10.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (10.30%) Migration
11 24 (10.30%) User Acceptance Testing
12 22 (9.44%) Requirements Gathering
12 22 (9.44%) User Stories
13 21 (9.01%) Test Automation
14 20 (8.58%) CRM
15 19 (8.15%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.30%) SQL
2 7 (3.00%) C#
3 4 (1.72%) Java
3 4 (1.72%) VB
4 3 (1.29%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.86%) Python
6 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (15.88%) PMI Certification
2 36 (15.45%) PMP
2 36 (15.45%) Security Cleared
3 35 (15.02%) Degree
4 30 (12.88%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.43%) CBAP
6 6 (2.58%) CISSP
7 5 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.72%) CISA
8 4 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.29%) IIBA
9 3 (1.29%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.45%) QA
2 7 (3.00%) GDPR
2 7 (3.00%) PMO
3 5 (2.15%) NIST
4 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.72%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.29%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.86%) GAAP
6 2 (0.86%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.86%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) FINRA
7 1 (0.43%) IFRS
7 1 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.43%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.86%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.86%) Control-M
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 45 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.16%) Oracle
3 15 (6.44%) Salesforce
4 14 (6.01%) SAP
5 9 (3.86%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.15%) Adobe
6 5 (2.15%) Citrix
7 4 (1.72%) Blue Prism
7 4 (1.72%) Databricks
7 4 (1.72%) Informatica
7 4 (1.72%) PeopleSoft
7 4 (1.72%) Workday
8 3 (1.29%) Duck Creek
8 3 (1.29%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.29%) UiPath
9 2 (0.86%) IBM
9 2 (0.86%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.86%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.86%) Snow
9 2 (0.86%) Wrike