Waterfall Contracts in South London

Waterfall Model
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 39 48
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -20
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 1 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 0.54% 1.66% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.78% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £420 £409
25th Percentile - £479 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile - £591 £595
90th Percentile - £596 £606
London median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £52.97
London median hourly rate £35.00 - £43.86

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 225 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.04% 93.36% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 152 283
10th Percentile £380 £253 £300
25th Percentile £463 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £656 £575 £666
90th Percentile £886 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £20.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%
75th Percentile £20.38 £77.19 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £52.46
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in South London

Waterfall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Waterfall in South London

Waterfall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Waterfall in South London

Waterfall
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Croydon +7 1 £380 -16.02%
Waterfall
London

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) PuTTY
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Integration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA