Waterfall Contract Job Trends in South London

Waterfall Model
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Waterfall skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 34 38
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +8
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 3 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.66% 1.47% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.66% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile - £466 -
25th Percentile - £472 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £488 £384
Median % change year-on-year +53.77% +27.10% -26.02%
75th Percentile - £497 £398
90th Percentile - £499 £475
London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £52.97
London median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £50.24
% change year-on-year +92.86% -30.33% -2.41%

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 159 181 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.85% 88.73% 82.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 123 196
10th Percentile £237 £247 £338
25th Percentile £413 £411 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £637 £567 £600
90th Percentile £738 £758 £675
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 17
10th Percentile - - £14.88
25th Percentile - £17.25 £23.46
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.19
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -62.64% +18.32%
75th Percentile £17.45 £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.75 £66.06
London median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -9.29% -7.28% +4.86%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Waterfall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Waterfall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Waterfall

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 19 September 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
Bromley -7 3 £750 - 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
3 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes