Waterfall Contracts in London

Waterfall Model
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Waterfall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Waterfall over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 124 102
Rank change year-on-year -24 -22 +68
Contract jobs citing Waterfall 309 524 1,080
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.77% 2.03% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.24% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 377 753
10th Percentile £408 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £561 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% -2.52% +12.75%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £663
90th Percentile £785 £759 £763
England median daily rate £575 £550 £540
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £43.78 -
25th Percentile - £43.83 £48.49
Median hourly rate - £45.68 £49.99
Median % change year-on-year - -8.61% -
75th Percentile - £51.68 £51.48
90th Percentile - £52.45 -
England median hourly rate £58.91 £52.97 £57.95
% change year-on-year +11.20% -8.59% +5.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Waterfall is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,444 23,412 35,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.57% 90.89% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,074 16,912 26,245
10th Percentile £345 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 265 419
10th Percentile £15.68 £18.20 £17.23
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.41 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.52% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £82.50 £67.63
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%

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 21 May 2024.

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 21 May 2024. 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 -5 57 £600 -5.88% 5
West London +13 8 £625 +31.58%
East London -2 5 £540 +4.35% 6
South London +3 4 £550 +4.76% 2
North London -1 1 £425 -10.53%
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 (6.15%) Confluence
2 14 (4.53%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.29%) CMS
5 2 (0.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) Apache
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 16 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (3.56%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (2.59%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.94%) Loan IQ
3 5 (1.62%) SAP BPC
4 4 (1.29%) Aladdin
4 4 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.97%) Primavera
5 3 (0.97%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.65%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.65%) Shopify
7 1 (0.32%) Endur
7 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle HRMS
7 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.32%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 54 (17.48%) Azure
2 22 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (4.85%) Power Platform
4 14 (4.53%) AWS
5 13 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.56%) GitHub
6 11 (3.56%) PowerApps
7 8 (2.59%) SaaS
8 6 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.62%) IaaS
9 5 (1.62%) PaaS
9 5 (1.62%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.29%) GCP
10 4 (1.29%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.29%) Smartsheet
10 4 (1.29%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.97%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 3 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.29%) Internet
2 3 (0.97%) 5G
2 3 (0.97%) ATM
2 3 (0.97%) DNS
3 2 (0.65%) DHCP
3 2 (0.65%) LAN
3 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.65%) SNA
3 2 (0.65%) WAN
4 1 (0.32%) BGP
4 1 (0.32%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.32%) Firewall
4 1 (0.32%) FTP
4 1 (0.32%) OSPF
4 1 (0.32%) SAN
4 1 (0.32%) SNMP
4 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.32%) VRRP
4 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.21%) Power BI
2 9 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.29%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.29%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.65%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.65%) Tableau
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.32%) Big Data
6 1 (0.32%) Flink
6 1 (0.32%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.32%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.32%) Redis
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 33 (10.68%) JIRA
2 10 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.91%) Selenium
4 8 (2.59%) Postman
5 6 (1.94%) Appium
5 6 (1.94%) LoadRunner
6 5 (1.62%) JMeter
6 5 (1.62%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.62%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.29%) Git
8 3 (0.97%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.65%) JUnit
9 2 (0.65%) NUnit
9 2 (0.65%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 128 (41.42%) Finance
2 110 (35.60%) Social Skills
3 50 (16.18%) Banking
4 36 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (9.39%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (3.88%) Marketing
7 12 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.56%) Back Office
8 11 (3.56%) Military
9 10 (3.24%) Legal
10 9 (2.91%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.59%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.59%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.59%) Retail
12 7 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.94%) Electronics
13 6 (1.94%) Front Office
14 5 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 76 (24.60%) Project Manager
2 53 (17.15%) Analyst
3 43 (13.92%) Senior
4 33 (10.68%) Business Analyst
5 29 (9.39%) Lead
6 24 (7.77%) Architect
7 23 (7.44%) Delivery Manager
7 23 (7.44%) Senior Manager
8 21 (6.80%) Developer
9 19 (6.15%) Programme Manager
10 15 (4.85%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (4.53%) Test Manager
12 11 (3.56%) IT Manager
13 9 (2.91%) Applications Manager
13 9 (2.91%) Infrastructure Manager
13 9 (2.91%) Senior Business Analyst
13 9 (2.91%) Senior Project Manager
14 8 (2.59%) Technical Manager
14 8 (2.59%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.91%) Middleware
2 7 (2.27%) RESTful
3 6 (1.94%) .NET
3 6 (1.94%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.62%) Node.js
5 4 (1.29%) ADO
5 4 (1.29%) React Native
5 4 (1.29%) Swagger
6 3 (0.97%) Kafka
6 3 (0.97%) SOAP
6 3 (0.97%) XML
7 2 (0.65%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.65%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.65%) Apache Camel
7 2 (0.65%) FpML
7 2 (0.65%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.65%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.65%) React
7 2 (0.65%) REST
7 2 (0.65%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.50%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.91%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 7 (2.27%) Derivative
4 6 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.29%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.29%) FMCG
6 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.29%) Reinsurance
6 4 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.29%) Solar Panel
7 3 (0.97%) Equities
7 3 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (0.65%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.65%) Media Streaming
8 2 (0.65%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.56%) Linux
1 11 (3.56%) Windows
2 4 (1.29%) Android
2 4 (1.29%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.97%) VMS
4 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (92.23%) Agile
2 98 (31.72%) Project Management
3 78 (25.24%) Project Delivery
4 73 (23.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (16.50%) Scrum
7 48 (15.53%) DevOps
8 41 (13.27%) Migration
9 36 (11.65%) PRINCE2
10 31 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (10.03%) Risk Management
10 31 (10.03%) SDLC
11 26 (8.41%) Programme Management
11 26 (8.41%) Roadmaps
12 25 (8.09%) Change Management
12 25 (8.09%) Decision-Making
12 25 (8.09%) Test Automation
13 24 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (7.44%) Business Case
14 23 (7.44%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (11.97%) SQL
2 14 (4.53%) Java
2 14 (4.53%) Python
3 5 (1.62%) C#
3 5 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (1.62%) TypeScript
4 3 (0.97%) Kotlin
4 3 (0.97%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.97%) R
4 3 (0.97%) Swift
5 1 (0.32%) C
5 1 (0.32%) C++
5 1 (0.32%) Go
5 1 (0.32%) Ruby
5 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.97%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.68%) Degree
4 17 (5.50%) DV Cleared
5 16 (5.18%) PMP
6 15 (4.85%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.27%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.62%) APMP
10 4 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.29%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (1.29%) CITP
11 3 (0.97%) CIMA
11 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.65%) CISM
12 2 (0.65%) CISSP
12 2 (0.65%) ISEB
12 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.03%) PMO
2 18 (5.83%) QA
3 6 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.97%) EMIR
4 3 (0.97%) IFRS
4 3 (0.97%) IFRS 17
4 3 (0.97%) NIST
4 3 (0.97%) SLA
4 3 (0.97%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.65%) P3O
5 2 (0.65%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.32%) GRC
6 1 (0.32%) HL7
6 1 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (1.94%) Docker
2 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (2.59%) Ansible
2 5 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.65%) Terraform
4 1 (0.32%) Grafana
4 1 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.32%) MOM
4 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.68%) SAP
3 14 (4.53%) Oracle
4 12 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.94%) Cisco
7 5 (1.62%) Checkmarx
8 4 (1.29%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.29%) Workday
9 3 (0.97%) Adobe
9 3 (0.97%) Databricks
9 3 (0.97%) VMware
10 2 (0.65%) Arista
10 2 (0.65%) EMC
10 2 (0.65%) Google
10 2 (0.65%) IBM
10 2 (0.65%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.65%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.65%) Splunk
10 2 (0.65%) Temenos