Waterfall Model
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Waterfall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Waterfall over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 165 186
Rank change year-on-year -117 +21 +23
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 1,044 2,193 3,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 2.26% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 2.36% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 859 1,335 2,179
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,823
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £53,850
% change year-on-year -6.09% +6.78% +7.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Waterfall.

Salary trend for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Waterfall over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -85 960 £55,000 -10.10% 235
UK excluding London -105 777 £54,000 -6.09% 185
Work from Home -120 391 £54,325 -8.74% 111
London -136 220 £65,000 -3.70% 60
South East -106 195 £53,250 -7.39% 52
North of England -54 194 £54,000 -9.28% 47
Midlands -50 173 £54,000 -1.82% 34
West Midlands -41 102 £55,000 - 16
South West -22 87 £50,000 -8.42% 21
Yorkshire +38 86 £62,500 +6.81% 16
East of England -12 78 £55,000 -8.33% 14
North West -90 77 £51,500 -14.17% 27
East Midlands -38 70 £54,000 -10.39% 18
Scotland -120 36 £55,000 -7.60% 11
North East +9 31 £52,500 +5.00% 5
Wales -26 9 £52,436 +23.38% 5
Northern Ireland +13 4 £72,500 +52.63% 1
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 43 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.97%) Confluence
3 25 (2.39%) CMS
4 14 (1.34%) IIS
5 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.48%) Kentico
8 4 (0.38%) Drupal
9 3 (0.29%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.19%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.096%) Appian
11 1 (0.096%) Liferay
11 1 (0.096%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 66 (6.32%) Microsoft Project
2 38 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (1.92%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.48%) Trello
7 4 (0.38%) Maya
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.19%) InVision
8 2 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 30 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.86%) Unit4 Business World
3 7 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.57%) Primavera
5 5 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.48%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.38%) Magento
6 4 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.29%) BPCS
7 3 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.19%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.19%) Maximo
8 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.096%) Endur
9 1 (0.096%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 171 (16.38%) Azure
2 111 (10.63%) Power Platform
3 80 (7.66%) AWS
4 69 (6.61%) Dynamics 365
5 50 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (4.69%) SaaS
7 48 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (3.45%) Power Automate
9 34 (3.26%) PowerApps
10 15 (1.44%) GCP
11 14 (1.34%) Snowflake
12 13 (1.25%) OCI
12 13 (1.25%) PaaS
13 11 (1.05%) GitHub
14 10 (0.96%) Azure Functions
14 10 (0.96%) Serverless
15 9 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (0.86%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (0.77%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.34%) DNS
1 14 (1.34%) Wireless
2 13 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (1.15%) Firewall
4 11 (1.05%) DHCP
4 11 (1.05%) SNMP
5 10 (0.96%) LTE
5 10 (0.96%) TETRA
6 7 (0.67%) Network Security
7 5 (0.48%) SSL
8 4 (0.38%) Internet
9 3 (0.29%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.19%) Broadband
10 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.19%) LAN
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) WAN
11 1 (0.096%) Extranet
11 1 (0.096%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.56%) Power BI
2 38 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 13 (1.25%) Tableau
6 11 (1.05%) Big Data
6 11 (1.05%) Data Mining
6 11 (1.05%) MySQL
7 10 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.77%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.67%) Metadata
11 5 (0.48%) Looker
11 5 (0.48%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.38%) Power Query
12 4 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (0.38%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 98 (9.39%) JIRA
2 51 (4.89%) Git
3 9 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.57%) AdminStudio
5 6 (0.57%) InstallShield
5 6 (0.57%) JMeter
5 6 (0.57%) MSI
5 6 (0.57%) Selenium
6 5 (0.48%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.48%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.48%) Subversion
7 4 (0.38%) Appium
7 4 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.29%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.29%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.29%) Spinnaker
8 3 (0.29%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.19%) VectorCAST
General
1 452 (43.30%) Social Skills
2 301 (28.83%) Finance
3 134 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.42%) Public Sector
5 65 (6.23%) Retail
6 59 (5.65%) Law
7 58 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
9 49 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (3.35%) Marketing
12 31 (2.97%) Legal
13 25 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
13 25 (2.39%) Manufacturing
14 24 (2.30%) Banking
15 23 (2.20%) Billing
16 18 (1.72%) Electronics
17 15 (1.44%) Financial Institution
18 14 (1.34%) Aviation
19 13 (1.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 356 (34.10%) Project Manager
2 168 (16.09%) IT Manager
3 166 (15.90%) Analyst
4 149 (14.27%) IT Project Manager
4 149 (14.27%) Senior
5 136 (13.03%) Business Analyst
6 111 (10.63%) Lead
7 81 (7.76%) Developer
8 69 (6.61%) Senior Manager
9 61 (5.84%) Architect
10 55 (5.27%) Senior Project Manager
11 44 (4.21%) Consultant
12 41 (3.93%) Digital Project Manager
13 37 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
14 31 (2.97%) IT Analyst
14 31 (2.97%) Team Leader
15 30 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
16 29 (2.78%) Business IT Analyst
16 29 (2.78%) IT Business Analyst
17 27 (2.59%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (6.13%) .NET
2 52 (4.98%) React
3 27 (2.59%) HTML
4 26 (2.49%) RESTful
5 24 (2.30%) .NET Framework
6 22 (2.11%) CSS
7 19 (1.82%) REST
8 18 (1.72%) Entity Framework
9 14 (1.34%) ASP.NET
10 13 (1.25%) ASP.NET MVC
11 12 (1.15%) .NET Core
11 12 (1.15%) XML
12 11 (1.05%) HTML5 Canvas
13 10 (0.96%) GraphQL
14 9 (0.86%) AngularJS
14 9 (0.86%) Web Services
15 8 (0.77%) EDI
15 8 (0.77%) Node.js
15 8 (0.77%) OAuth
16 6 (0.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 102 (9.77%) Self-Motivation
2 53 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.83%) Onboarding
4 25 (2.39%) Low-Code
5 24 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.30%) PMI
6 22 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.25%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.15%) CMDB
8 12 (1.15%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.15%) Virtual Team
9 9 (0.86%) Data Centre
9 9 (0.86%) FMCG
10 8 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (0.77%) Online Banking
11 7 (0.67%) Blog
11 7 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.67%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.57%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.16%) Windows
2 20 (1.92%) Linux
3 14 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.86%) Android
5 6 (0.57%) Unix
5 6 (0.57%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.57%) Windows 7
6 5 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.29%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,011 (96.84%) Agile
2 442 (42.34%) Project Management
3 299 (28.64%) Project Delivery
4 227 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 208 (19.92%) Scrum
6 158 (15.13%) PRINCE2
6 158 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
7 145 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 133 (12.74%) DevOps
9 129 (12.36%) Change Management
10 115 (11.02%) Mentoring
11 110 (10.54%) Roadmaps
12 108 (10.34%) Risk Management
13 97 (9.29%) Business Case
14 92 (8.81%) Business Analysis
15 77 (7.38%) Decision-Making
16 75 (7.18%) Coaching
16 75 (7.18%) SDLC
17 73 (6.99%) Business Intelligence
18 70 (6.70%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 104 (9.96%) SQL
2 91 (8.72%) JavaScript
3 82 (7.85%) C#
4 50 (4.79%) Java
5 35 (3.35%) Python
6 33 (3.16%) PHP
7 18 (1.72%) TypeScript
8 13 (1.25%) C++
9 10 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (0.86%) Kotlin
10 9 (0.86%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.77%) C
12 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.57%) VB
13 5 (0.48%) Bicep
13 5 (0.48%) R
14 4 (0.38%) Ruby
14 4 (0.38%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.29%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 205 (19.64%) Degree
2 89 (8.52%) Security Cleared
3 78 (7.47%) PMI Certification
4 76 (7.28%) SC Cleared
5 67 (6.42%) PMP
6 50 (4.79%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 17 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 14 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.25%) CIMA
12 10 (0.96%) ACCA
12 10 (0.96%) CAPM
12 10 (0.96%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.38%) CBAP
15 4 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.29%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (8.81%) QA
2 86 (8.24%) PMO
3 20 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.05%) GDPR
5 5 (0.48%) SLA
6 4 (0.38%) NIST
7 2 (0.19%) DO-178B
7 2 (0.19%) P3O
7 2 (0.19%) PMBOK
8 1 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.096%) GRC
8 1 (0.096%) GxP
8 1 (0.096%) IFRS
System Software
1 23 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.38%) Docker
4 4 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.38%) Firmware
5 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.29%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 11 (1.05%) SCOM
1 11 (1.05%) Terraform
2 6 (0.57%) SCCM
2 6 (0.57%) WSUS
3 4 (0.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.19%) MIIS
5 1 (0.096%) Ansible
5 1 (0.096%) FTK
5 1 (0.096%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.096%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 181 (17.34%) Microsoft
2 47 (4.50%) Salesforce
3 37 (3.54%) SAP
4 36 (3.45%) Oracle
5 22 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.01%) BT
7 15 (1.44%) Google
8 13 (1.25%) VMware
9 11 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 9 (0.86%) Civica
11 9 (0.86%) Northgate
11 9 (0.86%) YouTube
12 6 (0.57%) Adobe
12 6 (0.57%) Autodesk
12 6 (0.57%) Databricks
12 6 (0.57%) Workday
13 5 (0.48%) Automation Anywhere
13 5 (0.48%) iManage
13 5 (0.48%) Sparx