The first table below looks at the demand for Waterfall skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Waterfall over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Chester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Waterfall Model
Rank 45 35 28
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 5 1 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.397% 0.617% 8.475%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.656% 0.862% 11.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 20
Average salary £37,250 £32,500 £46,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.61% -29.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,600 £32,500 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £43,050 £32,500 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £41,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+13.25% -7.77%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
302 116 171
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 84.36% 71.60% 72.46%
Number of salaries quoted 161 96 166
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Waterfall
Cheshire

Waterfall
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Waterfall across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Chester Waterfall Jobs Demand Trend

Waterfall
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Waterfall across the Chester region.

Chester Waterfall Salary Trend

Waterfall
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Waterfall across the Chester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Chester Waterfall Salary Histogram

Waterfall
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing Waterfall also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Waterfall.

1 9 (64.29%) User Stories
2 8 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (35.71%) Requirements Management
3 5 (35.71%) Time Management
3 5 (35.71%) Client/Server
4 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Use Case
5 3 (21.43%) Internet
5 3 (21.43%) B2B
5 3 (21.43%) UML
6 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
6 2 (14.29%) Project Management
6 2 (14.29%) Web Design
6 2 (14.29%) Planning Poker
6 2 (14.29%) Degree
6 2 (14.29%) Velocity
6 2 (14.29%) Data Management
6 2 (14.29%) Games
7 1 (7.143%) Scrum
7 1 (7.143%) Data Analysis
7 1 (7.143%) Finance
7 1 (7.143%) SQL
7 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
7 1 (7.143%) ISEB
7 1 (7.143%) HTTP

Waterfall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing Waterfall also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Waterfall. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (14.29%) Velocity
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Internet
2 1 (7.143%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (14.29%) Games
2 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Business Analyst
1 9 (64.29%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Project Manager
3 4 (28.57%) Digital Project Manager
4 3 (21.43%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Database Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Financial Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) User Stories
2 8 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (35.71%) Requirements Management
3 5 (35.71%) Time Management
4 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) UML
5 3 (21.43%) B2B
5 3 (21.43%) Use Case
6 2 (14.29%) Data Management
6 2 (14.29%) Planning Poker
6 2 (14.29%) Project Management
6 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
6 2 (14.29%) Web Design
7 1 (7.143%) Scrum
7 1 (7.143%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.143%) ISEB