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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 162 182
Rank change year-on-year -113 +20 +35
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 1,075 2,296 3,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 2.26% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 2.36% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 882 1,386 2,132
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £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 £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £82,885
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%

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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 7 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 7 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 -90 984 £55,000 -8.33% 259
UK excluding London -93 802 £54,000 -6.09% 183
Work from Home -120 408 £54,000 -9.28% 143
London -115 224 £65,000 -5.55% 73
South East -95 205 £54,000 -6.09% 37
North of England -37 195 £54,900 -6.17% 46
Midlands -44 176 £54,000 -3.57% 50
West Midlands -32 103 £55,000 - 30
South West -47 90 £50,000 -4.76% 24
Yorkshire +38 86 £62,500 +6.84% 17
East of England +6 83 £55,000 -8.33% 10
North West -80 79 £52,000 -13.33% 27
East Midlands -32 72 £54,000 -10.20% 20
Scotland -113 38 £55,000 -8.33% 10
North East +8 30 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Wales -13 9 £52,436 +23.38% 4
Northern Ireland +19 5 £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 45 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.51%) Confluence
3 26 (2.42%) CMS
4 16 (1.49%) IIS
5 12 (1.12%) Anypoint
6 8 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.47%) Kentico
8 4 (0.37%) Drupal
8 4 (0.37%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.19%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.19%) SAS
10 1 (0.093%) Appian
10 1 (0.093%) EPiServer
Applications
1 66 (6.14%) Microsoft Project
2 33 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (1.77%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.47%) Trello
7 4 (0.37%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.37%) InVision
7 4 (0.37%) Maya
7 4 (0.37%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.84%) Unit4 Business World
3 6 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (0.56%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.56%) Primavera
3 6 (0.56%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.37%) Magento
5 4 (0.37%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.28%) BPCS
6 3 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.19%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.093%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 188 (17.49%) Azure
2 119 (11.07%) Power Platform
3 85 (7.91%) AWS
4 69 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
5 56 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (5.02%) SaaS
7 40 (3.72%) PowerApps
8 39 (3.63%) Power Automate
9 16 (1.49%) GCP
9 16 (1.49%) PaaS
10 15 (1.40%) OCI
11 14 (1.30%) Snowflake
12 13 (1.21%) Azure Functions
12 13 (1.21%) Serverless
13 11 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (0.93%) GitHub
15 9 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (0.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.49%) DNS
2 15 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (1.30%) Firewall
3 14 (1.30%) Wireless
4 13 (1.21%) DHCP
4 13 (1.21%) SNMP
5 10 (0.93%) LTE
5 10 (0.93%) TETRA
6 7 (0.65%) Network Security
7 5 (0.47%) Internet
7 5 (0.47%) SSL
8 2 (0.19%) Broadband
8 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.19%) LAN
8 2 (0.19%) SAN
8 2 (0.19%) WAN
9 1 (0.093%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.093%) Extranet
9 1 (0.093%) HTTP
9 1 (0.093%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (6.05%) Power BI
2 41 (3.81%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (1.40%) Relational Database
5 13 (1.21%) Tableau
6 12 (1.12%) MySQL
7 11 (1.02%) Data Mining
7 11 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (0.93%) Big Data
8 10 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (0.84%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.56%) Metadata
11 6 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.47%) Looker
13 4 (0.37%) DTS
13 4 (0.37%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (0.37%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 102 (9.49%) JIRA
2 56 (5.21%) Git
3 10 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.84%) JMeter
4 9 (0.84%) Selenium
4 9 (0.84%) Subversion
5 5 (0.47%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.47%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.37%) AdminStudio
6 4 (0.37%) Appium
6 4 (0.37%) InstallShield
6 4 (0.37%) IntelliJ
6 4 (0.37%) MSI
6 4 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.37%) WebDriver
7 3 (0.28%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.28%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 455 (42.33%) Social Skills
2 298 (27.72%) Finance
3 136 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (7.63%) Public Sector
5 62 (5.77%) Law
6 60 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 60 (5.58%) Retail
7 48 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
7 48 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
8 36 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
8 36 (3.35%) Marketing
9 29 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 29 (2.70%) Legal
10 22 (2.05%) Banking
10 22 (2.05%) Billing
10 22 (2.05%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.58%) Aviation
11 17 (1.58%) Electronics
12 15 (1.40%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.21%) Games
Job Titles
1 360 (33.49%) Project Manager
2 176 (16.37%) IT Manager
3 173 (16.09%) Analyst
4 157 (14.60%) IT Project Manager
5 156 (14.51%) Senior
6 147 (13.67%) Business Analyst
7 114 (10.60%) Lead
8 91 (8.47%) Developer
9 74 (6.88%) Architect
10 73 (6.79%) Senior Manager
11 57 (5.30%) Senior Project Manager
12 51 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
13 42 (3.91%) Consultant
14 40 (3.72%) Digital Project Manager
15 31 (2.88%) Team Leader
16 30 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
16 30 (2.79%) IT Analyst
17 28 (2.60%) Business IT Analyst
17 28 (2.60%) IT Business Analyst
18 26 (2.42%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (6.14%) .NET
2 55 (5.12%) React
3 31 (2.88%) HTML
4 27 (2.51%) .NET Framework
5 26 (2.42%) RESTful
6 25 (2.33%) CSS
7 21 (1.95%) Entity Framework
7 21 (1.95%) REST
8 17 (1.58%) ASP.NET
9 16 (1.49%) ASP.NET MVC
10 15 (1.40%) HTML5 Canvas
11 12 (1.12%) .NET Core
11 12 (1.12%) XML
12 10 (0.93%) GraphQL
13 9 (0.84%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.84%) EDI
13 9 (0.84%) Web Services
14 8 (0.74%) Node.js
14 8 (0.74%) OAuth
14 8 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 98 (9.12%) Self-Motivation
2 48 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 41 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.79%) Low-Code
5 25 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.23%) PMI
7 21 (1.95%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.21%) CMDB
9 11 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (1.02%) Virtual Team
10 9 (0.84%) Data Centre
10 9 (0.84%) Driving Licence
10 9 (0.84%) FMCG
11 7 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.65%) Online Banking
12 6 (0.56%) Blog
12 6 (0.56%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.47%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.98%) Windows
2 23 (2.14%) Linux
3 16 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.93%) Android
5 6 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.56%) Unix
6 4 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.37%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,046 (97.30%) Agile
2 442 (41.12%) Project Management
3 301 (28.00%) Project Delivery
4 235 (21.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 216 (20.09%) Scrum
6 168 (15.63%) PRINCE2
7 160 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
8 137 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 133 (12.37%) DevOps
10 128 (11.91%) Change Management
11 120 (11.16%) Mentoring
12 117 (10.88%) Risk Management
13 108 (10.05%) Business Analysis
14 106 (9.86%) Roadmaps
15 97 (9.02%) Business Case
16 86 (8.00%) Decision-Making
17 82 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
18 77 (7.16%) Coaching
18 77 (7.16%) SDLC
19 73 (6.79%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 111 (10.33%) SQL
2 99 (9.21%) JavaScript
3 86 (8.00%) C#
4 55 (5.12%) Java
5 38 (3.53%) Python
6 34 (3.16%) PHP
7 23 (2.14%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.30%) C++
9 10 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (0.93%) Kotlin
10 9 (0.84%) C
11 8 (0.74%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.56%) Bicep
12 6 (0.56%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.47%) R
13 5 (0.47%) VB
14 4 (0.37%) Ruby
14 4 (0.37%) Scala
15 3 (0.28%) ABAP
15 3 (0.28%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 199 (18.51%) Degree
2 92 (8.56%) Security Cleared
3 78 (7.26%) SC Cleared
4 77 (7.16%) PMI Certification
5 67 (6.23%) PMP
6 52 (4.84%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 17 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 15 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.12%) CIMA
12 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.93%) CAPM
13 10 (0.93%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.84%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.84%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.65%) ACCA
16 6 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.37%) CBAP
18 3 (0.28%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (8.00%) PMO
1 86 (8.00%) QA
2 20 (1.86%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.02%) GDPR
4 4 (0.37%) NIST
4 4 (0.37%) SLA
5 2 (0.19%) DO-178B
5 2 (0.19%) P3O
5 2 (0.19%) PMBOK
6 1 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.093%) GRC
6 1 (0.093%) GxP
6 1 (0.093%) IFRS
System Software
1 23 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.56%) Docker
4 4 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.28%) Firmware
5 3 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.19%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 13 (1.21%) SCOM
2 11 (1.02%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.37%) SCCM
3 4 (0.37%) WSUS
4 2 (0.19%) MIIS
5 1 (0.093%) Ansible
5 1 (0.093%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.093%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 184 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.30%) Salesforce
3 38 (3.53%) Oracle
4 36 (3.35%) SAP
5 22 (2.05%) ServiceNow
6 20 (1.86%) MuleSoft
7 18 (1.67%) BT
8 16 (1.49%) Google
9 13 (1.21%) Dynatrace
10 9 (0.84%) Civica
10 9 (0.84%) Northgate
10 9 (0.84%) YouTube
11 8 (0.74%) VMware
12 7 (0.65%) Workday
13 6 (0.56%) Adobe
13 6 (0.56%) Databricks
13 6 (0.56%) Sage
14 5 (0.47%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.47%) Automation Anywhere
14 5 (0.47%) iManage