Waterfall Jobs in England

Waterfall Model
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Waterfall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Waterfall over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 242 168
Rank change year-on-year +19 -74 +7
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 714 980 2,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.48% 1.14% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.34% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 490 809 1,255
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £89,852
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Waterfall falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,472 73,407 86,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.00% 85.49% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,183 53,973 50,952
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,256
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in England

Waterfall
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Waterfall in England

Waterfall
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Waterfall in England

Waterfall
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +101 249 £65,000 +20.37% 139
London +61 164 £67,500 +3.85% 246
Midlands +22 134 £57,750 +6.94% 55
North of England -12 111 £54,793 -0.19% 70
West Midlands +46 92 £57,500 +4.55% 30
North West +1 79 £54,793 +5.37% 43
East Midlands +16 42 £60,000 +11.11% 22
South West +50 32 £60,000 +20.00% 47
Yorkshire +10 25 £56,250 -10.00% 25
East of England -19 23 £70,000 +27.27% 23
North East +28 7 £47,500 -9.52% 6
Waterfall
UK

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (4.34%) Confluence
2 8 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.56%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Appian
6 1 (0.14%) CICS
6 1 (0.14%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.14%) Kentico
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.14%) SAS
6 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 43 (6.02%) Microsoft Project
2 19 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.52%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.12%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.28%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.14%) Finacle
6 1 (0.14%) Lorenzo
6 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 92 (12.89%) Azure
2 56 (7.84%) AWS
3 46 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (6.02%) Power Platform
5 39 (5.46%) SaaS
6 29 (4.06%) PaaS
7 27 (3.78%) IaaS
8 24 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
8 24 (3.36%) Power Automate
9 20 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (2.38%) Azure AI
10 17 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (2.24%) GitHub
12 15 (2.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 15 (2.10%) Azure Key Vault
12 15 (2.10%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (2.10%) Entra ID
12 15 (2.10%) GCP
13 11 (1.54%) Amazon S3
13 11 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.48%) Firewall
2 26 (3.64%) WAN
3 23 (3.22%) SD-WAN
4 16 (2.24%) DNS
5 15 (2.10%) VPN
6 8 (1.12%) 5G
7 5 (0.70%) Network Security
8 4 (0.56%) Wireless
9 3 (0.42%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.28%) Broadband
10 2 (0.28%) DWDM
10 2 (0.28%) GPON
10 2 (0.28%) IPv4
10 2 (0.28%) IPv6
10 2 (0.28%) MPLS
11 1 (0.14%) DHCP
11 1 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
11 1 (0.14%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.90%) Power BI
2 18 (2.52%) Data Lake
3 17 (2.38%) MySQL
4 15 (2.10%) SQL Server
5 14 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.96%) Tableau
6 11 (1.54%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.56%) Big Data
9 4 (0.56%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.56%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.28%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.28%) DB2
10 2 (0.28%) OLTP
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 82 (11.48%) JIRA
2 25 (3.50%) Git
3 21 (2.94%) eggPlant
4 7 (0.98%) Postman
4 7 (0.98%) Selenium
5 4 (0.56%) JMeter
5 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.42%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.28%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.28%) Subversion
7 2 (0.28%) TestNG
8 1 (0.14%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.14%) PROIV
8 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 169 (23.67%) Social Skills
2 131 (18.35%) Finance
3 75 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
5 27 (3.78%) Law
6 24 (3.36%) Manufacturing
6 24 (3.36%) Retail
7 19 (2.66%) Banking
8 18 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.10%) Electronics
10 13 (1.82%) Marketing
11 12 (1.68%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.12%) Legal
14 7 (0.98%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.70%) French Language
15 5 (0.70%) Publishing
16 4 (0.56%) Front Office
16 4 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 195 (27.31%) Senior
2 159 (22.27%) Principal Engineer
3 139 (19.47%) Project Manager
4 103 (14.43%) Analyst
5 100 (14.01%) Software Engineer
6 76 (10.64%) Architect
7 62 (8.68%) Principal Software Engineer
8 48 (6.72%) Business Analyst
9 44 (6.16%) Test Engineer
10 42 (5.88%) Senior Software Test Engineer
10 42 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
10 42 (5.88%) Software Test Engineer
11 41 (5.74%) Senior Analyst
11 41 (5.74%) Senior Manager
12 38 (5.32%) Test Analyst
13 35 (4.90%) Lead
13 35 (4.90%) Senior Project Manager
14 33 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
15 30 (4.20%) IT Project Manager
15 30 (4.20%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.62%) Middleware
2 19 (2.66%) .NET
3 12 (1.68%) React
4 9 (1.26%) AngularJS
4 9 (1.26%) HTML
5 8 (1.12%) .NET Framework
5 8 (1.12%) CSS
5 8 (1.12%) REST
5 8 (1.12%) RESTful
6 7 (0.98%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (0.84%) Bootstrap
7 6 (0.84%) JSON
7 6 (0.84%) Tailwind CSS
7 6 (0.84%) XML
8 5 (0.70%) SOAP
9 4 (0.56%) ADO
9 4 (0.56%) Kafka
9 4 (0.56%) NgRx
9 4 (0.56%) RxJS
9 4 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (3.64%) Product Ownership
2 18 (2.52%) Data Centre
2 18 (2.52%) Management Information System
3 17 (2.38%) NHS
4 13 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.12%) PMI
5 8 (1.12%) Self-Driving Car
5 8 (1.12%) Social Media
6 6 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (0.84%) Virtual Team
7 5 (0.70%) Client/Server
7 5 (0.70%) Driving Licence
7 5 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (0.70%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.56%) Cloud Native
8 4 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (0.56%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (0.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.82%) Windows
2 8 (1.12%) Windows Vista
3 3 (0.42%) Linux
4 2 (0.28%) Android
4 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) AIX
5 1 (0.14%) CentOS
5 1 (0.14%) Debian
5 1 (0.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 673 (94.26%) Agile
2 249 (34.87%) Project Management
3 215 (30.11%) Software Engineering
4 193 (27.03%) Computer Science
5 187 (26.19%) UML
6 153 (21.43%) SDLC
7 146 (20.45%) Project Delivery
7 146 (20.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 142 (19.89%) Configuration Management
9 141 (19.75%) Software Testing
10 121 (16.95%) Scrum
11 104 (14.57%) Test Automation
12 101 (14.15%) DevOps
13 90 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 89 (12.46%) PRINCE2
15 87 (12.18%) Mentoring
16 86 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
17 65 (9.10%) Roadmaps
18 63 (8.82%) Validation
19 53 (7.42%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 67 (9.38%) Ada
2 58 (8.12%) SQL
3 30 (4.20%) Python
4 26 (3.64%) JavaScript
5 20 (2.80%) C#
6 18 (2.52%) Ada 95
6 18 (2.52%) Java
7 17 (2.38%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.10%) Bicep
9 9 (1.26%) C++
10 8 (1.12%) R
10 8 (1.12%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.98%) C
12 6 (0.84%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.70%) Bash
14 4 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.42%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.28%) Go
17 1 (0.14%) ActionScript 2.0
17 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 348 (48.74%) Degree
2 219 (30.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 111 (15.55%) Chartered Engineer
4 75 (10.50%) PMP
5 54 (7.56%) PMI Certification
6 44 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (5.04%) Security Cleared
8 26 (3.64%) DBS Check
9 25 (3.50%) SC Cleared
10 23 (3.22%) Azure Certification
11 22 (3.08%) ISTQB
12 16 (2.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 10 (1.40%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.70%) ISEB
16 4 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 3 (0.42%) CBAP
17 3 (0.42%) CISSP
17 3 (0.42%) DV Cleared
17 3 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (16.81%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 56 (7.84%) QA
3 43 (6.02%) PMO
4 14 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.70%) GDPR
7 4 (0.56%) NCSC
8 3 (0.42%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) Basel III
10 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.14%) DICOM
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) MiFID
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (0.84%) Firmware
3 2 (0.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.28%) Ansible
2 2 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.14%) CA Service Virtualization
3 1 (0.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 83 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 72 (10.08%) Siemens
3 30 (4.20%) Atlassian
4 27 (3.78%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.08%) Oracle
6 21 (2.94%) Keysight
7 19 (2.66%) Databricks
7 19 (2.66%) Micro Focus
8 15 (2.10%) Meraki
9 13 (1.82%) Google
10 11 (1.54%) SAP
11 9 (1.26%) IBM
12 8 (1.12%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.98%) Cisco
14 4 (0.56%) Siebel
15 2 (0.28%) Adobe
15 2 (0.28%) Ariba
15 2 (0.28%) Informatica
15 2 (0.28%) Nokia
15 2 (0.28%) Planview