Waterfall Job Trends in Leeds

Waterfall Model
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Waterfall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 75 68
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +27
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 29 9 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.12% 0.89% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 0.99% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 13 7 29
10th Percentile £42,850 £53,000 £49,000
25th Percentile £54,250 £58,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +11.30% -8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,625 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,485 £80,000 £74,200
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,500 £64,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -11.72% +7.52% +0.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,081 905 1,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 79.19% 89.07% 92.46%
Number of salaries quoted 713 514 940
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,026 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Waterfall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Waterfall job vacancy trend in Leeds

Waterfall
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Waterfall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in Leeds over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Waterfall in Leeds

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) Apache
1 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (48.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) Serverless
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (10.34%) dbt
3 3 (10.34%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (10.34%) Apache Iceberg
1 3 (10.34%) Data Lake
1 3 (10.34%) Data Vault
1 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 23 (79.31%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) QA Manager
2 7 (24.14%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Project Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Digital Project Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Release Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Business Change Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Business Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Business Project Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Change Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Pandas
2 2 (6.90%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.45%) PMI
2 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Agile
2 21 (72.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (62.07%) DevOps
4 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
5 15 (51.72%) ERP
6 14 (48.28%) Mentoring
6 14 (48.28%) Process Improvement
7 9 (31.03%) Architectural Design
7 9 (31.03%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (24.14%) PRINCE2
8 7 (24.14%) Project Management
9 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (20.69%) Scrum
9 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (17.24%) Data Security
10 5 (17.24%) Integration Testing
10 5 (17.24%) Project Delivery
11 4 (13.79%) Budget Management
11 4 (13.79%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Python
1 3 (10.34%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) P3O
3 1 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) SAP
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft