Waterfall Job Trends in Merseyside

Waterfall Model
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Waterfall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 57 49
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +42
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 3 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.49% 0.14% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.18% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £49,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £55,750 £47,500 £53,500
90th Percentile - - £58,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £51,380
% change year-on-year - +2.18% -6.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 544 546 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 89.33% 76.69% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 259 332 298
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £31,175
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,875 £38,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,313 £60,800
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Waterfall job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Waterfall
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Waterfall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Liverpool +8 3 £52,500 +16.67% 4
Waterfall
North West

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business IT Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) IT Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) IT Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior IT Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Business Case
2 2 (66.67%) Data Collection
2 2 (66.67%) Focus Group
2 2 (66.67%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki