Waterfall Job Trends in the North of England

Waterfall Model
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 204 180 164
Rank change year-on-year -24 -16 -27
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 69 102 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.64% 1.12% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.24% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 39 64 101
10th Percentile £40,400 £32,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,188 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,625 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,439 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £68,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +13.33% +0.80% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,623 8,255 7,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.03% 90.79% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,624 3,681 5,913
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,010
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Waterfall job vacancy trend in the North of England

Waterfall
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Waterfall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Waterfall in the North of England

Waterfall
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Yorkshire -3 39 £57,500 -4.17% 23
North West -12 27 £59,460 +8.11% 28
North East +1 3 £41,000 -36.92% 9
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (7.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.80%) Confluence
3 3 (4.35%) Apache
4 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 14 (20.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.19%) Azure
2 6 (8.70%) AWS
2 6 (8.70%) Serverless
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (4.35%) dbt
4 3 (4.35%) GitHub
4 3 (4.35%) IaaS
4 3 (4.35%) PaaS
5 2 (2.90%) GCP
6 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) LAN
1 1 (1.45%) MPLS
1 1 (1.45%) VoIP
1 1 (1.45%) WAN
1 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
1 3 (4.35%) Data Lake
1 3 (4.35%) Data Vault
1 3 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.90%) Big Data
2 2 (2.90%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) JIRA
2 3 (4.35%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.45%) Git
General
1 41 (59.42%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.74%) Finance
3 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Legal
6 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Law
6 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.45%) Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) Project Manager
2 17 (24.64%) Senior
3 12 (17.39%) Analyst
4 9 (13.04%) Business Analyst
4 9 (13.04%) QA Manager
5 6 (8.70%) IT Manager
5 6 (8.70%) IT Project Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Architect
6 5 (7.25%) Lead
6 5 (7.25%) Senior Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Senior Project Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Requirements Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Senior PMO
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Technical Architect
7 3 (4.35%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.25%) Middleware
2 3 (4.35%) Pandas
3 1 (1.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
2 2 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.90%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.45%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.45%) PMI
3 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (95.65%) Agile
2 40 (57.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (34.78%) Project Delivery
3 24 (34.78%) Project Management
4 23 (33.33%) DevOps
5 20 (28.99%) Mentoring
6 19 (27.54%) CI/CD
6 19 (27.54%) Process Improvement
7 18 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (21.74%) ERP
9 14 (20.29%) Scrum
10 13 (18.84%) PRINCE2
10 13 (18.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (17.39%) Business Case
12 11 (15.94%) Change Management
12 11 (15.94%) Risk Management
13 9 (13.04%) Architectural Design
13 9 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
13 9 (13.04%) Data Security
13 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.25%) Python
1 5 (7.25%) SQL
2 2 (2.90%) Java
2 2 (2.90%) Scala
3 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (20.29%) Degree
2 6 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.35%) APMG
3 3 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 3 (4.35%) PMP
4 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.90%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.45%) ISEB
5 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.39%) QA
2 6 (8.70%) PMO
3 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 2 (2.90%) P3O
5 1 (1.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Docker
Vendors
1 16 (23.19%) SAP
2 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.35%) IBM