Waterfall Jobs in the North of England

Waterfall Model
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 200 162
Rank change year-on-year -13 -38 -35
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 111 190 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.97% 1.09% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.30% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 87 159 204
10th Percentile £40,748 £44,500 £40,724
25th Percentile £45,748 £48,750 £46,850
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £54,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -7.69% +17.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £69,000 £84,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and 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 10,863 14,568 16,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.91% 83.41% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,878 11,194 7,952
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the North of England

Waterfall
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Waterfall in the North of England

Waterfall
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

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 10 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
North West +14 79 £54,793 +5.70% 44
Yorkshire +3 25 £56,250 -6.25% 25
North East +28 7 £47,500 -9.52% 6
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 19 (17.12%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) Apache
2 4 (3.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.90%) CICS
3 1 (0.90%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (4.50%) MS Visio
2 5 (4.50%) Trello
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.80%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.81%) Power Platform
2 10 (9.01%) AWS
2 10 (9.01%) Azure
3 8 (7.21%) Power Automate
4 6 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.60%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.60%) Azure AI
6 4 (3.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (3.60%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (3.60%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.60%) IaaS
6 4 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.60%) PaaS
6 4 (3.60%) PowerApps
6 4 (3.60%) SaaS
6 4 (3.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) DNS
1 4 (3.60%) Firewall
1 4 (3.60%) SD-WAN
1 4 (3.60%) VPN
1 4 (3.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) Power BI
2 5 (4.50%) MySQL
3 4 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (3.60%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.80%) Tableau
5 1 (0.90%) DB2
5 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (26.13%) JIRA
2 21 (18.92%) eggPlant
3 4 (3.60%) Git
4 1 (0.90%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.12%) Finance
3 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.41%) Law
5 4 (3.60%) Banking
6 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.70%) Retail
7 2 (1.80%) Military
7 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Electronics
8 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Legal
8 1 (0.90%) Local Government
8 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 44 (39.64%) Project Manager
2 39 (35.14%) Senior
3 27 (24.32%) Analyst
4 21 (18.92%) Senior Manager
4 21 (18.92%) Senior Project Manager
4 21 (18.92%) Software Analyst
4 21 (18.92%) Software Test Analyst
4 21 (18.92%) Test Analyst
5 15 (13.51%) IT Manager
5 15 (13.51%) IT Project Manager
6 11 (9.91%) Senior Analyst
6 11 (9.91%) Senior Software Test Analyst
6 11 (9.91%) Senior Test Analyst
7 7 (6.31%) Architect
8 5 (4.50%) Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Requirements Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (3.60%) Configuration Management Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) SCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.80%) .NET
1 2 (1.80%) .NET Core
1 2 (1.80%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.90%) ADO
2 1 (0.90%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.90%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (0.90%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (0.90%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (0.90%) Blazor
2 1 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.21%) Product Ownership
1 8 (7.21%) Social Media
2 6 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.60%) NHS
4 1 (0.90%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.90%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.90%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.21%) Windows
1 8 (7.21%) Windows Vista
2 1 (0.90%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (92.79%) Agile
2 61 (54.95%) Project Management
3 47 (42.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (27.93%) Project Delivery
5 30 (27.03%) Scrum
6 23 (20.72%) Acceptance Criteria
6 23 (20.72%) ITIL
6 23 (20.72%) PRINCE
7 22 (19.82%) Software Testing
7 22 (19.82%) Test Automation
8 21 (18.92%) V-Model
9 18 (16.22%) PRINCE2
10 17 (15.32%) Application Packaging
10 17 (15.32%) Programme Management
10 17 (15.32%) Quality Management
11 16 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (13.51%) Migration
13 12 (10.81%) Business Case
13 12 (10.81%) Mentoring
13 12 (10.81%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.81%) SQL
2 6 (5.41%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.50%) Python
4 4 (3.60%) Bicep
4 4 (3.60%) C#
5 2 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.90%) C++
6 1 (0.90%) Java
6 1 (0.90%) JCL
6 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 28 (25.23%) PMP
3 23 (20.72%) Degree
4 14 (12.61%) DBS Check
5 11 (9.91%) PMI Certification
6 5 (4.50%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.50%) Security Cleared
7 4 (3.60%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (3.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 3 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.90%) ISEB
9 1 (0.90%) MCSD
9 1 (0.90%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.41%) Data Quality
1 6 (5.41%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.70%) NCSC
3 3 (2.70%) PMO
4 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.90%) CA Service Virtualization
2 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (19.82%) Atlassian
2 21 (18.92%) Keysight
3 14 (12.61%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.60%) Databricks
4 4 (3.60%) Meraki
4 4 (3.60%) Micro Focus
5 3 (2.70%) Oracle
6 2 (1.80%) Planview
6 2 (1.80%) Siebel
7 1 (0.90%) IBM
7 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow