Waterfall Jobs in the North West

Waterfall Model
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 224 139
Rank change year-on-year +4 -85 +42
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 67 80 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.85% 0.74% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.91% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 52 66 108
10th Percentile £40,748 £40,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,748 £46,375 £50,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £51,587 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% -14.02% +14.29%
75th Percentile £54,845 £66,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £58,943 £103,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.10% +1.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,500 8,757 6,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.65% 80.61% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,819 6,412 3,828
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,525 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the North West

Waterfall
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Waterfall in the North West

Waterfall
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the North West over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Waterfall in the North West

Waterfall
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Lancashire -40 27 £54,793 +12.40% 23
Cumbria -47 22 £45,748 -16.82%
Manchester +20 14 £50,000 -3.85% 86
Cheshire -5 3 £71,250 +42.50% 52
Merseyside +35 1 - - 18
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 17 (25.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Project
1 7 (10.45%) Trello
2 6 (8.96%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Siebel CRM
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (4.48%) Azure
3 2 (2.99%) AWS
3 2 (2.99%) Azure AI
3 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (2.99%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (2.99%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.99%) IaaS
3 2 (2.99%) PaaS
3 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
3 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.99%) SaaS
4 1 (1.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) DNS
1 2 (2.99%) Firewall
1 2 (2.99%) SD-WAN
1 2 (2.99%) VPN
1 2 (2.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.99%) MySQL
1 2 (2.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (43.28%) JIRA
2 21 (31.34%) eggPlant
3 2 (2.99%) Git
General
1 16 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.96%) Finance
3 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Law
4 2 (2.99%) Military
4 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Local Government
5 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (46.27%) Project Manager
2 29 (43.28%) Senior
3 24 (35.82%) Analyst
4 21 (31.34%) Software Analyst
4 21 (31.34%) Software Test Analyst
4 21 (31.34%) Test Analyst
5 17 (25.37%) Senior Manager
5 17 (25.37%) Senior Project Manager
6 11 (16.42%) Senior Analyst
6 11 (16.42%) Senior Software Test Analyst
6 11 (16.42%) Senior Test Analyst
7 6 (8.96%) IT Manager
7 6 (8.96%) IT Project Manager
8 5 (7.46%) Requirements Manager
9 2 (2.99%) Architect
9 2 (2.99%) Business Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (2.99%) Technical Manager
10 1 (1.49%) Change Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.49%) .NET
1 1 (1.49%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.49%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.96%) Social Media
3 5 (7.46%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.99%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.99%) NHS
5 1 (1.49%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
1 6 (8.96%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (98.51%) Agile
2 37 (55.22%) Project Management
3 28 (41.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (37.31%) Scrum
5 24 (35.82%) Acceptance Criteria
6 22 (32.84%) Software Testing
7 21 (31.34%) Test Automation
7 21 (31.34%) V-Model
8 20 (29.85%) ITIL
8 20 (29.85%) Project Delivery
9 18 (26.87%) PRINCE
10 17 (25.37%) Application Packaging
10 17 (25.37%) Programme Management
10 17 (25.37%) Quality Management
11 12 (17.91%) PRINCE2
12 11 (16.42%) Mentoring
13 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (13.43%) Business Case
15 8 (11.94%) Business Transformation
15 8 (11.94%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.48%) SQL
2 2 (2.99%) Bicep
2 2 (2.99%) C#
2 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.49%) Java
Qualifications
1 28 (41.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 23 (34.33%) PMP
3 14 (20.90%) Degree
4 10 (14.93%) DBS Check
5 6 (8.96%) PMI Certification
6 3 (4.48%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.99%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (32.84%) Atlassian
2 21 (31.34%) Keysight
3 4 (5.97%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.99%) Databricks
4 2 (2.99%) Meraki
4 2 (2.99%) Siebel
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle