Waterfall Job Trends in the South East

Waterfall Model
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Waterfall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 170 243
Rank change year-on-year -71 +73 -143
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 96 124 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.51% 1.38% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.56% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 55 75 55
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,400 £45,200
25th Percentile £54,375 £48,250 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £56,252
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.66% +2.28%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,000 £69,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £59,925
% change year-on-year - +8.47% -4.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,690 7,951 10,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.18% 88.36% 81.53%
Number of salaries quoted 9,756 4,251 5,429
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -11.82% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Waterfall job vacancy trend in the South East

Waterfall
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Waterfall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the South East over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Waterfall in the South East

Waterfall
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Thames Valley +13 32 £64,500 +17.27% 43
Hampshire -56 27 £60,000 +4.35% 31
Berkshire +24 22 £65,000 -3.70% 21
Surrey -22 20 £57,500 +4.07% 20
Kent -15 10 £33,500 -34.31% 7
Buckinghamshire +1 8 £57,500 +4.55% 10
Middlesex +10 3 £65,000 - 1
Isle of Wight -16 3 £66,300 -3.91% 5
Oxfordshire -34 2 £75,000 +50.00% 12
West Sussex -39 1 £75,000 +20.00% 8
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) Apache
2 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.04%) JBoss
2 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.04%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (18.75%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (7.29%) CATIA
3 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.04%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.88%) Azure
2 14 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.21%) ClickUp
4 3 (3.13%) AWS
5 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.08%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.04%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.04%) Boomi
6 1 (1.04%) GCP
6 1 (1.04%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.04%) SaaS
6 1 (1.04%) Serverless
6 1 (1.04%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) LAN
1 3 (3.13%) Software-Defined Radio
1 3 (3.13%) WAN
2 2 (2.08%) 5G
2 2 (2.08%) ATM
2 2 (2.08%) Wireless
3 1 (1.04%) Intranet
3 1 (1.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.04%) Big Data
1 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (30.21%) JIRA
2 8 (8.33%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (4.17%) Apache Continuum
4 1 (1.04%) GitLab
4 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.04%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (61.46%) Finance
2 40 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.71%) Aerospace
4 14 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.38%) Telecoms
6 7 (7.29%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (6.25%) Law
8 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
9 4 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.13%) Legal
10 3 (3.13%) Police
10 3 (3.13%) Retail
11 2 (2.08%) Automotive
11 2 (2.08%) Marketing
12 1 (1.04%) Banking
12 1 (1.04%) Electronics
12 1 (1.04%) French Language
12 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (35.42%) Project Manager
2 22 (22.92%) Senior
3 17 (17.71%) Systems Engineer
4 13 (13.54%) Analyst
4 13 (13.54%) IT Manager
5 12 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 12 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
6 8 (8.33%) CRM Manager
6 8 (8.33%) Senior Manager
6 8 (8.33%) Technical Manager
7 7 (7.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Junior
8 6 (6.25%) Junior Project Manager
8 6 (6.25%) Telecoms Manager
9 5 (5.21%) Engagement Manager
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Engagement Manager
9 5 (5.21%) Technical Project Manager
10 4 (4.17%) Junior IT Manager
10 4 (4.17%) Junior IT Project Manager
10 4 (4.17%) OSS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.13%) Kafka
2 2 (2.08%) ADO
2 2 (2.08%) Classic ASP
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Camel
3 1 (1.04%) Middleware
3 1 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.38%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.25%) Augmented Reality
3 5 (5.21%) FPGA
4 4 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.13%) Acoustics
5 3 (3.13%) IoT
5 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.13%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.08%) ASIC
6 2 (2.08%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (2.08%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.08%) PCIe
6 2 (2.08%) PKI
6 2 (2.08%) Replication
6 2 (2.08%) SCADA
6 2 (2.08%) SystemC
6 2 (2.08%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
1 3 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (98.96%) Agile
2 43 (44.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (35.42%) Project Management
4 31 (32.29%) Project Delivery
5 30 (31.25%) DevOps
6 26 (27.08%) Change Control
7 25 (26.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (25.00%) Change Management
9 21 (21.88%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 21 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (19.79%) Supplier Management
10 19 (19.79%) Systems Engineering
11 18 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (17.71%) Budget Management
13 15 (15.63%) Business Case
13 15 (15.63%) Roadmaps
13 15 (15.63%) Scrum
14 14 (14.58%) AI
14 14 (14.58%) CRM
15 13 (13.54%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.38%) SQL
2 6 (6.25%) Python
3 3 (3.13%) Java
3 3 (3.13%) MATLAB
4 2 (2.08%) Ada
4 2 (2.08%) C
4 2 (2.08%) C#
4 2 (2.08%) C++
4 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.08%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 34 (35.42%) Degree
2 16 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 15 (15.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (12.50%) PMI Certification
4 12 (12.50%) PMP
5 11 (11.46%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.25%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.08%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (2.08%) HNC
8 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.08%) MCSA
8 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.04%) CCA
9 1 (1.04%) HND
9 1 (1.04%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.46%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 10 (10.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 6 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.25%) PMO
4 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.13%) QA
5 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.04%) NIST
5 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.04%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (3.13%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (2.08%) SCCM
2 2 (2.08%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 15 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.33%) IBM
3 7 (7.29%) Pega
4 6 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (5.21%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.13%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.13%) Oracle
7 3 (3.13%) VMware
8 2 (2.08%) Cisco
8 2 (2.08%) Dell
8 2 (2.08%) Juniper
8 2 (2.08%) SAP
8 2 (2.08%) Sparx
8 2 (2.08%) Symantec
8 2 (2.08%) Veeam
8 2 (2.08%) Yahoo!
9 1 (1.04%) Databricks
9 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.04%) Palo Alto