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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 186 204
Rank change year-on-year -72 +18 -80
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 67 111 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.39% 1.27% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.44% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 47 70 103
10th Percentile £42,275 £45,000 £41,024
25th Percentile £50,517 £49,750 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +9.01% +0.91%
75th Percentile £68,250 £73,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,900 £85,700 £78,750
England median annual salary £64,500 £65,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -0.77% +17.12% -11.20%

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 12,150 7,709 11,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.61% 88.06% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,654 4,170 7,310
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,733 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,638
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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
Hampshire -45 24 £55,000 -4.35% 16
Thames Valley -7 15 £55,000 +3.29% 19
Surrey -26 9 £57,500 -4.17% 13
Buckinghamshire -2 8 £51,292 -5.01% 7
Kent -19 8 £33,500 +4.69% 4
Berkshire +19 6 £64,500 -4.44% 10
West Sussex -35 5 £75,450 +20.72% 6
Isle of Wight -13 3 £66,300 -2.50%
Middlesex - 3 £65,000 - 3
Oxfordshire -27 1 £57,500 +15.00% 2
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 2 (2.99%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) JBoss
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (16.42%) CATIA
2 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.91%) Azure
2 6 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.97%) ClickUp
4 2 (2.99%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (1.49%) AWS
5 1 (1.49%) Boomi
5 1 (1.49%) iPaaS
5 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.49%) SaaS
5 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) LAN
1 3 (4.48%) Software-Defined Radio
1 3 (4.48%) WAN
2 2 (2.99%) ATM
3 1 (1.49%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.49%) Intranet
3 1 (1.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.49%) Big Data
1 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (37.31%) JIRA
2 12 (17.91%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (8.96%) Apache Continuum
4 3 (4.48%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.49%) GitLab
5 1 (1.49%) Subversion
5 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (47.76%) Finance
2 27 (40.30%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.93%) Aerospace
5 5 (7.46%) Law
6 4 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Automotive
7 3 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Legal
7 3 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.48%) Retail
8 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.99%) Police
9 1 (1.49%) Electronics
9 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Systems Engineer
2 16 (23.88%) Project Manager
3 14 (20.90%) Senior
4 8 (11.94%) Analyst
5 7 (10.45%) Business Analyst
5 7 (10.45%) IT Manager
5 7 (10.45%) IT Project Manager
6 6 (8.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Consultant
9 3 (4.48%) CRM Project Manager
9 3 (4.48%) Data Manager
9 3 (4.48%) IT Business Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Junior
9 3 (4.48%) Junior Project Manager
9 3 (4.48%) QA Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Manager
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) Kafka
2 2 (2.99%) Classic ASP
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Camel
3 1 (1.49%) Middleware
3 1 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Management Information System
2 8 (11.94%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.46%) Acoustics
3 5 (7.46%) Augmented Reality
3 5 (7.46%) Driving Licence
4 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.48%) FPGA
5 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.99%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (2.99%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.99%) PKI
6 2 (2.99%) Replication
6 2 (2.99%) SCADA
7 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.49%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Linux
1 3 (4.48%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) Agile
2 29 (43.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (28.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (28.36%) Project Management
3 19 (28.36%) Systems Engineering
4 15 (22.39%) DevOps
4 15 (22.39%) Project Delivery
4 15 (22.39%) Software Engineering
4 15 (22.39%) Technical Leadership
5 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (19.40%) Requirements Management
6 12 (17.91%) Change Control
6 12 (17.91%) Computer Science
7 11 (16.42%) Change Management
7 11 (16.42%) CRM
7 11 (16.42%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (16.42%) Software Testing
8 10 (14.93%) User Stories
9 9 (13.43%) Risk Management
9 9 (13.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.94%) SQL
2 6 (8.96%) Python
3 3 (4.48%) Java
3 3 (4.48%) MATLAB
4 2 (2.99%) Ada
4 2 (2.99%) C
4 2 (2.99%) C#
4 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (26.87%) Degree
2 15 (22.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (17.91%) Security Cleared
4 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.97%) ISTQB
5 4 (5.97%) PMI Certification
5 4 (5.97%) PMP
6 3 (4.48%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.99%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.99%) HNC
7 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.99%) MCSA
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.49%) HND
8 1 (1.49%) MBA
8 1 (1.49%) Postgraduate
8 1 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.90%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 12 (17.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 5 (7.46%) PMO
3 5 (7.46%) QA
4 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.49%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.49%) Terminal Server
2 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) SCCM
2 2 (2.99%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 1 (1.49%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) IBM
2 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.97%) VMware
5 3 (4.48%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.48%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (4.48%) Cisco
5 3 (4.48%) Juniper
5 3 (4.48%) Oracle
6 2 (2.99%) Dell
6 2 (2.99%) SAP
6 2 (2.99%) Sparx
6 2 (2.99%) Symantec
6 2 (2.99%) Veeam
6 2 (2.99%) Yahoo!
7 1 (1.49%) Arista
7 1 (1.49%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.49%) Databricks
7 1 (1.49%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.49%) McAfee