Waterfall Jobs in the South East

Waterfall Model
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 205 112
Rank change year-on-year +90 -93 -19
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 207 212 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.45% 1.27% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 1.50% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 166 172 234
10th Percentile £48,750 £32,500 £44,300
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,517 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.09% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -9.84% +6.09%

All Process and 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 7,705 14,150 14,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.03% 84.80% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,103 9,942 8,229
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
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 South East

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the South East

Waterfall
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the South East.

Salary trend for Waterfall in the South East

Waterfall
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Isle of Wight - 125 £60,000 - 23
Hampshire +94 34 £47,500 +4.60% 21
West Sussex +32 16 £65,000 +62.50% 8
Thames Valley -20 14 £56,000 +3.70% 26
Kent +25 7 £32,000 -25.58% 6
Buckinghamshire +20 6 £67,000 +24.07% 6
East Sussex +35 5 - - 4
Surrey +33 5 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Oxfordshire +16 5 £56,000 +1.82% 9
Berkshire +9 3 £52,500 - 16
Sussex - 1 £75,000 - 5
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (1.45%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.45%) Confluence
2 1 (0.48%) CMS
2 1 (0.48%) Kentico
2 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.48%) Sitefinity
2 1 (0.48%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.83%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (3.86%) AWS
2 7 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (3.38%) Amazon S3
2 7 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 6 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (2.42%) Azure
4 5 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.93%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (1.45%) Smartsheet
6 3 (1.45%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.97%) Asana
7 2 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.97%) PaaS
8 1 (0.48%) Algolia
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.80%) Firewall
2 3 (1.45%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.97%) DWDM
3 2 (0.97%) GPON
3 2 (0.97%) IPv4
3 2 (0.97%) IPv6
3 2 (0.97%) MPLS
4 1 (0.48%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.45%) Big Data
3 3 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.97%) Power BI
5 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.83%) JIRA
2 1 (0.48%) Git
2 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 31 (14.98%) Social Skills
2 14 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (6.76%) Finance
3 10 (4.83%) Manufacturing
4 8 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.97%) Public Sector
5 2 (0.97%) Retail
5 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.48%) Automotive
6 1 (0.48%) Aviation
6 1 (0.48%) Banking
6 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.48%) Law
6 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.48%) Publishing
6 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (42.03%) Senior
2 74 (35.75%) Software Engineer
3 52 (25.12%) Principal Engineer
4 44 (21.26%) Principal Software Engineer
5 36 (17.39%) Senior Software Test Engineer
5 36 (17.39%) Senior Test Engineer
5 36 (17.39%) Software Test Engineer
5 36 (17.39%) Test Engineer
6 30 (14.49%) Senior Software Engineer
7 26 (12.56%) Project Manager
8 23 (11.11%) Analyst
9 17 (8.21%) Architect
10 16 (7.73%) Senior Analyst
10 16 (7.73%) Senior Test Analyst
10 16 (7.73%) Test Analyst
11 12 (5.80%) Software Architect
12 8 (3.86%) Configuration Management Engineer
12 8 (3.86%) SCM Engineer
13 7 (3.38%) Development Manager
13 7 (3.38%) Java Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.80%) Middleware
2 7 (3.38%) React
3 5 (2.42%) REST
4 2 (0.97%) .NET
4 2 (0.97%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.97%) Web Services
5 1 (0.48%) ADO
5 1 (0.48%) CSS
5 1 (0.48%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.48%) gRPC
5 1 (0.48%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.48%) HTML
5 1 (0.48%) Kafka
5 1 (0.48%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.48%) MACH
5 1 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.48%) SOAP
5 1 (0.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.83%) Product Ownership
2 4 (1.93%) Virtual Team
3 3 (1.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (0.97%) Driving Licence
4 2 (0.97%) IoT
4 2 (0.97%) PMI
4 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.48%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (95.17%) Agile
2 123 (59.42%) Computer Science
3 122 (58.94%) UML
4 87 (42.03%) Configuration Management
5 82 (39.61%) Software Engineering
6 52 (25.12%) Test Automation
7 36 (17.39%) Software Testing
7 36 (17.39%) Validation
7 36 (17.39%) Verification and Validation
8 34 (16.43%) Project Management
9 30 (14.49%) Code Quality
9 30 (14.49%) Project Delivery
10 28 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (9.18%) Scrum
13 17 (8.21%) Mentoring
14 16 (7.73%) DevOps
14 16 (7.73%) Manual Testing
14 16 (7.73%) V-Model
15 15 (7.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (17.39%) Ada
2 10 (4.83%) JavaScript
3 8 (3.86%) Java
4 7 (3.38%) Python
4 7 (3.38%) SQL
5 3 (1.45%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.97%) C#
7 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.48%) Go
7 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 141 (68.12%) Degree
2 72 (34.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 64 (30.92%) Chartered Engineer
4 19 (9.18%) Security Cleared
5 18 (8.70%) SC Cleared
6 16 (7.73%) ISTQB
7 12 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.86%) PMP
9 4 (1.93%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.48%) APMP
10 1 (0.48%) CBAP
10 1 (0.48%) CISA
10 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.48%) CISM
10 1 (0.48%) CISSP
10 1 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (37.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 9 (4.35%) QA
3 5 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.93%) PMO
5 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) NIST
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.97%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.86%) Micro Focus
3 7 (3.38%) Cisco
4 6 (2.90%) Oracle
5 3 (1.45%) Informatica
5 3 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.97%) Nokia
6 2 (0.97%) SAP
6 2 (0.97%) Splunk
7 1 (0.48%) Adyen
7 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.48%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.48%) Sitecore