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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 222 104
Rank change year-on-year +62 -118 +11
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 120 93 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.36% 0.82% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.01% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 73 52 188
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £49,250 £51,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,150 £56,876 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.03% +3.41% -1.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £99,250 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £66,250 £57,500 £61,674
% change year-on-year +15.22% -6.77% -1.32%

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 7,682 9,225 7,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 87.02% 81.51% 93.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,464 4,815 5,008
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 November 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 4 November 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
Hampshire +54 31 £58,750 -7.84% 19
Isle of Wight -1 25 £68,000 +18.26% 3
Thames Valley -8 18 £65,000 +15.55% 32
Surrey +28 11 £55,250 -3.91% 4
Middlesex - 11 - - 6
West Sussex +4 10 £72,850 +45.70% 3
Berkshire -5 9 £67,500 +20.00% 22
Kent +12 6 £77,850 +25.56% 10
Oxfordshire +21 5 £57,500 +3.60% 1
Sussex - 5 £45,000 - 5
Buckinghamshire +7 4 £65,000 -25.71% 9
East Sussex +9 3 £92,500 +42.31% 7
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 14 (11.67%) Confluence
2 4 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.33%) CATIA
4 3 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.67%) Maximo
3 2 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.17%) Azure
2 20 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 11 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (7.50%) SaaS
6 8 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (5.83%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (5.00%) PaaS
9 5 (4.17%) AWS
10 4 (3.33%) Azure AI
10 4 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.33%) IaaS
10 4 (3.33%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.67%) Smartsheet
13 1 (0.83%) Google Ads
13 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (3.33%) DNS
2 4 (3.33%) Firewall
2 4 (3.33%) VPN
2 4 (3.33%) WAN
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.33%) Power BI
2 7 (5.83%) MySQL
3 4 (3.33%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.50%) DTS
5 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.83%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 33 (27.50%) JIRA
2 9 (7.50%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (5.00%) Git
4 5 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.33%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.50%) Subversion
7 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.83%) mountebank
7 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
General
1 38 (31.67%) Finance
2 36 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (5.00%) Marketing
5 6 (5.00%) Retail
6 3 (2.50%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.50%) Games
6 3 (2.50%) Law
7 2 (1.67%) Advertising
7 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.67%) Front Office
7 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (22.50%) Analyst
2 26 (21.67%) Senior
3 17 (14.17%) Architect
4 15 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 14 (11.67%) Lead
5 14 (11.67%) Project Manager
6 13 (10.83%) Software Architect
7 8 (6.67%) Governance Analyst
7 8 (6.67%) IT Analyst
7 8 (6.67%) IT Governance Analyst
7 8 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Principal Software Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Product Analyst
7 8 (6.67%) Project Analyst
7 8 (6.67%) Project Governance Analyst
7 8 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 7 (5.83%) Test Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Test Leader
8 7 (5.83%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.83%) Middleware
2 5 (4.17%) XML
3 4 (3.33%) SOAP
4 2 (1.67%) .NET
4 2 (1.67%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.67%) CSS
4 2 (1.67%) HTML
5 1 (0.83%) CakePHP
5 1 (0.83%) JSON
5 1 (0.83%) Kafka
5 1 (0.83%) Laravel
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.83%) REST
5 1 (0.83%) RESTful
5 1 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.83%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.83%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.33%) NHS
4 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.83%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Windows
1 5 (4.17%) Windows Server
1 5 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (97.50%) Agile
2 36 (30.00%) DevOps
3 31 (25.83%) Configuration Management
4 30 (25.00%) Project Management
5 28 (23.33%) Computer Science
5 28 (23.33%) Mentoring
6 27 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (22.50%) UML
7 24 (20.00%) Project Delivery
8 20 (16.67%) SDLC
8 20 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (15.83%) AI
10 17 (14.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (14.17%) Test Automation
11 16 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (12.50%) Software Engineering
12 15 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
13 14 (11.67%) Change Management
13 14 (11.67%) Roadmaps
14 13 (10.83%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.50%) SQL
2 9 (7.50%) Ada
3 8 (6.67%) Ada 95
4 6 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.33%) Bicep
5 4 (3.33%) C#
5 4 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.33%) Python
6 2 (1.67%) R
7 1 (0.83%) Java
7 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (34.17%) Degree
2 30 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 26 (21.67%) Chartered Engineer
4 18 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (10.83%) Security Cleared
6 11 (9.17%) SC Cleared
7 9 (7.50%) PMP
8 7 (5.83%) PMI Certification
9 6 (5.00%) DV Cleared
10 5 (4.17%) ISTQB
11 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
11 4 (3.33%) DBS Check
11 4 (3.33%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (1.67%) APMP
12 2 (1.67%) CCNA
12 2 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.83%) ACCA
13 1 (0.83%) CIMA
13 1 (0.83%) ISEB
13 1 (0.83%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (21.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 21 (17.50%) QA
3 17 (14.17%) PMO
4 4 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.83%) GDPR
6 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.33%) Terminal Server
3 4 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.17%) SCCM
1 5 (4.17%) SCOM
2 4 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (10.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.50%) IBM
2 9 (7.50%) SAP
3 8 (6.67%) VMware
4 6 (5.00%) Cisco
4 6 (5.00%) Meraki
5 4 (3.33%) Databricks
5 4 (3.33%) Juniper
5 4 (3.33%) McAfee
5 4 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.50%) Dell
6 3 (2.50%) Oracle
7 2 (1.67%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.83%) BT
8 1 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.83%) Epicor
8 1 (0.83%) Guidewire