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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 214 136
Rank change year-on-year +139 -78 -23
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 343 186 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.37% 1.08% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 1.32% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 232 143 192
10th Percentile £57,550 £34,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £63,150 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -6.09% +0.44%
75th Percentile £73,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £68,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +23.64% -12.00% +4.17%

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 9,162 14,128 11,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 89.97% 81.81% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,815 9,674 7,278
10th Percentile £28,100 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £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 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 16 July 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 16 July 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 - 249 £68,000 - 8
Hampshire +96 40 £57,500 +19.79% 38
West Sussex +27 21 £62,500 +47.06% 11
Thames Valley -36 14 £54,000 -1.82% 27
Oxfordshire +26 7 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Surrey +25 7 £61,000 -6.15% 7
Kent +22 5 £32,000 +24.27% 13
Buckinghamshire +10 4 £53,250 -26.55% 6
Sussex - 4 £63,750 - 11
East Sussex +21 3 £92,500 +85.00% 8
Berkshire -19 3 £67,500 +28.57% 16
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 7 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (3.50%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.58%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 13 (3.79%) AWS
2 12 (3.50%) Azure
3 9 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (2.62%) Power Platform
4 8 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 8 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (2.04%) Amazon S3
5 7 (2.04%) PaaS
5 7 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (1.75%) SaaS
7 5 (1.46%) IaaS
7 5 (1.46%) Smartsheet
8 4 (1.17%) Azure AI
8 4 (1.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (1.17%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.17%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.75%) SD-WAN
2 5 (1.46%) Firewall
3 4 (1.17%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (1.17%) DNS
3 4 (1.17%) VPN
3 4 (1.17%) WAN
4 1 (0.29%) Broadband
4 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.04%) MySQL
3 6 (1.75%) Power BI
4 4 (1.17%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.87%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.29%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (14.29%) JIRA
2 31 (9.04%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (1.75%) Git
4 5 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.17%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.87%) Subversion
General
1 41 (11.95%) Social Skills
2 15 (4.37%) Finance
3 12 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (1.46%) Manufacturing
6 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (0.87%) Law
7 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
7 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.58%) Front Office
7 2 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.29%) Advertising
8 1 (0.29%) Automotive
8 1 (0.29%) Banking
8 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.29%) Legal
8 1 (0.29%) Publishing
8 1 (0.29%) Retail
8 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (35.28%) Architect
2 115 (33.53%) Software Architect
3 90 (26.24%) Principal Engineer
3 90 (26.24%) Principal Software Engineer
3 90 (26.24%) Software Engineer
4 48 (13.99%) Senior
5 38 (11.08%) Test Engineer
6 36 (10.50%) Senior Software Test Engineer
6 36 (10.50%) Senior Test Engineer
6 36 (10.50%) Software Test Engineer
7 29 (8.45%) System Design Authority
8 19 (5.54%) Project Manager
9 15 (4.37%) Analyst
10 9 (2.62%) Business Analyst
11 7 (2.04%) Development Manager
11 7 (2.04%) Java Development Manager
11 7 (2.04%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 7 (2.04%) Test Specialist
12 5 (1.46%) IT Project Manager
12 5 (1.46%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (33.53%) Middleware
2 7 (2.04%) React
3 5 (1.46%) SOAP
3 5 (1.46%) XML
4 3 (0.87%) .NET
4 3 (0.87%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.87%) CSS
4 3 (0.87%) HTML
5 2 (0.58%) REST
6 1 (0.29%) ADO
6 1 (0.29%) CakePHP
6 1 (0.29%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.29%) gRPC
6 1 (0.29%) JSON
6 1 (0.29%) Kafka
6 1 (0.29%) Laravel
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.29%) RESTful
6 1 (0.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.62%) Product Ownership
2 8 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (1.17%) NHS
4 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
5 2 (0.58%) Driving Licence
5 2 (0.58%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.58%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.58%) PMI
5 2 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.29%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.46%) Windows
1 5 (1.46%) Windows Server
1 5 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (98.54%) Agile
2 253 (73.76%) Configuration Management
3 243 (70.85%) Computer Science
4 242 (70.55%) UML
5 152 (44.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 125 (36.44%) DevOps
7 120 (34.99%) Mentoring
7 120 (34.99%) SDLC
8 115 (33.53%) Design Patterns
8 115 (33.53%) Open Source
9 100 (29.15%) Software Engineering
10 46 (13.41%) Test Automation
11 42 (12.24%) Software Testing
12 37 (10.79%) Validation
13 36 (10.50%) Verification and Validation
14 32 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
15 31 (9.04%) Systems Engineering
16 30 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
17 25 (7.29%) Integration Testing
17 25 (7.29%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 84 (24.49%) Ada
2 72 (20.99%) Ada 95
3 18 (5.25%) SQL
4 13 (3.79%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.33%) Java
6 6 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.46%) C#
7 5 (1.46%) Python
8 4 (1.17%) Bicep
9 2 (0.58%) R
10 1 (0.29%) Go
10 1 (0.29%) PHP
10 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 280 (81.63%) Degree
2 254 (74.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 234 (68.22%) Chartered Engineer
4 140 (40.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (7.00%) Numerate Degree
6 12 (3.50%) Security Cleared
7 10 (2.92%) SC Cleared
8 6 (1.75%) PMP
9 5 (1.46%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.46%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.17%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.17%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.17%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.58%) CCNA
13 1 (0.29%) CISA
13 1 (0.29%) CISM
13 1 (0.29%) CISSP
13 1 (0.29%) ISEB
13 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (58.60%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 12 (3.50%) QA
3 4 (1.17%) PMO
4 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.58%) GDPR
4 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.29%) NCSC
5 1 (0.29%) NIST
5 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.46%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.17%) Terminal Server
2 4 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.46%) SCCM
1 5 (1.46%) SCOM
2 4 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (9.04%) IBM
2 24 (7.00%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.79%) Cisco
4 6 (1.75%) Meraki
5 5 (1.46%) VMware
6 4 (1.17%) Databricks
6 4 (1.17%) Juniper
6 4 (1.17%) McAfee
6 4 (1.17%) Oracle
7 2 (0.58%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.58%) SAP
8 1 (0.29%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.29%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow