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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 240 101
Rank change year-on-year +60 -139 +12
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 113 99 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.26% 0.76% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.94% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 74 62 186
10th Percentile £44,300 £46,350 £34,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,252 £54,763
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% +2.72% -4.76%
75th Percentile £73,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £88,710 £78,625 £76,538
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +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 7,893 10,489 8,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 88.01% 80.96% 93.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,221 5,907 5,741
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,151 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +91 29 £57,500 +15.00% 16
Isle of Wight - 27 £69,000 - 2
West Sussex +14 17 £62,500 +47.06% 8
Thames Valley -43 13 £54,500 -3.11% 49
Surrey +35 11 £55,250 +0.45% 9
Oxfordshire +16 6 £50,000 -14.16% 6
Kent +3 6 £51,000 -17.74% 11
Sussex - 5 £45,000 - 8
Buckinghamshire -13 4 £54,500 -27.33% 15
East Sussex +12 3 £92,500 +42.31% 7
Berkshire -24 3 £67,500 +20.80% 28
Middlesex - 2 - - 7
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 12 (10.62%) Confluence
2 5 (4.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (10.62%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.65%) CATIA
3 3 (2.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.77%) Maximo
2 2 (1.77%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.50%) Azure
1 13 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (10.62%) AWS
3 11 (9.73%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.96%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (6.19%) Amazon S3
5 7 (6.19%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (6.19%) PaaS
5 7 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (5.31%) SaaS
7 4 (3.54%) Azure AI
7 4 (3.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (3.54%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.54%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.54%) IaaS
7 4 (3.54%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.65%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.31%) SD-WAN
2 4 (3.54%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (3.54%) DNS
2 4 (3.54%) Firewall
2 4 (3.54%) VPN
2 4 (3.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (7.08%) Power BI
2 7 (6.19%) MySQL
3 4 (3.54%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.77%) DTS
4 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.88%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (26.55%) JIRA
2 8 (7.08%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (5.31%) Git
4 5 (4.42%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.54%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.65%) Subversion
General
1 44 (38.94%) Social Skills
2 26 (23.01%) Finance
3 14 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.19%) Retail
5 6 (5.31%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.54%) Law
7 3 (2.65%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.77%) Front Office
8 2 (1.77%) Games
8 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.88%) Advertising
9 1 (0.88%) Banking
9 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (19.47%) Senior
2 20 (17.70%) Analyst
3 16 (14.16%) Architect
4 15 (13.27%) Project Manager
5 14 (12.39%) Business Analyst
6 12 (10.62%) Software Architect
7 8 (7.08%) Principal Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Principal Software Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Software Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Test Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Development Manager
8 7 (6.19%) Java Development Manager
8 7 (6.19%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 7 (6.19%) Test Specialist
9 6 (5.31%) IT Manager
9 6 (5.31%) IT Project Manager
9 6 (5.31%) Senior Software Test Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Senior Test Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Software Test Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) System Design Authority
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.62%) Middleware
2 7 (6.19%) React
3 5 (4.42%) XML
4 4 (3.54%) SOAP
5 3 (2.65%) .NET
5 3 (2.65%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.77%) CSS
6 2 (1.77%) HTML
7 1 (0.88%) ADO
7 1 (0.88%) CakePHP
7 1 (0.88%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.88%) JSON
7 1 (0.88%) Kafka
7 1 (0.88%) Laravel
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.88%) REST
7 1 (0.88%) RESTful
7 1 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.08%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.42%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.54%) NHS
5 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) PMI
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.42%) Windows
1 5 (4.42%) Windows Server
1 5 (4.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (96.46%) Agile
2 31 (27.43%) Configuration Management
3 28 (24.78%) Computer Science
4 27 (23.89%) DevOps
4 27 (23.89%) Project Management
4 27 (23.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 27 (23.89%) UML
5 26 (23.01%) Project Delivery
6 25 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (18.58%) Software Engineering
8 20 (17.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (15.93%) Scrum
10 16 (14.16%) Analytics
10 16 (14.16%) Change Management
10 16 (14.16%) Mentoring
10 16 (14.16%) SDLC
11 14 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (12.39%) Test Automation
12 12 (10.62%) Design Patterns
12 12 (10.62%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.16%) SQL
2 12 (10.62%) JavaScript
3 10 (8.85%) Ada
4 8 (7.08%) Ada 95
4 8 (7.08%) Java
5 6 (5.31%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.42%) C#
6 5 (4.42%) Python
7 4 (3.54%) Bicep
8 2 (1.77%) R
9 1 (0.88%) Go
9 1 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (38.05%) Degree
2 29 (25.66%) BPSS Clearance
3 25 (22.12%) Chartered Engineer
4 17 (15.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (11.50%) Security Cleared
6 11 (9.73%) SC Cleared
7 8 (7.08%) PMP
8 6 (5.31%) DV Cleared
8 6 (5.31%) PMI Certification
9 5 (4.42%) ISTQB
10 4 (3.54%) Azure Certification
10 4 (3.54%) DBS Check
10 4 (3.54%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (1.77%) APMP
11 2 (1.77%) CCNA
11 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.88%) IIBA
12 1 (0.88%) ISEB
12 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.88%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (22.12%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 15 (13.27%) QA
3 7 (6.19%) PMO
4 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.88%) GDPR
6 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.42%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.54%) Terminal Server
2 4 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.42%) SCCM
1 5 (4.42%) SCOM
2 4 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.50%) Cisco
3 8 (7.08%) IBM
4 6 (5.31%) Meraki
5 5 (4.42%) VMware
6 4 (3.54%) Databricks
6 4 (3.54%) Juniper
6 4 (3.54%) McAfee
6 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.65%) Oracle
7 3 (2.65%) SAP
8 2 (1.77%) Dell
8 2 (1.77%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.88%) BT
9 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.88%) Epicor
9 1 (0.88%) Guidewire