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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 205 111
Rank change year-on-year +101 -94 -15
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 249 206 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.67% 1.22% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 1.45% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 204 167 225
10th Percentile £52,525 £32,500 £44,400
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,968 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -6.09% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

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 8,550 14,220 13,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.62% 84.55% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,316 9,911 7,968
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
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 11 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 11 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 - 167 £65,000 - 11
Hampshire +89 34 £47,500 +4.60% 24
West Sussex +32 16 £65,000 +62.50% 6
Thames Valley -30 15 £55,000 +1.85% 26
Kent +21 7 £32,000 +23.08% 4
Oxfordshire +10 6 £56,000 -0.44% 9
East Sussex +29 5 - - 2
Buckinghamshire +12 5 £69,500 +28.70% 8
Surrey +15 4 £57,500 -11.54% 8
Berkshire +1 4 £52,500 - 15
Sussex - 1 £75,000 - 1
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 (1.20%) Confluence
2 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.40%) CMS
3 1 (0.40%) Kentico
3 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.40%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.02%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (4.82%) AWS
2 9 (3.61%) Azure
3 8 (3.21%) Power Platform
4 7 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (2.81%) Amazon S3
4 7 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (2.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.41%) PaaS
6 5 (2.01%) IaaS
6 5 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.01%) SaaS
7 4 (1.61%) Azure AI
7 4 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.43%) Firewall
2 4 (1.61%) DNS
2 4 (1.61%) SD-WAN
2 4 (1.61%) VPN
2 4 (1.61%) WAN
3 3 (1.20%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.80%) DWDM
4 2 (0.80%) GPON
4 2 (0.80%) IPv4
4 2 (0.80%) IPv6
4 2 (0.80%) MPLS
5 1 (0.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.41%) Power BI
3 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.61%) MySQL
4 2 (0.80%) Big Data
4 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.02%) JIRA
2 5 (2.01%) Git
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 31 (12.45%) Social Skills
2 14 (5.62%) Finance
3 12 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.02%) Manufacturing
5 8 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (0.80%) Retail
6 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.40%) Automotive
7 1 (0.40%) Aviation
7 1 (0.40%) Banking
7 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.40%) Law
7 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.40%) Publishing
7 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (36.95%) Software Engineer
2 91 (36.55%) Senior
3 70 (28.11%) Principal Engineer
4 62 (24.90%) Principal Software Engineer
5 42 (16.87%) Senior Software Test Engineer
5 42 (16.87%) Senior Test Engineer
5 42 (16.87%) Software Test Engineer
5 42 (16.87%) Test Engineer
6 39 (15.66%) Architect
7 30 (12.05%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (12.05%) Software Architect
8 26 (10.44%) Project Manager
9 20 (8.03%) Analyst
10 14 (5.62%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (5.62%) Senior Test Analyst
10 14 (5.62%) Test Analyst
11 8 (3.21%) Configuration Management Engineer
11 8 (3.21%) SCM Engineer
12 7 (2.81%) Development Manager
12 7 (2.81%) Java Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.05%) Middleware
2 7 (2.81%) React
3 4 (1.61%) REST
4 2 (0.80%) .NET
4 2 (0.80%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.80%) Web Services
5 1 (0.40%) ADO
5 1 (0.40%) CSS
5 1 (0.40%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.40%) gRPC
5 1 (0.40%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.40%) HTML
5 1 (0.40%) Kafka
5 1 (0.40%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.40%) MACH
5 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.40%) SOAP
5 1 (0.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.61%) Product Ownership
2 7 (2.81%) Data Centre
3 4 (1.61%) NHS
3 4 (1.61%) Virtual Team
4 2 (0.80%) Driving Licence
4 2 (0.80%) IoT
4 2 (0.80%) PMI
4 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (95.98%) Agile
2 165 (66.27%) Computer Science
3 164 (65.86%) UML
4 129 (51.81%) Configuration Management
5 100 (40.16%) Software Engineering
6 56 (22.49%) Test Automation
7 42 (16.87%) Software Testing
7 42 (16.87%) Validation
7 42 (16.87%) Verification and Validation
8 40 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (15.26%) DevOps
10 37 (14.86%) Project Management
11 35 (14.06%) Mentoring
12 33 (13.25%) SDLC
13 30 (12.05%) Code Quality
13 30 (12.05%) Design Patterns
13 30 (12.05%) Open Source
14 29 (11.65%) Project Delivery
15 28 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (7.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 60 (24.10%) Ada
2 18 (7.23%) Ada 95
3 10 (4.02%) JavaScript
3 10 (4.02%) SQL
4 8 (3.21%) Java
5 6 (2.41%) Python
6 4 (1.61%) Bicep
6 4 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.80%) C#
7 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.40%) Go
8 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 182 (73.09%) Degree
2 110 (44.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 100 (40.16%) Chartered Engineer
4 30 (12.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.43%) Security Cleared
6 15 (6.02%) SC Cleared
7 14 (5.62%) ISTQB
8 8 (3.21%) PMP
9 4 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.61%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.61%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) APMP
10 1 (0.40%) CBAP
10 1 (0.40%) CISA
10 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.40%) CISM
10 1 (0.40%) CISSP
10 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (48.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 9 (3.61%) QA
3 5 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.61%) PMO
5 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.80%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.21%) Micro Focus
3 7 (2.81%) Cisco
4 5 (2.01%) Oracle
5 4 (1.61%) Databricks
5 4 (1.61%) Meraki
6 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.80%) Informatica
7 2 (0.80%) Nokia
7 2 (0.80%) SAP
7 2 (0.80%) Splunk
8 1 (0.40%) Adyen
8 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.40%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.40%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.40%) Sitecore