Waterfall Jobs in the UK excluding London

Waterfall Model
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 258 155
Rank change year-on-year +71 -103 -26
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 655 773 1,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.65% 1.03% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.25% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 446 635 692
10th Percentile £47,500 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.09% +6.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £69,063
90th Percentile £73,000 £78,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the UK excluding London

Waterfall
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Waterfall in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Waterfall in the UK excluding London

Waterfall
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Waterfall in the UK excluding London

Waterfall
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +131 298 £65,000 +22.93% 92
Midlands +33 147 £58,250 +7.87% 50
North of England -44 99 £54,793 +1.47% 74
West Midlands +54 98 £57,500 +4.55% 25
North West -10 66 £54,793 +6.91% 35
East Midlands +24 49 £60,000 +11.11% 25
Wales +70 39 £65,000 +23.96% 5
South West +66 39 £60,000 +20.00% 34
Yorkshire -4 25 £56,250 -10.00% 35
East of England -8 20 £70,000 +27.27% 16
Scotland +99 13 £55,000 - 29
North East +28 8 £56,250 +7.14% 5
Waterfall
UK

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 27 (4.12%) Confluence
2 14 (2.14%) Appian
3 6 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.61%) Apache
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.15%) CICS
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 26 (3.97%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.37%) Trello
5 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.31%) Maximo
2 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.31%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 41 (6.26%) Azure
2 31 (4.73%) AWS
3 28 (4.27%) Power Platform
3 28 (4.27%) SaaS
4 27 (4.12%) Power Automate
5 24 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (2.60%) PaaS
8 15 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (2.29%) IaaS
9 14 (2.14%) Azure AI
9 14 (2.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 14 (2.14%) Azure Key Vault
9 14 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (2.14%) Entra ID
10 11 (1.68%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.53%) Serverless
12 9 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.07%) GitHub
13 7 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.36%) SD-WAN
1 22 (3.36%) WAN
2 18 (2.75%) Firewall
3 15 (2.29%) DNS
4 14 (2.14%) VPN
5 8 (1.22%) 5G
6 2 (0.31%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.15%) Broadband
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.15%) DHCP
7 1 (0.15%) DWDM
7 1 (0.15%) GPON
7 1 (0.15%) IPv4
7 1 (0.15%) IPv6
7 1 (0.15%) Modbus
7 1 (0.15%) MPLS
7 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.36%) Power BI
2 16 (2.44%) MySQL
3 14 (2.14%) Data Lake
4 9 (1.37%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.76%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.46%) Tableau
10 2 (0.31%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.31%) Big Data
10 2 (0.31%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.31%) DB2
10 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.31%) OLAP
10 2 (0.31%) OLTP
11 1 (0.15%) DataStage
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 86 (13.13%) JIRA
2 22 (3.36%) Git
3 21 (3.21%) eggPlant
3 21 (3.21%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.76%) Postman
5 4 (0.61%) Selenium
5 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.46%) Subversion
7 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.31%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.15%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 112 (17.10%) Social Skills
2 74 (11.30%) Finance
3 38 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (2.90%) Manufacturing
6 14 (2.14%) Retail
7 13 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.83%) Electronics
8 12 (1.83%) Law
9 11 (1.68%) Banking
9 11 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.53%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.46%) Military
13 2 (0.31%) Front Office
13 2 (0.31%) Legal
13 2 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.15%) Back Office
14 1 (0.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (26.11%) Senior
2 166 (25.34%) Principal Engineer
3 135 (20.61%) Software Engineer
4 96 (14.66%) Project Manager
5 94 (14.35%) Principal Software Engineer
6 90 (13.74%) Architect
7 67 (10.23%) Software Architect
8 64 (9.77%) Analyst
9 53 (8.09%) Test Engineer
10 50 (7.63%) Senior Software Test Engineer
10 50 (7.63%) Senior Test Engineer
10 50 (7.63%) Software Test Engineer
11 38 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 32 (4.89%) Lead
13 29 (4.43%) Senior Manager
14 28 (4.27%) Business Analyst
15 27 (4.12%) Senior Project Manager
16 26 (3.97%) Test Analyst
17 24 (3.66%) Developer
17 24 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (10.23%) Middleware
2 13 (1.98%) .NET
2 13 (1.98%) HTML
3 8 (1.22%) .NET Framework
3 8 (1.22%) CSS
3 8 (1.22%) React
4 7 (1.07%) AngularJS
4 7 (1.07%) ASP.NET Web API
4 7 (1.07%) XML
5 6 (0.92%) Bootstrap
5 6 (0.92%) JSON
5 6 (0.92%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (0.61%) NgRx
6 4 (0.61%) RxJS
6 4 (0.61%) SOAP
7 3 (0.46%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.46%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.46%) Kafka
8 2 (0.31%) Playwright
8 2 (0.31%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (3.21%) Product Ownership
2 19 (2.90%) Data Centre
3 15 (2.29%) NHS
4 10 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.22%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.22%) Self-Driving Car
6 6 (0.92%) PMI
6 6 (0.92%) Social Media
6 6 (0.92%) Virtual Team
7 5 (0.76%) Client/Server
7 5 (0.76%) Driving Licence
8 4 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.46%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.31%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.31%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.31%) PKI
11 1 (0.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.53%) Windows
2 6 (0.92%) Windows Vista
3 3 (0.46%) Linux
4 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.15%) AIX
5 1 (0.15%) Android
5 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.15%) CentOS
5 1 (0.15%) Debian
5 1 (0.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (98.63%) Agile
2 266 (40.61%) UML
3 259 (39.54%) Computer Science
4 252 (38.47%) Software Engineering
5 217 (33.13%) Configuration Management
6 200 (30.53%) SDLC
7 181 (27.63%) Software Testing
8 158 (24.12%) Project Management
9 130 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 107 (16.34%) Mentoring
11 106 (16.18%) Project Delivery
12 101 (15.42%) DevOps
13 93 (14.20%) Test Automation
14 90 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
15 83 (12.67%) Scrum
16 70 (10.69%) Validation
17 69 (10.53%) Open Source
18 67 (10.23%) Design Patterns
19 56 (8.55%) Verification and Validation
20 52 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 97 (14.81%) Ada
2 42 (6.41%) Ada 95
3 38 (5.80%) SQL
4 24 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.05%) Java
5 20 (3.05%) Python
6 16 (2.44%) C#
6 16 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.14%) Bicep
8 9 (1.37%) C++
9 6 (0.92%) C
10 4 (0.61%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.61%) VBA
11 2 (0.31%) R
11 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) Go
12 1 (0.15%) JCL
12 1 (0.15%) PHP
12 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 404 (61.68%) Degree
2 319 (48.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 182 (27.79%) Chartered Engineer
4 70 (10.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (7.48%) PMP
6 26 (3.97%) PMI Certification
7 25 (3.82%) Security Cleared
8 23 (3.51%) DBS Check
9 19 (2.90%) SC Cleared
10 17 (2.60%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.07%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.76%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.46%) CBAP
14 3 (0.46%) CISSP
14 3 (0.46%) CSPO
14 3 (0.46%) IIBA
15 2 (0.31%) ISEB
15 2 (0.31%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (29.62%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 34 (5.19%) QA
3 28 (4.27%) PMO
4 10 (1.53%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.76%) NCSC
7 3 (0.46%) GDPR
7 3 (0.46%) NIST
8 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.15%) P3O
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (0.92%) Firmware
3 2 (0.31%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) Docker
4 1 (0.15%) Terminal Server
4 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.46%) SCOM
3 2 (0.31%) Ansible
3 2 (0.31%) SCCM
4 1 (0.15%) CA Service Virtualization
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.15%) Terraform
4 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 89 (13.59%) Siemens
2 47 (7.18%) Microsoft
3 25 (3.82%) IBM
4 22 (3.36%) Atlassian
5 21 (3.21%) Keysight
6 18 (2.75%) Databricks
7 14 (2.14%) Meraki
8 9 (1.37%) Cisco
9 5 (0.76%) Oracle
10 4 (0.61%) Blue Prism
10 4 (0.61%) Google
10 4 (0.61%) UiPath
11 3 (0.46%) VMware
12 2 (0.31%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.31%) Planview
12 2 (0.31%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.31%) Siebel
13 1 (0.15%) F5
13 1 (0.15%) Guidewire
13 1 (0.15%) Splunk