Waterfall Jobs

Waterfall Model
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 161 153
Rank change year-on-year -47 -8 +22
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 968 1,140 2,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.40% 2.15% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 2.29% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 389 869 1,810
10th Percentile £42,400 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,430 £60,000 £61,090
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.78% +6.24%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,487 49,863 117,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.65% 94.11% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 28,400 36,022 72,003
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £34,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £99,680 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,714 £52,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.22% -1.87% +7.00%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Waterfall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Waterfall.

Salary trend for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Waterfall over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Waterfall in the UK

Waterfall
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the UK over the 6 months to 8 December 2024. 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
England -75 796 £58,000 -3.33% 239
UK excluding London -26 737 £55,000 - 138
Work from Home -113 243 £59,430 -0.95% 143
South East -59 198 £56,252 +2.28% 35
London -148 176 £70,000 - 113
North of England -5 167 £56,000 +1.82% 31
Midlands -37 100 £54,000 -0.14% 32
Scotland +31 94 £56,250 -5.50% 8
North West -20 89 £55,000 +3.77% 19
South West -12 80 £54,000 -5.18% 21
East of England -36 66 £54,000 +2.86% 7
Yorkshire +19 64 £62,500 +8.70% 11
East Midlands -11 56 £54,000 - 12
West Midlands -48 44 £53,250 -2.36% 20
Wales +27 22 £60,000 - 8
North East -27 14 £65,000 +23.81% 2
Northern Ireland +6 6 £54,715 -29.40% 1
Isle of Man - 4 - -

Waterfall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 29 (3.00%) Confluence
2 20 (2.07%) CMS
3 14 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.45%) Umbraco
4 11 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.03%) Kentico
6 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.83%) Sitecore CMS
6 8 (0.83%) Sitefinity
7 4 (0.41%) Appian
8 2 (0.21%) Drupal
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.10%) IIS
9 1 (0.10%) Magnolia
9 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 46 (4.75%) Microsoft Project
2 29 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.03%) Trello
5 9 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.21%) CATIA
6 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.41%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.21%) Magento
5 2 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.21%) TIBCO iProcess
5 2 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.10%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.10%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.10%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.10%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 89 (9.19%) Azure
2 43 (4.44%) AWS
3 35 (3.62%) Power Platform
4 30 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (2.38%) GitHub
6 19 (1.96%) SaaS
6 19 (1.96%) Snowflake
7 17 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (1.03%) PowerApps
11 9 (0.93%) GCP
12 8 (0.83%) OCI
12 8 (0.83%) Power Automate
13 7 (0.72%) Entra ID
13 7 (0.72%) PaaS
13 7 (0.72%) Slack
14 5 (0.52%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (0.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.38%) DHCP
1 23 (2.38%) DNS
2 19 (1.96%) Broadband
2 19 (1.96%) Structured Cabling
2 19 (1.96%) Unified Communications
2 19 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.76%) Firewall
4 5 (0.52%) Network Security
5 4 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.31%) ASN.1
6 3 (0.31%) SMS
7 2 (0.21%) DWDM
7 2 (0.21%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.21%) FTP
7 2 (0.21%) HTTP
7 2 (0.21%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.21%) MPLS
7 2 (0.21%) SMTP
7 2 (0.21%) SSL
7 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (3.93%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.58%) Power BI
4 19 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 19 (1.96%) Tableau
5 15 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (1.55%) MySQL
6 11 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 11 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (0.93%) Big Data
7 9 (0.93%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (0.52%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.41%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.41%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.31%) Metadata
12 2 (0.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 88 (9.09%) JIRA
2 17 (1.76%) Git
3 11 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (0.62%) AdminStudio
5 6 (0.62%) InstallShield
5 6 (0.62%) MSI
5 6 (0.62%) Selenium
6 5 (0.52%) Postman
6 5 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.41%) TestRail
8 3 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.31%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.31%) Subversion
9 2 (0.21%) HP UFT
9 2 (0.21%) JUnit
9 2 (0.21%) Maven
General
1 254 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 228 (23.55%) Finance
3 126 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
6 28 (2.89%) Public Sector
7 25 (2.58%) Law
8 23 (2.38%) Marketing
9 21 (2.17%) Banking
10 19 (1.96%) Retail
11 18 (1.86%) Legal
12 17 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.65%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.83%) Electronics
17 6 (0.62%) Publishing
18 5 (0.52%) Billing
18 5 (0.52%) General Ledger
19 4 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 374 (38.64%) Principal Engineer
2 373 (38.53%) Configuration Management Engineer
2 373 (38.53%) SCM Engineer
3 171 (17.67%) Project Manager
4 104 (10.74%) Senior
5 102 (10.54%) Analyst
6 73 (7.54%) IT Manager
7 66 (6.82%) Business Analyst
8 58 (5.99%) IT Project Manager
9 49 (5.06%) Developer
10 38 (3.93%) Delivery Manager
11 34 (3.51%) Senior Manager
12 32 (3.31%) Architect
13 31 (3.20%) Senior Analyst
14 28 (2.89%) Senior Project Manager
15 27 (2.79%) Lead
16 23 (2.38%) Programme Manager
17 21 (2.17%) Test Analyst
18 20 (2.07%) Technical Manager
19 19 (1.96%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (3.62%) HTML
2 25 (2.58%) .NET
3 21 (2.17%) CSS
4 19 (1.96%) React
4 19 (1.96%) REST
5 17 (1.76%) AngularJS
5 17 (1.76%) Sass
6 14 (1.45%) RESTful
6 14 (1.45%) Vue
7 13 (1.34%) XML
8 12 (1.24%) JSON
9 11 (1.14%) Web Services
10 6 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (0.62%) Swagger
11 5 (0.52%) CSS3
11 5 (0.52%) HTML5
11 5 (0.52%) SOAP
12 4 (0.41%) ADO
12 4 (0.41%) ASP.NET
12 4 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (2.27%) Product Ownership
3 21 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 19 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
5 18 (1.86%) IoT
6 12 (1.24%) Virtual Team
7 11 (1.14%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (0.93%) FMCG
10 8 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (0.83%) Onboarding
10 8 (0.83%) Social Media
11 7 (0.72%) PMI
12 6 (0.62%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.62%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.62%) Life Science
12 6 (0.62%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.62%) Shadow IT
13 4 (0.41%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.79%) Windows
2 20 (2.07%) Linux
3 8 (0.83%) Windows Vista
4 6 (0.62%) Android
4 6 (0.62%) Windows 10
4 6 (0.62%) Windows 7
5 5 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (57.23%) Agile
2 526 (54.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 426 (44.01%) Coaching
4 398 (41.12%) Release Management
5 385 (39.77%) Configuration Management
6 381 (39.36%) Mathematics
7 377 (38.95%) Physics
8 287 (29.65%) Project Management
9 197 (20.35%) Project Delivery
10 127 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
11 116 (11.98%) Scrum
12 108 (11.16%) PRINCE2
13 84 (8.68%) DevOps
14 81 (8.37%) Change Management
15 79 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 71 (7.33%) Mentoring
17 70 (7.23%) Roadmaps
17 70 (7.23%) SDLC
18 62 (6.40%) Risk Management
19 61 (6.30%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 80 (8.26%) SQL
2 40 (4.13%) Python
3 31 (3.20%) JavaScript
4 30 (3.10%) C#
5 22 (2.27%) Java
6 19 (1.96%) PowerShell
7 18 (1.86%) T-SQL
8 16 (1.65%) PHP
9 14 (1.45%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.93%) Bash
11 8 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.83%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.83%) VB
12 4 (0.41%) C
13 3 (0.31%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.31%) Bicep
13 3 (0.31%) C++
14 2 (0.21%) Go
14 2 (0.21%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.21%) VB6
Qualifications
1 503 (51.96%) Degree
2 376 (38.84%) Chartered Engineer
3 68 (7.02%) Security Cleared
4 61 (6.30%) PMI Certification
5 59 (6.10%) PMP
6 46 (4.75%) SC Cleared
7 21 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.17%) ISTQB
8 19 (1.96%) RIBA
9 18 (1.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 15 (1.55%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.55%) Master's Degree
11 14 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.34%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 8 (0.83%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.52%) APMG
15 5 (0.52%) CBAP
15 5 (0.52%) IIBA
16 4 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.65%) PMO
1 45 (4.65%) QA
2 22 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.03%) GDPR
4 10 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.62%) NIST
6 5 (0.52%) COBIT
6 5 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 5 (0.52%) NCSC
7 4 (0.41%) COSO
7 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.21%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.21%) SLA
9 1 (0.10%) Basel III
9 1 (0.10%) P3O
9 1 (0.10%) PSD2
9 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.93%) Docker
3 7 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.03%) SCCM
3 6 (0.62%) Ansible
3 6 (0.62%) WSUS
4 2 (0.21%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.21%) Terraform
5 1 (0.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.10%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 373 (38.53%) Micro Focus
2 99 (10.23%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.03%) Oracle
4 21 (2.17%) SAP
4 21 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 17 (1.76%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.14%) Informatica
6 11 (1.14%) Sitecore
7 10 (1.03%) Databricks
8 9 (0.93%) Cisco
8 9 (0.93%) VMware
9 8 (0.83%) Google
9 8 (0.83%) Optimizely
10 6 (0.62%) Autodesk
10 6 (0.62%) IBM
11 4 (0.41%) Adobe
11 4 (0.41%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.41%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.41%) Polycom
11 4 (0.41%) Sparx