Waterfall Model
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Waterfall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Waterfall over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 169 178
Rank change year-on-year -90 +9 +38
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 1,102 2,374 3,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 2.27% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 2.37% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 908 1,434 2,153
10th Percentile £37,425 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,375 £88,750 £82,885
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% +8.49% +6.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Waterfall is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -71 1,012 £55,000 -10.10% 264
UK excluding London -96 815 £54,000 -6.09% 189
Work from Home -105 421 £53,683 -9.82% 133
London -100 240 £67,500 -3.57% 80
South East -82 214 £54,000 -6.09% 45
North of England -42 195 £54,900 -6.15% 48
Midlands -43 175 £54,000 -6.90% 47
West Midlands -36 101 £54,825 -0.32% 26
South West -39 94 £50,000 -4.76% 19
Yorkshire +48 87 £60,000 +4.35% 17
East of England +17 84 £54,500 -9.17% 10
North West -84 78 £52,000 -13.33% 29
East Midlands -27 73 £54,000 -12.03% 21
Scotland -109 38 £55,000 -7.60% 14
North East +9 30 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Wales -14 9 £52,436 +23.38% 5
Northern Ireland +17 5 £72,500 +52.63% 1
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1

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 48 (4.36%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.45%) Confluence
3 25 (2.27%) CMS
4 18 (1.63%) IIS
5 12 (1.09%) Anypoint
6 8 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.45%) Kentico
8 4 (0.36%) Drupal
8 4 (0.36%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.18%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.091%) Appian
10 1 (0.091%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.091%) SAS
Applications
1 68 (6.17%) Microsoft Project
2 34 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (1.72%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.45%) Trello
7 4 (0.36%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.36%) InVision
7 4 (0.36%) Maya
7 4 (0.36%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.82%) Unit4 Business World
3 6 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.54%) Primavera
3 6 (0.54%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.36%) Magento
5 4 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.36%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.27%) BPCS
6 3 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 198 (17.97%) Azure
2 123 (11.16%) Power Platform
3 88 (7.99%) AWS
4 70 (6.35%) Dynamics 365
5 58 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 57 (5.17%) SaaS
7 56 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (3.90%) PowerApps
9 40 (3.63%) Power Automate
10 17 (1.54%) PaaS
11 16 (1.45%) GCP
11 16 (1.45%) OCI
12 15 (1.36%) Snowflake
13 14 (1.27%) Azure Functions
13 14 (1.27%) Serverless
14 12 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (0.91%) GitHub
15 10 (0.91%) IaaS
16 9 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.63%) DNS
2 17 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
3 16 (1.45%) Firewall
4 15 (1.36%) DHCP
4 15 (1.36%) SNMP
5 13 (1.18%) Wireless
6 10 (0.91%) LTE
6 10 (0.91%) TETRA
7 7 (0.64%) Network Security
8 5 (0.45%) Internet
8 5 (0.45%) SSL
9 2 (0.18%) Broadband
9 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.18%) LAN
9 2 (0.18%) SAN
9 2 (0.18%) WAN
10 1 (0.091%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.091%) Extranet
10 1 (0.091%) HTTP
10 1 (0.091%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (6.08%) Power BI
2 42 (3.81%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 13 (1.18%) Tableau
6 12 (1.09%) MySQL
6 12 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (1.00%) Data Mining
8 10 (0.91%) Big Data
8 10 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (0.82%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.73%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.54%) EDRMS
13 5 (0.45%) Looker
13 5 (0.45%) Metadata
13 5 (0.45%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.36%) Power Query
14 4 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 102 (9.26%) JIRA
2 59 (5.35%) Git
3 12 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.00%) Subversion
5 9 (0.82%) JMeter
5 9 (0.82%) Selenium
6 5 (0.45%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.36%) AdminStudio
7 4 (0.36%) Appium
7 4 (0.36%) InstallShield
7 4 (0.36%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.36%) MSI
7 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (0.36%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.27%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.27%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 459 (41.65%) Social Skills
2 305 (27.68%) Finance
3 132 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 65 (5.90%) Law
6 63 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (5.54%) Retail
8 50 (4.54%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (4.54%) Presentation Skills
9 39 (3.54%) Marketing
10 34 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
12 30 (2.72%) Legal
13 25 (2.27%) Banking
14 21 (1.91%) Billing
14 21 (1.91%) Manufacturing
15 18 (1.63%) Aviation
15 18 (1.63%) Electronics
16 15 (1.36%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 366 (33.21%) Project Manager
2 182 (16.52%) IT Manager
3 180 (16.33%) Analyst
4 162 (14.70%) IT Project Manager
5 159 (14.43%) Senior
6 154 (13.97%) Business Analyst
7 114 (10.34%) Lead
8 98 (8.89%) Developer
9 76 (6.90%) Architect
10 72 (6.53%) Senior Manager
11 56 (5.08%) Senior Project Manager
12 52 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (4.08%) Consultant
14 41 (3.72%) Digital Project Manager
15 31 (2.81%) Team Leader
16 30 (2.72%) IT Analyst
17 29 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
18 28 (2.54%) Business IT Analyst
18 28 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
18 28 (2.54%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (6.44%) .NET
2 54 (4.90%) React
3 34 (3.09%) HTML
4 31 (2.81%) RESTful
5 29 (2.63%) .NET Framework
6 26 (2.36%) CSS
7 23 (2.09%) Entity Framework
8 22 (2.00%) REST
9 18 (1.63%) ASP.NET
9 18 (1.63%) HTML5 Canvas
10 17 (1.54%) ASP.NET MVC
11 13 (1.18%) .NET Core
12 12 (1.09%) XML
13 11 (1.00%) GraphQL
13 11 (1.00%) Web Services
14 9 (0.82%) AngularJS
14 9 (0.82%) EDI
14 9 (0.82%) JSON
14 9 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
14 9 (0.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 99 (8.98%) Self-Motivation
2 48 (4.36%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.63%) Onboarding
4 31 (2.81%) Low-Code
5 26 (2.36%) PMI
6 25 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.36%) CMDB
9 12 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
10 11 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 10 (0.91%) Data Centre
12 9 (0.82%) Driving Licence
12 9 (0.82%) FMCG
13 8 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.64%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.64%) Online Banking
15 6 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
16 5 (0.45%) Algorithms
16 5 (0.45%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.18%) Windows
2 25 (2.27%) Linux
3 18 (1.63%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.18%) Android
5 9 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.64%) Unix
7 4 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.36%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,072 (97.28%) Agile
2 449 (40.74%) Project Management
3 308 (27.95%) Project Delivery
4 237 (21.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 226 (20.51%) Scrum
6 174 (15.79%) PRINCE2
7 160 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
8 140 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 135 (12.25%) DevOps
10 131 (11.89%) Change Management
11 120 (10.89%) Mentoring
11 120 (10.89%) Risk Management
12 115 (10.44%) Business Analysis
13 106 (9.62%) Roadmaps
14 97 (8.80%) Business Case
15 86 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
16 85 (7.71%) SDLC
17 83 (7.53%) Decision-Making
18 79 (7.17%) Coaching
19 76 (6.90%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 115 (10.44%) SQL
2 106 (9.62%) JavaScript
3 92 (8.35%) C#
4 56 (5.08%) Java
5 38 (3.45%) Python
6 34 (3.09%) PHP
7 24 (2.18%) TypeScript
8 16 (1.45%) C++
9 10 (0.91%) C
9 10 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (0.91%) Kotlin
10 8 (0.73%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.64%) Bicep
12 6 (0.54%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.45%) R
13 5 (0.45%) VB
14 4 (0.36%) ABAP
14 4 (0.36%) Ruby
14 4 (0.36%) Scala
15 3 (0.27%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 206 (18.69%) Degree
2 102 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 87 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 76 (6.90%) PMI Certification
5 64 (5.81%) PMP
6 61 (5.54%) DV Cleared
7 24 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 18 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 16 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.00%) CIMA
12 10 (0.91%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.91%) CAPM
12 10 (0.91%) DBS Check
12 10 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.54%) ACCA
13 6 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.36%) CBAP
14 4 (0.36%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (7.99%) QA
2 83 (7.53%) PMO
3 19 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.00%) GDPR
5 4 (0.36%) NIST
5 4 (0.36%) SLA
6 2 (0.18%) DO-178B
6 2 (0.18%) P3O
6 2 (0.18%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.091%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.091%) GRC
7 1 (0.091%) GxP
7 1 (0.091%) IFRS
7 1 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.64%) Docker
4 4 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.27%) Firmware
5 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.18%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 15 (1.36%) SCOM
2 11 (1.00%) Terraform
3 5 (0.45%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.36%) SCCM
4 4 (0.36%) WSUS
5 2 (0.18%) MIIS
6 1 (0.091%) Ansible
6 1 (0.091%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.091%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 192 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.08%) Salesforce
3 40 (3.63%) Oracle
4 37 (3.36%) SAP
5 25 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 20 (1.81%) MuleSoft
7 18 (1.63%) BT
8 15 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.36%) Google
9 9 (0.82%) Civica
9 9 (0.82%) Northgate
9 9 (0.82%) YouTube
10 8 (0.73%) Sage
10 8 (0.73%) VMware
11 7 (0.64%) Databricks
12 6 (0.54%) Adobe
12 6 (0.54%) Workday
13 5 (0.45%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.45%) Automation Anywhere
13 5 (0.45%) iManage