Waterfall Job Trends in the West Midlands

Waterfall Model
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Waterfall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 160 135
Rank change year-on-year +23 -25 -29
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 36 38 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.68% 0.90% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.99% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 21 24 41
10th Percentile £55,744 £46,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £61,904 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £59,750 £59,526
% change year-on-year +12.97% +0.38% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,354 3,847 3,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.42% 90.90% 88.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,253 1,712 2,578
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Waterfall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Waterfall job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Waterfall
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Waterfall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Waterfall in the West Midlands

Waterfall
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 January 2026. 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
Birmingham +19 18 £71,250 +29.55% 11
Warwickshire +24 8 £75,000 +42.86% 4
Coventry +1 2 £62,500 +8.70% 3
Staffordshire - 2 - -
Shropshire -17 1 - - 3
Solihull - 1 £75,000 - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (11.11%) SaaS
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.56%) Smartsheet
5 2 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (2.78%) Asana
6 1 (2.78%) AWS
6 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.78%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) Power BI
2 6 (16.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 6 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 6 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.78%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (47.22%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Law
5 2 (5.56%) Legal
5 2 (5.56%) Marketing
5 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Billing
6 1 (2.78%) Police
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Project Manager
2 7 (19.44%) Lead
3 4 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 4 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
3 4 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Head of Business Intelligence
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Implementation Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Implementation Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Platform Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Project Implementation Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Test Leader
5 2 (5.56%) Test Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Middleware
2 1 (2.78%) EDI
2 1 (2.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Educational Technology
2 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (94.44%) Agile
2 13 (36.11%) Project Management
3 12 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (22.22%) PRINCE2
6 7 (19.44%) Scrum
6 7 (19.44%) SDLC
7 6 (16.67%) Data Engineering
7 6 (16.67%) ERP
7 6 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
8 5 (13.89%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
8 5 (13.89%) Business Strategy
8 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (11.11%) Budget Management
9 4 (11.11%) Business Case
9 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
9 4 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (13.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (11.11%) PMI Certification
3 4 (11.11%) PMP
4 2 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) PMO
2 3 (8.33%) GDPR
2 3 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) Databricks
3 4 (11.11%) SAP
3 4 (11.11%) Siemens
4 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 3 (8.33%) Workday
5 2 (5.56%) Kronos
6 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow