Waterfall Job Trends in Yorkshire

Waterfall Model
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Waterfall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 118 119
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 37 34 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.06% 1.10% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.21% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19 23 53
10th Percentile £39,950 £43,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,962 £69,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £78,689 £80,000 -
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +3.45% -7.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,722 2,805 3,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 77.70% 91.07% 88.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,592 1,085 2,623
10th Percentile £27,775 £29,450 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,988 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,950
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

Waterfall
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Waterfall job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Waterfall
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Waterfall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Waterfall

Waterfall
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Waterfall in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Waterfall in Yorkshire

Waterfall
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Waterfall within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
West Yorkshire +1 32 £55,500 -13.28% 12
North Yorkshire +2 3 £55,000 -6.38% 7
South Yorkshire -17 1 £70,932 +23.36% 6
Waterfall
England

Waterfall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (8.11%) Apache
1 3 (8.11%) Apache Spark
1 3 (8.11%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (37.84%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) Serverless
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (8.11%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (8.11%) dbt
3 3 (8.11%) GitHub
4 2 (5.41%) IaaS
4 2 (5.41%) PaaS
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) LAN
1 1 (2.70%) MPLS
1 1 (2.70%) SSL
1 1 (2.70%) VoIP
1 1 (2.70%) VPN
1 1 (2.70%) WAN
1 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (8.11%) Apache Iceberg
1 3 (8.11%) Data Lake
1 3 (8.11%) Data Vault
1 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Rational DOORS
General
1 25 (67.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) QA Manager
1 9 (24.32%) Senior
2 7 (18.92%) Project Manager
3 6 (16.22%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Technical Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Digital Project Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Head of PMO
6 2 (5.41%) Release Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (2.70%) Business Change Manager
7 1 (2.70%) Change Manager
7 1 (2.70%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (2.70%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) Middleware
1 3 (8.11%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.70%) PKI
2 1 (2.70%) PMI
2 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Agile
2 22 (59.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (51.35%) DevOps
4 17 (45.95%) CI/CD
4 17 (45.95%) Mentoring
5 15 (40.54%) ERP
5 15 (40.54%) Process Improvement
6 10 (27.03%) Project Delivery
6 10 (27.03%) Project Management
7 9 (24.32%) Architectural Design
7 9 (24.32%) Continuous Delivery
8 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (21.62%) PRINCE2
8 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (16.22%) Coaching
9 6 (16.22%) Data Security
9 6 (16.22%) Scrum
10 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (13.51%) Integration Testing
10 5 (13.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) Python
1 3 (8.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.41%) P3O
3 2 (5.41%) PMO
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) SAP
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) IBM