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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 136 123
Rank change year-on-year +12 -13 -37
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 32 32 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.92% 0.77% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.95% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23 17 40
10th Percentile £41,000 £43,970 £43,500
25th Percentile £52,250 £52,000 £51,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +8.70% +11.36%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £64,750 £81,038 £72,439
England median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £60,001
% change year-on-year +17.39% -4.17% -4.00%

All Process and 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 2,965 3,368 3,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.42% 81.31% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,576 1,410 2,208
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £38,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,375 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 November 2025.

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 November 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
West Yorkshire +17 25 £55,500 -22.92% 27
North Yorkshire -9 5 £58,750 -21.67% 12
South Yorkshire -3 2 £55,000 -4.35% 9
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 (9.38%) Apache
1 3 (9.38%) Apache Spark
1 3 (9.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) SAP ERP
2 1 (3.13%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
2 3 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (9.38%) dbt
2 3 (9.38%) GitHub
2 3 (9.38%) Serverless
3 2 (6.25%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) LAN
1 1 (3.13%) MPLS
1 1 (3.13%) VoIP
1 1 (3.13%) WAN
1 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (9.38%) Apache Iceberg
1 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
1 3 (9.38%) Data Vault
1 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Rational DOORS
General
1 20 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (37.50%) Finance
3 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Project Manager
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 5 (15.63%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) IT Manager
5 3 (9.38%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Change Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Digital Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Head of PMO
7 1 (3.13%) Business Change Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Change Project Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.13%) SAP Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Business Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Change Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Pandas
2 1 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Driving Licence
1 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team
2 2 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) PMI
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (93.75%) Agile
2 18 (56.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (46.88%) Project Management
4 12 (37.50%) PRINCE2
5 11 (34.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (34.38%) Project Delivery
6 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (28.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (25.00%) DevOps
7 8 (25.00%) Scrum
8 7 (21.88%) Business Case
8 7 (21.88%) Change Management
9 6 (18.75%) Decision-Making
9 6 (18.75%) Process Improvement
10 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
10 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
10 5 (15.63%) People Management
11 4 (12.50%) Budget Management
11 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (12.50%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) Python
1 3 (9.38%) SQL
2 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) PMI Certification
3 2 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) APMG
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) PMO
2 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.25%) P3O
3 2 (6.25%) QA
4 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) IBM