Waterfall Jobs

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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 159 188
Rank change year-on-year -129 +29 +23
Permanent jobs citing Waterfall 1,033 2,163 3,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 2.28% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 2.39% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 843 1,340 2,207
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,925 £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% +3.14%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £53,850
% change year-on-year -6.09% +6.78% +7.70%

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 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -89 951 £55,000 -9.84% 241
UK excluding London -112 767 £54,000 -6.09% 176
Work from Home -135 386 £55,000 -7.60% 116
London -134 220 £66,250 -1.85% 74
North of England -50 197 £54,000 -7.71% 44
South East -116 187 £54,000 -6.09% 52
Midlands -40 172 £54,000 -1.82% 33
West Midlands -46 102 £55,000 - 18
Yorkshire +27 86 £62,500 +6.83% 13
South West -40 84 £53,750 -1.56% 21
North West -96 80 £51,587 -14.02% 28
East of England -16 78 £55,000 -8.33% 12
East Midlands -25 69 £54,000 -13.09% 15
Scotland -124 35 £55,000 -7.60% 11
North East 0 31 £52,500 +5.00% 4
Wales -27 9 £52,436 +23.38% 2
Northern Ireland +8 4 £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 35 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.19%) Confluence
3 26 (2.52%) CMS
4 13 (1.26%) IIS
5 9 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.48%) Kentico
8 4 (0.39%) Drupal
9 3 (0.29%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.19%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.097%) Appian
11 1 (0.097%) Liferay
11 1 (0.097%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 55 (5.32%) Microsoft Project
2 37 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.06%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.48%) Trello
7 4 (0.39%) Maya
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.19%) InVision
8 2 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 30 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.58%) Primavera
4 5 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.48%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.39%) Magento
5 4 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.29%) BPCS
6 3 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.19%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.19%) Maximo
7 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.097%) Endur
8 1 (0.097%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.097%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 166 (16.07%) Azure
2 113 (10.94%) Power Platform
3 72 (6.97%) AWS
4 69 (6.68%) Dynamics 365
5 53 (5.13%) SaaS
6 49 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (3.48%) Power Automate
9 34 (3.29%) PowerApps
10 16 (1.55%) GCP
11 14 (1.36%) PaaS
11 14 (1.36%) Snowflake
12 13 (1.26%) GitHub
12 13 (1.26%) OCI
13 11 (1.06%) Serverless
14 10 (0.97%) Azure Functions
15 9 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (0.77%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.36%) Wireless
2 13 (1.26%) DNS
2 13 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (1.06%) Firewall
4 10 (0.97%) DHCP
4 10 (0.97%) LTE
4 10 (0.97%) SNMP
4 10 (0.97%) TETRA
5 7 (0.68%) Network Security
6 5 (0.48%) SSL
7 4 (0.39%) Internet
8 3 (0.29%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.19%) Broadband
9 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.19%) LAN
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) WAN
10 1 (0.097%) Extranet
10 1 (0.097%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.81%) Power BI
2 37 (3.58%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 13 (1.26%) Data Mining
5 13 (1.26%) Tableau
6 11 (1.06%) Big Data
6 11 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.97%) MySQL
7 10 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.87%) Metadata
8 9 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.77%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.68%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.48%) Looker
11 5 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.39%) Power Query
12 4 (0.39%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 102 (9.87%) JIRA
2 51 (4.94%) Git
3 9 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.58%) AdminStudio
5 6 (0.58%) InstallShield
5 6 (0.58%) MSI
6 5 (0.48%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.48%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.48%) JMeter
6 5 (0.48%) Selenium
6 5 (0.48%) Subversion
7 4 (0.39%) Appium
7 4 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.29%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.29%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.29%) Spinnaker
8 3 (0.29%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.19%) Maven
General
1 444 (42.98%) Social Skills
2 303 (29.33%) Finance
3 134 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (6.68%) Retail
5 66 (6.39%) Public Sector
6 59 (5.71%) Law
7 58 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
9 44 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (3.58%) Marketing
11 35 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
12 31 (3.00%) Legal
13 25 (2.42%) Manufacturing
14 23 (2.23%) Banking
14 23 (2.23%) Billing
15 22 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.74%) Electronics
17 15 (1.45%) Financial Institution
18 13 (1.26%) Aviation
18 13 (1.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 344 (33.30%) Project Manager
2 166 (16.07%) IT Manager
3 165 (15.97%) Analyst
4 151 (14.62%) Senior
5 147 (14.23%) IT Project Manager
6 136 (13.17%) Business Analyst
7 109 (10.55%) Lead
8 81 (7.84%) Developer
9 70 (6.78%) Senior Manager
10 62 (6.00%) Architect
11 55 (5.32%) Senior Project Manager
12 44 (4.26%) Consultant
13 41 (3.97%) Digital Project Manager
14 38 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (3.00%) Delivery Manager
15 31 (3.00%) Team Leader
16 30 (2.90%) IT Analyst
17 28 (2.71%) Business IT Analyst
17 28 (2.71%) IT Business Analyst
18 27 (2.61%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (6.20%) .NET
2 49 (4.74%) React
3 27 (2.61%) HTML
4 26 (2.52%) RESTful
5 24 (2.32%) .NET Framework
6 22 (2.13%) CSS
7 20 (1.94%) REST
8 18 (1.74%) Entity Framework
9 14 (1.36%) ASP.NET
10 13 (1.26%) ASP.NET MVC
11 12 (1.16%) .NET Core
11 12 (1.16%) XML
12 11 (1.06%) GraphQL
12 11 (1.06%) HTML5 Canvas
13 9 (0.87%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.87%) Web Services
14 8 (0.77%) EDI
14 8 (0.77%) Node.js
14 8 (0.77%) OAuth
15 7 (0.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 102 (9.87%) Self-Motivation
2 53 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 41 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.52%) Low-Code
5 24 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.32%) PMI
6 23 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.26%) Driving Licence
9 12 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.06%) CMDB
11 10 (0.97%) Data Centre
12 9 (0.87%) FMCG
13 8 (0.77%) Blog
13 8 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (0.77%) Online Banking
14 7 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.68%) Mobile App
15 6 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (0.58%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.19%) Windows
2 19 (1.84%) Linux
3 13 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.87%) Android
5 6 (0.58%) Unix
5 6 (0.58%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.58%) Windows 7
6 5 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.29%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (96.81%) Agile
2 431 (41.72%) Project Management
3 292 (28.27%) Project Delivery
4 229 (22.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 200 (19.36%) Scrum
6 157 (15.20%) PRINCE2
7 154 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 138 (13.36%) DevOps
10 129 (12.49%) Change Management
11 115 (11.13%) Mentoring
12 114 (11.04%) Roadmaps
13 107 (10.36%) Risk Management
14 97 (9.39%) Business Case
15 89 (8.62%) Business Analysis
16 78 (7.55%) Decision-Making
17 77 (7.45%) SDLC
18 76 (7.36%) Coaching
19 74 (7.16%) Analytics
20 73 (7.07%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 104 (10.07%) SQL
2 91 (8.81%) JavaScript
3 81 (7.84%) C#
4 46 (4.45%) Java
5 36 (3.48%) Python
6 33 (3.19%) PHP
7 18 (1.74%) TypeScript
8 13 (1.26%) C++
9 10 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (0.87%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.77%) C
11 8 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.58%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.58%) VB
13 5 (0.48%) Bicep
13 5 (0.48%) R
14 4 (0.39%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.39%) Ruby
14 4 (0.39%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 196 (18.97%) Degree
2 89 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 77 (7.45%) PMI Certification
4 76 (7.36%) SC Cleared
5 66 (6.39%) PMP
6 50 (4.84%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 17 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 14 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.26%) CIMA
11 10 (0.97%) ACCA
11 10 (0.97%) CAPM
11 10 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 10 (0.97%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.87%) Azure Certification
13 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.48%) CBAP
15 4 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.29%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (9.20%) QA
2 86 (8.33%) PMO
3 22 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.06%) GDPR
5 5 (0.48%) SLA
6 4 (0.39%) NIST
7 2 (0.19%) DO-178B
7 2 (0.19%) P3O
7 2 (0.19%) PMBOK
8 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.097%) GRC
8 1 (0.097%) GxP
8 1 (0.097%) IFRS
System Software
1 22 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.39%) Docker
4 4 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.39%) Firmware
5 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.29%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 11 (1.06%) Terraform
2 10 (0.97%) SCOM
3 6 (0.58%) SCCM
3 6 (0.58%) WSUS
4 4 (0.39%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.19%) MIIS
6 1 (0.097%) Ansible
6 1 (0.097%) FTK
6 1 (0.097%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.097%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 179 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 37 (3.58%) SAP
3 36 (3.48%) Oracle
3 36 (3.48%) Salesforce
4 24 (2.32%) BT
5 22 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.26%) VMware
7 10 (0.97%) Dynatrace
7 10 (0.97%) MuleSoft
8 9 (0.87%) YouTube
9 8 (0.77%) Databricks
10 6 (0.58%) Adobe
10 6 (0.58%) Autodesk
10 6 (0.58%) Google
10 6 (0.58%) Workday
11 5 (0.48%) Automation Anywhere
11 5 (0.48%) iManage
11 5 (0.48%) Sage
11 5 (0.48%) Sparx
12 4 (0.39%) IFS