The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Use Case over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Use Cases
Rank 60 80 62
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -18
Permanent jobs citing Use Case 1 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.224% 0.297% 0.648%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.267% 0.399% 0.917%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 2
Average salary - £45,000 £33,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +35.33%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
All Processes & Methodologies
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
374 501 327
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 83.67% 74.44% 70.63%
Number of salaries quoted 312 442 268
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £29,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,250 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Use Case
North West

Use Case
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Use Case across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Merseyside Use Case Jobs Demand Trend

Use Case
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Use Case across the Merseyside region.

Merseyside Use Case Salary Trend

Use Case
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Liverpool +17 1 - -
Use Case
North West

Use Case
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing Use Case also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Use Case.

1 9 (90.00%) J2EE
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle
1 9 (90.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (90.00%) EJB
1 9 (90.00%) HND
1 9 (90.00%) UNIX
1 9 (90.00%) Java
1 9 (90.00%) Swing
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle 10g
1 9 (90.00%) Hibernate
1 9 (90.00%) Scrum
1 9 (90.00%) TDD
1 9 (90.00%) Retail
1 9 (90.00%) Spring
1 9 (90.00%) Degree
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
1 9 (90.00%) jQuery
1 9 (90.00%) EJB 3.0
1 9 (90.00%) BDD
2 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) UML
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing Use Case also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Use Case. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (90.00%) J2EE
1 9 (90.00%) EJB
1 9 (90.00%) Swing
1 9 (90.00%) Hibernate
1 9 (90.00%) Spring
1 9 (90.00%) jQuery
1 9 (90.00%) EJB 3.0
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (90.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Software Developer
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
1 9 (90.00%) Java Developer
1 9 (90.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
1 9 (90.00%) Java Software Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Senior Java Software Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Java Swing Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) UML Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Scrum
1 9 (90.00%) TDD
1 9 (90.00%) BDD
2 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) UML
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) HND
1 9 (90.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft