Use Cases
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Use Case skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Use Case over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 246 220
Rank change year-on-year -32 -26 +127
Permanent jobs citing Use Case 1,028 1,555 2,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 1.49% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.55% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 535 783 1,102
10th Percentile £31,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,116 £97,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Use Case 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Use Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Use Case.

Salary trend for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Use Case over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -46 828 £55,000 -15.38% 238
UK excluding London -40 602 £50,000 -16.67% 123
Work from Home -19 450 £59,526 -8.77% 111
London -11 355 £75,000 +8.00% 117
South East -35 150 £55,000 -8.33% 32
Scotland +27 147 £59,526 -14.29% 6
South West +47 142 £44,242 -35.41% 21
North of England -18 112 £50,000 -16.00% 25
North West +11 64 £47,500 -20.83% 17
Yorkshire +9 31 £62,500 +5.00% 7
Midlands -84 30 £47,500 -17.39% 15
West Midlands -57 29 £47,500 -19.15% 11
East of England -74 20 £59,000 -18.62% 28
North East +5 17 £40,000 -27.27% 1
Wales +10 1 £37,500 -16.04% 3
East Midlands -24 1 £42,500 -19.05% 4

Use Case
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
1 107 (10.41%) Confluence
2 30 (2.92%) Apache
3 16 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.88%) nginx
6 6 (0.58%) CMS
6 6 (0.58%) Mendix
7 5 (0.49%) K2 blackpearl
8 4 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.39%) SAS
9 3 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.29%) OpenZeppelin
10 2 (0.19%) Luigi
11 1 (0.097%) Drupal
Applications
1 19 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.36%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.58%) Trello
5 4 (0.39%) SPSS
6 2 (0.19%) Maya
6 2 (0.19%) MotionBuilder
Business Applications
1 12 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (1.17%) Endur
2 8 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.68%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.68%) thinkFolio
4 5 (0.49%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.49%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
4 5 (0.49%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.39%) SAP FSCM
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.19%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.19%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.097%) Data Workbench
8 1 (0.097%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.097%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.097%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 157 (15.27%) Azure
2 101 (9.82%) AWS
3 70 (6.81%) Power Platform
4 47 (4.57%) GitHub
5 43 (4.18%) SaaS
6 36 (3.50%) GCP
7 33 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (2.82%) Power Automate
9 29 (2.82%) PowerApps
10 28 (2.72%) PaaS
11 25 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 22 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 18 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (1.56%) Serverless
16 14 (1.36%) Azure Functions
17 13 (1.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 13 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
17 13 (1.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 184 (17.90%) Broadband
2 65 (6.32%) Kerberos
3 41 (3.99%) Firewall
4 12 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
5 11 (1.07%) Network Security
6 9 (0.88%) Internet
7 6 (0.58%) LAN
7 6 (0.58%) SAN
7 6 (0.58%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.58%) Unified Communications
7 6 (0.58%) WAN
8 3 (0.29%) IPFS
8 3 (0.29%) MQTT
9 2 (0.19%) HTTP
9 2 (0.19%) VPN
10 1 (0.097%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.097%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (9.05%) Metadata
2 37 (3.60%) Power BI
3 31 (3.02%) Big Data
4 27 (2.63%) MySQL
5 24 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (2.24%) Relational Database
7 21 (2.04%) SQL Server
8 19 (1.85%) Tableau
9 13 (1.26%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.17%) Redis
11 8 (0.78%) DTS
11 8 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (0.78%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.78%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.58%) MariaDB
12 6 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (0.58%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.49%) Apache Hive
13 5 (0.49%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 183 (17.80%) Git
2 167 (16.25%) Bitbucket
3 146 (14.20%) JIRA
4 94 (9.14%) Visual Studio
5 89 (8.66%) Jenkins
6 65 (6.32%) Artifactory
7 59 (5.74%) Sourcetree
8 14 (1.36%) PHPUnit
9 10 (0.97%) Subversion
10 5 (0.49%) webpack
11 3 (0.29%) GitLab
11 3 (0.29%) Hardhat
12 2 (0.19%) JUnit
12 2 (0.19%) Phabricator
General
1 332 (32.30%) Marketing
2 315 (30.64%) Finance
3 206 (20.04%) Social Skills
4 188 (18.29%) Advertising
5 159 (15.47%) Presentation Skills
6 148 (14.40%) Law
7 147 (14.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 127 (12.35%) Games
9 111 (10.80%) Banking
10 105 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
11 43 (4.18%) Legal
12 28 (2.72%) Retail
13 24 (2.33%) Financial Institution
14 21 (2.04%) Back Office
14 21 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.85%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.56%) Public Sector
17 13 (1.26%) Manufacturing
18 11 (1.07%) Automotive
18 11 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 320 (31.13%) Lead
2 202 (19.65%) Senior
3 183 (17.80%) Analyst
4 174 (16.93%) Developer
5 102 (9.92%) Software Engineer
6 88 (8.56%) 3D Developer
6 88 (8.56%) Business Analyst
6 88 (8.56%) Games Developer
6 88 (8.56%) Unity 3D Developer
7 71 (6.91%) Architect
8 65 (6.32%) Lead Software Engineer
9 59 (5.74%) Senior Developer
10 44 (4.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 37 (3.60%) Consultant
12 35 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
13 31 (3.02%) Data Architect
14 30 (2.92%) Senior Games Developer
15 28 (2.72%) Data Scientist
16 24 (2.33%) Principal Engineer
16 24 (2.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (9.53%) RESTful
1 98 (9.53%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 79 (7.68%) JSON
3 77 (7.49%) Web Services
4 74 (7.20%) XML
5 65 (6.32%) JSON-LD
5 65 (6.32%) LDAP
5 65 (6.32%) OpenID
5 65 (6.32%) SAML
6 50 (4.86%) .NET
7 43 (4.18%) CSS
8 36 (3.50%) HTML
9 35 (3.40%) React
10 24 (2.33%) Pandas
10 24 (2.33%) Vue
11 22 (2.14%) Apache NiFi
12 21 (2.04%) Laravel
13 19 (1.85%) AngularJS
13 19 (1.85%) Sass
14 16 (1.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 185 (18.00%) Marketing Technology
2 97 (9.44%) Management Information System
3 88 (8.56%) Virtual Reality
4 78 (7.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 74 (7.20%) Product Ownership
6 67 (6.52%) Reference Data
7 55 (5.35%) Cloud Native
8 38 (3.70%) Data Structures
9 33 (3.21%) Onboarding
10 31 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (3.02%) Taxonomies
11 24 (2.33%) Public Cloud
12 19 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
13 15 (1.46%) IoT
14 14 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 13 (1.26%) Cyberattack
15 13 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
16 12 (1.17%) Algorithms
17 11 (1.07%) Data Centre
18 10 (0.97%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 49 (4.77%) Windows
2 47 (4.57%) Linux
3 6 (0.58%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.49%) Unix
5 3 (0.29%) Android
5 3 (0.29%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (34.82%) Analytics
2 348 (33.85%) Agile
3 225 (21.89%) Software Engineering
4 218 (21.21%) Data Strategy
5 213 (20.72%) Business Case
6 200 (19.46%) Process Improvement
7 192 (18.68%) Data Modelling
8 191 (18.58%) Data Collection
9 188 (18.29%) Matrix Organization
10 186 (18.09%) Digital Marketing
11 184 (17.90%) Regulatory Change
12 172 (16.73%) DevOps
13 169 (16.44%) Roadmaps
14 149 (14.49%) Scrum
15 146 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
16 130 (12.65%) CI/CD
17 118 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
18 117 (11.38%) SDLC
19 113 (10.99%) Business Analysis
20 111 (10.80%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 185 (18.00%) Python
2 150 (14.59%) SQL
3 126 (12.26%) C#
4 70 (6.81%) Go
5 65 (6.32%) Prolog
5 65 (6.32%) SPARQL
6 62 (6.03%) JavaScript
7 30 (2.92%) Java
8 24 (2.33%) C++
9 22 (2.14%) C
10 14 (1.36%) Scala
11 12 (1.17%) R
12 11 (1.07%) PowerShell
13 10 (0.97%) PHP
14 9 (0.88%) VB
15 8 (0.78%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.68%) Bash
17 6 (0.58%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.58%) VB.NET
17 6 (0.58%) VB6
Qualifications
1 199 (19.36%) Degree
2 121 (11.77%) Security Cleared
3 105 (10.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 105 (10.21%) SC Cleared
4 27 (2.63%) Master's Degree
5 26 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.24%) CISSP
7 18 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
8 17 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 17 (1.65%) CCSP
8 17 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 16 (1.56%) CompTIA CySA+
9 16 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (0.78%) GIAC
10 8 (0.78%) IIBA
10 8 (0.78%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.68%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.58%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.70%) QA
2 35 (3.40%) Data Quality
3 29 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 27 (2.63%) NIST
5 20 (1.95%) SOC 2
6 14 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.97%) GDPR
7 10 (0.97%) PMO
8 6 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.58%) SOC 1
9 5 (0.49%) SLA
10 4 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.29%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.29%) ISO 9000
12 2 (0.19%) MISRA
12 2 (0.19%) MISRA C
12 2 (0.19%) NCSC
13 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.097%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.097%) UCITS
System Software
1 76 (7.39%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.40%) Docker
3 5 (0.49%) Firmware
4 3 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.097%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.097%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.14%) Terraform
3 9 (0.88%) Ansible
4 5 (0.49%) CASB
5 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.29%) Nagios
6 3 (0.29%) QRadar
7 2 (0.19%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.19%) Grafana
7 2 (0.19%) Podman
8 1 (0.097%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.097%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.097%) SCCM
8 1 (0.097%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 187 (18.19%) Microsoft
2 48 (4.67%) Databricks
3 28 (2.72%) Google
4 17 (1.65%) SAP
5 16 (1.56%) Splunk
6 13 (1.26%) Adobe
6 13 (1.26%) Oracle
7 12 (1.17%) OpenLink
8 10 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 10 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.78%) Charles River
10 7 (0.68%) LogRhythm
10 7 (0.68%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.58%) Cisco
11 6 (0.58%) Intapp
12 5 (0.49%) Automation Anywhere
12 5 (0.49%) Blue Prism
12 5 (0.49%) McAfee
12 5 (0.49%) PayPal
12 5 (0.49%) WorldPay