Use Case Job Trends in the North West

Use Cases
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Use Case skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 185 159
Rank change year-on-year +15 -26 +56
Permanent jobs citing Use Case 14 24 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.22% 0.47% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.52% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 32
10th Percentile £45,875 - £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,628 £46,292
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £58,513
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -6.00% -2.48%
75th Percentile £91,563 £68,125 £66,313
90th Percentile £122,500 £72,500 £96,078
England median annual salary £73,000 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% +4.84% -4.62%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Use Case 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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,121 4,605 3,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.38% 91.03% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 2,254 3,048
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,114 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,354 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Use Case relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Use Case job vacancy trend in the North West

Use Case
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Use Case.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Use Case

Use Case
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Use Case in the North West over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Use Case in the North West

Use Case
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Manchester +8 8 £70,500 +4.44% 14
Cheshire - 5 £37,500 - 5
Lancashire +15 1 £50,000 +11.11% 5
Use Case
England

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) SaaS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Internet
1 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (7.14%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 5 (35.71%) Banking
4 4 (28.57%) Marketing
5 2 (14.29%) Electronics
5 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 2 (14.29%) Military
5 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
6 1 (7.14%) Legal
6 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Business Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Payments Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Product Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.14%) Pandas
1 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (14.29%) AI Agents
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (7.14%) Cyberattack
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Market Risk
3 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Smart Energy
3 1 (7.14%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Business Analysis
2 6 (42.86%) Product Vision
2 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 5 (35.71%) Machine Learning
3 5 (35.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 5 (35.71%) Scrum
3 5 (35.71%) Workflow
4 4 (28.57%) AI
4 4 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
4 4 (28.57%) Cash Management
4 4 (28.57%) Creative Thinking
4 4 (28.57%) Epics
4 4 (28.57%) Product Backlog
4 4 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (28.57%) Requirements Workshops
4 4 (28.57%) Workflow Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
5 3 (21.43%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) Python
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) Go
2 1 (7.14%) MATLAB
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) CEH
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) GCIA
3 1 (7.14%) GCIH
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) MBA
3 1 (7.14%) PhD
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) SEPA
1 4 (28.57%) TARGET2
2 2 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) SAP