Use Case Job Trends in the South East

Use Cases
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Use Case skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 207 224
Rank change year-on-year +61 +17 -11
Permanent jobs citing Use Case 133 100 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.28% 1.08% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.23% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 51 46 33
10th Percentile - £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £48,367 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,967 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -11.36% -0.86%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £75,625 £85,500
England median annual salary £73,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.31% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,394 8,137 6,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.93% 87.63% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,969 4,002 4,895
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £44,106 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,300
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 South East

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

Use Case job vacancy trend in the South East

Use Case
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Use Case.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Use Case

Use Case
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Use Case in the South East over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Use Case in the South East

Use Case
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Thames Valley +49 87 £70,000 +37.34% 5
Berkshire +66 79 £55,000 -24.14% 3
Hampshire +61 26 £35,000 - 8
Buckinghamshire -19 7 £102,500 +101.11%
Kent -8 6 £37,500 -46.43% 2
Surrey -9 6 £50,500 +1.00% 1
Middlesex -10 6 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £42,500 - 2
Isle of Wight - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £75,000 - 4
Use Case
England

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (6.77%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.51%) Appian
3 5 (3.76%) Apache
3 5 (3.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.55%) Azure
2 21 (15.79%) AWS
3 15 (11.28%) SaaS
4 10 (7.52%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.77%) GCP
6 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.51%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.51%) Azure AI
7 6 (4.51%) MinIO
7 6 (4.51%) Vertex AI
8 5 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (3.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (3.01%) dbt
9 4 (3.01%) Fivetran
9 4 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.01%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.50%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.50%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) DMZ
1 2 (1.50%) Firewall
1 2 (1.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (3.76%) Airbyte
2 5 (3.76%) Data Lake
2 5 (3.76%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.01%) Power BI
3 4 (3.01%) Tableau
4 3 (2.26%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.26%) DTS
5 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.50%) Looker
5 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.50%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.75%) Metadata
6 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (6.77%) JIRA
2 6 (4.51%) Robot Framework
2 6 (4.51%) Selenium
2 6 (4.51%) Snyk
3 2 (1.50%) Git
General
1 70 (52.63%) Finance
2 49 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 41 (30.83%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (19.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 14 (10.53%) Retail
6 10 (7.52%) Law
7 8 (6.02%) Marketing
8 7 (5.26%) Legal
9 4 (3.01%) Games
9 4 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.26%) Back Office
11 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.75%) Advertising
12 1 (0.75%) Banking
12 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (43.61%) Lead
2 46 (34.59%) Senior
3 11 (8.27%) Analyst
4 7 (5.26%) Business Analyst
4 7 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 6 (4.51%) Applications Architect
5 6 (4.51%) Architect
5 6 (4.51%) Product Delivery Manager
5 6 (4.51%) Product Manager
6 5 (3.76%) Consultant
6 5 (3.76%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (3.76%) Senior Manager
7 4 (3.01%) Analytics Manager
7 4 (3.01%) New Business Sales Executive
7 4 (3.01%) Sales Executive
7 4 (3.01%) Security Engineer
7 4 (3.01%) Senior Analytics Manager
7 4 (3.01%) Senior Business Analyst
7 4 (3.01%) Senior Security Engineer
7 4 (3.01%) Solutions Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.51%) Apache NiFi
1 6 (4.51%) Kafka
2 4 (3.01%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.26%) Hugging Face
3 3 (2.26%) NumPy
3 3 (2.26%) Pandas
3 3 (2.26%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.75%) CSS
4 1 (0.75%) HTML
4 1 (0.75%) HTML5
4 1 (0.75%) LangChain
4 1 (0.75%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.75%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.81%) Life Science
2 28 (21.05%) Data Centre
3 27 (20.30%) Analytical Mindset
3 27 (20.30%) Onboarding
4 9 (6.77%) Low-Code
5 8 (6.02%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.51%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.01%) ARM Cortex
7 4 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.01%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.26%) Digital Signage
8 3 (2.26%) EPoS
8 3 (2.26%) Hackathon
8 3 (2.26%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.50%) Blog
9 2 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.50%) PKI
9 2 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.75%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Linux
1 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (55.64%) Analytics
2 60 (45.11%) Agile
3 55 (41.35%) AI
4 49 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (34.59%) Machine Learning
6 45 (33.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (33.83%) Data Science
7 36 (27.07%) Generative AI
8 35 (26.32%) Computer Science
9 34 (25.56%) Business Strategy
9 34 (25.56%) Change Management
10 33 (24.81%) Hematology
10 33 (24.81%) Immunology
11 32 (24.06%) Enterprise Architecture
11 32 (24.06%) Roadmaps
12 30 (22.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (21.80%) Deployment Automation
14 28 (21.05%) Project Management
15 27 (20.30%) ERP
15 27 (20.30%) Matrix Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.04%) Python
2 12 (9.02%) SQL
3 5 (3.76%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (3.01%) Bicep
4 4 (3.01%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.75%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.75%) ActionScript 3.0
6 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (30.83%) Degree
2 33 (24.81%) Master's Degree
3 27 (20.30%) PhD
4 9 (6.77%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.51%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.51%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.55%) GxP
2 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.26%) GDPR
4 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.50%) GRC
4 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (1.50%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.50%) NCSC
4 2 (1.50%) NIST
4 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (7.52%) Terraform
2 6 (4.51%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (9.02%) Google
2 9 (6.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.77%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.02%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.51%) BiZZdesign
4 6 (4.51%) Black Duck
4 6 (4.51%) Foundry
4 6 (4.51%) HubSpot
4 6 (4.51%) UiPath
4 6 (4.51%) VMware
5 5 (3.76%) Blue Prism
5 5 (3.76%) Coverity
6 4 (3.01%) BMC
6 4 (3.01%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (3.01%) Splunk
7 3 (2.26%) Dell
8 2 (1.50%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.50%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.50%) Talend
8 2 (1.50%) Zoho