Use Case Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Use Cases
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Use Case skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 322 275
Rank change year-on-year +8 -47 -34
Permanent jobs citing Use Case 212 282 310
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.76% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.86% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 94 150 229
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,565 £31,500
25th Percentile £38,750 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,967 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% -14.38% +2.63%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £78,875 £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,380 32,892 27,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.58% 88.28% 90.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19,063 15,104 20,736
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,755 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,070
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Use Case job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Use Case
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Use Case.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Use Case

Use Case
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Use Case in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Use Case in the UK excluding London

Use Case
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +51 129 £50,000 -1.90% 92
Midlands +17 19 £65,000 +13.04% 17
North of England 0 17 £59,250 -4.24% 42
East of England -34 17 £57,500 +12.82% 19
North West +16 14 £59,250 +7.73% 26
West Midlands +13 14 £65,000 +13.04% 10
Scotland +4 14 £59,000 -16.61% 15
South West +1 13 £60,000 +9.09% 27
Wales +5 3 £74,463 +74.18%
East Midlands -8 3 £65,000 - 7
Yorkshire -19 2 £70,000 +7.69% 14
North East +9 1 £27,500 -34.72% 2
Use Case
UK

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (4.72%) Confluence
2 9 (4.25%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.83%) Appian
4 5 (2.36%) Apache
5 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.94%) Mendix
5 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (2.36%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.89%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.94%) iTrent
2 2 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.47%) Odoo
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 53 (25.00%) Azure
2 31 (14.62%) AWS
3 20 (9.43%) Power Platform
3 20 (9.43%) SaaS
4 15 (7.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 14 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.60%) Snowflake
6 13 (6.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (5.66%) GCP
8 11 (5.19%) GitHub
9 7 (3.30%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.83%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.83%) Azure AI
10 6 (2.83%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (2.83%) dbt
10 6 (2.83%) Fivetran
10 6 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.83%) MinIO
10 6 (2.83%) Vertex AI
11 5 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.19%) Firewall
2 10 (4.72%) Network Security
3 5 (2.36%) DMZ
4 2 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.47%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.47%) Broadband
5 1 (0.47%) DHCP
5 1 (0.47%) DOCSIS
5 1 (0.47%) DSL
5 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.47%) PPP
5 1 (0.47%) RFID
5 1 (0.47%) RTP
5 1 (0.47%) TCAP
5 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.47%) UWB
5 1 (0.47%) VoIP
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.08%) Data Lake
2 13 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (5.66%) Power BI
4 8 (3.77%) Metadata
4 8 (3.77%) Tableau
5 6 (2.83%) Data Mining
6 5 (2.36%) Airbyte
6 5 (2.36%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.36%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.89%) DTS
7 4 (1.89%) Looker
7 4 (1.89%) Star Schema
8 3 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.94%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.94%) Power Query
10 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (8.49%) JIRA
2 8 (3.77%) Git
3 6 (2.83%) Robot Framework
3 6 (2.83%) Selenium
3 6 (2.83%) Snyk
4 1 (0.47%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (0.47%) GitLab
4 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 102 (48.11%) Finance
2 81 (38.21%) Social Skills
3 60 (28.30%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.26%) Pharmaceutical
5 20 (9.43%) Marketing
6 17 (8.02%) Retail
7 11 (5.19%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (4.25%) Legal
10 8 (3.77%) Manufacturing
11 7 (3.30%) Law
12 6 (2.83%) Banking
12 6 (2.83%) Telecoms
13 5 (2.36%) Games
14 4 (1.89%) Back Office
15 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.42%) Electronics
15 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.42%) Military
16 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (28.30%) Lead
2 49 (23.11%) Senior
3 29 (13.68%) Analyst
4 21 (9.91%) Business Analyst
5 13 (6.13%) Architect
6 10 (4.72%) Consultant
7 9 (4.25%) Data Engineer
7 9 (4.25%) Product Manager
8 8 (3.77%) Business Sales Executive
8 8 (3.77%) New Business Sales Executive
8 8 (3.77%) Sales Executive
8 8 (3.77%) Solutions Sales Executive
9 7 (3.30%) Senior Manager
10 6 (2.83%) Applications Architect
10 6 (2.83%) Product Delivery Manager
10 6 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.36%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.36%) Security Engineer
12 4 (1.89%) Developer
12 4 (1.89%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.83%) Apache NiFi
1 6 (2.83%) Kafka
1 6 (2.83%) Pandas
2 5 (2.36%) Hugging Face
2 5 (2.36%) NumPy
2 5 (2.36%) scikit-learn
3 4 (1.89%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.89%) CSS
3 4 (1.89%) HTML
3 4 (1.89%) REST
4 3 (1.42%) jQuery
4 3 (1.42%) SOAP
4 3 (1.42%) Vue
4 3 (1.42%) Web Services
5 2 (0.94%) .NET
5 2 (0.94%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.94%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.94%) XML
6 1 (0.47%) LangChain
6 1 (0.47%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.04%) Data Centre
2 33 (15.57%) Life Science
3 32 (15.09%) Onboarding
4 29 (13.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (8.49%) Cloud Native
6 12 (5.66%) Low-Code
7 9 (4.25%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.77%) AI Agents
9 7 (3.30%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.36%) ARM Cortex
10 5 (2.36%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 5 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.36%) PKI
10 5 (2.36%) PMI
10 5 (2.36%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.89%) Blog
11 4 (1.89%) CMDB
11 4 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.72%) Linux
2 9 (4.25%) Windows
3 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (43.40%) Analytics
2 91 (42.92%) Agile
3 84 (39.62%) AI
4 63 (29.72%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (26.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (24.53%) Machine Learning
7 45 (21.23%) Business Strategy
7 45 (21.23%) Data Science
7 45 (21.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (20.28%) Roadmaps
9 41 (19.34%) Computer Science
10 39 (18.40%) Change Management
11 38 (17.92%) Project Management
12 37 (17.45%) Data Modelling
12 37 (17.45%) Enterprise Architecture
13 35 (16.51%) Generative AI
14 33 (15.57%) Hematology
14 33 (15.57%) Immunology
15 32 (15.09%) Business Transformation
15 32 (15.09%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 38 (17.92%) Python
2 28 (13.21%) SQL
3 7 (3.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (3.30%) Kusto Query Language
3 7 (3.30%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.30%) T-SQL
4 4 (1.89%) Bicep
4 4 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.94%) C++
5 2 (0.94%) Java
5 2 (0.94%) MATLAB
5 2 (0.94%) R
6 1 (0.47%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.47%) ActionScript 3.0
6 1 (0.47%) Bash
6 1 (0.47%) C
6 1 (0.47%) C#
6 1 (0.47%) Go
6 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 47 (22.17%) Degree
2 31 (14.62%) Master's Degree
3 29 (13.68%) Security Cleared
4 28 (13.21%) PhD
5 19 (8.96%) SC Cleared
6 15 (7.08%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.36%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.89%) CCIE
8 4 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.42%) CBAP
9 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.42%) PMP
10 2 (0.94%) CAPM
11 1 (0.47%) CEH
11 1 (0.47%) CISSP
11 1 (0.47%) GCIA
11 1 (0.47%) GCIH
11 1 (0.47%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.26%) GxP
2 13 (6.13%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.25%) NIST
5 7 (3.30%) GDPR
6 5 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 5 (2.36%) JSP 440
6 5 (2.36%) NCSC
6 5 (2.36%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.36%) QA
7 4 (1.89%) GRC
7 4 (1.89%) SEPA
7 4 (1.89%) TARGET2
8 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.94%) PMO
9 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.47%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (1.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (5.66%) Terraform
2 8 (3.77%) Ansible
3 4 (1.89%) Nagios
4 2 (0.94%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.47%) Grafana
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (7.08%) Microsoft
1 15 (7.08%) Salesforce
2 13 (6.13%) ServiceNow
3 12 (5.66%) HubSpot
4 11 (5.19%) Google
5 8 (3.77%) BMC
6 7 (3.30%) Databricks
6 7 (3.30%) UiPath
7 6 (2.83%) BiZZdesign
7 6 (2.83%) Black Duck
7 6 (2.83%) Foundry
7 6 (2.83%) VMware
8 5 (2.36%) Blue Prism
8 5 (2.36%) Coverity
8 5 (2.36%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.36%) SAP
9 4 (1.89%) F5
9 4 (1.89%) Splunk
9 4 (1.89%) Talend
9 4 (1.89%) Zoho