Use Case Job Trends

Use Cases
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Use Case skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 378 321
Rank change year-on-year +103 -57 -90
Permanent jobs citing Use Case 480 427 512
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.92% 0.63% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.76% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 203 249 374
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £43,949
25th Percentile £52,375 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,977
90th Percentile £112,500 £93,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,363 55,823 49,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.65% 82.88% 93.86%
Number of salaries quoted 26,894 29,023 37,931
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,532 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Use Case job vacancy trend in the UK

Use Case
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Use Case

Use Case
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Use Case over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 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
England +111 463 £75,000 +15.38% 888
London +75 238 £85,000 +21.43% 416
UK excluding London +100 232 £60,000 +4.35% 499
South East +98 152 £50,000 -20.00% 265
Work from Home +18 136 £67,500 +3.85% 564
North of England -11 21 £63,500 +15.45% 64
Midlands +48 16 £66,750 +2.69% 43
South West +25 16 £60,000 +16.50% 38
North West +18 15 £59,250 +9.72% 38
East of England +1 13 £65,000 +20.93% 63
Scotland -11 13 £57,750 -9.41% 10
West Midlands +39 12 £66,750 +3.89% 20
East Midlands +25 4 £67,500 -15.63% 23
North East +9 3 £52,500 +16.67% 7
Yorkshire -6 3 £78,750 +21.15% 19
Wales +6 1 £75,000 +75.44% 17

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 22 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.71%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.71%) Confluence
3 12 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.29%) Appian
5 7 (1.46%) Apache
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.42%) Mendix
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.21%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.21%) Luigi
7 1 (0.21%) TPMS
Applications
1 16 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.21%) Maya
6 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.63%) Endur
3 3 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.42%) iTrent
4 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.42%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.21%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.21%) Odoo
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Primavera
5 1 (0.21%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.21%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.21%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 138 (28.75%) Azure
2 103 (21.46%) AWS
3 52 (10.83%) Vertex AI
4 47 (9.79%) Azure AI
5 46 (9.58%) GCP
6 45 (9.38%) Power Platform
7 35 (7.29%) SaaS
8 26 (5.42%) Amazon SageMaker
9 21 (4.38%) Snowflake
10 20 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (3.75%) dbt
12 14 (2.92%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.92%) Azure Machine Learning
13 11 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (2.29%) GitHub
13 11 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.29%) MinIO
14 9 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (1.88%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (1.67%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.29%) WAN
2 10 (2.08%) Wireshark
3 9 (1.88%) Firewall
4 7 (1.46%) Network Security
5 6 (1.25%) 5G
5 6 (1.25%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.04%) Broadband
6 5 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.04%) VoIP
6 5 (1.04%) VPN
7 4 (0.83%) SSL
8 3 (0.63%) DHCP
8 3 (0.63%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.63%) DSL
8 3 (0.63%) GPON
8 3 (0.63%) IPv4
8 3 (0.63%) IPv6
8 3 (0.63%) PPP
8 3 (0.63%) RTP
8 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.63%) Power BI
2 18 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.13%) Data Mining
4 14 (2.92%) Metadata
5 13 (2.71%) Tableau
6 11 (2.29%) DTS
6 11 (2.29%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.08%) Big Data
8 8 (1.67%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.67%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.46%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.46%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.25%) Airbyte
11 5 (1.04%) Looker
11 5 (1.04%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.04%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.83%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 26 (5.42%) JIRA
2 14 (2.92%) Git
3 11 (2.29%) Robot Framework
3 11 (2.29%) Selenium
3 11 (2.29%) Snyk
4 6 (1.25%) MLflow
5 1 (0.21%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (0.21%) GitLab
5 1 (0.21%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 211 (43.96%) Social Skills
2 201 (41.88%) Finance
3 139 (28.96%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (16.46%) Law
5 78 (16.25%) Retail
6 60 (12.50%) Marketing
7 49 (10.21%) Banking
8 44 (9.17%) Legal
9 42 (8.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 28 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (5.42%) Games
13 19 (3.96%) Financial Institution
14 17 (3.54%) Manufacturing
15 16 (3.33%) Public Sector
16 15 (3.13%) Telecoms
17 12 (2.50%) Digital Economy
18 9 (1.88%) Military
18 9 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (27.71%) Lead
2 101 (21.04%) Senior
3 52 (10.83%) Analyst
4 41 (8.54%) Architect
5 32 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 26 (5.42%) Consultant
7 23 (4.79%) Product Manager
8 20 (4.17%) Data Engineer
9 15 (3.13%) Developer
9 15 (3.13%) Product Delivery Manager
10 14 (2.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (2.50%) Software Engineer
12 11 (2.29%) Applications Architect
12 11 (2.29%) Security Analyst
12 11 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (2.29%) Senior Manager
13 9 (1.88%) Data Architect
13 9 (1.88%) Development Manager
14 8 (1.67%) Senior Business Analyst
14 8 (1.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.96%) Kafka
2 11 (2.29%) Apache NiFi
3 10 (2.08%) Hugging Face
3 10 (2.08%) NumPy
3 10 (2.08%) Pandas
4 9 (1.88%) Middleware
5 8 (1.67%) .NET
6 7 (1.46%) CSS
6 7 (1.46%) HTML
6 7 (1.46%) Web Services
6 7 (1.46%) XML
7 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (1.25%) PyTorch
7 6 (1.25%) REST
7 6 (1.25%) SAP Fiori
8 5 (1.04%) PySpark
8 5 (1.04%) RESTful
8 5 (1.04%) scikit-learn
8 5 (1.04%) TensorFlow
9 4 (0.83%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 44 (9.17%) Life Science
3 33 (6.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 33 (6.88%) Data Centre
4 30 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 25 (5.21%) Product Ownership
6 23 (4.79%) Algorithms
7 21 (4.38%) Pharmacovigilance
8 19 (3.96%) AI Agents
9 17 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (3.13%) Low-Code
11 13 (2.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 11 (2.29%) Management Information System
13 10 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
15 7 (1.46%) Security Posture
16 6 (1.25%) Public Cloud
16 6 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
16 6 (1.25%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.04%) Linux
2 23 (4.79%) Windows
3 6 (1.25%) Unix
4 3 (0.63%) OpenWrt
5 2 (0.42%) Android
5 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (40.63%) AI
2 181 (37.71%) Agile
3 167 (34.79%) Analytics
4 129 (26.88%) Machine Learning
5 127 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
6 117 (24.38%) Data Science
7 108 (22.50%) Roadmaps
8 90 (18.75%) Computer Science
9 84 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 83 (17.29%) Generative AI
11 80 (16.67%) Presales
12 77 (16.04%) Decision-Making
13 71 (14.79%) Stakeholder Management
14 68 (14.17%) DevOps
14 68 (14.17%) Enterprise Architecture
15 63 (13.13%) Project Management
16 62 (12.92%) Business Strategy
17 58 (12.08%) Workshop Facilitation
18 57 (11.88%) Data Engineering
19 56 (11.67%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (17.71%) Python
2 54 (11.25%) SQL
3 17 (3.54%) Java
4 10 (2.08%) C++
5 9 (1.88%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.46%) MATLAB
7 6 (1.25%) Bash
7 6 (1.25%) C#
8 5 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.83%) ActionScript
9 4 (0.83%) ActionScript 3.0
9 4 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.83%) Objective-C
10 3 (0.63%) C
10 3 (0.63%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.42%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.21%) Go
12 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 131 (27.29%) Degree
2 68 (14.17%) Master's Degree
3 44 (9.17%) Security Cleared
4 40 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (6.46%) SC Cleared
6 24 (5.00%) PhD
7 21 (4.38%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.50%) GCIA
8 12 (2.50%) GCIH
9 11 (2.29%) GCFA
10 7 (1.46%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.25%) PMP
12 5 (1.04%) GIAC
13 4 (0.83%) CCIE
13 4 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.83%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.83%) MBA
14 3 (0.63%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.63%) CBAP
14 3 (0.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.46%) GDPR
2 29 (6.04%) Data Quality
3 24 (5.00%) EU AI Act
4 22 (4.58%) HIPAA
5 21 (4.38%) NIST
5 21 (4.38%) PSD2
5 21 (4.38%) Solvency II
6 20 (4.17%) GxP
7 11 (2.29%) QA
8 10 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.83%) SEPA
9 4 (0.83%) TARGET2
10 3 (0.63%) EMIR
10 3 (0.63%) NCSC
10 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.63%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.42%) HL7
11 2 (0.42%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.42%) JSP 440
System Software
1 9 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.67%) Docker
3 5 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.04%) zsh
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (5.21%) Terraform
2 13 (2.71%) Ansible
2 13 (2.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.04%) Automic
4 4 (0.83%) QRadar
4 4 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.63%) Nagios
6 2 (0.42%) Grafana
6 2 (0.42%) Suricata
6 2 (0.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.21%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.21%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 68 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 67 (13.96%) Google
3 31 (6.46%) Databricks
4 30 (6.25%) Foundry
5 28 (5.83%) OpenAI
6 24 (5.00%) SAP
7 17 (3.54%) Salesforce
8 15 (3.13%) VMware
9 12 (2.50%) Dell
9 12 (2.50%) UiPath
10 11 (2.29%) BiZZdesign
10 11 (2.29%) Black Duck
11 9 (1.88%) Splunk
12 8 (1.67%) HubSpot
12 8 (1.67%) Oracle
13 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
14 6 (1.25%) Alteryx
14 6 (1.25%) Blue Prism
14 6 (1.25%) Cisco
14 6 (1.25%) Coverity