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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 302 395
Rank change year-on-year +41 +93 -86
Permanent jobs citing Use Case 869 460 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.93% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.05% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 521 201 254
10th Percentile £46,000 £36,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% +15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.54% +2.61% -5.74%

All Process & 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 86,578 43,908 59,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.25% 88.94% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 59,120 24,542 31,807
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,054 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -2.78%

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 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Top 17 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 11 October 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
England +43 816 £80,000 +6.67% 2,067
London +67 489 £87,500 +2.94% 1,504
UK excluding London -55 317 £60,500 +2.54% 638
Work from Home +87 298 £80,000 +6.67% 773
North of England +37 125 £64,000 +0.79% 166
North West +38 74 £60,000 +1.27% 107
South East -125 59 £54,000 +2.86% 162
South West -42 49 £60,500 +0.83% 57
East of England -16 37 £67,000 +3.08% 71
Midlands -30 34 £65,000 -2.62% 57
Yorkshire -13 33 £80,000 +1.59% 39
West Midlands -42 18 £70,000 +4.87% 32
North East -52 18 £72,750 +38.57% 20
East Midlands -17 16 £60,000 -11.11% 25
Wales -67 8 £45,000 - 4
Scotland +2 4 £57,500 +1.77% 77
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 45

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 41 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.22%) Confluence
3 24 (2.76%) SharePoint
4 20 (2.30%) Apache
5 9 (1.04%) SAS
6 8 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.23%) CMS
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.19%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.58%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.23%) Simulink
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.12%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.69%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.35%) Summit
4 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.23%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.12%) Magento
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 222 (25.55%) AWS
2 209 (24.05%) Azure
3 102 (11.74%) GCP
4 94 (10.82%) Power Platform
5 62 (7.13%) SaaS
6 61 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
7 54 (6.21%) Microsoft Copilot
8 53 (6.10%) Cloud Computing
9 39 (4.49%) Snowflake
10 37 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 32 (3.68%) Copilot Studio
12 28 (3.22%) Serverless
13 24 (2.76%) Amazon S3
13 24 (2.76%) Azure AI
14 22 (2.53%) Anthropic Claude
14 22 (2.53%) dbt
15 21 (2.42%) iPaaS
16 18 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 16 (1.84%) Amazon Kinesis
17 16 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.26%) Firewall
2 32 (3.68%) Internet
3 31 (3.57%) VPN
4 27 (3.11%) TCP/IP
5 25 (2.88%) HTTP
6 19 (2.19%) DNS
7 17 (1.96%) WAN
8 15 (1.73%) FTP
8 15 (1.73%) LAN
8 15 (1.73%) SMTP
9 14 (1.61%) Network Security
10 9 (1.04%) BGP
10 9 (1.04%) IPsec
11 8 (0.92%) DMZ
12 7 (0.81%) Broadband
13 3 (0.35%) SMS
14 2 (0.23%) DHCP
14 2 (0.23%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.23%) SSL
14 2 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (7.13%) Power BI
2 56 (6.44%) Big Data
3 55 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (6.10%) Metadata
5 31 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 26 (2.99%) Star Schema
7 21 (2.42%) Hadoop
7 21 (2.42%) NoSQL
8 15 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
9 14 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (1.61%) Delta Lake
10 13 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (1.50%) Data Vault
11 12 (1.38%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.38%) Tableau
12 8 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
12 8 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (0.92%) SQL Server
13 7 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 40 (4.60%) Git
2 33 (3.80%) JIRA
3 10 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.92%) MLflow
5 7 (0.81%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.69%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.58%) ERwin
8 4 (0.46%) Maven
9 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.23%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.12%) GitLab
10 1 (0.12%) JUnit
10 1 (0.12%) NUnit
10 1 (0.12%) RStudio
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 284 (32.68%) Finance
2 279 (32.11%) Social Skills
3 187 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (11.97%) Marketing
5 75 (8.63%) Banking
6 66 (7.59%) Legal
7 65 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 61 (7.02%) Law
9 46 (5.29%) Public Sector
10 39 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
11 35 (4.03%) Aerospace
12 28 (3.22%) Financial Institution
13 24 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (2.76%) Retail
14 23 (2.65%) Manufacturing
15 22 (2.53%) Military
16 21 (2.42%) Public Speaking
17 18 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
18 17 (1.96%) Legal Technology
19 14 (1.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 189 (21.75%) Senior
2 121 (13.92%) Architect
3 113 (13.00%) Analyst
4 82 (9.44%) Consultant
5 76 (8.75%) Lead
6 70 (8.06%) Data Engineer
7 54 (6.21%) Business Analyst
8 52 (5.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 43 (4.95%) Data Architect
10 39 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (4.14%) Software Engineer
12 26 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 26 (2.99%) Developer
13 25 (2.88%) SOC Analyst
13 25 (2.88%) Technical Consultant
14 24 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.76%) Senior Architect
14 24 (2.76%) Senior Consultant
15 23 (2.65%) Data Scientist
16 21 (2.42%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.72%) LangChain
2 37 (4.26%) Terraform
3 36 (4.14%) REST
4 30 (3.45%) PyTorch
5 29 (3.34%) Middleware
6 28 (3.22%) LangGraph
6 28 (3.22%) TensorFlow
7 24 (2.76%) OAuth
8 22 (2.53%) scikit-learn
9 21 (2.42%) CSS
9 21 (2.42%) JWT
10 18 (2.07%) PySpark
11 17 (1.96%) JSON
12 16 (1.84%) Kafka
13 15 (1.73%) LDAP
14 14 (1.61%) LlamaIndex
14 14 (1.61%) Pandas
15 11 (1.27%) FastAPI
15 11 (1.27%) NumPy
16 7 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 148 (17.03%) Onboarding
2 110 (12.66%) AI Agents
3 67 (7.71%) Cloud Native
4 56 (6.44%) Product Ownership
5 46 (5.29%) Security Posture
6 42 (4.83%) Management Information System
7 34 (3.91%) Blog
8 31 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
9 29 (3.34%) Data Structures
10 28 (3.22%) Marketing Technology
11 25 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (2.65%) Cyber Defence
13 22 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
14 15 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (1.27%) Client/Server
17 10 (1.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 10 (1.15%) Low-Code
17 10 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.72%) Linux
2 32 (3.68%) Windows
3 6 (0.69%) Unix
4 2 (0.23%) Android
4 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.23%) macOS
5 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (62.37%) AI
2 280 (32.22%) Analytics
3 224 (25.78%) Machine Learning
4 195 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
5 193 (22.21%) Roadmaps
6 180 (20.71%) Generative AI
7 163 (18.76%) Data Modelling
8 154 (17.72%) LLM
9 152 (17.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 146 (16.80%) Agile
11 138 (15.88%) CI/CD
12 128 (14.73%) Data Pipeline
13 127 (14.61%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 125 (14.38%) Data Engineering
15 120 (13.81%) Data Science
16 115 (13.23%) Cybersecurity
17 112 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
17 112 (12.89%) Mentoring
18 111 (12.77%) Decision-Making
19 102 (11.74%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 289 (33.26%) Python
2 181 (20.83%) SQL
3 37 (4.26%) JavaScript
4 33 (3.80%) Java
5 31 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 30 (3.45%) C++
7 25 (2.88%) C#
8 21 (2.42%) Scala
9 20 (2.30%) Bash
10 15 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
11 13 (1.50%) Perl
11 13 (1.50%) Ruby
11 13 (1.50%) Search Processing Language
12 12 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.27%) R
14 9 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.81%) C
16 6 (0.69%) Go
16 6 (0.69%) PHP
17 3 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 149 (17.15%) Degree
2 127 (14.61%) Security Cleared
3 82 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 44 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.72%) DV Cleared
6 31 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 22 (2.53%) CISSP
8 21 (2.42%) AWS Certification
8 21 (2.42%) CompTIA Security+
9 20 (2.30%) Azure Certification
10 19 (2.19%) GCIH
11 18 (2.07%) CREST Certified
12 16 (1.84%) CISM
13 15 (1.73%) GIAC
14 14 (1.61%) CEH
14 14 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (1.50%) GCIA
16 10 (1.15%) CISA
17 9 (1.04%) SANS
18 8 (0.92%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (13.12%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.06%) GDPR
3 40 (4.60%) QA
4 35 (4.03%) NIST
5 32 (3.68%) Accessibility
6 22 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (2.19%) GRC
8 8 (0.92%) NCSC
8 8 (0.92%) NIST 800
9 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 6 (0.69%) JSP 440
10 6 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.58%) WCAG
12 4 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
13 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.35%) PMO
13 3 (0.35%) SLA
14 2 (0.23%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 22 (2.53%) Docker
2 6 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) IAG
6 1 (0.12%) KVM
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.19%) QRadar
3 15 (1.73%) Ansible
4 8 (0.92%) Kibana
5 7 (0.81%) EnCase
5 7 (0.81%) FTK
6 6 (0.69%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (0.58%) Packer
8 2 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.23%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.12%) Argo
9 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.12%) Nessus
9 1 (0.12%) Nmap
9 1 (0.12%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 189 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 67 (7.71%) Databricks
3 44 (5.06%) Splunk
4 40 (4.60%) Google
5 32 (3.68%) SAP
6 29 (3.34%) OpenAI
7 28 (3.22%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
8 17 (1.96%) Foundry
9 15 (1.73%) Informatica
10 13 (1.50%) Oracle
11 11 (1.27%) Carbon Black
12 8 (0.92%) IBM
12 8 (0.92%) Tanium
12 8 (0.92%) Workday
13 7 (0.81%) Cellebrite
13 7 (0.81%) LexisNexis
13 7 (0.81%) Nuix
13 7 (0.81%) Palantir
13 7 (0.81%) Relativity