Use Cases
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Use Case skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Use Case over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 240 220
Rank change year-on-year -42 -20 +135
Permanent jobs citing Use Case 1,028 1,639 2,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.54% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.61% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 538 830 1,101
10th Percentile £31,500 £43,720 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +8.23% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Use Case is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,814 101,905 146,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 95.67% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 59,590 59,680 83,719
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Use Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Use Case.

Salary trend for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Use Case over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Top 15 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 19 April 2024. 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 -48 830 £55,000 -15.38% 239
UK excluding London -51 603 £50,000 -16.00% 119
Work from Home -22 456 £59,526 -8.42% 103
London -8 354 £75,000 +8.00% 123
South East -58 151 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Scotland +24 146 £59,526 - 6
South West +27 143 £47,557 -23.91% 22
North of England -23 114 £50,000 -16.00% 25
North West +8 65 £47,500 -20.83% 15
Yorkshire +13 32 £62,500 +5.00% 8
Midlands -78 29 £47,500 -17.39% 17
West Midlands -49 28 £47,500 -22.13% 14
East of England -56 20 £59,000 -18.62% 27
North East +2 17 £40,000 -27.27% 2
East Midlands -25 1 £42,500 -19.05% 3

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 107 (10.41%) Confluence
2 30 (2.92%) Apache
3 16 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.88%) nginx
6 7 (0.68%) CMS
7 6 (0.58%) Mendix
8 5 (0.49%) K2 blackpearl
9 4 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.39%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.39%) SAS
10 3 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.29%) OpenZeppelin
11 2 (0.19%) Luigi
12 1 (0.097%) Drupal
Applications
1 20 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.46%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.58%) Trello
5 4 (0.39%) SPSS
6 2 (0.19%) Maya
6 2 (0.19%) MotionBuilder
Business Applications
1 12 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (1.17%) Endur
2 8 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.68%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.68%) thinkFolio
4 5 (0.49%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.49%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
4 5 (0.49%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.39%) SAP FSCM
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.19%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.19%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.097%) Data Workbench
8 1 (0.097%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.097%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 156 (15.18%) Azure
2 99 (9.63%) AWS
3 70 (6.81%) Power Platform
4 47 (4.57%) GitHub
5 46 (4.47%) SaaS
6 35 (3.40%) GCP
7 33 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (2.82%) Power Automate
9 29 (2.82%) PowerApps
10 28 (2.72%) PaaS
11 25 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (1.56%) Serverless
16 14 (1.36%) Azure Functions
16 14 (1.36%) IaaS
17 13 (1.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 13 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 184 (17.90%) Broadband
2 65 (6.32%) Kerberos
3 41 (3.99%) Firewall
4 12 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
5 11 (1.07%) Network Security
6 9 (0.88%) Internet
7 6 (0.58%) LAN
7 6 (0.58%) SAN
7 6 (0.58%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.58%) Unified Communications
7 6 (0.58%) WAN
8 3 (0.29%) IPFS
8 3 (0.29%) MQTT
9 2 (0.19%) HTTP
9 2 (0.19%) VPN
10 1 (0.097%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.097%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (9.05%) Metadata
2 37 (3.60%) Power BI
3 31 (3.02%) Big Data
4 27 (2.63%) MySQL
5 24 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (2.24%) Relational Database
7 22 (2.14%) SQL Server
8 19 (1.85%) Tableau
9 13 (1.26%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.26%) Redis
10 8 (0.78%) DTS
10 8 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
10 8 (0.78%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.78%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.58%) MariaDB
11 6 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (0.58%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.49%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.49%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 183 (17.80%) Git
2 167 (16.25%) Bitbucket
3 147 (14.30%) JIRA
4 94 (9.14%) Visual Studio
5 89 (8.66%) Jenkins
6 65 (6.32%) Artifactory
7 59 (5.74%) Sourcetree
8 14 (1.36%) PHPUnit
9 10 (0.97%) Subversion
10 5 (0.49%) webpack
11 3 (0.29%) GitLab
11 3 (0.29%) Hardhat
12 2 (0.19%) JUnit
12 2 (0.19%) Phabricator
General
1 332 (32.30%) Marketing
2 315 (30.64%) Finance
3 209 (20.33%) Social Skills
4 188 (18.29%) Advertising
5 158 (15.37%) Presentation Skills
6 147 (14.30%) Law
7 145 (14.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 126 (12.26%) Games
9 109 (10.60%) Banking
10 103 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
11 43 (4.18%) Legal
12 28 (2.72%) Retail
13 23 (2.24%) Financial Institution
13 23 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.95%) Back Office
15 19 (1.85%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.56%) Public Sector
17 13 (1.26%) Manufacturing
18 12 (1.17%) Automotive
19 9 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 323 (31.42%) Lead
2 199 (19.36%) Senior
3 186 (18.09%) Analyst
4 174 (16.93%) Developer
5 101 (9.82%) Software Engineer
6 90 (8.75%) Business Analyst
7 88 (8.56%) 3D Developer
7 88 (8.56%) Games Developer
7 88 (8.56%) Unity 3D Developer
8 71 (6.91%) Architect
9 65 (6.32%) Lead Software Engineer
10 59 (5.74%) Senior Developer
11 44 (4.28%) Senior Software Engineer
12 36 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (3.31%) Consultant
14 31 (3.02%) Data Architect
15 30 (2.92%) Senior Games Developer
16 28 (2.72%) Data Scientist
17 24 (2.33%) Technical Analyst
18 23 (2.24%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (9.63%) RESTful
2 98 (9.53%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 79 (7.68%) JSON
4 77 (7.49%) Web Services
5 74 (7.20%) XML
6 65 (6.32%) JSON-LD
6 65 (6.32%) LDAP
6 65 (6.32%) OpenID
6 65 (6.32%) SAML
7 51 (4.96%) .NET
8 43 (4.18%) CSS
9 36 (3.50%) HTML
9 36 (3.50%) React
10 24 (2.33%) Pandas
10 24 (2.33%) Vue
11 22 (2.14%) Apache NiFi
12 21 (2.04%) Laravel
13 19 (1.85%) AngularJS
13 19 (1.85%) Sass
14 17 (1.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 185 (18.00%) Marketing Technology
2 97 (9.44%) Management Information System
3 88 (8.56%) Virtual Reality
4 78 (7.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 76 (7.39%) Product Ownership
6 67 (6.52%) Reference Data
7 54 (5.25%) Cloud Native
8 38 (3.70%) Data Structures
9 32 (3.11%) Onboarding
10 31 (3.02%) Taxonomies
11 30 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (2.33%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
14 15 (1.46%) IoT
15 14 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 14 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
16 13 (1.26%) Cyberattack
17 12 (1.17%) Algorithms
18 10 (0.97%) Data Centre
18 10 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.67%) Windows
2 46 (4.47%) Linux
3 6 (0.58%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.49%) Unix
5 3 (0.29%) Android
5 3 (0.29%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (34.63%) Analytics
2 347 (33.75%) Agile
3 225 (21.89%) Software Engineering
4 218 (21.21%) Data Strategy
5 212 (20.62%) Business Case
6 200 (19.46%) Process Improvement
7 191 (18.58%) Data Collection
7 191 (18.58%) Data Modelling
8 188 (18.29%) Matrix Organization
9 186 (18.09%) Digital Marketing
10 184 (17.90%) Regulatory Change
11 172 (16.73%) DevOps
12 170 (16.54%) Roadmaps
13 150 (14.59%) Scrum
14 146 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
15 128 (12.45%) CI/CD
16 118 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
17 115 (11.19%) SDLC
18 113 (10.99%) Business Analysis
19 112 (10.89%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 183 (17.80%) Python
2 149 (14.49%) SQL
3 127 (12.35%) C#
4 70 (6.81%) Go
5 65 (6.32%) Prolog
5 65 (6.32%) SPARQL
6 63 (6.13%) JavaScript
7 30 (2.92%) Java
8 24 (2.33%) C++
9 21 (2.04%) C
10 14 (1.36%) Scala
11 12 (1.17%) R
12 11 (1.07%) PowerShell
13 10 (0.97%) PHP
14 9 (0.88%) VB
15 8 (0.78%) Bash
15 8 (0.78%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.58%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.58%) VB.NET
16 6 (0.58%) VB6
Qualifications
1 199 (19.36%) Degree
2 120 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 105 (10.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 104 (10.12%) SC Cleared
5 27 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 25 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (2.14%) CISSP
8 18 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
9 17 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 17 (1.65%) CCSP
9 17 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.56%) CompTIA CySA+
10 16 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (0.78%) GIAC
11 8 (0.78%) IIBA
11 8 (0.78%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.68%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.58%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.79%) QA
2 35 (3.40%) Data Quality
3 29 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 26 (2.53%) NIST
5 20 (1.95%) SOC 2
6 15 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.97%) GDPR
7 10 (0.97%) PMO
8 7 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.58%) SOC 1
10 5 (0.49%) SLA
11 4 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.39%) ISO 9000
12 3 (0.29%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.19%) MISRA
13 2 (0.19%) MISRA C
13 2 (0.19%) NCSC
14 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.097%) PMBOK
14 1 (0.097%) UCITS
System Software
1 76 (7.39%) Active Directory
2 34 (3.31%) Docker
3 5 (0.49%) Firmware
4 3 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.097%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.097%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.04%) Terraform
3 8 (0.78%) Ansible
4 5 (0.49%) CASB
5 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.29%) QRadar
7 2 (0.19%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.19%) Grafana
7 2 (0.19%) Nagios
7 2 (0.19%) Podman
8 1 (0.097%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.097%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.097%) SCCM
8 1 (0.097%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 188 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 47 (4.57%) Databricks
3 28 (2.72%) Google
4 17 (1.65%) SAP
5 16 (1.56%) Splunk
6 13 (1.26%) Adobe
7 12 (1.17%) OpenLink
7 12 (1.17%) Oracle
8 10 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 9 (0.88%) Atlassian
10 8 (0.78%) Charles River
11 7 (0.68%) LogRhythm
11 7 (0.68%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.58%) Intapp
13 5 (0.49%) Automation Anywhere
13 5 (0.49%) Blue Prism
13 5 (0.49%) Cisco
13 5 (0.49%) PayPal
13 5 (0.49%) WorldPay
14 4 (0.39%) Dell