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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 264 214
Rank change year-on-year -34 -50 +124
Permanent jobs citing Use Case 1,005 1,403 3,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 1.41% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.48% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 520 713 1,077
10th Percentile £31,350 £46,157 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,467 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £78,875 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,635 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +12.47%

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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -57 804 £57,500 -11.54% 265
UK excluding London -41 581 £50,000 -16.67% 157
Work from Home -22 433 £59,526 -13.47% 116
London -12 354 £75,000 +7.14% 132
Scotland +42 146 £59,526 -14.29% 13
South East -54 145 £52,500 -12.50% 52
South West +32 132 £50,000 -27.18% 20
North of England 0 107 £50,000 -16.67% 27
North West +12 61 £47,500 -29.63% 18
Yorkshire +11 30 £62,500 - 7
West Midlands -57 30 £47,500 -9.52% 24
Midlands -85 30 £47,500 -9.52% 26
East of England -63 20 £59,000 -7.09% 24
North East +1 16 £40,000 -27.27% 2
Wales +3 1 £37,500 -15.81% 2

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 98 (9.75%) Confluence
2 30 (2.99%) Apache
3 16 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.90%) nginx
6 6 (0.60%) Mendix
7 5 (0.50%) CMS
7 5 (0.50%) K2 blackpearl
8 4 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.40%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.40%) SAS
9 3 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.30%) OpenZeppelin
10 2 (0.20%) Luigi
11 1 (0.100%) Drupal
Applications
1 19 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.29%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.60%) Trello
6 4 (0.40%) SPSS
7 2 (0.20%) Maya
7 2 (0.20%) MotionBuilder
8 1 (0.100%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (1.19%) Endur
2 10 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.70%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.70%) thinkFolio
4 6 (0.60%) SAP CO
4 6 (0.60%) SAP FI
4 6 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (0.50%) SAP FSCM
5 5 (0.50%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.30%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.30%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.100%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.100%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.100%) SAP PLM
9 1 (0.100%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 151 (15.02%) Azure
2 93 (9.25%) AWS
3 69 (6.87%) Power Platform
4 48 (4.78%) GitHub
5 41 (4.08%) GCP
5 41 (4.08%) SaaS
6 30 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (2.79%) PaaS
7 28 (2.79%) Power Automate
7 28 (2.79%) PowerApps
8 27 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 24 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (1.49%) Serverless
14 13 (1.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 13 (1.29%) Azure Functions
14 13 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (1.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 184 (18.31%) Broadband
2 65 (6.47%) Kerberos
3 29 (2.89%) Firewall
4 12 (1.19%) Network Security
4 12 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.09%) Internet
6 7 (0.70%) LAN
6 7 (0.70%) SAN
6 7 (0.70%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.70%) Unified Communications
6 7 (0.70%) WAN
7 4 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.30%) IPFS
8 3 (0.30%) MQTT
9 2 (0.20%) HTTP
9 2 (0.20%) VPN
10 1 (0.100%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.100%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (8.76%) Metadata
2 37 (3.68%) Power BI
3 30 (2.99%) Big Data
4 27 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (2.69%) MySQL
5 23 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (2.19%) Relational Database
6 22 (2.19%) SQL Server
7 18 (1.79%) Tableau
8 15 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.09%) Redis
10 9 (0.90%) DTS
10 9 (0.90%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.60%) MariaDB
11 6 (0.60%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (0.60%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.50%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.50%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 174 (17.31%) Git
2 158 (15.72%) Bitbucket
3 134 (13.33%) JIRA
4 88 (8.76%) Jenkins
5 85 (8.46%) Visual Studio
6 65 (6.47%) Artifactory
7 59 (5.87%) Sourcetree
8 14 (1.39%) PHPUnit
9 10 (1.00%) Subversion
10 5 (0.50%) webpack
11 4 (0.40%) GitLab
12 3 (0.30%) Hardhat
13 2 (0.20%) JUnit
13 2 (0.20%) Phabricator
General
1 328 (32.64%) Marketing
2 316 (31.44%) Finance
3 204 (20.30%) Social Skills
4 188 (18.71%) Advertising
5 151 (15.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 151 (15.02%) Presentation Skills
6 148 (14.73%) Law
7 119 (11.84%) Games
8 113 (11.24%) Banking
9 105 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
10 42 (4.18%) Legal
11 31 (3.08%) Retail
12 24 (2.39%) Back Office
13 23 (2.29%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.89%) Investment Banking
15 17 (1.69%) Public Sector
16 16 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (1.49%) Manufacturing
17 15 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (1.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 325 (32.34%) Lead
2 208 (20.70%) Senior
3 165 (16.42%) Analyst
4 161 (16.02%) Developer
5 103 (10.25%) Software Engineer
6 87 (8.66%) Business Analyst
7 79 (7.86%) 3D Developer
7 79 (7.86%) Games Developer
7 79 (7.86%) Unity 3D Developer
8 72 (7.16%) Architect
9 66 (6.57%) Lead Software Engineer
10 59 (5.87%) Senior Developer
11 45 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 40 (3.98%) Consultant
13 34 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
14 30 (2.99%) Senior Games Developer
15 28 (2.79%) Data Architect
16 26 (2.59%) Security Engineer
17 25 (2.49%) Principal Engineer
18 23 (2.29%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (9.35%) RESTful
2 89 (8.86%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 79 (7.86%) JSON
4 75 (7.46%) Web Services
5 74 (7.36%) XML
6 65 (6.47%) JSON-LD
6 65 (6.47%) LDAP
6 65 (6.47%) OpenID
6 65 (6.47%) SAML
7 48 (4.78%) .NET
8 43 (4.28%) CSS
9 34 (3.38%) HTML
9 34 (3.38%) React
10 24 (2.39%) Pandas
10 24 (2.39%) Vue
11 22 (2.19%) Apache NiFi
12 21 (2.09%) Laravel
13 19 (1.89%) AngularJS
13 19 (1.89%) Sass
14 15 (1.49%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 185 (18.41%) Marketing Technology
2 95 (9.45%) Management Information System
3 79 (7.86%) Virtual Reality
4 78 (7.76%) Enterprise Cloud
5 76 (7.56%) Product Ownership
6 69 (6.87%) Reference Data
7 59 (5.87%) Cloud Native
8 39 (3.88%) Data Structures
9 35 (3.48%) Onboarding
10 31 (3.08%) Taxonomies
11 30 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (2.59%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.29%) Cyberattack
14 12 (1.19%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.19%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.19%) IoT
15 11 (1.09%) Mobile App
16 10 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
16 10 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (4.58%) Windows
2 44 (4.38%) Linux
3 6 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.50%) Unix
5 4 (0.40%) Android
6 3 (0.30%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.100%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (34.43%) Analytics
2 341 (33.93%) Agile
3 217 (21.59%) Data Strategy
4 215 (21.39%) Software Engineering
5 211 (21.00%) Business Case
6 201 (20.00%) Process Improvement
7 190 (18.91%) Data Collection
8 187 (18.61%) Matrix Organization
9 186 (18.51%) Data Modelling
10 185 (18.41%) Digital Marketing
11 184 (18.31%) Regulatory Change
12 169 (16.82%) Roadmaps
13 167 (16.62%) DevOps
14 146 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
15 138 (13.73%) Scrum
16 134 (13.33%) CI/CD
17 117 (11.64%) SDLC
18 116 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
19 109 (10.85%) Business Analysis
20 101 (10.05%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 180 (17.91%) Python
2 142 (14.13%) SQL
3 115 (11.44%) C#
4 70 (6.97%) Go
5 65 (6.47%) Prolog
5 65 (6.47%) SPARQL
6 59 (5.87%) JavaScript
7 26 (2.59%) Java
8 24 (2.39%) C++
9 23 (2.29%) C
10 14 (1.39%) Scala
11 12 (1.19%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.09%) R
13 10 (1.00%) PHP
14 9 (0.90%) VB
15 8 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.60%) Bash
16 6 (0.60%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.60%) VB.NET
16 6 (0.60%) VB6
Qualifications
1 182 (18.11%) Degree
2 114 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 96 (9.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 94 (9.35%) SC Cleared
5 27 (2.69%) Master's Degree
6 26 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.59%) CISSP
10 10 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
11 8 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (0.80%) CCSP
11 8 (0.80%) GIAC
11 8 (0.80%) IIBA
11 8 (0.80%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.70%) CCNP
12 7 (0.70%) CompTIA CySA+
12 7 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.48%) QA
2 33 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 18 (1.79%) NIST
5 11 (1.09%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.00%) PMO
7 9 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.60%) SOC 1
9 5 (0.50%) SLA
10 4 (0.40%) GDPR
11 3 (0.30%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 9000
12 2 (0.20%) MISRA
12 2 (0.20%) MISRA C
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
13 1 (0.100%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.100%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.100%) PMBOK
13 1 (0.100%) UCITS
System Software
1 72 (7.16%) Active Directory
2 38 (3.78%) Docker
3 5 (0.50%) Firmware
4 3 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.100%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.89%) Terraform
3 12 (1.19%) Ansible
4 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.40%) Nagios
5 3 (0.30%) QRadar
6 2 (0.20%) Grafana
6 2 (0.20%) Podman
7 1 (0.100%) Argo
7 1 (0.100%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.100%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.100%) SCCM
7 1 (0.100%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 170 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.48%) Databricks
3 29 (2.89%) Google
4 20 (1.99%) SAP
5 16 (1.59%) Splunk
6 14 (1.39%) Oracle
7 13 (1.29%) Adobe
7 13 (1.29%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.19%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.19%) OpenLink
9 8 (0.80%) Charles River
9 8 (0.80%) McAfee
10 7 (0.70%) Cisco
10 7 (0.70%) LogRhythm
10 7 (0.70%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.60%) Intapp
11 6 (0.60%) Qualys
12 5 (0.50%) ArcSight
12 5 (0.50%) CyberArk
12 5 (0.50%) PayPal