Use Case Contracts in the South West

Use Cases
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Use Case skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Use Case over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 135 122
Rank change year-on-year +80 -13 -18
Contract jobs citing Use Case 98 36 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.07% 0.99% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 1.11% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 17 25
10th Percentile £463 - £383
25th Percentile £500 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -10.31%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £575
90th Percentile £700 £879 £642
England median daily rate £570 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 6
10th Percentile - £60.55 £54.00
25th Percentile - £62.75 £56.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +6.38% +64.50%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £74.08
90th Percentile - £77.70 £76.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £58.25
% change year-on-year -21.43% +20.17% +3.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,654 3,248 3,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.02% 89.70% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 2,395 2,337
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £668
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 332 192
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £16.89 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.50 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +26.52% +8.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.98
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Use Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the South West

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Use Case in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Use Case in the South West

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the South West

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Use Case in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in the South West

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +50 72 £550 -8.33% 2
Gloucestershire +23 14 £640 -1.54%
Bristol +20 10 £525 +5.00% 13
Somerset +7 2 £600 -10.38% 1
Use Case
England

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.06%) Azure
2 2 (2.04%) AWS
2 2 (2.04%) GCP
2 2 (2.04%) GitHub
2 2 (2.04%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.02%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.27%) Firewall
2 10 (10.20%) Cisco ISE
2 10 (10.20%) Network Security
3 2 (2.04%) VPN
Development Applications
1 8 (8.16%) JIRA
2 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (37.76%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.20%) Manufacturing
2 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.18%) Telecoms
4 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.14%) Legal
5 6 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.08%) Banking
7 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.04%) Finance
8 1 (1.02%) Aviation
8 1 (1.02%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.02%) Military
8 1 (1.02%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (52.04%) Analyst
2 29 (29.59%) SOC Analyst
3 12 (12.24%) Lead
4 9 (9.18%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 8 (8.16%) Compliance Analyst
5 8 (8.16%) Data Analyst
5 8 (8.16%) Data Compliance Analyst
5 8 (8.16%) SOC Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.08%) Author
8 3 (3.06%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Security Analyst
8 3 (3.06%) Technical Author
9 2 (2.04%) Incident Analyst
9 2 (2.04%) Senior
9 2 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (2.04%) SIEM Analyst
9 2 (2.04%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.04%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.02%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (38.78%) Security Operations Centre
2 33 (33.67%) Management Information System
3 32 (32.65%) CSOC
4 29 (29.59%) Cyber Threat
5 28 (28.57%) Cyber Defence
5 28 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (6.12%) Security Posture
7 4 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.04%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.04%) Operational Technology
8 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.04%) Linux
1 2 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (73.47%) SIEM
2 71 (72.45%) Incident Response
3 63 (64.29%) Cybersecurity
4 40 (40.82%) Security Operations
4 40 (40.82%) Threat Intelligence
5 36 (36.73%) Incident Management
5 36 (36.73%) SOAR
6 35 (35.71%) Information Security
7 34 (34.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (32.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 30 (30.61%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 28 (28.57%) Case Management
11 27 (27.55%) CRM
11 27 (27.55%) Root Cause Analysis
12 26 (26.53%) Analytics
12 26 (26.53%) Protective Monitoring
13 24 (24.49%) Time Management
14 23 (23.47%) Mentoring
15 10 (10.20%) ITIL
15 10 (10.20%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
1 4 (4.08%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.04%) Python
3 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 78 (79.59%) Security Cleared
2 68 (69.39%) DV Cleared
3 26 (26.53%) SANS
4 24 (24.49%) Degree
5 8 (8.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (30.61%) NIST
2 28 (28.57%) NIST 800
3 10 (10.20%) GDPR
4 8 (8.16%) NCSC
5 2 (2.04%) SLA
6 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.04%) Docker
1 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (2.04%) Ansible
1 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.04%) OPNET
Vendors
1 32 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.24%) Splunk
3 10 (10.20%) Cisco
4 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.04%) Google
4 2 (2.04%) VMware
5 1 (1.02%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.02%) Sparx