Use Case Contracts

Use Cases
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 194 207
Rank change year-on-year +30 +13 0
Contract jobs citing Use Case 640 832 1,253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.47% 1.41% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.57% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 532 759
10th Percentile £408 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £773 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £528 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 27
10th Percentile - £58.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £62.75 £21.32
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +23.89% +7.77%
75th Percentile £60.00 £77.50 £66.65
90th Percentile - £78.65 £71.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +6.19%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +23 546 £570 +3.64% 330
London +22 286 £600 - 183
UK excluding London +24 266 £528 +5.50% 146
Work from Home +68 241 £563 +2.27% 142
South West +76 98 £550 +4.76% 22
North of England +12 77 £550 +3.29% 29
North West +20 41 £498 +2.37% 19
Midlands +35 39 £580 +3.57% 19
South East -26 35 £475 +1.06% 41
Yorkshire +7 32 £625 +13.64% 7
West Midlands +27 29 £538 -13.92% 13
Scotland +26 27 £513 +16.61% 5
East of England +8 15 £500 +11.11% 31
East Midlands +14 7 £613 +30.67% 6
North East +20 4 £443 - 3
Wales +4 1 £175 -64.19% 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 22 (3.44%) Confluence
2 8 (1.25%) CMS
2 8 (1.25%) MTS
2 8 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.63%) Apache
4 3 (0.47%) IIS
4 3 (0.47%) WebLogic
4 3 (0.47%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (4.06%) MS Visio
2 22 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.78%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.47%) Sketch
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.16%) InVision
9 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (3.13%) Endur
2 10 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.41%) Dynamics GP
4 8 (1.25%) Aligne
4 8 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (1.25%) EuroRunner
5 6 (0.94%) SAP BPC
6 4 (0.63%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.47%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
9 1 (0.16%) Shopify
9 1 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.16%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 115 (17.97%) Azure
2 72 (11.25%) AWS
3 42 (6.56%) Power Platform
4 40 (6.25%) GCP
5 17 (2.66%) GitHub
5 17 (2.66%) SaaS
6 15 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (1.56%) Entra ID
10 10 (1.56%) IaaS
10 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (1.56%) PaaS
11 9 (1.41%) OpenShift
11 9 (1.41%) Serverless
12 8 (1.25%) Power Automate
12 8 (1.25%) PowerApps
13 7 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.09%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.31%) Firewall
2 14 (2.19%) HTTP
3 11 (1.72%) Network Security
3 11 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.56%) Cisco ISE
5 8 (1.25%) VPN
6 6 (0.94%) DMZ
6 6 (0.94%) DNS
7 5 (0.78%) CTI
7 5 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.78%) VoIP
8 4 (0.63%) Internet
8 4 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.63%) tcpdump
8 4 (0.63%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.47%) ADSL
9 3 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.47%) LAN
9 3 (0.47%) SSH
9 3 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.09%) Power BI
2 15 (2.34%) Metadata
3 14 (2.19%) Big Data
3 14 (2.19%) Data Lake
4 13 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 11 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.72%) Tableau
6 10 (1.56%) SAP HANA
7 7 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.94%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.63%) Apache Hive
10 4 (0.63%) Bigtable
10 4 (0.63%) Cloud Spanner
10 4 (0.63%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.63%) OLAP
10 4 (0.63%) OLTP
11 3 (0.47%) DB2
Development Applications
1 75 (11.72%) JIRA
2 27 (4.22%) Git
2 27 (4.22%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.19%) GitLab
4 13 (2.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (0.94%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.94%) Travis CI
6 5 (0.78%) JMeter
6 5 (0.78%) Selenium
7 4 (0.63%) IDA Disassembler
8 3 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.47%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.47%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.31%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.16%) Rational Software Modeler
10 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 217 (33.91%) Social Skills
2 139 (21.72%) Finance
3 104 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 41 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
6 40 (6.25%) Banking
7 33 (5.16%) Manufacturing
8 25 (3.91%) Marketing
9 22 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.66%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.03%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.03%) German Language
11 13 (2.03%) Legal
11 13 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (2.03%) Retail
12 11 (1.72%) Back Office
13 9 (1.41%) Automotive
14 8 (1.25%) Front Office
15 7 (1.09%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 214 (33.44%) Analyst
2 108 (16.88%) Business Analyst
3 99 (15.47%) Architect
4 62 (9.69%) Consultant
5 59 (9.22%) Senior
6 39 (6.09%) Lead
7 37 (5.78%) SOC Analyst
8 33 (5.16%) Developer
9 32 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
10 26 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
11 25 (3.91%) Data Architect
12 24 (3.75%) Senior Business Analyst
13 23 (3.59%) Technical Analyst
14 21 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 20 (3.13%) Data Analyst
16 17 (2.66%) Data Engineer
17 16 (2.50%) Project Manager
17 16 (2.50%) Technical Architect
18 15 (2.34%) Security Analyst
19 14 (2.19%) Cyber Defence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.66%) CSS
1 17 (2.66%) OpenID
2 16 (2.50%) HTML
2 16 (2.50%) XML
3 15 (2.34%) SAML
4 12 (1.88%) JSON
5 11 (1.72%) OAuth
5 11 (1.72%) PySpark
6 10 (1.56%) REST
6 10 (1.56%) Web Services
7 9 (1.41%) Node.js
8 8 (1.25%) React
8 8 (1.25%) YAML
9 7 (1.09%) .NET
9 7 (1.09%) LDAP
10 6 (0.94%) ADO
10 6 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (0.94%) Kafka
10 6 (0.94%) Middleware
11 5 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.31%) Management Information System
2 51 (7.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 51 (7.97%) Product Ownership
3 48 (7.50%) Cyber Threat
4 47 (7.34%) Security Operations Centre
5 42 (6.56%) Cyber Defence
6 32 (5.00%) CSOC
7 22 (3.44%) Renewable Energy
8 21 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (2.97%) Data Structures
10 14 (2.19%) IoT
11 12 (1.88%) Cloud Native
11 12 (1.88%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.72%) Solar Panel
13 10 (1.56%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.41%) CMDB
14 9 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (1.41%) Industry 4.0
15 8 (1.25%) Market Risk
15 8 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.75%) Windows
2 21 (3.28%) Linux
3 8 (1.25%) Unix
4 3 (0.47%) Kali Linux
5 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (23.59%) Agile
2 136 (21.25%) Cybersecurity
3 130 (20.31%) SIEM
4 114 (17.81%) Analytics
5 104 (16.25%) Incident Response
5 104 (16.25%) Roadmaps
6 97 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (12.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 76 (11.88%) Information Security
9 67 (10.47%) User Stories
10 66 (10.31%) Incident Management
11 64 (10.00%) Data Modelling
12 63 (9.84%) Security Operations
13 60 (9.38%) Business Analysis
14 59 (9.22%) DevOps
14 59 (9.22%) Threat Intelligence
15 58 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 58 (9.06%) CRM
16 55 (8.59%) Data Governance
17 54 (8.44%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 70 (10.94%) Python
2 55 (8.59%) SQL
3 36 (5.63%) Java
4 28 (4.38%) PowerShell
5 25 (3.91%) JavaScript
6 18 (2.81%) Bash
7 10 (1.56%) Go
7 10 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (1.41%) C#
9 8 (1.25%) Search Processing Language
10 7 (1.09%) Perl
11 6 (0.94%) Scala
12 5 (0.78%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.63%) Ruby
14 3 (0.47%) Clojure
14 3 (0.47%) Haskell
14 3 (0.47%) PHP
14 3 (0.47%) Rust
15 2 (0.31%) R
15 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 131 (20.47%) Security Cleared
2 98 (15.31%) Degree
3 86 (13.44%) DV Cleared
4 43 (6.72%) SC Cleared
5 29 (4.53%) SANS
6 21 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.50%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.56%) CISSP
9 8 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.63%) CISM
11 4 (0.63%) MBA
12 3 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.47%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.47%) CBAP
12 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.47%) PhD
13 2 (0.31%) GIAC
14 1 (0.16%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (12.97%) NIST
2 41 (6.41%) NIST 800
3 39 (6.09%) Data Quality
4 36 (5.63%) QA
5 20 (3.13%) GDPR
6 12 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 8 (1.25%) NCSC
10 7 (1.09%) GRC
11 4 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.63%) SLA
12 3 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.47%) GxP
12 3 (0.47%) WCAG
13 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.31%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.31%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (3.28%) Docker
2 6 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.63%) Snort
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.91%) Terraform
3 19 (2.97%) Ansible
4 13 (2.03%) Puppet
5 10 (1.56%) Kibana
6 9 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.25%) Grafana
8 6 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (0.94%) logstash
8 6 (0.94%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.94%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.78%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.47%) Nessus
10 3 (0.47%) Packer
11 2 (0.31%) Argo
11 2 (0.31%) OPNET
12 1 (0.16%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.16%) SCCM
12 1 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 144 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.09%) Splunk
3 30 (4.69%) SAP
4 28 (4.38%) Google
5 19 (2.97%) CyberArk
6 18 (2.81%) Informatica
7 17 (2.66%) Oracle
8 15 (2.34%) Cisco
8 15 (2.34%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.72%) Centrify
9 11 (1.72%) Databricks
9 11 (1.72%) Okta
10 10 (1.56%) LogRhythm
11 8 (1.25%) Facebook
11 8 (1.25%) Instagram
11 8 (1.25%) OpenLink
12 7 (1.09%) Pega
13 6 (0.94%) Hyperion
14 5 (0.78%) Adobe
14 5 (0.78%) Genesys