Use Case Contracts with Work from Home Options

Use Cases
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 196 190
Rank change year-on-year +60 -6 -10
Contract jobs citing Use Case 234 313 638
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.55% 1.25% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.39% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 216 416
10th Percentile £425 £406 £400
25th Percentile £488 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £660
90th Percentile £750 £813 £753
UK median daily rate £560 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile £44.00 £53.00 £46.20
25th Percentile £50.00 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +108.61%
75th Percentile £71.50 - £68.75
90th Percentile £78.40 £80.00 £70.20
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -17.86% +23.89% +7.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Use Case
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Use Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Use Case trend for jobs with a WFH option

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Use Case.

Use Case daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Use Case over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Use Case daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Use Case.

Use Case hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Use Case
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Use Case over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Use Case hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (5.13%) Confluence
2 4 (1.71%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 3 (1.28%) Apache
3 3 (1.28%) CMS
3 3 (1.28%) IIS
3 3 (1.28%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.28%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (5.98%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (3.85%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (2.56%) Endur
4 2 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.85%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (20.09%) Azure
2 36 (15.38%) AWS
3 15 (6.41%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.98%) GCP
5 10 (4.27%) SaaS
6 8 (3.42%) Serverless
7 7 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.99%) dbt
7 7 (2.99%) PowerApps
8 6 (2.56%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.14%) Amazon EventBridge
9 5 (2.14%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.14%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.56%) Firewall
2 6 (2.56%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.14%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (2.14%) HTTP
3 5 (2.14%) Network Security
4 4 (1.71%) CTI
4 4 (1.71%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.71%) SSH
4 4 (1.71%) tcpdump
4 4 (1.71%) VoIP
4 4 (1.71%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.85%) DNS
5 2 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.85%) VPN
6 1 (0.43%) 4G
6 1 (0.43%) 5G
6 1 (0.43%) DMZ
6 1 (0.43%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.13%) Power BI
2 10 (4.27%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.71%) Apache Hive
5 4 (1.71%) Hadoop
5 4 (1.71%) MySQL
5 4 (1.71%) Tableau
6 3 (1.28%) Big Data
6 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.28%) DB2
6 3 (1.28%) Metadata
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.43%) OLTP
8 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.43%) Redis
8 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 29 (12.39%) JIRA
2 14 (5.98%) Git
3 10 (4.27%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (2.99%) GitLab
5 4 (1.71%) IDA Disassembler
6 2 (0.85%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.85%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.43%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.43%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 62 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 58 (24.79%) Finance
3 43 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (14.10%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.41%) Manufacturing
6 14 (5.98%) Banking
7 12 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.42%) Marketing
9 6 (2.56%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.14%) Back Office
10 5 (2.14%) Legal
11 4 (1.71%) Automotive
11 4 (1.71%) Front Office
12 3 (1.28%) German Language
12 3 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.85%) Law
13 2 (0.85%) Local Government
13 2 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (27.35%) Analyst
2 44 (18.80%) Architect
2 44 (18.80%) Business Analyst
3 41 (17.52%) Consultant
4 29 (12.39%) Senior
5 21 (8.97%) Senior Analyst
6 15 (6.41%) Lead
6 15 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (5.98%) Senior Business Analyst
8 11 (4.70%) Developer
8 11 (4.70%) Technical Analyst
9 9 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.85%) Great Plains Consultant
9 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Consultant
9 9 (3.85%) Technical Architect
10 7 (2.99%) Data Consultant
10 7 (2.99%) Security Architect
11 6 (2.56%) Data Engineer
11 6 (2.56%) SIEM Architect
12 5 (2.14%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.27%) OpenID
2 8 (3.42%) CSS
2 8 (3.42%) HTML
2 8 (3.42%) PySpark
2 8 (3.42%) SAML
3 7 (2.99%) Web Services
3 7 (2.99%) XML
4 6 (2.56%) .NET
4 6 (2.56%) LDAP
4 6 (2.56%) Node.js
5 5 (2.14%) OAuth
5 5 (2.14%) React
6 4 (1.71%) JSON
6 4 (1.71%) OLE
6 4 (1.71%) SailPoint
7 3 (1.28%) EJB
7 3 (1.28%) J2EE
7 3 (1.28%) JSP
7 3 (1.28%) Middleware
7 3 (1.28%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.98%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 8 (3.42%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.56%) CMDB
5 6 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.14%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.71%) Infotainment
7 4 (1.71%) IVR
7 4 (1.71%) YARA
8 3 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.28%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.28%) NHS
8 3 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.27%) Windows
2 9 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (29.49%) Agile
2 38 (16.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (15.81%) SIEM
4 36 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 33 (14.10%) Analytics
6 28 (11.97%) DevOps
6 28 (11.97%) User Stories
7 27 (11.54%) Business Analysis
8 26 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (9.83%) User Acceptance Testing
10 22 (9.40%) Change Management
10 22 (9.40%) Migration
11 21 (8.97%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (8.55%) Data Modelling
13 18 (7.69%) Computer Science
13 18 (7.69%) Decision-Making
14 17 (7.26%) CI/CD
14 17 (7.26%) Data Governance
15 16 (6.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (11.54%) Python
2 22 (9.40%) SQL
3 13 (5.56%) Java
4 12 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.42%) Bash
6 7 (2.99%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.14%) Go
7 5 (2.14%) Perl
8 4 (1.71%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (1.28%) C#
10 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.43%) Clojure
11 1 (0.43%) Haskell
11 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) R
11 1 (0.43%) Rust
11 1 (0.43%) Scala
11 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (17.09%) Degree
2 30 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.98%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.27%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.71%) MBA
7 4 (1.71%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (1.71%) SANS
8 3 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.28%) CISSP
8 3 (1.28%) PhD
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.43%) CBAP
10 1 (0.43%) IIBA
10 1 (0.43%) ISEB
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.55%) NIST
2 17 (7.26%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.70%) QA
4 9 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (2.56%) GDPR
6 5 (2.14%) GRC
6 5 (2.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 5 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.28%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.85%) PSD2
9 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (1.71%) Docker
1 4 (1.71%) Snort
2 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.85%) Terraform
3 6 (2.56%) Kibana
3 6 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.28%) Ansible
4 3 (1.28%) Puppet
5 2 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.85%) Grafana
5 2 (0.85%) logstash
5 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.43%) Argo
6 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.43%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.43%) SCOM
Vendors
1 43 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.55%) Splunk
3 14 (5.98%) Google
3 14 (5.98%) Oracle
4 11 (4.70%) CyberArk
4 11 (4.70%) SAP
5 10 (4.27%) LogRhythm
5 10 (4.27%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.85%) Informatica
7 6 (2.56%) Cisco
7 6 (2.56%) Databricks
7 6 (2.56%) Facebook
7 6 (2.56%) Instagram
8 4 (1.71%) Genesys
9 3 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (1.28%) Centrify
9 3 (1.28%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.28%) Okta
9 3 (1.28%) OpenLink
10 2 (0.85%) UiPath