Use Case Contracts in Berkshire

Use Cases
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Use Case skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Use Case over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 112 91
Rank change year-on-year +37 -21 -5
Contract jobs citing Use Case 18 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.53% 0.60% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 0.68% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 19
10th Percentile £302 £331 £378
25th Percentile £500 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £700 £500 £644
90th Percentile £825 £526 £688
South East median daily rate £593 £475 £470
% change year-on-year +24.74% +1.06% -10.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Use Case falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in Berkshire

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Use Case in Berkshire

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in Berkshire

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in Berkshire

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +33 9 £700 +43.59% 6
Wokingham -6 5 £500 -13.04%
Bracknell - 1 - - 1
Windsor - 1 - - 1
Use Case
South East

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.11%) Appian
3 1 (5.56%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) NGFW
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Legal
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
1 5 (27.78%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Product Owner
4 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.56%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) QA Leader
5 1 (5.56%) QA Manager
5 1 (5.56%) QA Test Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Test Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) PySpark
1 2 (11.11%) RFC 2544
1 2 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (5.56%) LDAP
2 1 (5.56%) NumPy
2 1 (5.56%) Pandas
2 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Cyberattack
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Agile
1 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (27.78%) Business Case
2 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 4 (22.22%) Scrum
3 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
3 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
4 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 3 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (16.67%) Service Management
4 3 (16.67%) User Stories
5 2 (11.11%) B2B
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Cisco
2 3 (16.67%) OpenAI
2 3 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 2 (11.11%) Blue Prism
3 2 (11.11%) Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Nokia
3 2 (11.11%) Rakuten
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Zscaler