Use Case Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Use Cases
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Use Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 54 73
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 +5
Contract jobs citing Use Case 6 15 7
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.03% 2.41% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 2.62% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile £412 £381 £443
25th Percentile £420 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £524 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% +2.65% +7.37%
75th Percentile £578 £595 £523
90th Percentile £636 £619 £607
Scotland median daily rate £454 £463 £480
% change year-on-year -1.84% -3.65% +5.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 535 572 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.45% 91.96% 91.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 307 501
10th Percentile £231 £229 £200
25th Percentile £406 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £552 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £626
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 10
10th Percentile £17.04 £20.30 £13.12
25th Percentile - £22.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +33.96% -17.17%
75th Percentile £33.63 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £62.63 £26.70 £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year -15.22% +22.99% +2.98%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Use Case relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Use Case job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Use Case.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Use Case

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in Edinburgh

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Development Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (16.67%) Flask
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) LangChain
1 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) LLM
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Data Extraction
3 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (33.33%) OCR
3 2 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (33.33%) UML
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Kustomize
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Thales