Use Case Contracts in Scotland

Use Cases
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 101 104 123
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 +29
Contract jobs citing Use Case 15 25 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.92% 1.13% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.27% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 22
10th Percentile £403 £424 £383
25th Percentile £408 £474 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £515 £440
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +17.18% -26.75%
75th Percentile £435 £569 £474
90th Percentile £441 £663 £534
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.54 - -
Median hourly rate £19.37 - -
75th Percentile £20.19 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -29.37% -21.43% +23.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in Scotland

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Use Case in Scotland

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in Scotland

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh -2 13 £413 -21.43% 16
Glasgow +3 2 £430 -4.97% 9
Use Case
UK

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SAS
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Banking
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Analyst
2 7 (46.67%) Business Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Business Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Cloud Technical Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Security Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) CMDB
2 3 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) User Stories
2 5 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 5 (33.33%) Storyboarding
2 5 (33.33%) Wireframes
3 4 (26.67%) Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) Business Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) Data Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) ETL
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (26.67%) Story Mapping
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
4 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (20.00%) Data Science
4 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (20.00%) Validation
5 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) CEH
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) GCFA
2 1 (6.67%) GCIH
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (6.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (6.67%) Informatica
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Pega
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.67%) Teradata
2 1 (6.67%) VMware