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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 96 129
Rank change year-on-year 0 +33 +27
Contract jobs citing Use Case 20 28 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.22% 1.33% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.51% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 22
10th Percentile £409 £355 £400
25th Percentile £420 £456 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £445
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +15.80% -25.88%
75th Percentile £505 £600 £485
90th Percentile £530 £663 £534
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -
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 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -35.26% -14.29% +57.30%

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 1,532 1,849 2,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.76% 87.96% 92.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 1,142 1,741
10th Percentile £263 £219 £260
25th Percentile £375 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +0.95%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 92 55
10th Percentile £15.95 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.18 £15.92 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +21.95% -57.28%
75th Percentile £24.78 £42.71 £50.74
90th Percentile £50.06 £60.75 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 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 +6 15 £425 -19.05% 37
Glasgow -5 4 £485 +26.63% 38
Renfrewshire - 1 £525 - 14
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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) SAS
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) SMS
2 1 (5.00%) DHCP
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (15.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (45.00%) Banking
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (30.00%) Finance
5 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Technical Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Designer
6 1 (5.00%) Release Train Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Security Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) CMDB
2 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) User Stories
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 5 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 5 (25.00%) Storyboarding
3 5 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 4 (20.00%) Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) Business Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) Change Management
4 4 (20.00%) ETL
4 4 (20.00%) Story Mapping
5 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.00%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.00%) SIEM
5 3 (15.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) CISSP
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) GCIH
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CASP
3 1 (5.00%) CEH
3 1 (5.00%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) GCFA
3 1 (5.00%) GCIA
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.00%) OSCP
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) ArcSight
2 2 (10.00%) IBM
2 2 (10.00%) StreamSets
3 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Pega
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) Teradata
3 1 (5.00%) VMware