Use Case Contracts in the South East

Use Cases
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 118 170 141
Rank change year-on-year +52 -29 -28
Contract jobs citing Use Case 41 35 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.36% 0.63% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.74% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 60
10th Percentile £368 £341 £263
25th Percentile £500 £419 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year +24.74% +1.06% -10.48%
75th Percentile £632 £579 £613
90th Percentile £700 £599 £676
England median daily rate £575 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £36.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% -21.43% +20.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Use Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the South East

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Use Case in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Use Case in the South East

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the South East

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Use Case in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in the South East

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +58 31 £625 +38.89% 47
Berkshire +37 18 £625 +38.89% 16
Buckinghamshire - 12 £627 - 19
Hampshire +13 5 £575 -1.29% 28
Surrey +18 2 £350 +268.42% 15
West Sussex - 2 £469 - 9
Oxfordshire +2 1 - - 13
Use Case
England

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.88%) Appian
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Maximo
1 1 (2.44%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) Azure
2 9 (21.95%) IaaS
2 9 (21.95%) PaaS
2 9 (21.95%) SaaS
3 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.44%) AWS
5 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.51%) VSAN
2 3 (7.32%) Firewall
3 1 (2.44%) Network Security
3 1 (2.44%) NGFW
3 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Big Data
2 2 (4.88%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.88%) Metadata
2 2 (4.88%) NewSQL
2 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.88%) Power BI
2 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (2.44%) Selenium
General
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Finance
3 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.32%) Legal
5 3 (7.32%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.88%) Billing
6 2 (4.88%) Retail
7 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Architect
2 8 (19.51%) Senior
2 8 (19.51%) Senior Architect
2 8 (19.51%) Senior Technical Architect
2 8 (19.51%) Technical Architect
3 6 (14.63%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Business Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Consultant
6 3 (7.32%) Lead
7 2 (4.88%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Data Scientist
7 2 (4.88%) Platform Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.88%) Senior VMware Architect
7 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Splunk Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) PySpark
1 2 (4.88%) RFC 2544
1 2 (4.88%) Web Services
2 1 (2.44%) LDAP
2 1 (2.44%) NumPy
2 1 (2.44%) Pandas
2 1 (2.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (19.51%) PKI
2 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.32%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) Cyberattack
4 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.88%) Replication
4 2 (4.88%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.44%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) CI/CD
2 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (24.39%) ITIL
4 8 (19.51%) Agile
4 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
4 8 (19.51%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (19.51%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (19.51%) DevSecOps
4 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (19.51%) Microservices
4 8 (19.51%) TOGAF
4 8 (19.51%) Zachman Framework
5 6 (14.63%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (14.63%) Decision-Making
6 5 (12.20%) Business Case
6 5 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (12.20%) Migration
6 5 (12.20%) Requirements Management
6 5 (12.20%) Scrum
6 5 (12.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.63%) Python
2 4 (9.76%) SQL
3 3 (7.32%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) Scala
4 2 (4.88%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.44%) COBOL
5 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 8 (19.51%) MCSE
3 8 (19.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (19.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (12.20%) DV Cleared
5 3 (7.32%) Degree
6 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.44%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (19.51%) NCSC
1 8 (19.51%) NIST
2 4 (9.76%) QA
3 2 (4.88%) GDPR
3 2 (4.88%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) VMware NSX
2 8 (19.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) Cisco
2 10 (24.39%) VMware
3 9 (21.95%) Palo Alto
4 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
5 5 (12.20%) Salesforce
6 3 (7.32%) OpenAI
6 3 (7.32%) Splunk
7 2 (4.88%) Blue Prism
7 2 (4.88%) Databricks
7 2 (4.88%) Google
7 2 (4.88%) Nokia
7 2 (4.88%) Rakuten
7 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.44%) AlienVault
8 1 (2.44%) Oracle
8 1 (2.44%) SAP
8 1 (2.44%) Zscaler