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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 152 133
Rank change year-on-year +25 -19 +2
Contract jobs citing Use Case 38 39 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.07% 0.80% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.96% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 60
10th Percentile £410 £356 £406
25th Percentile £469 £369 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £622 £624
90th Percentile £759 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.83% -14.29% +16.67%

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 3,189 4,059 4,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.93% 82.75% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,990 2,483 3,350
10th Percentile £250 £255 £253
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% -0.09% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £670 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 323 233
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.50 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.51% +14.70% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.09 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.71 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +21 26 £506 +6.58% 41
Berkshire +20 19 £569 +22.97% 20
Buckinghamshire +8 6 £425 -17.07% 6
Hampshire -1 4 £538 -10.42% 13
West Sussex - 3 £470 -
Surrey +13 2 £500 +65.98% 8
Oxfordshire -9 1 - - 16
Kent - 1 £525 - 2
East Sussex - 1 £750 - 1
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 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.26%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) Appian
3 1 (2.63%) Confluence
3 1 (2.63%) Hyperledger
3 1 (2.63%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Maximo
1 1 (2.63%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) AWS
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon Bedrock
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon S3
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.53%) ChatGPT
3 4 (10.53%) GCP
3 4 (10.53%) Serverless
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.63%) Textract
5 1 (2.63%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
1 1 (2.63%) Network Security
1 1 (2.63%) NGFW
1 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) Big Data
2 4 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (7.89%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.26%) Metadata
4 2 (5.26%) NewSQL
4 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.63%) GIS
5 1 (2.63%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.63%) Pinecone
5 1 (2.63%) Power BI
5 1 (2.63%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) Selenium
3 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.63%) GitLab
3 1 (2.63%) Robot Framework
3 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Legal
3 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.26%) Billing
4 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Data Scientist
2 9 (23.68%) Architect
3 8 (21.05%) Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) Business Analyst
4 7 (18.42%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Platform Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Business Solution Architect
7 1 (2.63%) GIS Business Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Monitoring Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Operations Business Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) QA Leader
7 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) NumPy
1 8 (21.05%) Pandas
1 8 (21.05%) scikit-learn
2 4 (10.53%) Hugging Face
2 4 (10.53%) PyTorch
3 3 (7.89%) Prophet
4 2 (5.26%) Web Services
5 1 (2.63%) Faiss
5 1 (2.63%) Jinja
5 1 (2.63%) JSON
5 1 (2.63%) Kafka
5 1 (2.63%) LDAP
5 1 (2.63%) NETCONF
5 1 (2.63%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (2.63%) XML
5 1 (2.63%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.89%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (5.26%) Replication
4 1 (2.63%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.63%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Agile
2 11 (28.95%) Data Engineering
2 11 (28.95%) Machine Learning
3 10 (26.32%) Data Science
4 9 (23.68%) LLM
4 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (21.05%) Scrum
6 7 (18.42%) Decision-Making
6 7 (18.42%) Visualisation
7 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (13.16%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (13.16%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (13.16%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (13.16%) Data Visualisation
8 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (13.16%) Statistical Modelling
8 5 (13.16%) Time Series Analysis
8 5 (13.16%) Validation
9 4 (10.53%) SIEM
9 4 (10.53%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) SQL
3 3 (7.89%) Java
4 2 (5.26%) Scala
5 1 (2.63%) COBOL
5 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) CISM
4 1 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.63%) GCED
4 1 (2.63%) GCIA
4 1 (2.63%) ISEB
4 1 (2.63%) PhD
4 1 (2.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) GDPR
2 3 (7.89%) QA
3 2 (5.26%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.63%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
1 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Ansible
1 1 (2.63%) QRadar
1 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Salesforce
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) OpenAI
3 3 (7.89%) Sage
4 2 (5.26%) Google
4 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.26%) Splunk
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco
5 1 (2.63%) Conga
5 1 (2.63%) ESRI
5 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.63%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) Veracode
5 1 (2.63%) VMware
5 1 (2.63%) Zscaler