Use Case Contract Job Trends in the South West

Use Cases
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Use Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 112 117
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +27
Contract jobs citing Use Case 15 29 35
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.76% 1.14% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.36% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 20
10th Percentile £325 £488 £560
25th Percentile £348 £550 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £651
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -0.19% +33.59%
75th Percentile £541 £690 £700
90th Percentile £573 £699 £739
England median daily rate £525 £566 £550
% change year-on-year -7.28% +2.95% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.67
25th Percentile - - £74.17
Median hourly rate - - £78.33
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - £84.99
England median hourly rate £41.94 £60.00 £67.56
% change year-on-year -30.10% -11.19% +22.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,788 2,125 2,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.76% 83.83% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,229 1,930
10th Percentile £213 £300 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £715 £724 £725
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 204 258
10th Percentile £15.10 £22.50 £21.90
25th Percentile £18.87 £48.00 £47.56
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the South West

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Use Case.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Use Case

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the South West

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Use Case.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Use Case

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Gloucestershire - 5 £550 - 4
Wiltshire -15 3 £356 -46.02% 1
Bristol +8 2 £323 -33.23% 8
Somerset - 2 £481 - 3
Devon - 1 £508 -
Dorset - 1 - -
Use Case
England

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (13.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Maximo
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) LAN
1 2 (13.33%) VoIP
1 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
1 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.67%) Local Government
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Military
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Test Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Test Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Manual Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Operations Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Taxonomies
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (6.67%) FMCG
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Android
1 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
1 2 (13.33%) Mac OS
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Data Analysis
3 3 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (20.00%) SIEM
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
4 2 (13.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (13.33%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
4 2 (13.33%) Smoke Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) ISTQB
3 4 (26.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (6.67%) GRC
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) JSP 440
2 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Graphite
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) IBM
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft