Use Case Contracts in the UK excluding London

Use Cases
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Use Case skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Use Case over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 183 187
Rank change year-on-year +24 +4 +59
Contract jobs citing Use Case 266 314 424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.29% 1.31% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.47% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 196 251
10th Percentile £378 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £601 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £720
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 17
10th Percentile - £61.10 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £62.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +6.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £77.65 £71.65
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +23.89% +7.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Use Case is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Use Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the UK excluding London

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Use Case in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Use Case in the UK excluding London

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the UK excluding London

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Use Case in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in the UK excluding London

Use Case
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Use Case in the UK excluding London

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
South West +76 98 £550 +4.76% 21
North of England +12 77 £550 +3.29% 24
North West +20 41 £498 +2.37% 16
Midlands +35 39 £580 +3.57% 15
South East -26 35 £475 +1.06% 32
Yorkshire +7 32 £625 +13.64% 5
West Midlands +27 29 £538 -13.92% 11
Scotland +26 27 £513 +16.61% 7
East of England +8 15 £500 +11.11% 21
East Midlands +14 7 £613 +30.67% 4
North East +20 4 £443 - 3
Wales +4 1 £175 -64.19% 2
Use Case
UK

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (3.01%) Confluence
2 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (4.14%) MS Visio
2 10 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.75%) Sketch
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.13%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.77%) Azure
2 13 (4.89%) AWS
3 11 (4.14%) GCP
4 10 (3.76%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (3.01%) GitHub
6 6 (2.26%) Apigee
6 6 (2.26%) Kong
6 6 (2.26%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.88%) Google Analytics
7 5 (1.88%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.13%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.13%) Vertex AI
9 2 (0.75%) Figma
9 2 (0.75%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.75%) SaaS
10 1 (0.38%) IaaS
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.27%) Firewall
2 11 (4.14%) Network Security
3 10 (3.76%) Cisco ISE
4 8 (3.01%) VPN
5 7 (2.63%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.26%) DNS
6 6 (2.26%) HTTP
7 3 (1.13%) ADSL
7 3 (1.13%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.13%) LAN
7 3 (1.13%) VDSL
7 3 (1.13%) WAN
8 2 (0.75%) AMQP
8 2 (0.75%) DMZ
8 2 (0.75%) Modbus
8 2 (0.75%) MQTT
9 1 (0.38%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.38%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.38%) RTP
9 1 (0.38%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.38%) Power BI
2 6 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.88%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.88%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.50%) SAP HANA
4 4 (1.50%) Tableau
5 3 (1.13%) Bigtable
5 3 (1.13%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (0.75%) Metadata
6 2 (0.75%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.38%) Big Data
7 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.38%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.38%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 34 (12.78%) JIRA
2 8 (3.01%) Git
2 8 (3.01%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (2.26%) CircleCI
3 6 (2.26%) GitLab
3 6 (2.26%) Travis CI
4 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.75%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.38%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.38%) LSMW
5 1 (0.38%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 94 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.04%) Public Sector
3 32 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.53%) Manufacturing
5 20 (7.52%) Finance
6 13 (4.89%) Banking
7 12 (4.51%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (3.01%) Legal
10 6 (2.26%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.50%) Automotive
12 3 (1.13%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.75%) Marketing
13 2 (0.75%) Publishing
13 2 (0.75%) Retail
13 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (42.48%) Analyst
2 41 (15.41%) Business Analyst
3 29 (10.90%) SOC Analyst
4 27 (10.15%) Architect
5 26 (9.77%) Lead
6 20 (7.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 18 (6.77%) Senior
8 17 (6.39%) Consultant
9 14 (5.26%) Data Architect
10 13 (4.89%) Cyber Defence Analyst
10 13 (4.89%) Developer
10 13 (4.89%) Security Analyst
10 13 (4.89%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (4.14%) Data Analyst
12 8 (3.01%) Azure Developer
12 8 (3.01%) Senior Business Analyst
12 8 (3.01%) SOC Engineer
12 8 (3.01%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (3.01%) Technical Business Analyst
12 8 (3.01%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.38%) JSON
1 9 (3.38%) XML
2 6 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (2.26%) YAML
3 3 (1.13%) CSS
3 3 (1.13%) HTML
3 3 (1.13%) OAuth
3 3 (1.13%) OpenID
3 3 (1.13%) PySpark
3 3 (1.13%) Web Services
4 2 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.75%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.75%) React
4 2 (0.75%) SAML
4 2 (0.75%) XSLT
5 1 (0.38%) .NET
5 1 (0.38%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.38%) Node.js
5 1 (0.38%) OLE
5 1 (0.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (19.55%) Management Information System
2 41 (15.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 39 (14.66%) Cyber Threat
4 38 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
4 38 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
5 32 (12.03%) CSOC
6 14 (5.26%) Product Ownership
7 13 (4.89%) Data Structures
8 9 (3.38%) Industry 4.0
8 9 (3.38%) IoT
9 6 (2.26%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.88%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.88%) Robotics
11 4 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.50%) Infotainment
11 4 (1.50%) Life Science
11 4 (1.50%) Taxonomies
12 3 (1.13%) Biopharmaceutical
12 3 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.88%) Linux
1 5 (1.88%) Windows
2 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (36.47%) SIEM
2 95 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
3 84 (31.58%) Incident Response
4 56 (21.05%) Agile
4 56 (21.05%) Incident Management
4 56 (21.05%) Information Security
5 51 (19.17%) Analytics
6 49 (18.42%) Threat Intelligence
7 46 (17.29%) SOAR
8 43 (16.17%) Security Operations
9 42 (15.79%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 41 (15.41%) CRM
11 40 (15.04%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 39 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 36 (13.53%) Case Management
13 36 (13.53%) Protective Monitoring
13 36 (13.53%) Root Cause Analysis
14 31 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (11.28%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.39%) Python
2 14 (5.26%) SQL
3 13 (4.89%) Java
3 13 (4.89%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.26%) Bash
5 6 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.50%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 92 (34.59%) Security Cleared
2 73 (27.44%) DV Cleared
3 30 (11.28%) Degree
4 26 (9.77%) SANS
5 14 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.38%) CBAP
7 1 (0.38%) IIBA
7 1 (0.38%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (18.42%) NIST
2 38 (14.29%) NIST 800
3 16 (6.02%) Data Quality
3 16 (6.02%) QA
4 11 (4.14%) GDPR
5 9 (3.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 9 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.01%) NCSC
7 3 (1.13%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.75%) GxP
8 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.75%) SLA
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.38%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (3.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.75%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.38%) Snort
Systems Management
1 8 (3.01%) Ansible
1 8 (3.01%) Grafana
1 8 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.63%) Kibana
3 6 (2.26%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (2.26%) logstash
3 6 (2.26%) Progress Chef
3 6 (2.26%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.26%) Puppet
3 6 (2.26%) Terraform
4 2 (0.75%) OPNET
5 1 (0.38%) CASB
Vendors
1 66 (24.81%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.52%) Splunk
3 13 (4.89%) Cisco
4 12 (4.51%) Informatica
5 11 (4.14%) Google
6 8 (3.01%) SAP
7 7 (2.63%) Facebook
7 7 (2.63%) Instagram
8 5 (1.88%) Pega
9 4 (1.50%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.13%) Hyperion
10 3 (1.13%) VMware
11 2 (0.75%) Cognizant
11 2 (0.75%) Databricks
11 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.75%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.38%) Ariba
12 1 (0.38%) Blue Prism
12 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.38%) UiPath