Use Case Contracts in the UK excluding London

Use Cases
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 157 180
Rank change year-on-year -33 +23 +5
Contract jobs citing Use Case 159 276 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.22% 1.33% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.60% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 189 202
10th Percentile £321 £396 £363
25th Percentile £410 £463 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £596 £650 £604
90th Percentile £717 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 10
10th Percentile £19.61 £40.00 £62.48
25th Percentile £21.20 £49.38 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £77.53
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,812 17,287 20,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.62% 83.43% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,347 10,277 13,944
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 2,126 1,244
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.41 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.43
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
North of England +5 57 £525 -7.89% 71
North West +15 38 £550 - 50
South East +37 33 £513 +2.50% 79
Scotland 0 22 £484 -6.02% 47
Yorkshire -3 18 £463 -25.82% 15
Midlands -7 17 £400 -31.03% 31
South West -35 17 £575 +1.59% 27
East of England +20 14 £375 -11.76% 46
West Midlands -3 11 £400 -29.20% 27
East Midlands +8 6 £393 -35.92% 4
Northern Ireland -11 2 £410 - 12
Wales +3 1 £550 +214.29% 9
North East 0 1 - - 6
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 9 (5.66%) Confluence
2 6 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.52%) Apache
3 4 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.26%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.63%) CMS
5 1 (0.63%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.63%) SAS
5 1 (0.63%) Smallworld
Applications
1 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.40%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.26%) Simulink
5 1 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.63%) InDesign
5 1 (0.63%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (5.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.14%) SAP LE
3 4 (2.52%) SAP PP
3 4 (2.52%) SAP SD
4 3 (1.89%) Maximo
5 2 (1.26%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.63%) Primavera
6 1 (0.63%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.63%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 39 (24.53%) Azure
2 20 (12.58%) Power Platform
3 19 (11.95%) AWS
4 13 (8.18%) GCP
5 9 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (5.03%) SaaS
7 6 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.52%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.52%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.89%) Collibra
11 2 (1.26%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.26%) GitHub
11 2 (1.26%) IaaS
11 2 (1.26%) Lucidchart
11 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.81%) Firewall
2 7 (4.40%) Network Security
3 6 (3.77%) VPN
4 5 (3.14%) OSPF
4 5 (3.14%) VLAN
5 4 (2.52%) BGP
5 4 (2.52%) DNS
5 4 (2.52%) MPLS
6 3 (1.89%) NAS
7 2 (1.26%) SMS
8 1 (0.63%) DHCP
8 1 (0.63%) DSL
8 1 (0.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.63%) HSRP
8 1 (0.63%) IPsec
8 1 (0.63%) NGFW
8 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.81%) Power BI
2 11 (6.92%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (6.29%) Metadata
4 7 (4.40%) Big Data
4 7 (4.40%) Tableau
5 5 (3.14%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.52%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.89%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.89%) GIS
7 3 (1.89%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.26%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.26%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.26%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.26%) Impala
8 2 (1.26%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.26%) NewSQL
8 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (10.69%) JIRA
2 4 (2.52%) Git
3 3 (1.89%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.89%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.26%) JUnit
4 2 (1.26%) Mockito
4 2 (1.26%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.26%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.63%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (0.63%) GitLab
5 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.63%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.63%) Selenium
General
1 48 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (18.24%) Finance
3 13 (8.18%) Banking
4 11 (6.92%) Manufacturing
5 9 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.03%) French Language
7 7 (4.40%) Legal
8 5 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.14%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (3.14%) Retail
9 4 (2.52%) Automotive
9 4 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.52%) Law
9 4 (2.52%) Marketing
9 4 (2.52%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.89%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.89%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (27.67%) Analyst
2 33 (20.75%) Architect
3 28 (17.61%) Business Analyst
4 17 (10.69%) Consultant
5 14 (8.81%) Senior
6 13 (8.18%) SAP Consultant
7 12 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (6.29%) Developer
9 8 (5.03%) Technical Analyst
9 8 (5.03%) Technical Business Analyst
10 7 (4.40%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.40%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.40%) Lead
11 5 (3.14%) Business Solution Architect
11 5 (3.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 5 (3.14%) Designer
11 5 (3.14%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 5 (3.14%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
11 5 (3.14%) Security Analyst
12 4 (2.52%) Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.66%) Kafka
2 4 (2.52%) CSS
2 4 (2.52%) HTML
2 4 (2.52%) LDAP
2 4 (2.52%) Node.js
3 3 (1.89%) HTML5
3 3 (1.89%) PySpark
3 3 (1.89%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.89%) SAPUI5
3 3 (1.89%) XML
4 2 (1.26%) Apache Avro
4 2 (1.26%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.26%) JMS
4 2 (1.26%) NumPy
4 2 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.26%) Pandas
4 2 (1.26%) React
4 2 (1.26%) RFC 2544
4 2 (1.26%) Spring
4 2 (1.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.06%) Management Information System
2 10 (6.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.03%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.14%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.14%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.14%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.14%) Driving Licence
6 5 (3.14%) Life Science
6 5 (3.14%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.52%) CMDB
7 4 (2.52%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.89%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.26%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.06%) Windows
2 14 (8.81%) Linux
3 5 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.52%) Unix
4 4 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.89%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.26%) Android
6 2 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.26%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.67%) Agile
2 28 (17.61%) Migration
2 28 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (16.35%) User Stories
4 21 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (12.58%) Business Analysis
6 19 (11.95%) Data Migration
7 18 (11.32%) Analytics
7 18 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (10.69%) Artificial Intelligence
9 16 (10.06%) Validation
10 15 (9.43%) Change Management
10 15 (9.43%) Computer Science
10 15 (9.43%) Decision-Making
10 15 (9.43%) Process Improvement
10 15 (9.43%) SIEM
11 14 (8.81%) Data Analysis
11 14 (8.81%) Roadmaps
11 14 (8.81%) Scrum
12 13 (8.18%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (11.95%) SQL
2 18 (11.32%) Python
3 9 (5.66%) Java
4 6 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (3.14%) Bash
6 4 (2.52%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.52%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.89%) C++
8 2 (1.26%) Scala
8 2 (1.26%) VB
8 2 (1.26%) VBScript
9 1 (0.63%) Bicep
9 1 (0.63%) COBOL
9 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 30 (18.87%) Degree
3 26 (16.35%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.55%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.77%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.52%) CCIE
7 4 (2.52%) CCNP
7 4 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.52%) CISSP
7 4 (2.52%) GCIH
7 4 (2.52%) JNCIE
7 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.89%) CASP
8 3 (1.89%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (1.89%) GCIA
8 3 (1.89%) MCP
8 3 (1.89%) MCSA
8 3 (1.89%) MCSE
9 2 (1.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.18%) QA
2 11 (6.92%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.14%) GDPR
4 3 (1.89%) NCSC
4 3 (1.89%) NIST
5 2 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.26%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.26%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.63%) GMP
6 1 (0.63%) GxP
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.63%) PSD2
System Software
1 8 (5.03%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.14%) Docker
4 3 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.26%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.26%) HDFS
5 2 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.77%) Ansible
1 6 (3.77%) Terraform
2 5 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.89%) SELinux
4 2 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.26%) Grafana
4 2 (1.26%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (1.26%) NetBackup
4 2 (1.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.26%) SCCM
5 1 (0.63%) Graphite
5 1 (0.63%) Kibana
5 1 (0.63%) logstash
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.63%) QRadar
5 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.47%) SAP
3 10 (6.29%) Oracle
4 9 (5.66%) IBM
4 9 (5.66%) Splunk
5 8 (5.03%) Cisco
5 8 (5.03%) VMware
6 7 (4.40%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.77%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.77%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.14%) ArcSight
8 5 (3.14%) F5
8 5 (3.14%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.52%) Google
9 4 (2.52%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.89%) Facebook
10 3 (1.89%) Infoblox
11 2 (1.26%) Informatica
11 2 (1.26%) Teradata
11 2 (1.26%) Veritas