Use Case Contracts

Use Cases
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 158 184
Rank change year-on-year -24 +26 +19
Contract jobs citing Use Case 426 633 802
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.46% 1.49% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.73% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 420 523
10th Percentile £360 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £700 £650 £675
90th Percentile £856 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.05% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 13
10th Percentile £20.67 £40.00 £60.55
25th Percentile £36.69 £46.25 £62.75
Median hourly rate £38.85 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% -14.29% +29.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £77.50
90th Percentile £60.00 - £77.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,620 36,673 51,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.13% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,067 23,631 35,432
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 2,440 1,683
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £16.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Use Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Use Case in the UK

Use Case
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
England -33 345 £575 +0.88% 1,247
London -17 195 £650 +8.33% 791
UK excluding London -28 154 £500 -9.05% 640
Work from Home -37 125 £594 +5.60% 731
North of England -4 53 £525 -7.89% 129
South East +40 35 £525 +7.69% 225
North West +12 34 £550 - 75
Scotland -2 20 £475 -7.77% 56
Yorkshire -5 18 £463 -25.82% 44
Midlands -1 17 £388 -33.19% 85
South West -37 16 £575 +4.55% 53
East of England +19 14 £454 -10.10% 90
West Midlands -11 10 £400 -27.27% 56
East Midlands +12 7 £375 -38.78% 26
Northern Ireland - 2 £410 - 15
Wales +2 1 £550 +214.29% 12
North East -6 1 - - 11

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 26 (6.10%) Confluence
2 10 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.17%) Apache
5 4 (0.94%) CMS
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.23%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) Smallworld
Applications
1 26 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.46%) MS Visio
3 18 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.23%) Simulink
7 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (4.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.82%) Endur
3 9 (2.11%) SAP PP
4 7 (1.64%) SAP LE
4 7 (1.64%) SAP PS
5 4 (0.94%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.47%) Kondor
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.47%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.23%) Aligne
7 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.23%) Maximo
7 1 (0.23%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.23%) Primavera
7 1 (0.23%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 72 (16.90%) Azure
2 69 (16.20%) AWS
3 37 (8.69%) Power Platform
4 29 (6.81%) GCP
5 22 (5.16%) SaaS
6 17 (3.99%) Amazon S3
7 15 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (3.29%) Amazon ELB
9 9 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.88%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.41%) GitHub
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (1.17%) Collibra
13 5 (1.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.81%) Firewall
2 14 (3.29%) Network Security
3 6 (1.41%) DNS
4 4 (0.94%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (0.94%) VPN
4 4 (0.94%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.70%) HTTP
5 3 (0.70%) NAS
5 3 (0.70%) OSPF
5 3 (0.70%) VLAN
6 2 (0.47%) BGP
6 2 (0.47%) DHCP
6 2 (0.47%) MPLS
6 2 (0.47%) SMS
6 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.47%) VSAN
7 1 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
1 31 (7.28%) Power BI
2 22 (5.16%) Tableau
3 20 (4.69%) Big Data
4 13 (3.05%) Metadata
5 11 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (2.11%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.88%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.41%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.41%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.17%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.17%) Data Mart
9 5 (1.17%) Data Vault
9 5 (1.17%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.70%) GIS
10 3 (0.70%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.70%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 37 (8.69%) JIRA
2 25 (5.87%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.64%) Git
4 4 (0.94%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.47%) GitLab
6 2 (0.47%) JUnit
6 2 (0.47%) Mockito
6 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.23%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.23%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.23%) Postman
7 1 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.23%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.23%) Selenium
7 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 119 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 100 (23.47%) Analytical Skills
3 99 (23.24%) Finance
4 49 (11.50%) Banking
5 24 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
6 21 (4.93%) Investment Banking
7 19 (4.46%) Manufacturing
7 19 (4.46%) Public Sector
8 18 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (4.23%) Marketing
9 17 (3.99%) Legal
9 17 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.58%) Front Office
11 10 (2.35%) Aerospace
12 9 (2.11%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.11%) French Language
12 9 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.88%) Back Office
13 8 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 97 (22.77%) Analyst
2 83 (19.48%) Architect
3 67 (15.73%) Business Analyst
4 61 (14.32%) Consultant
5 50 (11.74%) Developer
6 25 (5.87%) Senior
7 24 (5.63%) Python Developer
8 22 (5.16%) Gen AI Developer
9 21 (4.93%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 21 (4.93%) Lead
10 19 (4.46%) SAP Consultant
11 17 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.76%) AWS Architect
12 16 (3.76%) Data Architect
13 15 (3.52%) Security Architect
14 14 (3.29%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.82%) Splunk Consultant
16 11 (2.58%) Data Engineer
16 11 (2.58%) Technical Analyst
16 11 (2.58%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.51%) React
2 26 (6.10%) .NET
2 26 (6.10%) FastAPI
3 23 (5.40%) Django
4 10 (2.35%) Node.js
5 9 (2.11%) Kafka
6 8 (1.88%) HTML
7 7 (1.64%) CSS
7 7 (1.64%) LangChain
7 7 (1.64%) LDAP
7 7 (1.64%) NumPy
7 7 (1.64%) Pandas
8 6 (1.41%) PySpark
9 5 (1.17%) Dask
10 4 (0.94%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.94%) Bootstrap
10 4 (0.94%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.94%) RFC 2544
10 4 (0.94%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.15%) Onboarding
2 22 (5.16%) Product Ownership
3 21 (4.93%) Management Information System
3 21 (4.93%) Security Operations Centre
4 17 (3.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.35%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.35%) Life Science
7 9 (2.11%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.11%) CSOC
8 8 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.88%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.64%) CMDB
10 6 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.41%) Data Fabric
10 6 (1.41%) PMI
10 6 (1.41%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.17%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.16%) Windows
2 20 (4.69%) Linux
3 7 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.41%) Mac OS
4 6 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.17%) Unix
6 4 (0.94%) Android
7 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.70%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.23%) AIX
9 1 (0.23%) Solaris
9 1 (0.23%) SUSE
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (28.64%) Agile
2 73 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
3 71 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (15.26%) Migration
5 56 (13.15%) User Stories
6 54 (12.68%) DevOps
6 54 (12.68%) Machine Learning
7 51 (11.97%) Analytics
8 49 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 46 (10.80%) Business Analysis
9 46 (10.80%) CI/CD
10 44 (10.33%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (10.09%) Generative AI
12 38 (8.92%) Decision-Making
13 37 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (8.69%) SIEM
14 35 (8.22%) Data Migration
14 35 (8.22%) Data Modelling
15 34 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
15 34 (7.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 82 (19.25%) Python
2 81 (19.01%) SQL
3 33 (7.75%) Java
4 26 (6.10%) TypeScript
5 21 (4.93%) C#
6 10 (2.35%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.35%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.88%) Bash
8 7 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.17%) R
9 5 (1.17%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.70%) C++
10 3 (0.70%) VB
10 3 (0.70%) VBA
10 3 (0.70%) VBScript
11 2 (0.47%) Bicep
11 2 (0.47%) PHP
11 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.47%) Scala
11 2 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 99 (23.24%) Security Cleared
2 85 (19.95%) SC Cleared
3 59 (13.85%) Degree
4 15 (3.52%) Master's Degree
5 14 (3.29%) CISSP
6 13 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.58%) CBAP
7 11 (2.58%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.88%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.94%) CEH
10 4 (0.94%) MCSE
10 4 (0.94%) VCAP
11 3 (0.70%) CISA
11 3 (0.70%) CISM
11 3 (0.70%) MCP
11 3 (0.70%) MCSA
11 3 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.87%) QA
2 19 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.99%) GDPR
4 13 (3.05%) NIST
5 9 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.17%) GRC
7 5 (1.17%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.94%) NCSC
8 4 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.23%) FINRA
11 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.23%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.23%) PMO
11 1 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 30 (7.04%) Docker
2 14 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.64%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.47%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.47%) HDFS
6 2 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (9.15%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.22%) Ansible
3 14 (3.29%) Terraform
4 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.17%) QRadar
5 5 (1.17%) SCCM
6 4 (0.94%) PowerCLI
6 4 (0.94%) vRealize
7 3 (0.70%) logstash
7 3 (0.70%) SELinux
8 2 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.47%) Grafana
8 2 (0.47%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (0.47%) Kibana
8 2 (0.47%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.09%) SAP
3 36 (8.45%) Splunk
4 17 (3.99%) Oracle
4 17 (3.99%) VMware
5 15 (3.52%) Google
6 11 (2.58%) Cisco
6 11 (2.58%) Databricks
6 11 (2.58%) IBM
6 11 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.64%) Adobe
8 7 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.41%) OpenLink
9 6 (1.41%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.17%) F5
10 5 (1.17%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.17%) Workday
11 4 (0.94%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.94%) Vertica