Use Case Contracts in the North of England

Use Cases
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 122 162
Rank change year-on-year +10 +40 +3
Contract jobs citing Use Case 74 95 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.61% 1.70% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.88% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 63 53
10th Percentile £425 £364 £406
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £580
90th Percentile £646 £635 £636
England median daily rate £570 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +3.64% -2.27% +12.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £25.00
25th Percentile - - £40.00
Median hourly rate £83.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £59.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +17.65% +5.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,922 5,050 6,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.13% 90.44% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,403 3,468 4,642
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 203 265
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.70 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% +45.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.25 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the North of England

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Use Case in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Use Case in the North of England

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the North of England

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Use Case in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in the North of England

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 21 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
North West +13 36 £550 +13.17% 19
Yorkshire +12 36 £624 +13.36% 7
North East +11 2 £641 - 2
Use Case
England

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (13.51%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.35%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.57%) GCP
2 10 (13.51%) AWS
3 9 (12.16%) Azure
3 9 (12.16%) GitHub
3 9 (12.16%) Kong
4 8 (10.81%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (8.11%) Apigee
6 3 (4.05%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.05%) Vertex AI
7 2 (2.70%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.51%) Firewall
2 9 (12.16%) DNS
2 9 (12.16%) HTTP
2 9 (12.16%) TCP/IP
2 9 (12.16%) VPN
3 3 (4.05%) BIG-IP
3 3 (4.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (4.05%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (4.05%) SSL
4 1 (1.35%) AMQP
4 1 (1.35%) DMZ
4 1 (1.35%) Modbus
4 1 (1.35%) MQTT
4 1 (1.35%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.05%) Bigtable
2 3 (4.05%) Cloud Spanner
2 3 (4.05%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.05%) Power BI
2 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.70%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.35%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.35%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.35%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (18.92%) JIRA
2 10 (13.51%) Git
2 10 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 9 (12.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 9 (12.16%) CircleCI
3 9 (12.16%) GitLab
3 9 (12.16%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.35%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 40 (54.05%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (17.57%) Finance
4 10 (13.51%) Manufacturing
5 6 (8.11%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.41%) Banking
7 4 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.70%) Front Office
8 2 (2.70%) Marketing
8 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.35%) Law
9 1 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (29.73%) Analyst
2 14 (18.92%) Business Analyst
2 14 (18.92%) Lead
3 9 (12.16%) Architect
4 8 (10.81%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 8 (10.81%) Senior
4 8 (10.81%) Test Analyst
5 6 (8.11%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Data Architect
5 6 (8.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (5.41%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (4.05%) GCP Architect
7 3 (4.05%) Security Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Developer
8 2 (2.70%) Information Architect
8 2 (2.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 2 (2.70%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (2.70%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.86%) JSON
1 11 (14.86%) XML
2 9 (12.16%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (12.16%) YAML
3 2 (2.70%) Web Services
4 1 (1.35%) Ajax
4 1 (1.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.35%) CSS
4 1 (1.35%) HTML
4 1 (1.35%) OAuth
4 1 (1.35%) OLE
4 1 (1.35%) OpenID
4 1 (1.35%) SOAP
4 1 (1.35%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.27%) Management Information System
2 14 (18.92%) Cyber Defence
2 14 (18.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 13 (17.57%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (12.16%) Data Structures
4 9 (12.16%) Industry 4.0
5 6 (8.11%) IoT
5 6 (8.11%) Product Ownership
6 5 (6.76%) Robotics
7 4 (5.41%) Taxonomies
8 3 (4.05%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.70%) Life Science
9 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.35%) CMDB
10 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.35%) PKI
10 1 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (1.35%) Solar Power
10 1 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
1 1 (1.35%) Windows
1 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.38%) Agile
1 21 (28.38%) Cybersecurity
1 21 (28.38%) Problem-Solving
1 21 (28.38%) Roadmaps
1 21 (28.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (21.62%) CRM
3 15 (20.27%) Incident Response
3 15 (20.27%) SIEM
3 15 (20.27%) Threat Intelligence
4 14 (18.92%) Case Management
4 14 (18.92%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 14 (18.92%) Decision-Making
4 14 (18.92%) Incident Management
4 14 (18.92%) Information Security
4 14 (18.92%) Mentoring
4 14 (18.92%) Root Cause Analysis
4 14 (18.92%) SOAR
5 13 (17.57%) Project Management
5 13 (17.57%) Protective Monitoring
5 13 (17.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.57%) Python
2 10 (13.51%) PowerShell
3 9 (12.16%) Bash
4 5 (6.76%) Java
5 3 (4.05%) ActionScript
5 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.70%) SQL
7 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (29.73%) NIST
2 14 (18.92%) NIST 800
3 11 (14.86%) QA
4 5 (6.76%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.35%) GxP
5 1 (1.35%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Grafana
2 9 (12.16%) Ansible
2 9 (12.16%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (12.16%) Kibana
2 9 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.16%) logstash
2 9 (12.16%) Progress Chef
2 9 (12.16%) Prometheus
2 9 (12.16%) Puppet
2 9 (12.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.16%) Splunk
3 5 (6.76%) Informatica
4 4 (5.41%) Google
5 3 (4.05%) F5
5 3 (4.05%) SAP
6 2 (2.70%) Facebook
6 2 (2.70%) Instagram
7 1 (1.35%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.35%) Pega
7 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow