Use Case Contracts with Work from Home Options

Use Cases
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 198 188
Rank change year-on-year +61 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing Use Case 235 316 660
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.59% 1.28% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.43% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 220 437
10th Percentile £425 £406 £400
25th Percentile £488 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £660
90th Percentile £750 £813 £751
UK median daily rate £560 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +1.82% - +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile £44.00 £61.25 £42.30
25th Percentile £50.00 - £55.69
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +108.61%
75th Percentile £71.50 - £68.75
90th Percentile £78.40 £80.00 £70.93
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +29.63% +3.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,003 22,075 40,116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.68% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,632 29,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 503 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.68 £20.43
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.21% +61.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Use Case
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Use Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Use Case trend for jobs with a WFH option

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Use Case.

Use Case daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Use Case over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Use Case daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Use Case.

Use Case hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Use Case
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Use Case over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Use Case hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 13 (5.53%) Confluence
2 5 (2.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 3 (1.28%) Apache
3 3 (1.28%) CMS
3 3 (1.28%) IIS
3 3 (1.28%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.28%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (5.96%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (3.83%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (2.55%) Endur
4 2 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.85%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 46 (19.57%) Azure
2 35 (14.89%) AWS
3 17 (7.23%) GCP
4 15 (6.38%) Power Platform
5 11 (4.68%) SaaS
6 7 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.98%) PowerApps
6 7 (2.98%) Serverless
7 6 (2.55%) dbt
8 5 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.13%) Google Analytics
8 5 (2.13%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.13%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.70%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.96%) Firewall
2 7 (2.98%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (2.13%) HTTP
3 5 (2.13%) Network Security
3 5 (2.13%) SSH
4 4 (1.70%) CTI
4 4 (1.70%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.70%) tcpdump
4 4 (1.70%) VoIP
4 4 (1.70%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.28%) DNS
5 3 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.28%) VPN
6 1 (0.43%) 4G
6 1 (0.43%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.43%) DMZ
6 1 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.43%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.11%) Power BI
2 11 (4.68%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.13%) MySQL
5 4 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.70%) Apache Hive
5 4 (1.70%) DB2
5 4 (1.70%) Hadoop
5 4 (1.70%) Tableau
6 3 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.28%) Big Data
6 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.28%) Metadata
6 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.85%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.85%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (12.77%) JIRA
2 15 (6.38%) Git
3 12 (5.11%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 8 (3.40%) GitLab
5 4 (1.70%) IDA Disassembler
6 3 (1.28%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.28%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.43%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.43%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 63 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 59 (25.11%) Finance
3 43 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.62%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.81%) Banking
6 15 (6.38%) Manufacturing
7 12 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.40%) Marketing
9 6 (2.55%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.13%) Back Office
10 5 (2.13%) Legal
10 5 (2.13%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.70%) Automotive
11 4 (1.70%) Front Office
12 2 (0.85%) Electronics
12 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.85%) Law
12 2 (0.85%) Local Government
12 2 (0.85%) Publishing
12 2 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (27.66%) Analyst
2 45 (19.15%) Business Analyst
3 42 (17.87%) Architect
4 40 (17.02%) Consultant
5 30 (12.77%) Senior
6 22 (9.36%) Senior Analyst
7 15 (6.38%) Lead
7 15 (6.38%) Senior Business Analyst
8 13 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (5.11%) Technical Analyst
10 11 (4.68%) Developer
11 10 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.83%) Great Plains Consultant
12 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Consultant
12 9 (3.83%) Technical Architect
13 7 (2.98%) Data Consultant
13 7 (2.98%) Security Architect
14 6 (2.55%) SIEM Architect
14 6 (2.55%) Technical Business Analyst
15 5 (2.13%) Power Platform Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.26%) OpenID
2 9 (3.83%) CSS
2 9 (3.83%) HTML
3 8 (3.40%) SAML
3 8 (3.40%) XML
4 7 (2.98%) LDAP
4 7 (2.98%) PySpark
4 7 (2.98%) Web Services
5 6 (2.55%) .NET
6 5 (2.13%) JSON
6 5 (2.13%) Node.js
6 5 (2.13%) React
6 5 (2.13%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.70%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.70%) Middleware
7 4 (1.70%) OAuth
7 4 (1.70%) OLE
8 3 (1.28%) EJB
8 3 (1.28%) J2EE
8 3 (1.28%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.53%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 8 (3.40%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.98%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.98%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.13%) CMDB
7 5 (2.13%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.70%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.70%) Infotainment
8 4 (1.70%) IVR
8 4 (1.70%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.70%) YARA
9 3 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.28%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.85%) Clustering
10 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.11%) Windows
2 11 (4.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (30.64%) Agile
2 40 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (15.74%) SIEM
4 33 (14.04%) Analytics
5 32 (13.62%) Roadmaps
6 29 (12.34%) User Stories
7 26 (11.06%) Business Analysis
7 26 (11.06%) DevOps
8 25 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (9.36%) User Acceptance Testing
10 21 (8.94%) Change Management
10 21 (8.94%) Data Modelling
11 20 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (8.51%) Migration
12 18 (7.66%) CI/CD
12 18 (7.66%) Computer Science
13 17 (7.23%) Requirements Gathering
14 16 (6.81%) Decision-Making
14 16 (6.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.06%) Python
2 25 (10.64%) SQL
3 12 (5.11%) Java
3 12 (5.11%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.83%) Bash
4 9 (3.83%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.13%) Go
5 5 (2.13%) Perl
5 5 (2.13%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.85%) C#
7 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.43%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.43%) Clojure
8 1 (0.43%) Haskell
8 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.43%) R
8 1 (0.43%) Rust
8 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (17.02%) Degree
2 31 (13.19%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.09%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.96%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.83%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.70%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (1.70%) SANS
8 3 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.28%) CISSP
8 3 (1.28%) MBA
8 3 (1.28%) PhD
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.43%) CBAP
10 1 (0.43%) IIBA
10 1 (0.43%) ISEB
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.51%) NIST
2 17 (7.23%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.68%) QA
4 9 (3.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (2.55%) GDPR
6 5 (2.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 5 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.70%) GRC
8 3 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (1.28%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.85%) PSD2
10 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 5 (2.13%) Docker
2 4 (1.70%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.70%) Snort
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (4.68%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.83%) Terraform
3 7 (2.98%) Kibana
3 7 (2.98%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.70%) Ansible
4 4 (1.70%) Puppet
5 3 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.28%) Grafana
5 3 (1.28%) logstash
5 3 (1.28%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.43%) Argo
7 1 (0.43%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.43%) SCOM
Vendors
1 45 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.94%) Splunk
3 15 (6.38%) Google
3 15 (6.38%) Oracle
4 12 (5.11%) CyberArk
5 11 (4.68%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.26%) LogRhythm
6 10 (4.26%) SAP
7 9 (3.83%) Informatica
8 6 (2.55%) Cisco
8 6 (2.55%) Databricks
8 6 (2.55%) Facebook
8 6 (2.55%) Instagram
9 4 (1.70%) Genesys
10 3 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.28%) Centrify
10 3 (1.28%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.28%) Okta
10 3 (1.28%) OpenLink
11 2 (0.85%) UiPath