Use Case Contracts in England

Use Cases
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 192 198
Rank change year-on-year +27 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Use Case 547 656 1,070
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.48% 1.37% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.53% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 448 696
10th Percentile £413 £400 £405
25th Percentile £472 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% -4.35% +12.75%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £570
% change year-on-year - -3.51% +9.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 20
10th Percentile £40.00 £69.00 £20.36
25th Percentile £49.38 £70.00 £33.19
Median hourly rate £60.00 £72.50 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +24.46% +3.10%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.41
90th Percentile - £78.98 £76.15
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +57.30% -15.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in England

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Use Case in England

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in England

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in England

Use Case
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Use Case in England

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London +29 277 £575 -2.13% 159
South West +77 108 £566 -5.67% 23
North of England +10 71 £570 +5.56% 24
South East -36 41 £500 - 27
Midlands +28 37 £580 +3.57% 20
Yorkshire +11 35 £624 +13.36% 8
North West +2 34 £550 +13.17% 16
West Midlands +18 27 £565 -9.60% 19
East of England +11 18 £425 - 28
East Midlands +8 7 £613 +28.95% 1
North East +13 2 £641 -
Use Case
UK

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 20 (3.66%) Confluence
2 8 (1.46%) CMS
2 8 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.28%) MTS
4 5 (0.91%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.18%) Camunda
7 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.18%) LiveLink
7 1 (0.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.65%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.91%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.73%) Sketch
7 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.18%) InVision
8 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (2.38%) Endur
2 9 (1.65%) Dynamics GP
3 7 (1.28%) Aligne
3 7 (1.28%) EuroRunner
3 7 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.73%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.55%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.18%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.18%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.18%) Shopify
7 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 102 (18.65%) Azure
2 55 (10.05%) AWS
3 39 (7.13%) GCP
4 28 (5.12%) Power Platform
5 17 (3.11%) GitHub
6 16 (2.93%) SaaS
7 13 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.38%) Entra ID
8 11 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (1.65%) Kong
10 8 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.28%) IaaS
12 6 (1.10%) Apigee
12 6 (1.10%) Figma
12 6 (1.10%) PaaS
12 6 (1.10%) Vertex AI
13 5 (0.91%) Google Analytics
13 5 (0.91%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.03%) Firewall
2 18 (3.29%) HTTP
3 15 (2.74%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.56%) Network Security
5 13 (2.38%) DNS
6 11 (2.01%) VPN
7 10 (1.83%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (1.10%) 4G
8 6 (1.10%) 5G
8 6 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (1.10%) SSH
9 5 (0.91%) Radio Access Network
10 4 (0.73%) 5G NR
10 4 (0.73%) BGP
10 4 (0.73%) DMZ
10 4 (0.73%) Internet
10 4 (0.73%) IPv6
10 4 (0.73%) LTE
10 4 (0.73%) OSPF
11 3 (0.55%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.57%) Power BI
2 15 (2.74%) Data Lake
3 14 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.19%) Big Data
5 10 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.83%) Metadata
6 9 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (1.65%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.65%) SAP HANA
7 8 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.10%) MySQL
9 5 (0.91%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.73%) Bigtable
10 4 (0.73%) Cloud Spanner
10 4 (0.73%) OLAP
10 4 (0.73%) OLTP
11 3 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.55%) Tableau
12 2 (0.37%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (11.52%) JIRA
2 23 (4.20%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.84%) Git
4 12 (2.19%) GitLab
5 11 (2.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (1.65%) CircleCI
6 9 (1.65%) Travis CI
7 5 (0.91%) JMeter
7 5 (0.91%) Selenium
8 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.55%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.55%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.55%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio Team System
10 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.18%) LSMW
10 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 184 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 125 (22.85%) Finance
3 71 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.31%) Public Sector
5 36 (6.58%) Manufacturing
6 33 (6.03%) Banking
6 33 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (3.84%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (3.84%) Marketing
7 21 (3.84%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.38%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.01%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.83%) Automotive
11 9 (1.65%) Front Office
11 9 (1.65%) Legal
11 9 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.65%) Retail
12 8 (1.46%) Back Office
12 8 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.10%) German Language
Job Titles
1 178 (32.54%) Analyst
2 89 (16.27%) Business Analyst
3 80 (14.63%) Architect
4 50 (9.14%) Consultant
5 49 (8.96%) Senior
6 37 (6.76%) SOC Analyst
7 35 (6.40%) Lead
8 29 (5.30%) Developer
9 28 (5.12%) Senior Analyst
10 27 (4.94%) Senior Business Analyst
11 25 (4.57%) Data Architect
12 19 (3.47%) Technical Analyst
13 18 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (3.11%) Data Analyst
14 17 (3.11%) Project Manager
15 15 (2.74%) Security Architect
15 15 (2.74%) Technical Architect
16 13 (2.38%) Cyber Defence Analyst
17 12 (2.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 12 (2.19%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (2.74%) OpenID
2 15 (2.74%) XML
3 14 (2.56%) SAML
4 13 (2.38%) CSS
4 13 (2.38%) HTML
4 13 (2.38%) JSON
5 10 (1.83%) YAML
6 8 (1.46%) SailPoint
7 7 (1.28%) OAuth
7 7 (1.28%) PySpark
7 7 (1.28%) React
8 6 (1.10%) ADO
8 6 (1.10%) REST
9 5 (0.91%) Kafka
9 5 (0.91%) LDAP
9 5 (0.91%) Middleware
9 5 (0.91%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.91%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.91%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.07%) Management Information System
2 58 (10.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 57 (10.42%) Cyber Threat
4 51 (9.32%) Cyber Defence
5 46 (8.41%) Security Operations Centre
6 41 (7.50%) Product Ownership
7 32 (5.85%) CSOC
8 21 (3.84%) Data Structures
9 17 (3.11%) Renewable Energy
10 16 (2.93%) IoT
11 14 (2.56%) Security Posture
12 12 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.83%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.83%) Solar Panel
14 9 (1.65%) Industry 4.0
15 8 (1.46%) Cloud Native
16 7 (1.28%) CMDB
16 7 (1.28%) Data Centre
16 7 (1.28%) Digital Media
16 7 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.66%) Linux
1 20 (3.66%) Windows
2 7 (1.28%) Unix
3 3 (0.55%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (22.67%) Cybersecurity
1 124 (22.67%) SIEM
2 123 (22.49%) Agile
3 108 (19.74%) Incident Response
4 87 (15.90%) Analytics
5 81 (14.81%) Roadmaps
6 75 (13.71%) Information Security
7 73 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (13.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 68 (12.43%) Threat Intelligence
9 62 (11.33%) CRM
9 62 (11.33%) Incident Management
10 61 (11.15%) Data Modelling
11 60 (10.97%) SOAR
12 59 (10.79%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 57 (10.42%) Security Operations
14 56 (10.24%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 54 (9.87%) Root Cause Analysis
16 53 (9.69%) Validation
17 52 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 58 (10.60%) Python
2 47 (8.59%) SQL
3 32 (5.85%) Java
4 29 (5.30%) PowerShell
5 22 (4.02%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.56%) Bash
7 12 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (1.46%) Search Processing Language
9 5 (0.91%) C#
9 5 (0.91%) Scala
10 4 (0.73%) Go
11 3 (0.55%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.55%) Clojure
11 3 (0.55%) Haskell
11 3 (0.55%) Rust
11 3 (0.55%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.37%) C++
12 2 (0.37%) Julia
12 2 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 137 (25.05%) Security Cleared
2 94 (17.18%) DV Cleared
3 81 (14.81%) Degree
4 41 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 26 (4.75%) SANS
6 15 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.83%) CISSP
7 10 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.91%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.91%) CISM
9 4 (0.73%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.73%) CBAP
9 4 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.55%) PhD
11 2 (0.37%) GIAC
11 2 (0.37%) ISEB
11 2 (0.37%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (16.09%) NIST
2 51 (9.32%) NIST 800
3 31 (5.67%) QA
4 29 (5.30%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.38%) GDPR
6 10 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.46%) NCSC
8 4 (0.73%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.73%) SLA
9 3 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.55%) WCAG
10 2 (0.37%) GRC
10 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.18%) COBIT
11 1 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 21 (3.84%) Docker
2 11 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.18%) Snort
Systems Management
1 23 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.47%) Kibana
3 18 (3.29%) Ansible
3 18 (3.29%) logstash
3 18 (3.29%) Terraform
4 14 (2.56%) Puppet
5 12 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.83%) Grafana
7 9 (1.65%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (1.65%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.65%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.10%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.55%) Nessus
11 2 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.37%) OPNET
11 2 (0.37%) Packer
12 1 (0.18%) Argo
12 1 (0.18%) Consul
12 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 127 (23.22%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.22%) Splunk
3 25 (4.57%) SAP
4 22 (4.02%) Google
5 17 (3.11%) Informatica
5 17 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.93%) CyberArk
7 15 (2.74%) Oracle
8 11 (2.01%) Okta
9 10 (1.83%) Cisco
9 10 (1.83%) Databricks
10 9 (1.65%) Tanium
11 8 (1.46%) Centrify
11 8 (1.46%) Facebook
11 8 (1.46%) Instagram
11 8 (1.46%) LogRhythm
12 5 (0.91%) VMware
13 4 (0.73%) Adobe
13 4 (0.73%) F5
13 4 (0.73%) OpenLink