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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 197 195
Rank change year-on-year +37 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Use Case 643 757 1,265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.47% 1.36% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.52% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 505 811
10th Percentile £405 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 26
10th Percentile £40.00 £60.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £50.00 - £17.97
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +34.62% -0.81%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £67.48
90th Percentile - £77.75 £72.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +29.63% -4.42%

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 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 2024.

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 12 June 2024.

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 12 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
England +22 554 £563 +2.27% 224
London +25 285 £574 -2.34% 114
UK excluding London +16 273 £550 +5.77% 104
Work from Home +40 227 £563 +2.27% 112
South West +67 102 £582 -10.46% 19
North of England -8 70 £570 +3.64% 20
South East -29 45 £500 - 23
Midlands +21 38 £580 +3.57% 16
Yorkshire +1 35 £624 +13.36% 9
North West -1 34 £550 +13.17% 11
West Midlands +22 28 £550 -12.00% 14
Scotland +45 25 £515 +14.44% 6
East of England +8 18 £425 - 22
East Midlands +5 7 £613 +28.95% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3
Wales +15 1 £175 -62.57% 1
North East +8 1 £850 -

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 27 (4.20%) Confluence
2 9 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.24%) CMS
4 6 (0.93%) MTS
5 5 (0.78%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 4 (0.62%) Apache
6 4 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.31%) IIS
7 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.31%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.16%) Appian
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.16%) Camunda
8 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) LiveLink
8 1 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (2.33%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.78%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.78%) Sketch
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) InVision
5 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 15 (2.33%) Endur
2 9 (1.40%) Dynamics GP
3 7 (1.09%) Aligne
3 7 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.93%) EuroRunner
5 4 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.62%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
8 1 (0.16%) Shopify
8 1 (0.16%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 121 (18.82%) Azure
2 69 (10.73%) AWS
3 47 (7.31%) GCP
4 34 (5.29%) Power Platform
5 22 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (2.95%) GitHub
7 17 (2.64%) SaaS
8 14 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 13 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (1.40%) Kong
10 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (1.40%) OpenShift
10 9 (1.40%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.24%) Figma
11 8 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.09%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.44%) Firewall
2 19 (2.95%) HTTP
2 19 (2.95%) TCP/IP
3 14 (2.18%) DNS
3 14 (2.18%) Network Security
4 11 (1.71%) VPN
5 10 (1.56%) Cisco ISE
6 8 (1.24%) 4G
6 8 (1.24%) 5G
7 7 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
7 7 (1.09%) SSH
8 6 (0.93%) CTI
8 6 (0.93%) Radio Access Network
8 6 (0.93%) VoIP
9 5 (0.78%) 5G NR
9 5 (0.78%) BGP
9 5 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.78%) IPv6
9 5 (0.78%) LTE
9 5 (0.78%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.82%) Power BI
2 25 (3.89%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 14 (2.18%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.87%) Big Data
5 12 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.56%) Metadata
7 9 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (1.40%) SAP HANA
8 8 (1.24%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.93%) DB2
10 6 (0.93%) MySQL
10 6 (0.93%) Tableau
11 4 (0.62%) Apache Hive
11 4 (0.62%) Bigtable
11 4 (0.62%) Cloud Spanner
11 4 (0.62%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.62%) OLAP
11 4 (0.62%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 77 (11.98%) JIRA
2 30 (4.67%) Jenkins
3 29 (4.51%) Git
4 16 (2.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 16 (2.49%) GitLab
5 9 (1.40%) CircleCI
5 9 (1.40%) Travis CI
5 9 (1.40%) Visual Studio Team System
6 8 (1.24%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.78%) JMeter
7 5 (0.78%) Selenium
8 4 (0.62%) IDA Disassembler
9 3 (0.47%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.47%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.47%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.47%) Metasploit
9 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.16%) Postman
11 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 207 (32.19%) Social Skills
2 143 (22.24%) Finance
3 90 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (9.33%) Public Sector
5 40 (6.22%) Banking
5 40 (6.22%) Manufacturing
6 38 (5.91%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (3.89%) Marketing
7 25 (3.89%) Telecoms
8 21 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.02%) Automotive
10 12 (1.87%) Back Office
10 12 (1.87%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.87%) Retail
11 11 (1.71%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.56%) Front Office
12 10 (1.56%) German Language
12 10 (1.56%) Legal
13 8 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 205 (31.88%) Analyst
2 108 (16.80%) Business Analyst
3 88 (13.69%) Architect
4 65 (10.11%) Senior
5 63 (9.80%) Consultant
6 42 (6.53%) Developer
7 35 (5.44%) Lead
7 35 (5.44%) Senior Analyst
8 32 (4.98%) SOC Analyst
9 28 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
10 25 (3.89%) Data Architect
11 21 (3.27%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 21 (3.27%) Technical Analyst
12 20 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (2.64%) Data Analyst
13 17 (2.64%) Project Manager
14 15 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
14 15 (2.33%) Security Analyst
14 15 (2.33%) Security Architect
14 15 (2.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.89%) HTML
2 19 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (2.64%) CSS
3 17 (2.64%) XML
4 14 (2.18%) .NET
4 14 (2.18%) OpenID
5 13 (2.02%) JSON
6 12 (1.87%) SAML
7 11 (1.71%) PySpark
8 10 (1.56%) .NET Framework
8 10 (1.56%) YAML
9 9 (1.40%) ASP.NET
9 9 (1.40%) LDAP
9 9 (1.40%) Middleware
9 9 (1.40%) Web Services
10 8 (1.24%) OAuth
10 8 (1.24%) React
10 8 (1.24%) SailPoint
11 7 (1.09%) Kafka
11 7 (1.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.89%) Management Information System
2 62 (9.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 58 (9.02%) Cyber Threat
4 52 (8.09%) Cyber Defence
5 44 (6.84%) Product Ownership
6 41 (6.38%) Security Operations Centre
7 28 (4.35%) CSOC
8 23 (3.58%) Data Structures
9 21 (3.27%) Renewable Energy
9 21 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (2.33%) IoT
11 14 (2.18%) Onboarding
11 14 (2.18%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.56%) Solar Panel
13 9 (1.40%) Cloud Native
13 9 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.40%) Industry 4.0
14 8 (1.24%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.09%) Digital Media
15 7 (1.09%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.73%) Linux
1 24 (3.73%) Windows
2 8 (1.24%) Unix
3 3 (0.47%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (22.86%) Agile
2 139 (21.62%) Cybersecurity
2 139 (21.62%) SIEM
3 107 (16.64%) Incident Response
4 101 (15.71%) Analytics
5 92 (14.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 89 (13.84%) Roadmaps
7 84 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (12.60%) Information Security
9 77 (11.98%) CRM
10 75 (11.66%) Incident Management
10 75 (11.66%) User Stories
11 69 (10.73%) Data Modelling
12 68 (10.58%) Threat Intelligence
13 67 (10.42%) DevOps
14 61 (9.49%) Root Cause Analysis
14 61 (9.49%) SOAR
15 60 (9.33%) Business Analysis
16 59 (9.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
17 57 (8.86%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 70 (10.89%) Python
2 65 (10.11%) SQL
3 35 (5.44%) Java
4 32 (4.98%) JavaScript
5 27 (4.20%) PowerShell
6 19 (2.95%) Bash
7 14 (2.18%) C#
7 14 (2.18%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (1.56%) Search Processing Language
8 10 (1.56%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.24%) Go
9 8 (1.24%) Perl
9 8 (1.24%) VB.NET
10 5 (0.78%) Scala
11 4 (0.62%) Clojure
11 4 (0.62%) Haskell
11 4 (0.62%) Rust
12 3 (0.47%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.47%) R
12 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 131 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 102 (15.86%) Degree
3 89 (13.84%) DV Cleared
4 38 (5.91%) SC Cleared
5 28 (4.35%) SANS
6 22 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.71%) CISSP
9 8 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
10 6 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.78%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.62%) CBAP
12 4 (0.62%) CISM
13 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.31%) CCSK
13 2 (0.31%) GIAC
13 2 (0.31%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (14.31%) NIST
2 52 (8.09%) NIST 800
3 33 (5.13%) QA
4 30 (4.67%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.18%) GDPR
6 10 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 6 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.62%) GRC
9 4 (0.62%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.62%) NCSC
9 4 (0.62%) SLA
10 3 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.47%) WCAG
11 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.31%) PSD2
11 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (3.42%) Docker
2 12 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.62%) Snort
4 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (4.67%) Kubernetes
2 23 (3.58%) Kibana
2 23 (3.58%) Terraform
3 20 (3.11%) Ansible
4 19 (2.95%) logstash
5 16 (2.49%) Puppet
6 11 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (1.40%) Grafana
7 9 (1.40%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.40%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.93%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.47%) Nessus
11 2 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.31%) OPNET
11 2 (0.31%) Packer
11 2 (0.31%) Stealthwatch
12 1 (0.16%) Consul
12 1 (0.16%) TADDM
Vendors
1 152 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.07%) Splunk
3 29 (4.51%) Google
4 28 (4.35%) SAP
5 22 (3.42%) CyberArk
6 20 (3.11%) Oracle
7 19 (2.95%) ServiceNow
8 17 (2.64%) Informatica
9 13 (2.02%) Databricks
10 12 (1.87%) Cisco
11 11 (1.71%) Centrify
12 10 (1.56%) Tanium
13 9 (1.40%) Okta
14 8 (1.24%) Facebook
14 8 (1.24%) Instagram
14 8 (1.24%) LogRhythm
14 8 (1.24%) OpenLink
14 8 (1.24%) VMware
15 6 (0.93%) Adobe
15 6 (0.93%) Genesys