Use Case Contracts in the UK excluding London

Use Cases
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 180 189
Rank change year-on-year +25 +9 +47
Contract jobs citing Use Case 275 298 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.30% 1.31% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.47% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 198 269
10th Percentile £374 £367 £386
25th Percentile £463 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £721
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £570
% change year-on-year - -3.51% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 17
10th Percentile £40.00 £68.00 -
25th Percentile £49.38 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +29.63% -4.42%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £77.55 £71.65
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -4.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,473 20,238 27,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.84% 89.10% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,285 13,877 19,070
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 1,255 1,342
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.92 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Use Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the UK excluding London

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Use Case in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Use Case in the UK excluding London

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the UK excluding London

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Use Case in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in the UK excluding London

Use Case
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Use Case in the UK excluding London

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South West +77 106 £591 -5.44% 18
North of England +1 71 £570 +3.64% 22
South East -30 44 £500 - 23
Midlands +26 38 £580 +3.57% 16
Yorkshire 0 35 £624 +13.36% 8
North West -3 34 £550 +13.17% 13
West Midlands +17 28 £550 -12.00% 14
Scotland +36 25 £515 +14.44% 5
East of England +4 17 £425 - 22
East Midlands +10 7 £613 +28.95% 2
North East +13 2 £641 - 1
Wales +13 1 £175 -62.57% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
Use Case
UK

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (4.00%) Confluence
2 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.45%) MS Visio
1 4 (1.45%) Sketch
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.73%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 29 (10.55%) Azure
2 15 (5.45%) GCP
3 14 (5.09%) AWS
4 11 (4.00%) GitHub
5 9 (3.27%) Kong
6 8 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (2.91%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.55%) PowerApps
8 6 (2.18%) Apigee
8 6 (2.18%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.82%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.45%) Figma
11 3 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.09%) SaaS
11 3 (1.09%) Vertex AI
12 2 (0.73%) IaaS
12 2 (0.73%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.73%) PaaS
12 2 (0.73%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.36%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.73%) Firewall
2 12 (4.36%) Network Security
3 11 (4.00%) VPN
4 10 (3.64%) Cisco ISE
4 10 (3.64%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.27%) DNS
5 9 (3.27%) HTTP
6 3 (1.09%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.09%) SSL
7 2 (0.73%) 4G
7 2 (0.73%) 5G
8 1 (0.36%) AMQP
8 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.36%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (0.36%) Modbus
8 1 (0.36%) MQTT
8 1 (0.36%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.55%) Power BI
2 7 (2.55%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.18%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.09%) Bigtable
4 3 (1.09%) Cloud Spanner
4 3 (1.09%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.09%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.73%) Tableau
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.36%) Big Data
6 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.36%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.36%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (13.45%) JIRA
2 13 (4.73%) Git
3 12 (4.36%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (3.27%) CircleCI
4 9 (3.27%) GitLab
4 9 (3.27%) Travis CI
5 3 (1.09%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.36%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.36%) LSMW
General
1 91 (33.09%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.82%) Public Sector
3 32 (11.64%) Manufacturing
4 31 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.64%) Finance
6 13 (4.73%) Banking
7 11 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.64%) Aerospace
8 10 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (2.55%) Automotive
9 7 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.55%) Legal
10 5 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.45%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.45%) Marketing
11 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.09%) Local Government
13 2 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.73%) Retail
13 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 107 (38.91%) Analyst
2 35 (12.73%) Business Analyst
3 29 (10.55%) SOC Analyst
4 26 (9.45%) Lead
5 25 (9.09%) Architect
6 20 (7.27%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 18 (6.55%) Senior
8 17 (6.18%) Consultant
9 16 (5.82%) Data Architect
10 15 (5.45%) Developer
11 14 (5.09%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (4.73%) Security Analyst
13 12 (4.36%) Cyber Defence Analyst
14 10 (3.64%) Data Analyst
15 9 (3.27%) Senior Business Analyst
16 8 (2.91%) Azure Developer
16 8 (2.91%) Compliance Analyst
16 8 (2.91%) Data Compliance Analyst
16 8 (2.91%) SOC Engineer
16 8 (2.91%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.91%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (4.36%) XML
3 11 (4.00%) JSON
4 9 (3.27%) YAML
5 6 (2.18%) CSS
5 6 (2.18%) HTML
6 5 (1.82%) PySpark
7 4 (1.45%) React
8 3 (1.09%) OAuth
8 3 (1.09%) OpenID
9 2 (0.73%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.73%) OLE
9 2 (0.73%) Redux
9 2 (0.73%) SAML
9 2 (0.73%) Web Services
10 1 (0.36%) Ajax
10 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.36%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.36%) Node.js
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 60 (21.82%) Management Information System
2 51 (18.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 50 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
4 48 (17.45%) Cyber Defence
5 38 (13.82%) Security Operations Centre
6 32 (11.64%) CSOC
7 18 (6.55%) Data Structures
8 12 (4.36%) IoT
8 12 (4.36%) Product Ownership
9 9 (3.27%) Industry 4.0
10 7 (2.55%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.82%) Biopharmaceutical
11 5 (1.82%) Infotainment
11 5 (1.82%) Robotics
12 4 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.45%) Taxonomies
13 3 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (1.09%) Operational Technology
14 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.45%) Linux
1 4 (1.45%) Windows
2 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (38.91%) Cybersecurity
1 107 (38.91%) SIEM
2 93 (33.82%) Incident Response
3 68 (24.73%) Information Security
4 65 (23.64%) Incident Management
5 60 (21.82%) Threat Intelligence
6 56 (20.36%) SOAR
7 54 (19.64%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 53 (19.27%) CRM
9 52 (18.91%) Agile
10 51 (18.55%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 50 (18.18%) Analytics
12 46 (16.73%) Case Management
12 46 (16.73%) Root Cause Analysis
13 45 (16.36%) Protective Monitoring
14 43 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (15.64%) Security Operations
15 41 (14.91%) Mentoring
15 41 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (10.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.64%) Python
2 18 (6.55%) Java
3 16 (5.82%) PowerShell
3 16 (5.82%) SQL
4 10 (3.64%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.27%) Bash
6 8 (2.91%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (2.18%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (1.09%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.36%) C++
9 1 (0.36%) PHP
9 1 (0.36%) R
9 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (35.27%) Security Cleared
2 83 (30.18%) DV Cleared
3 28 (10.18%) Degree
4 26 (9.45%) SANS
5 10 (3.64%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.36%) CBAP
8 1 (0.36%) CCSP
8 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.36%) CISSP
8 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.36%) IIBA
8 1 (0.36%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (21.45%) NIST
2 48 (17.45%) NIST 800
3 13 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.73%) QA
4 11 (4.00%) GDPR
5 10 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (3.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 8 (2.91%) NCSC
8 3 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.73%) SLA
10 1 (0.36%) COBIT
10 1 (0.36%) GxP
10 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (4.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.73%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.36%) Snort
Systems Management
1 20 (7.27%) Kibana
2 19 (6.91%) logstash
3 11 (4.00%) Ansible
3 11 (4.00%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.64%) Grafana
5 9 (3.27%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (3.27%) Progress Chef
5 9 (3.27%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.27%) Puppet
5 9 (3.27%) Terraform
6 2 (0.73%) OPNET
7 1 (0.36%) CASB
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 70 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.09%) Splunk
3 12 (4.36%) Google
3 12 (4.36%) Informatica
4 10 (3.64%) Cisco
4 10 (3.64%) Tanium
5 7 (2.55%) Facebook
5 7 (2.55%) Instagram
6 6 (2.18%) SAP
7 4 (1.45%) VMware
8 3 (1.09%) F5
8 3 (1.09%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.73%) Adobe
9 2 (0.73%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.73%) Databricks
9 2 (0.73%) Hyperion
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle
9 2 (0.73%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.36%) Ariba
10 1 (0.36%) PeopleSoft