Use Case Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Use Cases
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Use Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 58 70
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing Use Case 14 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.93% 1.17% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 1.34% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 1
10th Percentile £277 £370 -
25th Percentile £295 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £815 £475
Median % change year-on-year -48.77% +71.58% -19.15%
75th Percentile £511 £823 £488
90th Percentile £595 £827 -
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £559 £538
% change year-on-year -12.26% +3.91% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - -
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £76.50 £31.50 -
% change year-on-year +142.86% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 648 596 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.38% 87.13% 83.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 402 402
10th Percentile £222 £197 £285
25th Percentile £370 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 18
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.03
25th Percentile £14.59 £21.63 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -49.63% +233.33%
75th Percentile £20.56 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.25 £67.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.19% +2.61% +29.94%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Use Case relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Use Case job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Use Case.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Use Case

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in Birmingham

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Use Case.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Use Case

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Apache
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (21.43%) Confluence
2 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Broadband
1 1 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Hive
1 4 (28.57%) Hadoop
1 4 (28.57%) HBase
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Hadoop Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Integration Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Hadoop Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Legal Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Analytics
2 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics
3 4 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 4 (28.57%) Validation
3 4 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
4 3 (21.43%) Data Management
4 3 (21.43%) Data Security
4 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Resource Management
4 3 (21.43%) SDLC
4 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
1 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Puppet
3 2 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Dell
2 2 (14.29%) Isilon
3 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk