Use Case Contracts in Cheshire

Use Cases
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 34 46
Rank change year-on-year -22 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing Use Case 18 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.93% 3.27% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 3.83% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 1
10th Percentile £328 £404 -
25th Percentile £425 £425 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -25.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £688
90th Percentile £715 £700 -
North West median daily rate £475 £550 £486
% change year-on-year -13.64% +13.17% -14.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 565 418 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 92.02% 85.48% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 281 225
10th Percentile £307 £311 £275
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% -4.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £586
90th Percentile £647 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 33
10th Percentile - £11.18 £17.16
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.06 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +14.60% +42.78%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £39.15
North West median hourly rate £27.38 £35.00 £30.65
% change year-on-year -21.79% +14.20% +40.71%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in Cheshire

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Use Case in Cheshire

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in Cheshire over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in Cheshire

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in Cheshire

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 August 2025. 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
Knutsford -12 7 £475 +23.38% 2
Macclesfield -5 4 £400 -30.43%
Warrington - 1 - - 1
Use Case
North West

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP LE
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) BGP
2 4 (22.22%) MPLS
2 4 (22.22%) Network Security
2 4 (22.22%) OSPF
2 4 (22.22%) VLAN
2 4 (22.22%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Metadata
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Military
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Architect
1 4 (22.22%) Designer
1 4 (22.22%) Information Architect
1 4 (22.22%) Network Designer
1 4 (22.22%) Solutions Designer
2 3 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Information Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior SAP Supply Chain Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior SAP WM Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) JSON
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (22.22%) Data Structures
3 3 (16.67%) Data Fabric
4 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 6 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
4 4 (22.22%) Conceptual Models
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (22.22%) High Availability
4 4 (22.22%) Information Architecture
4 4 (22.22%) IT Strategy
4 4 (22.22%) ITSM
4 4 (22.22%) Logical Data Model
4 4 (22.22%) Network Architecture
4 4 (22.22%) Network Design
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (22.22%) Service Design
4 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
4 4 (22.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.56%) R
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) CCIE
2 4 (22.22%) CCNP
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (22.22%) JNCIE
2 4 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CBAP
3 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.56%) PMP
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) GMP
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) PSD2
2 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (5.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Fortinet
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco
2 4 (22.22%) F5
3 3 (16.67%) Infoblox
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) ArcSight
4 1 (5.56%) LogRhythm
4 1 (5.56%) SAP