Use Case Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Use Cases
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Use Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 44 61
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 +1
Contract jobs citing Use Case 10 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.49% 0.77% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 0.88% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £409 - £370
25th Percentile £478 £313 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -21.05% -9.44%
75th Percentile £581 £438 £494
90th Percentile £653 - £548
East of England median daily rate £563 £548 £475
% change year-on-year +2.74% +15.26% -11.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £65.26
25th Percentile - - £65.64
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £66.28
Median % change year-on-year - -1.93% +10.47%
75th Percentile - - £66.92
90th Percentile - - £67.30
East of England median hourly rate - £65.00 £66.28
% change year-on-year - -1.93% +10.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 588 342 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 87.76% 87.47% 87.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 134 310
10th Percentile £194 £263 £285
25th Percentile £413 £346 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -4.45% -9.09%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £671 £751
East of England median daily rate £490 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +1.50% -3.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 89 149
10th Percentile £16.61 £16.23 £30.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £40.00 £46.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% - -
75th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.50 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.75 £32.89 £21.46
% change year-on-year -36.91% +53.26% -2.45%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Use Case job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in Hertfordshire

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Watford -1 2 £588 - 12
Stevenage -11 1 - - 10
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £500 - 11
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £400 -
Use Case
East of England

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) AWS IoT
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Modbus
1 1 (10.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SAP BW
1 2 (20.00%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (10.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Analytics
2 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) AI
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (30.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Jitterbit
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Siemens