Use Case Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Use Cases
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford 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 47 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -25 - -
Contract jobs citing Use Case 6 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.58% 6.67% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 6.96% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £334 - -
25th Percentile £358 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £382 £371 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% - -
75th Percentile £452 £403 -
90th Percentile £481 £412 -
Cheshire median daily rate £395 £413 £560
% change year-on-year -4.24% -26.34% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 227 115 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.42% 95.83% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 95 64
10th Percentile £310 £344 £450
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £390 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -25.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £489 £538 £582
90th Percentile £579 £638 £595
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -8.58% -2.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £24.81
% change year-on-year -5.50% -2.52% +55.91%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Use Case job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in Knutsford

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Apigee
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Kong
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Pylint
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) JWT
1 2 (33.33%) LangChain
1 2 (33.33%) LangGraph
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
1 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
1 2 (33.33%) Swagger
1 2 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (50.00%) LLM
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) API Management
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Business Process Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
3 1 (16.67%) Databricks
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAI
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk