Use Case Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Use Cases
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Use Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Use Case 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.92% 0.44% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £341 - -
25th Percentile £383 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% - -
75th Percentile £543 - -
90th Percentile £692 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -14.29% +6.06% -11.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 164 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 86.54% 72.57% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 86 73
10th Percentile £133 £147 £221
25th Percentile £151 £188 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £406 £450
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -9.72% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £510 £575
90th Percentile £647 £628 £635
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 13
10th Percentile - £13.07 £13.76
25th Percentile £15.18 £14.84 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.86 £18.60 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.09% -2.13% +8.20%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.13 £28.44
90th Percentile - £23.53 £45.80
North West median hourly rate £33.75 £30.95 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.05% -22.63% +54.98%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Use Case job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in Merseyside over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in Merseyside

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 24 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
Liverpool -5 5 £426 -14.75% 10
Use Case
North West

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 4 (80.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 3 (60.00%) Azure AI
2 3 (60.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (20.00%) Firebase
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Pinecone
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Automotive
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) LangChain
2 3 (60.00%) CrewAI
3 2 (40.00%) Gradio
3 2 (40.00%) Streamlit
4 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (20.00%) D3.js
4 1 (20.00%) Faiss
4 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (20.00%) Flask
4 1 (20.00%) Flutter
4 1 (20.00%) JSON
4 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
4 1 (20.00%) Material-UI
4 1 (20.00%) Next.js
4 1 (20.00%) Node.js
4 1 (20.00%) React
4 1 (20.00%) React Native
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (60.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (60.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) AI
1 4 (80.00%) Conversational UI
1 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (80.00%) LLM
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) API Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Memory Management
2 3 (60.00%) Multi-Agent System
2 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (60.00%) Semantic Search
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Co-Creation
4 1 (20.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (20.00%) Interaction Design
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 1
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Netlify
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk