Use Case Contracts in the Midlands

Use Cases
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 94 131
Rank change year-on-year -5 +37 +42
Contract jobs citing Use Case 12 39 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.63% 1.41% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.72% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 31 23
10th Percentile £221 £315 £420
25th Percentile £287 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £580 £560
Median % change year-on-year -39.66% +3.57% +7.18%
75th Percentile £643 £623 £675
90th Percentile £715 £688 £700
England median daily rate £575 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% -21.43% +20.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the Midlands

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Use Case in the Midlands

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the Midlands

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in the Midlands

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands -8 7 £300 -44.24% 55
East Midlands +8 5 £710 +15.92% 31
Use Case
England

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) DSL
2 1 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (8.33%) HSRP
2 1 (8.33%) IPsec
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) OSPF
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Law
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Network Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Architect
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Service Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) SIEM Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) SIEM Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Biometrics
2 3 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) SIEM
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 2 (16.67%) User Stories
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) TOGAF
4 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
1 3 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Kibana
3 1 (8.33%) logstash
3 1 (8.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) F5
1 4 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 2 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) BT
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Juniper
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk