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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 94 124
Rank change year-on-year -12 +30 +36
Contract jobs citing Use Case 16 40 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.79% 1.45% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.77% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 35 22
10th Percentile £172 £350 £451
25th Percentile £296 £425 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £580 £573
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +1.31% +9.57%
75th Percentile £447 £638 £675
90th Percentile £588 £688 £700
England median daily rate £575 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -3.51%

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 1,781 2,261 2,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.30% 81.71% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 1,528 2,004
10th Percentile £203 £234 £258
25th Percentile £356 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 172 98
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.35
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.63 £18.50 £22.46
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -17.61% +27.88%
75th Percentile £26.51 £34.20 £45.25
90th Percentile £48.20 £55.00 £59.75
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 -4 11 £400 -25.65% 43
East Midlands +5 5 £375 -38.78% 11
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 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Chatbot
1 2 (12.50%) Simulink
2 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (6.25%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (6.25%) Collibra
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) DSL
1 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) HSRP
1 1 (6.25%) IPsec
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) OSPF
1 1 (6.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (12.50%) Delta Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) GIS
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JUnit
1 2 (12.50%) Mockito
1 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
1 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Automotive
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Law
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Service Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Migration Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
1 2 (12.50%) JMS
1 2 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 2 (12.50%) IoT
1 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) SCADA
2 1 (6.25%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (25.00%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Analytics
2 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Business Analysis
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) SIEM
3 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (12.50%) CAE
4 2 (12.50%) Chemistry
4 2 (12.50%) Code Coverage
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) Six Sigma
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) Statistics
4 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Bicep
4 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Kibana
4 1 (6.25%) logstash
4 1 (6.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) BT
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) F5
3 1 (6.25%) Informatica
3 1 (6.25%) Juniper
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Teradata