Use Case Contracts in the North of England

Use Cases
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 112 122
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +40
Contract jobs citing Use Case 55 74 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.67% 1.61% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.89% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 39 63
10th Percentile £413 £425 £364
25th Percentile £463 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% -
75th Percentile £632 £624 £600
90th Percentile £715 £646 £635
England median daily rate £575 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.00 -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% -14.29% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,955 3,922 5,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.84% 85.13% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,898 2,403 3,468
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 364 203
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.94 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £27.50 £17.72 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +55.19% -36.03% +45.79%
75th Percentile £57.93 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £59.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the North of England

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Use Case in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Use Case in the North of England

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the North of England

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Use Case in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in the North of England

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 22 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
North West +12 36 £550 - 206
Yorkshire -9 18 £463 -25.82% 160
North East +2 1 - - 44
Use Case
England

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.45%) Confluence
3 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.82%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (12.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (9.09%) SAP LE
3 4 (7.27%) SAP PP
3 4 (7.27%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.55%) AWS
1 8 (14.55%) Azure
1 8 (14.55%) Power Platform
2 3 (5.45%) GCP
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.45%) SaaS
3 2 (3.64%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
3 2 (3.64%) Collibra
3 2 (3.64%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.55%) Firewall
2 3 (5.45%) BGP
2 3 (5.45%) MPLS
2 3 (5.45%) NAS
2 3 (5.45%) Network Security
2 3 (5.45%) OSPF
2 3 (5.45%) VLAN
2 3 (5.45%) VPN
3 1 (1.82%) DNS
3 1 (1.82%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) Power BI
2 6 (10.91%) Tableau
3 4 (7.27%) Metadata
4 2 (3.64%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.82%) Apache Accumulo
5 1 (1.82%) Big Data
5 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (16.36%) JIRA
2 3 (5.45%) Eclipse
2 3 (5.45%) Git
3 1 (1.82%) GitLab
General
1 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (14.55%) French Language
3 7 (12.73%) Finance
4 5 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.27%) Banking
5 4 (7.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (5.45%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Legal
7 2 (3.64%) Retail
7 2 (3.64%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.82%) Publishing
8 1 (1.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Consultant
2 13 (23.64%) SAP Consultant
3 11 (20.00%) Architect
4 8 (14.55%) Analyst
5 6 (10.91%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.91%) Senior
6 4 (7.27%) Developer
6 4 (7.27%) SAP MM Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) SAP PP Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) SAP QM Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) SAP SD Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) SAP SD/MM Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) SAP WM Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) Senior SAP Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) Senior SAP Supply Chain Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) Senior SAP WM Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Supply Chain Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) Node.js
2 3 (5.45%) CSS
2 3 (5.45%) HTML
2 3 (5.45%) HTML5
2 3 (5.45%) Kafka
2 3 (5.45%) LDAP
2 3 (5.45%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (5.45%) SAPUI5
2 3 (5.45%) XML
3 2 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.82%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.82%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.82%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.82%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Management Information System
2 7 (12.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.27%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.27%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.45%) Life Science
4 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.64%) Data Fabric
5 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.64%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.82%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.82%) CSOC
6 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.82%) PMI
6 1 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Linux
2 4 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (7.27%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Android
3 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.91%) Migration
2 16 (29.09%) Agile
3 14 (25.45%) Data Migration
4 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (16.36%) Change Management
6 8 (14.55%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (14.55%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 8 (14.55%) Scrum
7 7 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (12.73%) DevOps
7 7 (12.73%) Process Improvement
7 7 (12.73%) Supply Chain Planning
8 6 (10.91%) Business Analysis
8 6 (10.91%) Inventory Management
8 6 (10.91%) Network Architecture
8 6 (10.91%) User Stories
9 5 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 5 (9.09%) Data Analysis
9 5 (9.09%) Decision-Making
9 5 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.09%) Python
1 5 (9.09%) SQL
2 3 (5.45%) C++
2 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.64%) Bash
4 1 (1.82%) Java
4 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.82%) R
4 1 (1.82%) VB
4 1 (1.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.36%) Degree
4 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.45%) CCIE
5 3 (5.45%) CCNP
5 3 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.45%) JNCIE
5 3 (5.45%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.64%) CBAP
6 2 (3.64%) MCP
6 2 (3.64%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.82%) MCSA
7 1 (1.82%) MCSE
7 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.64%) NIST
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) NCSC
3 1 (1.82%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (7.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.64%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.82%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.45%) Ansible
2 3 (5.45%) SELinux
3 2 (3.64%) Grafana
3 2 (3.64%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.64%) NetBackup
3 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.82%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) SAP
2 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.91%) Fortinet
3 6 (10.91%) Splunk
4 4 (7.27%) Red Hat
4 4 (7.27%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.45%) Cisco
5 3 (5.45%) F5
5 3 (5.45%) IBM
5 3 (5.45%) Infoblox
6 2 (3.64%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.64%) Dell
6 2 (3.64%) Veritas
6 2 (3.64%) VMware
7 1 (1.82%) Ariba
7 1 (1.82%) Google
7 1 (1.82%) McAfee
7 1 (1.82%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.82%) Symantec
7 1 (1.82%) Zscaler