Use Case Contracts in the North West

Use Cases
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 87 96 118
Rank change year-on-year +9 +22 +20
Contract jobs citing Use Case 33 41 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.68% 1.49% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.72% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 31 30
10th Percentile £424 £425 £368
25th Percentile £472 £431 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -11.11% +18.42%
75th Percentile £650 £580 £606
90th Percentile £715 £638 £650
England median daily rate £575 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.00 -
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
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the North West

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Use Case in the North West

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the North West

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in the North West

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire -11 14 £626 +9.82% 9
Manchester +10 9 £513 +7.89% 27
Cumbria - 3 - - 1
Merseyside - 1 £500 - 1
Use Case
England

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (21.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (15.15%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (6.06%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) Firewall
2 3 (9.09%) NAS
3 2 (6.06%) BGP
3 2 (6.06%) MPLS
3 2 (6.06%) Network Security
3 2 (6.06%) OSPF
3 2 (6.06%) VLAN
3 2 (6.06%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Power BI
1 3 (9.09%) Tableau
2 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.06%) Metadata
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Accumulo
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Eclipse
1 3 (9.09%) Git
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 3 (9.09%) Finance
5 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Legal
5 2 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.03%) Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Publishing
6 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Consultant
1 6 (18.18%) Senior
2 5 (15.15%) Architect
2 5 (15.15%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (12.12%) Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Developer
3 4 (12.12%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
3 4 (12.12%) SAP WM Consultant
3 4 (12.12%) Senior Consultant
3 4 (12.12%) Senior SAP Consultant
3 4 (12.12%) Senior SAP Supply Chain Consultant
3 4 (12.12%) Senior SAP WM Consultant
3 4 (12.12%) Senior Supply Chain Consultant
3 4 (12.12%) Supply Chain Consultant
4 3 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) SAP Developer
4 3 (9.09%) SAPUI5 Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Data Migration Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) CSS
1 3 (9.09%) HTML
1 3 (9.09%) HTML5
1 3 (9.09%) LDAP
1 3 (9.09%) Node.js
1 3 (9.09%) SAP Fiori
1 3 (9.09%) SAPUI5
1 3 (9.09%) XML
2 1 (3.03%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.09%) Life Science
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Android
3 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) Agile
1 8 (24.24%) Migration
2 7 (21.21%) DevOps
2 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.21%) Supply Chain Planning
3 6 (18.18%) Data Migration
3 6 (18.18%) Inventory Management
3 6 (18.18%) Process Improvement
4 5 (15.15%) Logistics
4 5 (15.15%) Network Architecture
4 5 (15.15%) Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (15.15%) Quality Management
5 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
5 4 (12.12%) Data Management
5 4 (12.12%) High Availability
5 4 (12.12%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (12.12%) Security Operations
6 3 (9.09%) ITSM
6 3 (9.09%) Scrum
6 3 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) Python
1 4 (12.12%) SQL
2 3 (9.09%) C++
2 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.06%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) R
4 1 (3.03%) VB
4 1 (3.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) CCIE
4 2 (6.06%) CCNP
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.06%) JNCIE
4 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.06%) PMI Certification
4 2 (6.06%) PMP
5 1 (3.03%) CBAP
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) MCP
5 1 (3.03%) MCSA
5 1 (3.03%) MCSE
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) NIST
3 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) NCSC
3 1 (3.03%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
1 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.03%) BitLocker
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Ansible
1 3 (9.09%) SELinux
2 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) SAP
2 5 (15.15%) Fortinet
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) Splunk
3 4 (12.12%) Red Hat
4 3 (9.09%) Infoblox
4 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco
5 2 (6.06%) F5
5 2 (6.06%) VMware
6 1 (3.03%) Ariba
6 1 (3.03%) McAfee
6 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.03%) Symantec
6 1 (3.03%) Zscaler