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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 89 99
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 +46
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Use Case 53 36 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.38% 1.48% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 1.76% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 12 36
10th Percentile £403 £414 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £613 £486
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% +26.03% -15.48%
75th Percentile £622 £700 £575
90th Percentile £742 £788 £627
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -0.45%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,978 2,047 2,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.70% 83.96% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,283 1,224 1,742
10th Percentile £300 £310 £288
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £669 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 147 163
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% +1.03% +60.70%
75th Percentile £52.50 £53.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.90 £64.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Use Case.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Use Case

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 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the North West

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Use Case.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Use Case

Use Case
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire -17 19 £475 -15.56% 3
Cumbria +29 14 £450 -34.69%
Manchester -7 12 £549 +0.92% 16
Merseyside - 5 £426 -
Lancashire -3 3 £444 -46.57% 5
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 (3.77%) SAS
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (24.53%) Siemens NX
2 4 (7.55%) Chatbot
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (24.53%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.89%) SAP LE
2 1 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.42%) Azure
2 8 (15.09%) AWS
3 6 (11.32%) SaaS
4 4 (7.55%) Amazon Bedrock
4 4 (7.55%) Azure AI
4 4 (7.55%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (7.55%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (7.55%) GCP
4 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.55%) Vertex AI
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.89%) Firebase
7 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.89%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.64%) Firewall
2 4 (7.55%) BGP
2 4 (7.55%) MPLS
2 4 (7.55%) NAS
2 4 (7.55%) Network Security
2 4 (7.55%) OSPF
2 4 (7.55%) VLAN
2 4 (7.55%) VPN
3 2 (3.77%) DNS
4 1 (1.89%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.66%) Metadata
1 3 (5.66%) Pinecone
1 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (5.66%) Power BI
2 2 (3.77%) Cognos Framework Manager
2 2 (3.77%) Cognos Report Studio
2 2 (3.77%) Cognos Transformer
2 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.77%) OLAP
2 2 (3.77%) OLAP Cube
2 2 (3.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Eclipse
2 3 (5.66%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) GitLab
General
1 21 (39.62%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (20.75%) Manufacturing
2 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.87%) Aerospace
4 7 (13.21%) Finance
5 5 (9.43%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (7.55%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.77%) Banking
8 2 (3.77%) Military
8 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Automotive
9 1 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Legal
9 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Architect
2 6 (11.32%) Analyst
3 5 (9.43%) Senior
4 4 (7.55%) Designer
4 4 (7.55%) Information Architect
4 4 (7.55%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Network Designer
4 4 (7.55%) Solutions Designer
5 3 (5.66%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Cognos Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Configuration Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.77%) Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) LangChain
1 4 (7.55%) LDAP
2 3 (5.66%) CrewAI
2 3 (5.66%) JSON
3 2 (3.77%) Gradio
3 2 (3.77%) Streamlit
4 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.89%) D3.js
4 1 (1.89%) Faiss
4 1 (1.89%) Flask
4 1 (1.89%) Kafka
4 1 (1.89%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.89%) Next.js
4 1 (1.89%) Node.js
4 1 (1.89%) React
4 1 (1.89%) React Native
4 1 (1.89%) RESTful
4 1 (1.89%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.89%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (1.89%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (13.21%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (13.21%) Onboarding
3 5 (9.43%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (7.55%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.66%) AI Agents
5 3 (5.66%) Autonomous Agent
5 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.66%) Data Fabric
6 2 (3.77%) CSOC
6 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.77%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.89%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Linux
2 4 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (7.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.53%) Knowledge Transfer
1 13 (24.53%) Visualisation
2 12 (22.64%) Agile
3 11 (20.75%) CAD
3 11 (20.75%) Mentoring
3 11 (20.75%) PLM
3 11 (20.75%) Security Operations
4 10 (18.87%) Coaching
4 10 (18.87%) Computer Science
4 10 (18.87%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (18.87%) Knowledge Management
5 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (15.09%) Analytics
6 8 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (15.09%) Network Architecture
6 8 (15.09%) SIEM
7 7 (13.21%) Data Modelling
8 6 (11.32%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (11.32%) Data Governance
8 6 (11.32%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.53%) Python
2 7 (13.21%) SQL
3 5 (9.43%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.55%) C++
4 4 (7.55%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (5.66%) Bash
6 1 (1.89%) R
6 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (30.19%) SC Cleared
3 13 (24.53%) Degree
4 8 (15.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (9.43%) Master's Degree
6 4 (7.55%) CCIE
6 4 (7.55%) CCNP
6 4 (7.55%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (7.55%) JNCIE
7 3 (5.66%) MCP
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.77%) GCIA
8 2 (3.77%) GCIH
9 1 (1.89%) CBAP
9 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) NIST
2 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.89%) GMP
4 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.89%) PSD2
4 1 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.89%) SOC 1
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) SELinux
2 3 (5.66%) Ansible
3 2 (3.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.89%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Siemens
2 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
3 10 (18.87%) Splunk
4 7 (13.21%) Fortinet
5 4 (7.55%) Cisco
5 4 (7.55%) F5
5 4 (7.55%) Google
5 4 (7.55%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.66%) Infoblox
6 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.77%) Cognos
7 2 (3.77%) IBM
7 2 (3.77%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.89%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.89%) Foundry
8 1 (1.89%) Netlify
8 1 (1.89%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.89%) SAP
8 1 (1.89%) StreamSets