Use Case Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Use Cases
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Use Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 43 35
Rank change year-on-year -11 -8 +27
Contract jobs citing Use Case 16 14 16
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.81% 3.38% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 3.77% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 5
10th Percentile £272 £613 £562
25th Percentile £277 £617 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £625 £582
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% +7.46% +25.76%
75th Percentile £532 £648 £600
90th Percentile £542 £700 £607
South Yorkshire median daily rate £506 £625 £582
% change year-on-year -19.12% +7.46% +43.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 545 371 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.78% 89.61% 96.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 193 246
10th Percentile £304 £314 £394
25th Percentile £388 £450 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £587
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -10.64% +11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £679
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £587
% change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £15.05 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.00 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +3.70% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.80 £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +14.69%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Use Case relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Use Case job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Use Case.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Use Case

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in Sheffield

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) Confluence
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.25%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (18.75%) MS Visio
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
2 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.25%) HBase
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Identity Management Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) .NET
1 7 (43.75%) ASP.NET Web API
1 7 (43.75%) CSS
1 7 (43.75%) HTML
1 7 (43.75%) jQuery
2 5 (31.25%) Compass CSS Framework
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.25%) LDAP
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (18.75%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Business Analysis
2 7 (43.75%) Front End Development
2 7 (43.75%) MVC
3 6 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 6 (37.50%) Code Quality
3 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (37.50%) OO
3 6 (37.50%) OOP
3 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) WFM
5 4 (25.00%) Matrix Management
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
7 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) C#
1 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) GoldenSource
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft