Use Case Contracts in the West Midlands

Use Cases
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 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 90 82 117
Rank change year-on-year -8 +35 +29
Contract jobs citing Use Case 7 29 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 1.49% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.77% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 23 17
10th Percentile £286 £313 £413
25th Percentile £291 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year -44.24% -13.92% +16.28%
75th Percentile £363 £595 £675
90th Percentile £400 - £703
England median daily rate £575 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the West Midlands

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Use Case in the West Midlands

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the West Midlands

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in the West Midlands

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham - 4 £292 - 8
Warwickshire -15 2 £400 -31.03% 11
Use Case
England

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DSL
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Architect
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) IoT
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
1 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
2 2 (28.57%) User Stories
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Master Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Kibana
3 1 (14.29%) logstash
3 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) BT
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk