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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 81 99
Rank change year-on-year -13 +18 +51
Contract jobs citing Use Case 10 28 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.68% 1.37% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.69% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 17
10th Percentile £338 £358 £435
25th Percentile £375 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -12.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £488 £595 £675
90th Percentile £540 £659 £703
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -3.51%

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 1,315 1,654 1,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.97% 80.88% 87.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 1,093 1,337
10th Percentile £200 £264 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +3.03%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £618
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 119 47
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.32 £14.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +44.93%
75th Percentile £34.16 £40.25 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £50.00
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +15 4 £342 -49.33% 15
Warwickshire -13 4 £438 -24.57% 8
Coventry - 2 £600 - 2
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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Collibra
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DSL
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (20.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) GIS
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) SIEM
3 2 (20.00%) CAE
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Six Sigma
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) Kibana
4 1 (10.00%) logstash
4 1 (10.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) BT
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk