Use Case Contracts in Cheshire

Use Cases
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 45 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing Use Case 10 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.89% 1.02% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.15% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile £356 £663 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £675 £630
Median % change year-on-year -42.96% +7.14% +14.55%
75th Percentile £419 £688 £633
90th Percentile £550 - £634
North West median daily rate £488 £486 £578
% change year-on-year +0.31% -15.84% +8.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 455 347 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 86.01% 88.30% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 202 325
10th Percentile £323 £265 £250
25th Percentile £390 £414 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +10.56% +4.05%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £550
90th Percentile £650 £628 £630
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.40% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 26
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.71 -
25th Percentile - £22.00 £10.20
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.54 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% +46.19% +7.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £25.06
90th Percentile £47.50 £36.60 £32.00
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £22.25
% change year-on-year +21.43% +57.30% +23.61%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Use Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in Cheshire

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Use Case in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Use Case in Cheshire

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in Cheshire

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Use Case in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in Cheshire

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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
Knutsford - 8 £371 -
Macclesfield - 1 - -
Use Case
North West

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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%) Chatbot
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 5 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Data Architect
2 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Decision-Making
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (50.00%) Canary Deployment
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
2 5 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Conversational AI
4 2 (20.00%) Conversational UI
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Groovy
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) R
4 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CBAP
3 1 (10.00%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) SAP
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk