Use Case Contract Job Trends in England

Use Cases
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Use Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 176 159
Rank change year-on-year +42 -17 +50
Contract jobs citing Use Case 911 434 546
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 1.58% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 1.75% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 271 351
10th Percentile £411 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £689 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 20
10th Percentile £49.95 £33.22 £40.00
25th Percentile £71.22 £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £87.16 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.27% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £94.00 - -
90th Percentile £101.51 £70.50 £65.38
UK median hourly rate £87.16 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +124.38% -35.26% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,549 24,860 29,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.39% 90.73% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,182 15,935 19,502
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,342 1,889
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.26 £13.67
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.90 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Use Case job vacancy trend in England

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in England over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in England

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Use Case.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Use Case

Use Case
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case in England over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Use Case in England

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 25 July 2026. 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
London +54 568 £550 -5.17% 356
North of England -39 109 £519 +9.26% 44
South East -22 88 £550 +8.64% 67
Yorkshire -16 54 £535 +12.63% 13
South West +9 53 £530 -3.64% 21
North West -52 47 £475 - 26
Midlands -40 46 £550 +22.63% 22
West Midlands -53 28 £538 +19.44% 14
East Midlands -2 18 £550 +46.67% 8
East of England -22 15 £550 +37.50% 16
North East -35 8 £475 - 5
Use Case
UK

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 41 (4.50%) Confluence
2 29 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.54%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.32%) Jupyter
6 10 (1.10%) Apache
7 6 (0.66%) CMS
8 5 (0.55%) SAS
9 4 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.33%) Kentico
10 3 (0.33%) WordPress
11 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.11%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 23 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.09%) Chatbot
3 14 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) CATIA
6 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.11%) Simulink
6 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.55%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.55%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.33%) Actimize
5 3 (0.33%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.33%) Findur
5 3 (0.33%) Maximo
5 3 (0.33%) Workfront
6 2 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.22%) Summit
7 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.11%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.11%) Primavera
7 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 283 (31.06%) Azure
2 168 (18.44%) AWS
3 107 (11.75%) Power Platform
4 83 (9.11%) GCP
5 55 (6.04%) Azure AI
6 49 (5.38%) Microsoft Copilot
7 39 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
9 35 (3.84%) Snowflake
10 33 (3.62%) GitHub
11 29 (3.18%) Amazon Bedrock
12 28 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
12 28 (3.07%) Entra ID
13 26 (2.85%) SaaS
14 25 (2.74%) dbt
15 24 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 23 (2.52%) Amazon S3
16 23 (2.52%) Serverless
17 22 (2.41%) Copilot Studio
18 20 (2.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.41%) Firewall
2 16 (1.76%) Network Security
3 7 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (0.77%) Wireless
4 6 (0.66%) BGP
4 6 (0.66%) DNS
4 6 (0.66%) SNMP
4 6 (0.66%) VPN
5 5 (0.55%) Cisco Wireless
5 5 (0.55%) Multicast
5 5 (0.55%) RTP
5 5 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.55%) VLAN
6 4 (0.44%) SMS
6 4 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.33%) 5G
7 3 (0.33%) ATM
7 3 (0.33%) HTTP
7 3 (0.33%) Internet
7 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (8.01%) Power BI
2 65 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (5.38%) Metadata
4 31 (3.40%) Data Lake
5 30 (3.29%) Tableau
6 21 (2.31%) BigQuery
7 20 (2.20%) Big Data
8 19 (2.09%) Delta Lake
9 17 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (1.76%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.76%) Weaviate
11 15 (1.65%) Pinecone
12 14 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.54%) Semantic Layer
13 13 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (1.21%) Spark SQL
15 8 (0.88%) Looker
15 8 (0.88%) Redis
15 8 (0.88%) SQL Server
16 7 (0.77%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 58 (6.37%) JIRA
2 33 (3.62%) Git
3 20 (2.20%) GitLab
4 17 (1.87%) MLflow
5 10 (1.10%) ERwin
6 9 (0.99%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.88%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.55%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.33%) XCTest
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.11%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.11%) Deequ
11 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 267 (29.31%) Finance
2 261 (28.65%) Social Skills
3 163 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (11.96%) Banking
5 87 (9.55%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.72%) Marketing
7 35 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (3.84%) Retail
8 27 (2.96%) Legal
9 26 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (2.31%) Front Office
10 21 (2.31%) Investment Banking
11 20 (2.20%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.76%) Law
12 16 (1.76%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.32%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.88%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 145 (15.92%) Analyst
2 130 (14.27%) Architect
3 93 (10.21%) Business Analyst
4 91 (9.99%) Data Engineer
4 91 (9.99%) Lead
5 89 (9.77%) Senior
6 67 (7.35%) Consultant
7 63 (6.92%) Developer
8 47 (5.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 36 (3.95%) Data Architect
10 28 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 24 (2.63%) Data Analyst
11 24 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
12 23 (2.52%) Data Scientist
13 20 (2.20%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (2.09%) Product Owner
15 18 (1.98%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 18 (1.98%) SOC Analyst
16 16 (1.76%) Project Manager
16 16 (1.76%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.95%) PySpark
2 33 (3.62%) REST
3 28 (3.07%) LangChain
4 23 (2.52%) .NET
5 20 (2.20%) JSON
5 20 (2.20%) LlamaIndex
5 20 (2.20%) Pandas
6 13 (1.43%) Kafka
7 12 (1.32%) scikit-learn
8 10 (1.10%) Middleware
9 9 (0.99%) Model Context Protocol
9 9 (0.99%) NumPy
9 9 (0.99%) RESTful
10 8 (0.88%) LangGraph
10 8 (0.88%) OAuth
10 8 (0.88%) SOAP
10 8 (0.88%) YAML
11 7 (0.77%) HTML
11 7 (0.77%) SAML
11 7 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.66%) AI Agents
2 77 (8.45%) Onboarding
3 70 (7.68%) Product Ownership
4 65 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 27 (2.96%) Security Operations Centre
6 23 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.52%) Data Structures
7 21 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.20%) Security Posture
9 17 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
9 17 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.43%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.43%) CSOC
11 13 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
12 12 (1.32%) Taxonomies
13 11 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
14 10 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.72%) Linux
2 29 (3.18%) Windows
3 11 (1.21%) Unix
4 8 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (46.43%) AI
2 289 (31.72%) Analytics
3 218 (23.93%) Machine Learning
4 192 (21.08%) Agile
5 174 (19.10%) Data Modelling
6 171 (18.77%) Data Pipeline
7 157 (17.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 153 (16.79%) Data Engineering
9 152 (16.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 151 (16.58%) LLM
11 146 (16.03%) CI/CD
12 140 (15.37%) Generative AI
13 136 (14.93%) Decision-Making
14 135 (14.82%) DevOps
15 132 (14.49%) Roadmaps
16 131 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
17 119 (13.06%) Validation
18 118 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
18 118 (12.95%) Data Science
19 117 (12.84%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 217 (23.82%) Python
2 172 (18.88%) SQL
3 28 (3.07%) Kusto Query Language
4 22 (2.41%) C#
4 22 (2.41%) PowerShell
5 21 (2.31%) Bash
6 17 (1.87%) Java
7 15 (1.65%) TypeScript
8 13 (1.43%) R
9 9 (0.99%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.77%) Scala
10 7 (0.77%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.66%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.66%) Bicep
11 6 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.44%) Go
12 4 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.44%) SPARQL
12 4 (0.44%) VBA
13 3 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 196 (21.51%) Security Cleared
2 151 (16.58%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.24%) Degree
4 40 (4.39%) DV Cleared
5 30 (3.29%) CISSP
6 24 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.98%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.88%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.88%) CBAP
12 8 (0.88%) CISM
13 7 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.77%) GCIH
13 7 (0.77%) SANS
14 6 (0.66%) CEH
14 6 (0.66%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (15.92%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.27%) GDPR
2 48 (5.27%) QA
3 23 (2.52%) NIST
4 21 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.43%) NCSC
7 9 (0.99%) GRC
8 6 (0.66%) EU AI Act
8 6 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.22%) HL7
11 2 (0.22%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.22%) MiFID
11 2 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (3.62%) Docker
2 28 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.77%) IAG
4 6 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 5 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.44%) Snort
7 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 65 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 59 (6.48%) Terraform
3 17 (1.87%) Ansible
4 8 (0.88%) Grafana
4 8 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.88%) QRadar
5 7 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 6 (0.66%) CSIRT
6 6 (0.66%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.66%) Podman
7 5 (0.55%) Cisco Prime
8 4 (0.44%) OPNET
8 4 (0.44%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.33%) Nessus
9 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.22%) Puppet
11 1 (0.11%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.11%) Kibana
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 180 (19.76%) Microsoft
2 84 (9.22%) Databricks
3 63 (6.92%) OpenAI
4 43 (4.72%) Foundry
5 39 (4.28%) Splunk
6 38 (4.17%) Google
7 30 (3.29%) Salesforce
8 28 (3.07%) ServiceNow
9 25 (2.74%) SAP
10 21 (2.31%) Oracle
11 20 (2.20%) Pega
12 16 (1.76%) Adobe
12 16 (1.76%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.54%) Cisco
14 10 (1.10%) IBM
15 9 (0.99%) VMware
16 8 (0.88%) CyberArk
16 8 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 7 (0.77%) ArcSight
18 6 (0.66%) AppDynamics