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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 172 228
Rank change year-on-year +17 +56 -29
Contract jobs citing Use Case 569 438 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 1.42% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.62% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 268 257
10th Percentile £375 £394 £406
25th Percentile £448 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £668
90th Percentile £750 £784 £746
UK median daily rate £513 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -10.09% +3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 7
10th Percentile £40.05 £38.45 £43.60
25th Percentile £51.75 £50.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £67.56
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -3.79% +13.07%
75th Percentile £89.00 £68.75 £88.46
90th Percentile £93.75 £70.10 £91.65
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £67.56
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.79% +13.07%

All Process and 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 27,406 26,969 34,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.94% 87.30% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,388 16,451 23,708
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 990 1,453
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 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
London +34 331 £550 -4.35% 128
North of England -12 82 £450 -25.00% 22
Midlands -25 50 £450 -19.43% 20
North West -3 47 £449 -3.03% 16
South East +6 46 £525 - 117
West Midlands -11 41 £475 -23.51% 16
Yorkshire -16 34 £501 -24.45% 6
East of England -3 23 £550 +4.76% 30
South West -12 17 £500 -23.08% 22
East Midlands -16 9 £401 -2.91% 4
North East -8 1 £425 -47.85%
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 32 (5.62%) Confluence
2 23 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.34%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.99%) SharePoint
5 12 (2.11%) Apache
6 6 (1.05%) Appian
7 4 (0.70%) SAS
7 4 (0.70%) Smallworld
8 3 (0.53%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.53%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.35%) CMS
9 2 (0.35%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.35%) Luigi
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.16%) MS Visio
3 14 (2.46%) Chatbot
3 14 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.28%) Siemens NX
5 6 (1.05%) ProjectWise
6 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.35%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.18%) InDesign
8 1 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 19 (3.34%) Teamcenter
2 13 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.70%) Endur
4 4 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.70%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.70%) SAP PM
5 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.35%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle CRM
6 2 (0.35%) Primavera
6 2 (0.35%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.35%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.18%) Findur
7 1 (0.18%) iTrent
7 1 (0.18%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.18%) Shopify
7 1 (0.18%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 165 (29.00%) Azure
2 109 (19.16%) AWS
3 52 (9.14%) GCP
4 42 (7.38%) Power Platform
5 32 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.75%) Snowflake
7 25 (4.39%) SaaS
8 22 (3.87%) Amazon S3
9 21 (3.69%) Vertex AI
10 19 (3.34%) GitHub
11 15 (2.64%) dbt
11 15 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (2.11%) Amazon Bedrock
14 11 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.93%) Azure AI
14 11 (1.93%) Azure Sentinel
14 11 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (1.93%) Serverless
15 10 (1.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.92%) Firewall
2 8 (1.41%) Internet
3 7 (1.23%) Network Security
3 7 (1.23%) VoIP
4 5 (0.88%) CTI
4 5 (0.88%) DNS
5 4 (0.70%) VPN
6 3 (0.53%) Modbus
6 3 (0.53%) NAS
6 3 (0.53%) SSH
6 3 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.35%) BGP
7 2 (0.35%) Broadband
7 2 (0.35%) HTTP
7 2 (0.35%) LAN
7 2 (0.35%) VLAN
7 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.18%) DMZ
8 1 (0.18%) MPLS
8 1 (0.18%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.15%) Power BI
2 28 (4.92%) Metadata
3 27 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.51%) Data Lake
5 17 (2.99%) Big Data
5 17 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (2.99%) Tableau
6 16 (2.81%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.46%) SQL Server
8 13 (2.28%) Hadoop
9 12 (2.11%) Pinecone
10 11 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (1.58%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.58%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.41%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.41%) SAP HANA
14 7 (1.23%) Apache Hive
14 7 (1.23%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (9.84%) JIRA
2 37 (6.50%) Git
3 13 (2.28%) MLflow
4 10 (1.76%) Cucumber
4 10 (1.76%) Selenium
5 7 (1.23%) ERwin
5 7 (1.23%) GitLab
5 7 (1.23%) PowerDesigner
5 7 (1.23%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.05%) Robot Framework
7 5 (0.88%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.88%) JUnit
8 4 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.70%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.70%) Postman
9 3 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.53%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.35%) Hardhat
10 2 (0.35%) Pylint
11 1 (0.18%) Burp Suite
General
1 207 (36.38%) Social Skills
2 136 (23.90%) Finance
3 134 (23.55%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (9.84%) Banking
5 46 (8.08%) Public Sector
6 39 (6.85%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (4.04%) Marketing
8 21 (3.69%) Manufacturing
9 20 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (3.34%) Telecoms
11 18 (3.16%) Back Office
11 18 (3.16%) Investment Banking
11 18 (3.16%) Retail
12 17 (2.99%) Aerospace
13 15 (2.64%) Legal
14 13 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (2.11%) Front Office
15 12 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (21.09%) Analyst
2 92 (16.17%) Business Analyst
3 81 (14.24%) Architect
4 52 (9.14%) Senior
5 48 (8.44%) Developer
6 39 (6.85%) Lead
7 36 (6.33%) Consultant
8 31 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 27 (4.75%) Data Engineer
10 22 (3.87%) Data Scientist
11 19 (3.34%) Technical Analyst
12 18 (3.16%) Security Architect
13 17 (2.99%) Product Manager
13 17 (2.99%) Technical Business Analyst
14 15 (2.64%) Data Architect
14 15 (2.64%) Security Engineer
14 15 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (2.46%) Data Analyst
16 13 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
16 13 (2.28%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.69%) PyTorch
2 19 (3.34%) .NET
3 18 (3.16%) LangChain
3 18 (3.16%) Pandas
4 17 (2.99%) REST
5 16 (2.81%) scikit-learn
6 15 (2.64%) JSON
6 15 (2.64%) TensorFlow
6 15 (2.64%) XML
7 14 (2.46%) Node.js
8 13 (2.28%) HTML
8 13 (2.28%) NumPy
8 13 (2.28%) PySpark
9 12 (2.11%) CSS
10 11 (1.93%) Faiss
11 9 (1.58%) Hugging Face
11 9 (1.58%) React
12 8 (1.41%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.23%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (1.23%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.19%) Onboarding
2 51 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.57%) Algorithms
4 24 (4.22%) AI Agents
5 22 (3.87%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.69%) Security Operations Centre
7 18 (3.16%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (2.81%) Security Posture
10 15 (2.64%) Data Structures
11 14 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (2.46%) Operational Technology
12 12 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.93%) CSOC
13 11 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.93%) PMI
13 11 (1.93%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (1.58%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.62%) Linux
2 27 (4.75%) Windows
3 8 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.23%) Android
4 7 (1.23%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.70%) Unix
6 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (30.76%) Agile
2 150 (26.36%) AI
3 144 (25.31%) Analytics
4 120 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (19.16%) Machine Learning
6 101 (17.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 96 (16.87%) Data Modelling
8 95 (16.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 81 (14.24%) User Stories
10 76 (13.36%) CI/CD
11 75 (13.18%) DevOps
11 75 (13.18%) Roadmaps
12 74 (13.01%) Data Science
13 72 (12.65%) Business Analysis
13 72 (12.65%) Cybersecurity
14 70 (12.30%) LLM
14 70 (12.30%) Requirements Gathering
15 66 (11.60%) Data Governance
16 64 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
17 63 (11.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 142 (24.96%) Python
2 101 (17.75%) SQL
3 32 (5.62%) Java
4 25 (4.39%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.51%) Bash
6 16 (2.81%) C#
6 16 (2.81%) Kusto Query Language
6 16 (2.81%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.58%) TypeScript
8 8 (1.41%) C++
9 6 (1.05%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.88%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.70%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.70%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.70%) R
11 4 (0.70%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.53%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.35%) Korn
13 2 (0.35%) PHP
13 2 (0.35%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 100 (17.57%) Degree
2 85 (14.94%) Security Cleared
3 60 (10.54%) SC Cleared
4 33 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.39%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.64%) CISSP
7 14 (2.46%) PMI Certification
8 12 (2.11%) CBAP
9 11 (1.93%) MCP
10 9 (1.58%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.41%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (1.05%) GCIA
13 5 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.88%) CFA
13 5 (0.88%) GCIH
14 4 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.70%) CEH
14 4 (0.70%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.61%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.45%) QA
3 26 (4.57%) GDPR
3 26 (4.57%) NIST
4 18 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.28%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.41%) EU AI Act
6 8 (1.41%) GRC
6 8 (1.41%) PSD2
7 7 (1.23%) ISO 19650
7 7 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.05%) GxP
8 6 (1.05%) ISO 8583
9 4 (0.70%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.53%) NCSC
11 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.35%) SEPA
11 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (4.39%) Docker
2 20 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.58%) zsh
4 6 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.70%) HDFS
6 3 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (3.51%) Kubernetes
1 20 (3.51%) Terraform
2 12 (2.11%) Ansible
3 7 (1.23%) QRadar
4 6 (1.05%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.88%) Grafana
5 5 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.70%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.53%) Puppet
8 2 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.35%) Kibana
9 1 (0.18%) Argo
9 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.18%) logstash
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.18%) Nmap
9 1 (0.18%) SELinux
Vendors
1 84 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.50%) Splunk
3 33 (5.80%) Databricks
4 27 (4.75%) Google
5 24 (4.22%) SAP
6 23 (4.04%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.99%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.28%) Oracle
8 13 (2.28%) Siemens
9 10 (1.76%) Cisco
9 10 (1.76%) Citrix
10 8 (1.41%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.23%) Adobe
11 7 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (1.23%) Genesys
11 7 (1.23%) GoldenSource
12 6 (1.05%) UiPath
12 6 (1.05%) Veracode
13 5 (0.88%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.88%) Red Hat